The biggest tip I can share for supporting fat loss: Eat for muscle gain vs fat loss.

If you are seeking fat loss to change the way your body looks, you have it ALL backwards.

Gaining muscle will change your body shape MUCH more than losing fat will. Not to mention, you’ll improve your hormones and metabolism too. Talk about a triple win.

When starting with a 1:1 coaching client I will often ask,

“what do you think it takes to get past a weight loss plateau?”

This client could have come to me for a variety of reasons, common ones are wedding weight loss, postpartum health, digestive issues or just being too busy with their career to dedicate time to their health and fitness. Regardless of their pain points and end goals, the answers I get are all pretty similar with versions of, “I need to: Eat less, eat more fruit and veggies, work out more and for longer, control myself around food and eat out less”

After our initial consultation, these answers change dramatically. Read on to find out how to get yourself out of the plateau (it’s NOT to eat less and do more)!

One of the hardest health and fitness goals can be to get toned. As a coach, women often come to me after a yo-yo weightloss journey but they still don’t have the muscle definition they want to support that toned look they desire. To achieve a toned body one will need to cycle through multiple phases of building muscle (one phase) and losing fat (a separate phase).

We have all (including me) tried random diets, workouts and weight loss techniques we have seen online or heard from other people. Even though they don’t deliver long lasting results, we still try them. Stop and ask yourself, how long have I been trying to lose weight? Trying to feel better? Trying to follow through on that behavior? Here I share the simple truths behind our ‘random acts’ of health and what you should be doing instead.

It’s hard to make new habits and harder still to make them stick. I hear this from so many women, their lives are too busy to keep good behaviors up and their goals are slipping further away. I have developed a process to help my clients stick to their new habits and reach their goals, I thought I would share it with you.

Trust in your body should be innate, but after talking with so many women hearing them blame their body for how they are feeling, I know it is not innate.

Have you set yourself rules like “no pasta or peanut butter” or “workout EVERY day”? These are not sustainable and will actually be hindering your efforts to lose weight. Your body will not trust you and you will not trust yourself.

Through making mistakes myself in a 15+ year pursuit for health, I have developed methods for gaining trust in my body that I now share with other busy women through coaching.

You may feel like you have tried all the different diet options out there and wonder why they work for other women and not for you. We all have different bodies and lifestyles, so the same methods are never going to work for us all. The answer to reaching your body goals do not lie in banishing foods or excessively doing cardio, I will explain the key to sustainable weight loss that WORKS.

Let’s think about the ‘you’ of the future. The ‘you’ in 5 years. And the ‘you’ in 10 years. What will you be thanking yourself for in health, mind, movement and body?

This visionary practice is important because I truly want each and every one of you to find your inner fire, that deep inspiration, dedication and drive from these thoughts, to help you make the hard changes now.