Weight Loss For The Military Service Member

Hello Again!!!!! It has been awhile. In this episode I had asked a few Service Members if they could ask a coach ANYTHING, what would they ask. This week a good friend of my asked a great question to kick of the first of MANY :) "Ask a Coach" podcast series for Service Members. 

What works for some does not work for all. When you decide you want to do something, just do it. Because there is no such thing as good or bad or right and wrong. All there is, is you and what you decide. Just because someone tells you it is the right way or that you NEED to do it does not make it Truth. You decide the truth, for you.

Today I want to talk about getting out of our comfort zone. Trying something new. Getting out of our sweat pants and doing something new. Trying something new when it comes to losing weight, or meeting any other types of goals. But I don’t mean physically....I don't mean get up take those sweat pants off and put those workout clothes on and get to it. And I don't mean start eating different so you can lose weight either. What I mean is... Just Be willing to try something different.

I am going to start out the year, talking about goals.

In this episode, I talk about the stress of the world we are living in and how it has had an affect on my own mental health and how I have been able to deal with our current circumstances without losing my mind.

In this episode, I talk about how the famous phrase consistency is key, really isn't always the key. What if you didn't need to be consistent to get the results you are looking for? Listen to this weeks podcast where I talk about my experience with consistency and how consistency alone just doesn't work.

Stress is a big deal when it comes to losing weight. Now let’s talk about the stress of doing a diet or program on top of the stress of everyday life. Because let's be real. Sometimes when we embark on the journey of losing weight and we pick something that we think is going to work, it really can become more stressful, that if we didn't do the diet or program in the first place. Listen now to lose the stress, so you can lose the weight!

We have all dealt with a toxic person. Maybe even a toxic leader. But what makes them toxic in the first place? Most of the time we don't even question it. We just think it is the way they are. But if your wrong? What if they aren't toxic at all? Listen to this podcast to learn out toxic people and how to deal with them without losing your mind.

This episode I talk about breaking all the rules. For many of us, it is the rules that we should be following, or need to be following that prevent us from losing weight. When we think that we should be doing something or need to do something it comes from a place of pressure and it doesn't feel good. So for this episode, I want you to open your mind to letting go of everything you have been taught about weight loss and start focusing on what it is that you really want instead.

Do you ever get stuck in indecision because your afraid of making the wrong decision? What is the right decision anyways? Who get's to decide that it is a right decision? Feeling out of control because you don't want to make a decision and choosing to eat to distract yourself isn't unheard of. Listen to this weeks podcast where we break down a right vs wrong decision which will help you move through the decision making process faster without the need to eat!

Recently, I figured out a little brain hack that has made huge progress toward maintaining permanent weight loss and staying on protocol. And BONUS, I can eat whatever I want! Listen to this weeks podcast to learn about my new implemented strategy that will help you with your weight loss journey!

This week I'm talking about processing emotions. The 2 main reasons we are overweight is because 1 we eat more than our body requires for fuel & 2 we struggle to process our emotions and eat to buffer those emotions and distract ourselves from feeling negative emotion. Most of the time we don't take the time to process an emotion and it leads to being overweight. So, listen to this weeks podcast where I walk you step by step on the process of processing emotions so you can put an end to the emotional eating once and for all!

It's hard to fix the problem when we can't even see what the problem is in the first place. We think that we can't lose weight because "something is missing." But what if nothing was missing at all. What if you had the missing piece all along within you?

This week, I bring Meal Planning expert and fellow Service Member, Heather Schmidt, on the podcast to share her tips and tricks for Meal Planning. Listen to her advice on what to do when you are strapped for time or performing Military duty and the only food available is a MRE!

Listen to this week's episode, where I have two of my favorite experts Caroline Hanschen & Tiffany Reay sit down & bring in their expertise as Military Leaders on mental health. This episode is where we dig into the Military Mindset and discuss the effect it has on our mental health both from a civilian standpoint as well as a service member on a daily basis. We discuss how it impacts our ability to feel emotions based on how we have been groomed by the Military to think.

If you have been listening for awhile, our thoughts create our results. So today I want to focus on the thoughts. Because that is what is creating our current result or the result that we want. Here are some thoughts that I hear & see that are probably making losing weight, that whole process difficult. How many times do you think... This is impossible. This is hard. I'm not making any progress. This sucks. I hate this. It's a long hard journey.

Today we are going to talk about having an identity crisis. What i mean by this is that when you decide to change something in your life you will turn into 2 different people. 1. Is your past self 2. Is your future self And what I mean by that, is that the present you will have to decide who they want to hang out with more. Do you want to hang out with the future you, the person who has the goal. OR the past you, who was not working on a goal.

I wanted to give you ALL the details on the How to Get It ALL Done Mini Course. You are going to learn my step by step process on how to manage those to do items and get them ALL done.

How often to you think about your Ideal Life? Maybe you think your current life is pretty good, so you don't need anything better. But what if you didn't NEED anything better, but you WANTED something better, just because you wanted it. Your ideal life is waiting for you, you just have to want it.

Exciting News, or at least I thought it would be. Listen to this weeks episode on hitting my goal and the journey to get there. Why I thought it was going to be much different that it really was.

This weeks episode is about If You Don't Like What You Are Feeling, Change Your Belief. We often don't think that we can change the way we feel. That we have control over our feelings. But we do. With the way that we think, our beliefs. No one and nothing has the power to make us feel anything. We decide that. Listen to this weeks episode on If You Don't Like What You Are Feeling, Change Your Belief.

This weeks episode I talk about belief systems. Belief systems create our lives. So if your currently life consists of wanting to lose weight and pass PT we need to figure out the belief systems that are preventing you from doing that. Listen to this weeks episode to help find those belief systems so you can reach the success you desire.

There are 2 reasons you are maybe struggling with your weight. 1. You eat more than your body requires for fuel. 2. You don't know how to manage your emotions. That's it. Listen to this weeks podcast to get all the details on how to start losing weight.

This weeks episode I talk about my clients that tell me they have tried pills, various diets, and many strenuous exercise programs. I just wanted to talk about what sets these two completely different methods, coaching & all the other stuff, of weight loss apart. First off, pills, diets, and exercise programs don't treat the cause of why we are over weight in the first place. If we are stressed, we need to figure out WHY we are stressed. What is causing the stress. We need to figure out the cause of the problem instead of what do we need to do to treat the symptom of being over weight. Listen to this weeks podcast to learn about treating the cause vs the symptom.

This week's episode is all about Self Care. How much self care do you give yourself? Do you take time for yourself? Do you make yourself a priority? You can't pour love from an empty pitcher. You are the giver in many instances. And you are starving yourself from your own attention. The most important person you need to take care of.....is yourself. Find out what I mean, and listen to this week's episode.

In this episode, I talk about the number on the scale and what it really means. I break apart the myth of what we think it means when we step on the scale and see a number and what is really happening when we step on the scale. So if you are someone who does not want to step on the scale, or maybe it makes you uncomfortable to do so. I encourage you to have a listen.

This weeks episode is all about your thoughts when you step on the scale and what you are making it mean. The scale is just a number. And what you are making it mean will determine your weight loss results. Find out what I mean, and listen to this weeks episode.

Have you ever been in a situation where someone asks you if you want to eat or drink something and you have a tendency to give in. Listen to this weeks podcast to learn How to say 'No' to the food and drink pushers.

In this episode, I talk about this idea on "Lose it how you will use it." I personally find it to be BS. That concept can keep you stuck and spinning in being over weight for YEARS. I say lose it, then decide what you will use. Listen to hear why lose it how you will use it doesn't work.

In this episode, I talk about and break down the concepts in the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. It is one thing to consume information, but it's entirely different once you start to apply it. Here is my break down of the concepts he teaches so they can be consumed and instantly applied. Get good at breaking those bad habits and creating new ones.

In this episode, I introduce you to the the difference between sensations vs feelings. When we can decipher the difference between these two we can better understand what is happening in our body. And when we have awareness we can decide to or not to change what is or isn't working. Like trying to lose weight without the need to be taped.

In this episode, I introduce you to the concept buffering. Buffering is one big goal sucking culprit. Listen to this episode and learn how to not let buffering stand in the way between what it is that you want and what you currently have.

Are you listening to this podcast because you want to lose weight? If so, lets break that down. Losing weight is what it is that you want right? But... are you committed to getting what it is that you want. That is taking it to a whole new level!

In this episode, I introduce you to a tool I call the Hunger Scale. Most of the time we aren't use to listening to our bodies natural cues of when we are hungry or not hungry. So listen now and learn how to use the Hunger Scale to lose weight easily and effortlessly and balance your Hormones in the process to make it even easier!

So, in this episode i want to talk about why you aren't taking action toward losing weight and passing HT, WT, & PT in the first place. What prevents us from eating healthy, going to the gym, and just doing the thing that will help us reach our weight loss PT goals? Let me introduce you to the model.