You wake up, shower and get dressed. Your pants fit a little snug and you think, “Ugh!  I have got to lose weight.” So you try to eat a little less, eat healthy and then feel frustrated nothing is working and give up. Let’s get clear on the three options you have. 

1. Go buy some new pants! I’ve got some news for you–your body is fluid. It is always going to be changing. Embrace the change and it will release frustration for you. 
2. Intentionally lose weight. Not by eating healthy and trying to eat less (which just doesn’t work), but working with a coach who is going to guide you through the process.
3. Do nothing. Just keep complaining about it. 

Before we jump in, I want to introduce myself. I’m Marla, a women’s health coach. I help women with weight loss coaching in St. George and all over.

If you find yourself in camp #3, you’re not alone. This is a human tendency. You want to change, but then you don’t. I have worked with enough women and lived 52 years of life myself. One of the most common reasons you don’t is because you have this idea of what a “diet” looks like and you don’t want to do it or think you can’t. You’ll have to wake up at 5:30 and exercise from 6-7. Have a green smoothie (which you don’t like) and then be hungry all morning only to have a salad for lunch, get your steps in after work, have salmon, broccoli and rice for dinner and go to bed hungry. Then put this on repeat for 6 months. And if you don’t do it perfectly, it’s just not going to work. 

And this is the problem. You think the ONLY way you are going to get results is to do all the things and do it perfectly. That thought is keeping you from the results you are wanting. 

It’s time to redefine success. Success is found in balance. It’s found in great workouts and no workouts. It’s found in salads and french fries. It’s found in knowledge, trial and error. It’s found in messy, compassion and grace. 

Don’t believe me? Ask the seven women I am working with right now as women’s health coach. Every single one of them work, have 3 or more kids, are over the age of 40 and successfully losing weight. It’s working because they’ve released this idea of what it’s “supposed” to look like and figure out how it’s going to look for them, their body, their lifestyle, their family and then they work at being as consistent as possible. That means there are vacations, illness, parties, goof ups, trying again AND they are getting their results. One day at a time. The most beautiful thing is when you can stop questioning “is this going to work” and start asking the right questions–”do I have the bandwidth right now to be consistent enough, long enough to get my results.”

If this resonated with you, I’d love to chat more about women’s health coaching. You can learn more and contact me HERE.