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04/08/2026

Know someone who’s lost themselves in the pursuit of weight loss? Share this with them👉

If you’ve struggled to lose weight for a long time, it can easily consume you.

You can get so obsessed with hitting your goals that it becomes all you think about.

And the constant frustration and self-criticism can feel like a permanent part of your personality.

Focus is good, unhealthy obsession is not.

Understand this happens because your brain organizes around whatever it is you focus on every day.

Change is essential and building healthy habits is necessary, but if the process puts you in a perpetual state of stress and anxiety, it backfires.

Don’t make weight loss all you live for.

And don’t place all your self-worth on achieving the goal.

Finish the sentence: “I’m someone who ______” and it can’t have a single thing to do with your body.

Make it something you’d love about yourself, even if you don’t fully believe it.

Repeat it daily with positive emotions as you do so and you’ll slowly shift your identity to include more than weight loss.

And if it’s putting you in deep distress, consider taking your foot off the gas to let your mind and body relax a bit.

It can also help to talk with a mental health professional for further support.

03/08/2026

You didn’t fall off because you were alone.

You fell off because you’d been keeping the promises for your coach, not for yourself.

You’re fully capable to keeping yourself accountable, you just need to be someone you can count on.

Start by recognizing that you’ve taken great action with your coach, you’re fully capable of being consistent, now you just need to do it for you.

Start building self-trust tonight by making 1 promise to yourself that’s so small it can’t fail.

Something you know is good for you and can be done quickly with minimal effort.

After it’s done take a sec to acknowledge that you kept the promise and do it again tomorrow.

Know someone who’s afraid to do it alone? Share this with them👉

30/07/2026

Instead of feeling proud, you feel behind.

But losing 10 lbs in 2 months isn’t slow you just expected to lose twice as much by now.

But faster isn’t always better.

For most people, losing 1-2 lbs per week tends to be comfortable and sustained.

Pushing faster requires a more extreme approach which tends to be more unsustainable.

And the last thing you want it to work hard to lose the weight just to regain it all.

Find the pace that works for you that you feel confident you can maintain longterm!

Know someone who’s feeling behind on their weight loss? Send this to them👉

28/07/2026

The ice cream isn’t the habit. It’s just the last step of the habit.

It’s starts with the trigger and ends with the relief. Cut out the relief and the trigger is still there and it’s very difficult to resist.

Instead of cutting the relief out, find a healthier alternative that satisfies the relief without sabotaging your goals.

And to get serious about eliminating bad habits, try this 5-step process:

1️⃣Identify and Uncover - Identify habits blocking your success and the triggers that cause you to support the habit.

2️⃣Hide the Triggers - Adjust your environment to reduce triggers and avoid situations that test your willpower.

3️⃣Make it Undesirable - Make it clear how the habit is preventing progress and feel strong negative emotions to it. Then feel positive emotions for resisting it.

4️⃣Make it Harder to Perform - Make it less convenient to do the habit. Add steps or barriers to performing the act or use a ‘commitment device’ which is a choice you make now that controls your actions for a specific situation in the future.

5️⃣Keep Track and Penalize - Track your consistency and make goals public to apply more pressure to not give into old habits. Set consequences for giving into old habits like taking away a reward.

Know someone who’s struggling to break a bad habit? Send this to them👉

27/07/2026

You’re jeans aren’t lying, they’re measuring the thing the scale can’t physically see.

You only way you can see great changes in your physique but the scale doesn’t budge is when you’re losing body fat and building muscle at roughly the same rate.

Pound for pound, fats takes up a lot more volume than muscle. So you drop 1-2 sizes and the scale doesn’t budge.

You weren’t stuck, the scale just wasn’t telling you the full story.

This week take a break from the scale and get in the habits of measuring progress in different ways.

A few options:
✅Progress photos
✅Body measurements
✅How clothes fit
✅Muscle definition, strength, size
✅Energy, mood, stress
✅Changes in habits/routine
✅Confidence/mental well being
✅Other health markers

Know someone who’s struggling with this experience? Share this with them!👉

26/07/2026

Tag a friend who’s still chasing that fat burning zone👉

Yes, walking burns more fat, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll burn body fat faster.

While walking targets body fat, carbs are still the bodies preferred source of energy and it’ll use it while it’s in your system.

That’s why how quickly you actually lose body fat comes down to your overall calorie deficit.

Don’t get me wrong, walking is excellent for weight loss, I’ve had several clients who lost 40+ pounds just eating in a deficit snd walking every day🤘

But if we’re talking efficiently, running will burn more calories in the same amount of time🔥

All that said, since a calorie deficit is driven by your diet, the best exercise for weight loss is anything that both challenges you and that joy enjoy.

Research:
https://doi.org/10.14814/phy2.14489
https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00030.2001

23/07/2026

The pastry didn’t ruin your vacation.

Your belief that you were already gonna be off your plan so nothing matters is what throw off your entire week.

You don’t need to be strict while on vacation but you also don’t need to give up before it even started.

Next time this happens, just eat how you normally would the next meal. Dont treat it any different.

Enjoy yourself while on vacation but if you still want to feel in control, a little planning ahead goes a long way.

Know someone who writes off the whole trip after one meal? Send this to them👉

16/07/2026

Know someone stuck in the all-or-morning diet cycle?🔄 Send this to them🤝

You never failed those diets.

They were built to fail.

Anything you have to suffer through has an expiration date and cutting out all the foods you love is the fastest way to guarantee you’ll quit❌

Find ways to eat your favorite foods while staying in a comfortable deficit.

Some recipes you can modify, others you just balance with the rest of your meals.

Lower calories in a recipe by:
✅Reduce fats - same ingredients just less (sauces, dressings, cooking oil)
✅Swap dressings/sauces based on Greek yogurt or fat-free options over sour cream or mayo
✅Low-fat dairy > whole-fat
✅Air fry > pan fry
✅Reduce calorie-dense carbs (grains, bread, and pasta)
✅Cut added sugars by ¼-½ recommended amount and use more extract and spices for flavor
✅Use leaner meats for main protein

Small changes add up overtime, just modify 1 meal this week and build the habits of basing your diet around the foods you actually love🤘

13/07/2026

Gain 3 pounds overnight?😤

Don’t panic.

It’s not body fat❌

It’s water retention✅

Carbs and salt (sodium) pull water in and hold it for 2-3 days, then it leaves on its own.

Same body as yesterday, just water sitting on top.

So next time the scale spikes, don’t react.

Weigh yourself again in 3 days.

1 slice never ruined everything. The spiral does, and you can skip that part.

Know someone who spirals every time the scale jumps? Send this to them!👉

09/07/2026

It’s not the weights you’re actually afraid of, you’re afraid the weights will turn you into someone you don’t want to be.

Don’t fear getting bulky, it won’t happen by accident, only fear what happens if you don’t lift.

Share with a friend who you know is avoiding the weights!🤝

Short list of 🏋️‍♀️ benefits:

✅Stronger muscles
✅Stronger bones
✅Faster metabolism
✅Reduced risk of injury
✅Better sleep
✅Improved heart health
✅More confidence
✅More self-esteem
✅Less feelings of anxiety & depression
✅Better overall cognitive function
✅Stronger, toned physique
✅More independence and quality of life as you age

Research:
PMID: 12544629
PMID: 28705295
PMID: 25767297
PMID: 31550272
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD012424.pub2
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesf.2021.08.002
https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glab240

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