New challenge group starting January 5th with intro/ramp up starting on January 1st! Contact me at fit.kitch.mom @ gmail.com for more information, only a few spots left. Curious if a challenge group is a good fit for you? See my posting for an insider’s perspective.
Weekends, especially around the holidays, tend to take me off my routine which makes it harder to have the will power that I might have in my “normal” weekday life. Even though I’m a finance person by trade, I was first introduced to the concept of “doubling the penny” as an application I could use in my every day life in one of the first challenge groups I participated in with my coach, Jillian. The key question is: would you rather take the the sum of a penny doubled over 30 days or $1M? Of course the million dollars right? How can a penny possibly add up to anything significant in 30 days?! Check out this Bloomberg Video for the mathematical explanation, but the “answer” is that a penny doubled every day for 30 days becomes $10.7M on the 31st day. The overall idea is the fact that small incremental activities add up to big progress — even more so than the instant gratification of a one-time windfall. Mathematics aside, the big takeaway here is …
“Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your words, Your words become your actions, Your actions become your habits, Your habits become your values, Your values become your destiny.” ― Mahatma Gandhi I write a lot about challenge groups both from the perspective of organizing and leading and also my experiences participant. As I’ve mentioned in my prior posts, participating in challenge groups for almost a year was a truly transformational experience. In that time, I developed healthy habits including: 6-day a week workout schedule, increased water intake, clean eating nutrition plan, breaking a late night snacking habit, breaking a stress-eating cycle that included the chocolate drawer at my office, switched my coffee to green tea (at work, still have 2 cups at home before I start my day), creating a healthy bed-time and night-time routine, making healthier choices while dining out, and healthier choices/preparing for weekend temptations. These huge lifestyle changes didn’t happen over night – but each month when I participated in a 21-day challenge group, I chose a new area of …
I have never done a cleanse before. The idea of not eating, losing weight only to bust up my metabolism and gain it right back seemed like a certain way to mess up the healthy fitness and eating habits I’ve worked so hard to adopt. When I heard about Beachbody’s 3- Day Refresh and how it was specifically designed to keep your metabolism stable while cleansing your body of toxins and giving a fresh start /regular tune up – it seemed like this could be the cleanse for me. I can’t describe the overall premise any better than Beachbody: The 3-Day Refresh is a scientifically designed program that helps you fast-track your weight loss, kick-start healthy eating, and get a clean break from bad nutrition habits. 3-Day Refresh is a simple, straightforward program that will help cleanse your body and improve the way you feel— without starving yourself. Unlike juice cleanses or liquid fasts which tend to be high in sugar and low in protein (leaving you feeling weak, hungry, and sluggish), this easy-to-follow program …
Let’s talk stress eating… what are the tools we can use to occupy our mind, hands, or mouths when we tend to eat but are not really hungry?
Recently I completed the The Three Day Refresh, a cleanse designed by Beachbody to help get one’s nutrition on track. This particular cleanse is sustainable for me in that it allows solid food (whole fruits, veggies, and good fats). The program came with dinner recipes and suggested a cup of warm broth to accompany dinner. That eventually became the highlight of the cleanse for me, and my favorite new habit that learned while on the cleanse. As I prepped my meals for the three days, I made some homemade veggie broth to accompany dinner as suggested by the plan. I made my usual “leftover end” chicken stock but added some extra veggies and left out the chicken bones. I use a meal planning website, No More To Go, where I get my weekly variety of healthy whole meal recipes. These recipes often make use of chicken broth, so I like to keep some on hand in the freezer for any given meal so I don’t need to buy the jar, box, or condensed stuff. I …
