'Healthy' things I no longer do.

Recently I’ve been thinking about all the ways I used to eat, train, coach, and well, just be.  All in the name of ‘health’.  Here’s just a few…

 -Make sure every workout is at least an 8 out of 10 on the challenge scale

 -Only do yoga if it’s power yoga

 -Keep foods out of the house that I think I should avoid

 -Get up for a workout even if I had a horrible nights sleep

 -Make sure every lunch and dinner has veggies

 -Do cardio 3-4xs week

 -Always portion my food less than my male partners

 -Try to make my body look like it did when I was 20

 

The not so secret secret of the fitness industry is a large percentage of fitness professionals  have eating disorders and/or body image issues. 

 And it’s absolutely true that I became a trainer as a means to ‘manage’ my own disordered eating.

 And even though it been years since I had last I binged or started myself when I became a trainer, I WAS obsessed with eating healthy (orthorexia) and exercising excessively.

 

 **At no point during those years did I ever feel comfortable, confident, or content with what I was doing**

 But the messages that the diet industry gave me was that I just hadn’t figured it out yet.  I hadn’t found the ‘plan’ that will work for me.

 Well, fast forward to the last decade, and I’ve found the magic sauce that works for me, and the framework that I use in coaching other humans to build THEIR best life.

 It looks like strength training every week, but not at the expense of sleep or my mental health needs.  Not obsessing about every meal, but being mindful of my overall nutrition.  It looks like allowing EVERYTHING into my diet, because I know restriction is the best indicator for binging. I do cardio when I want to and the kind that feels good to me in the moment. My workouts focus solely on getting strong, moving well, and keeping myself injury free.

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