Body Smart Fitness

🤯 The number one way to lose weight is: stop focussing on your weight. ⚖️ The number on the scales is one measure of progress. 🫶 BUT, the way you FEEL is everything. Can you do the things you want to do? Do you have energy to enjoy your daily life? Can you walk into a room with confidence? Are your health markers in a good place? Can you run up the stairs without getting out of breath? When you have a deeper motivation than seeing a number on a scale, showing up for your healthy habits comes much easier 😉 Jaymie Quote credit: @roballenfitness 🚨 Calling all women 30+ who are fed up with yo-yo diets and feeling overwhelmed!! If you want to… ✅ Lose 15-60lbs (7-27kg) in under 6 months📉 ✅ Reduce your risk of diabetes, heart disease and stroke 🫀 ✅ Develop lifelong healthy habits & skills so getting healthy is easy 🙌 ✅ Rebuild your confidence & self-esteem and feel like you again 💁♀️ 🤝 We guarantee we can help you achieve your weight-loss goals or get your money back 🎯 💥 Apply now for one of our limited coaching slots! Comment or DM 'CutTheBS' or click the link in the bio to find out more 📲   #inspiration #advice #success #lifestyle #womenshealth #habits

✋ STOP beating yourself up when the scale doesn’t drop overnight. Weight loss is a much longer process than many people realise. Whilst this can feel frustrating or even overwhelming when you’re setting out to achieve a big goal… it’s also kinda reassuring! Because it means you don’t have to be perfect to succeed 👊 When you realise you’re playing the long game, you can factor in a little fun. The odd takeout here, the odd cocktail there 🍸 You can be confident that just like one day of perfect eating won’t make you drop weight overnight… one day of overindulging won’t stop your progress either. 🚨 Now before I’m misunderstood!! These overindulgences still need to be only occasional if you want to see consistent progress. But the point is, extending your timeline allows you to enjoy the ride a bit more. Which means you’re more likely to stay on til the end 😉 Jaymie Quote Credit @elie_jarrouge 👉 Are you a woman aged 30+ who is FED UP with yo-yo diets and feeling overwhelmed? We can help you… ✅ Lose 30-60lbs (14-27kg) in under 6 months📉 ✅ Reduce your risk of diabetes, heart disease and stroke 🫀 ✅ Develop lifelong healthy habits & skills so getting healthy is easy 🙌 ✅ Rebuild your confidence & self-esteem and feel like you again 💁♀️ 🤝 We guarantee we can help you achieve your weight-loss goals or get your money back 🎯 💥 Apply now for one of our limited coaching slots! Comment or Message me 'CutTheBS' or click the link in the bio to find out more 📲 #expectations #progress #goals

🤔 Have you ever heard your inner voice talk you down with things like: ”You’re not experienced enough for that promotion, don’t apply” “Oh you don’t really need to go to the gym, lets just go for a walk” ”You won’t be able to complete that charity run, save yourself the embarrassment” 🧠 This is your brain trying to keep you ‘safe’ in the familiar status quo… where you know the score and you can handle sh*t. Even if the status quo is ‘not ideal', your brain would really prefer you to stick with it, for an easy life! But goals and dreams can only be achieved by making a change. 🙌 The cool thing is you can start to train your brain that new things and hard things are actually ok! By testing the waters each day with something just on the edge of your comfort zone, you’re showing your brain that maybe it drew the boundaries a bit wrong 😉 🌟 Maybe you’re capable of way more than your brain thinks. 👊 And every day you show up and do that little hard thing, you provide evidence to your brain that - yeah damn right you are! This is the foundation of confidence, self-belief, and living the life you truly deserve 🧡 Start small with things like walking a little faster or further than normal, trying a cold shower, or putting yourself out there at work. And before you know it you’ll be wondering why you doubted yourself in the first place 🤗 How are you going to get uncomfortable today?

💣 Truth bomb: Motivation is not the answer. Instead, what will actually help you reach your goals is: 1️⃣ Clarity on what you’re trying to achieve and WHY 2️⃣ A carefully thought out action plan that you fully trust WILL lead you to that end goal 3️⃣ Small but consistent daily actions that moves you in the right direction one step at a time. Compare this to following some vague meal plan you find on the Internet which promises you a generic ‘lose 7lbs in 7 days’ result…. a) That's probably not your actual goal anyway 🙃 b) The meal plan probably isn’t that well thought out to fit in with YOUR real life, your preferences, or that pizza night you have planned on Friday c) Its a shift change from your regular eating patterns and feels really hard to implement. When you set yourself up to succeed, motivation is less of a hurdle to overcome and more of an afterthought or a nice little extra when it shows up 😉 The fact is when you have clarity, a solid action plan you believe in, and the changes you’re making are manageable; ‘lack of motivation’ no longer shows up as a mask for all the REAL reasons you’re not getting anywhere. What’s holding you back? Is it really motivation?

THIS is why every diet plan, workout programme and health kick you’ve ever tried, didn’t work. If you’re just trying to blindly follow a plan without understanding what YOUR individual stumbling blocks are, you’re destined to fail. ❌ You’re not self sabotaging ❌ Its not that you need to try harder ➡️ The true problem, is that you’re not setting yourself up for success. This is why I’m such a huge advocate for self-awareness. When you understand your choices and what influences them, you’re more able to make better ones… AND pre-empt situations where you might struggle. Yes you have to create a calorie deficit to lose weight. But if you’re not going about that in a way that takes into account your own tendencies, this is going to feel HARD.

👊 Let’s #CutTheBS on motivation. You don’t need it. I’ll prove it to you. You do stuff every day that you're not motivated to do. 1️⃣ Chances are you are pretty damn consistent at showing up to work, and doing your assigned work. Are you 100% motivated every single day… probably not. But you’ve got bills to pay. People are relying on you. So you clock in. 2️⃣ You brush your teeth (I hope 😜). Even when you’re dog tired and can’t be arsed… you probably still do. Its a habit. It would just feel weird not to. 3️⃣ If you have kids, you take care of them no matter what. Whether you’re sick, they are being little monsters, or some work stuff has hit the fan… you still take care of them. Because they are your responsibility and being a parent is now part of who you are. 🤔 So how does this relate to your health and fitness? ➡️ See prioritising working out, and eating healthy as a responsibility to you and your family. It’s actually your duty to take good care of yourself! ➡️ Make it a habit so it feels weird NOT to do it. Honestly, once you exercise regularly you’ll start to crave it when you miss a session. Same with healthy eating. When you eat a bunch of processed food or go on vacation, you’ll feel ready to get back to feeling great from eating well ASAP. ➡️ Make it part of who you are as a person. Start identifying as an active person who eats well, rather than someone ‘trying to lose weight’. It might seem a small shift but it makes a huge difference.

Here’s the truth - the only thing holding you back from getting strong, is avoiding strength training 😉 The fact is, you can start ANYWHERE with strength training. 🏋️♀️ Can’t barbell squat? No worries, use a dumbbell. 🏋️♀️ Still too much? Bodyweight squats are for you. 🏋️♀️ Squats themselves even a bit of an ask? Let's do sit-to-stand from a bench. There is a regression and a progression for everything. And the cool thing is, when you’re new to training… your body learns FAST 📈 And you get to move up the progressions ladder pretty damn quick 💪 Let me tell you, that is incredibly motivating and empowering at the same time! Before you know it, you’ll be someone that other people look at and think “I wish I was strong enough to do that” 🤩

🙅♂️ Don’t workout to lose weight. Yes, I just said that. Workout because you deserve to feel your best. Workout because your loved ones deserve to hang out with the happy, less stressed version of you. Workout because you don’t want to spend $$$s on unnecessary medication for years to come Workout because for the you time, where you don’t have to think about anything else Workout because challenging yourself and getting stronger feels super cool Workout because you don’t want to struggle with every day tasks or feel out of breath taking a flight of stairs. ❌ But don’t workout to lose weight. Its one of the least compelling reasons to exercise. And once the weight is gone… then what 🤔