5 years ago.

re: yesterdays reel, yes my journey led me here.

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The personal growth I focused on as a BB coach shifted my mindset.

If I held onto my limiting beliefs - a girl who wasn’t meant to be healthy or worked out - it would’ve been another workout program + diet.

How I see this play out for other women (& previously, myself):

Results don’t happen quick enough so they give up.
They’re hard on themselves or disconnected & they aren’t in tune with what actually feels good to them.
They forget that every BODY is different.
They beat themselves up if they “mess up.”
They make themselves miserable restricting & binge when the diet ends.
They gain weight back & can’t figure out why.

This could be 2 fold - not everyone lives their life restricting. Once you go off a diet, you gain it back. AND/OR you still have the identity of a women who struggles with her weight.

If you don’t do the work on the inside, it can lead to a cycle of beating yourself up & self sabotage - your brain will then do its job to look for proof based on your beliefs about yourself.

Mindset is everything.

What the shift did for me & can do for you:

You’ll know restricting all of the time isn’t sustainable so you may not always be an “after” picture. And that’s ok.
You won’t give up on yourself once you accept yourself. You can still have goals.
You’ll find ways to achieve said goal that feel realistic & fit for you.
You won’t make it mean anything about you if your body changes size or shape.
You’ll stop trying to change your body out of self disgust & you’ll stop being so damn hard on yourself.
You’ll shift to acceptance & want to treat yourself in a way that feels more like love which can translate into eating in a way that feels better for your body & moving in a way that you enjoy which can lead you to your natural weight.
You’ll create the lifestyle & body you want.
You’ll enjoy the journey SO MUCH more.

If you struggle with shitty self talk & want to enjoy the journey - let’s chat. Click here for a free consult.

Same girl, different angle.

Posed:

Definition.
Visible thigh gap.
Leaner looking legs.
No armpit bulge.

Not posed:

Relaxed squishy belly.
No thigh gap.
Thicker thighs.
Bra bulge.

Both are fine but one isn’t the reality of how we look in a relaxed everyday state.

Most of the time what you’re seeing on social media is THE best pic. Maybe even posed, filtered AND digitally altered.

The problem is that seeing “perfect” pictures all of the time on your feed can actually have a lot of power over your own body satisfication, IF you let it.

Between social constructs & social media images it’s easy to get caught up in how you WISH you looked or think you SHOULD look.

But the reality is, your body changes daily. It can take on different shapes depending on how you’re sitting, standing or even based on what you eat.

No one is perfect. It’s normal for us to have dimples & rolls. You’ll have shitty lighting sometimes & angles that you prefer. All of that is ok!

I’m not saying post the pics you don’t love, I’m saying you don’t have to beat yourself up over them. And you certainly don’t need to modify your pictures.

You’re still you - just in a different position. That doesn’t make you any less beautiful or worthy.

So here’s my reminder to the women in my life:

Your body is beautiful if you have a body. That’s it. Congrats. You’re beautiful. You win.