Hot Girl Summer Era
Let’s make it official…we’re all ready to be a little hotter this summer. Not in a weird let’s starve ourselves and drink sea-salted celery juice until we wanna kill ourselves and end up binging our $22 Erewhon reiki-blessed macadamia nut butter on our kitchen floor while our boyfriend is fast asleep and is none-the-wiser kind of way…
I’m talking about actually stepping into our SEXY-SELF era in a way that’s less diet-based and more boundaries-based. Less pain, more respect. Less shame, more discipline. Less deprivation, more abundance.
Babe, it’s alllllll possible - and your results will be real AF.
Here are some of the ways my clients are getting their snatched little bods…without sending themselves into a toxic world of dieting…restricting…eventually saying F-it and sabotaging their success with the plan to ‘start next Monday’ instead.
It’s May. Summer is just around the corner - let’s stop putting it off, or convincing ourselves out of actually showing up and making the changes that really count.
Replace Emotional Eating with NOT Eating
Here’s the deal…if your eating patterns do not match your HUNGER patterns - you’re using food inappropriately…and it’s the reason you are currently carrying excess weight. Sorry not sorry - it’s best you face the facts today so that you can start fixing the real problem at the root.
With my clients, I go through literally each and every way (seriously: EVERY instance) where they might be using food for something else…i.e. for something OTHER than caring for the physical body when hungry. We REMOVE those eating occasions so that they can give themselves what they ACTUALLY need in those moments - be it another dopamine hit, more pleasure, comfort, soothing, etc. We are replacing their out-of-order use of food (which is either making them feel heavy and bloated or simply just getting in the way of them dropping those last 10 lbs that previously seemed impossible to shed) - with more suitable and pleasing activities (or thought reminders) instead. This is about MORE pleasure…not less. (Versus diets - which I’m pretty sure work in the opposite way…and hence why they kinda suck to do).
Here are a few ways you may be using food ‘out of order’ that I’d love for you to think about:
Eating as transition (i.e. between tasks)
Eating as activity (i.e. just as ‘something to do’)
Eating as achievement (speaking to my orthorexics here…are you eating ‘good food’ for external reasons and to feel accomplished?)
Eating as avoidance (i.e. instead of actually having THAT conversation with your partner)
Eating as immediate gratification (i.e. instant YUM…but totally NOT unnecessary)
…There are many more but I’ll stop here for now.
Replace ‘Portion Control’ With Just Enough For Feeling AMAZING
While telling you to eat LESS might automatically send you into a tailspin of panic, shame, and of course a touch of ‘yeah…I know’ - it’s not effective, and I won’t (blatently) do it. If you’re eating too much…you probably already know that. You’ve probably already tried the portion control thang, or heck maybe that was way too traumatic for you - so you gave the ‘volume eating’ thing a go instead…either way, limiting yourself in amounts, calories, fats, sugars, etc. ultimately limits your CHOICE and hence your flipping IDENTITY AS A HUMAN BEING.
K, I’m getting a bit deep here (trust me, it’s deep shit) - but I will hold back for the purpose of this blog and instead share a few client message screenshots with you to drive home my point:
Remember this: every single eating occasion is an opportunity to find a beautiful blissful balance feeling in your body. To feel neutral in your belly. Fully present to your life…let that be the new source of PLEASURE that you move TOWARDS! (*Because we as humans are always innately moving TOWARDS PLEASURE and AWAY FROM PAIN - so make it that overeating = pain (ew: feeling gross!) and eating a balanced amount = pleasure (yay: feeling energized & in my body, present!).
Use Blood-Balancing Hacks & Simple Strategies to Burn Fat on Autopilot
These are specific tools I work on an individualized basis with each client based on their goals - inspired in large part by Biochemist Jessie Inchauspé. Here are a few that you’re probably familiar with - but definitely need to actually start implementing on the daily:
1 Tbsp ACV before/during/after a carby-er meal.
10 mins walk/movement within 90 mins after eating.
When it’s convenient & works well for your meal, eat your food in the order of: veggies, proteins, and then carbs.
Work Out Smarter…Not Harder
If you feel like you’re exercising and not seeing results…if you’re not exercising and also not seeing results…well, I need to speak to those 2 points differently.
For those of you exercising - are you TRULY working the body in SHORT & SAFE intervals and then giving yourself AMPLE RECOVERY TIME? Most women I know are kind of average all across the board…averagely hard(ish) workouts all the time…little opportunities to truly ‘stress’ the body for positive change, and then a lack of proper recovery. The result is frustration and oftentimes downright burnout. Also, your body learns to hold on to fat (vs burn it) and you end up burning LESS calories when you aren’t working out (i.e. most of the time) - NOT cool.
Instead, I’d highly recommend you check out some of the BP-style workouts here, which are a lot less time-intensive and a lot more effective. Also…safer. Safe is sexy.
If you’re not exercising…all good - but are you MOVING throughout the day? I’m talking consistent bursts of activity multiple times per day…every day. This is the best kind of cardio conditioning (& mental health support!) you can give yourself. Make the time. Take a break and walk, stretch, use the stairs. It can be simple, free, and convenient. Make it easy.
Want to get HOT GIRL SUMMER with my 1:1 support AND the support of a Neuro Trauma RN turned Life Coach?! Yeah you do. Pre-sale on NOW until May 8th - when you can officially begin your 12-week transformation with us. Let’s do this.