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Advocating for Yourself!
Hey Sassy Peeps! This week in our coffee chat, Lindsay and I were chatting about advocating for yourself in your journey. Unfortunately, we hear from people all the time that they feel powerless and helpless in their journey. They don't know what to do and...
How to Fuel Your Fitness
After Bariatric surgery, your commitment to adopting a physically active lifestyle along with sustaining healthy eating habits is critical to your long-term success. Having worked with hundreds of weight-loss surgery clients, I have seen some amazing...
Goal Setting and Vision Boards
Hey Sassy Peeps! This week in our coffee chat, Lindsay and I were chatting about goal setting and vision boards. Let me start with, if you told me 5 years ago that I would be chatting about vision boards and suggesting people take the time to create them, I would have...
How MyFitnessPal has FOREVER changed my way!
With my Bachelor of Nutritional Science degree, I developed a keen understanding of the relationship between human health, nutrition, and medicine. Nutrition is a 3-part process. First, food or drink is consumed. Second, the body breaks down the food or drink into...
Listen To Your Body!
Hey Sassy Peeps! This week in our coffee chat, Lindsay was solo and was chatting with you about Modifications and Limitations in your fitness journey. For some reason, this is a tough topic for me. I've written and erased this post more times than I can count...
Macros: How to start using them in your daily life!
No, I am not calling you a dummy BUT even though I have a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition, I still struggle with putting macros into my everyday daily routine. I understand the concept of MACROS and can break down the components with science BUT trying to put them...
Why Am I Not Losing?
Hey Sassy Peeps! This week in our coffee chat, Lindsay and I were chatting about what YOU (and me) are doing wrong in our weight loss journeys. What? Who says we are doing anything wrong? Well maybe you aren't doing it wrong...but MOST of us are struggling with this...
How Relationships Change As You Evolve!
In our Coffee Chat this week we talked about relationships after surgery. We are talking about ALL relationships and not just romantic partners. We also said that these changes occur to ANYONE going through a transformation (weight loss surgery or not) so don't just...
The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Hey Sassy Peeps! This week in our coffee chat, Lindsay and I were chatting about The Stories We Tell Ourselves. We were specifically talking about the nagging, untrue, mean stories we tell ourselves. The "I'm Not Good Enough" stories...or the stories we tell ourselves...
Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset
At our Coffee Chat on Monday: Fu*k The Scale, we chatted about the difference between a GROWTH and FIXED mindset. This is a huge part of the process. FIXED MINDSET A fixed mindset is all about the OUTCOME. “If I don’t lose 10lbs in a week, it was all a waste of...