Perfect Brilliance

28/01/2022

Just a reminder!

Remember that the “resetting metabolism” or “balancing hormones” are marketing BS lingo.

Here’s the deal, we can’t really change our metabolism unless we change our weight or just stop trying to lose weihht. When we under eat we do have a decrease in our metabolic rate. So when you stop dieting and start increasing how much you eat, your basal metabolic rate will go back up. But to say it’s resetting your metabolism is misleading.

Same with “balancing your hormones.” What specific hormones? How are you balancing them?

It’s true that you can reduce your insulin levels with weight loss (doesn’t have to be low carb by the way.). It’s also true that if you have obesity related hypogonadism you can increase your testosterone by losing weight. You can also improve your PCOS with weight loss and potentially changes in dietary pattern. But saying you’re going to “balance” someone’s hormones with some special diet is also misleading.

It’s also vague enough to where people just think you have some special secret. I promise you that no one has some special secret. These gurus aren’t doing the studies out there. They are taking a shred of truth and blowing it up into their own marketing hype machine. It’s ridiculous. ❤️

25/01/2022

Client: I can't believe it! I’m not getting hungry between meals! In fact, this evening I wasn't ravenous like I had been before I started working with you..I feel like I'm finally eating enough food. And this leads to a decrease in worry/stress. After all these years, I realize I no longer have to starve myself!

Me as Coach: Yaaaaaaaaaaaas! ❤❤❤😭😭😭👊👊👊...

16/01/2022

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16/01/2022

Geneen Roth ~ ❤ ~ ❤ ~ ❤ ~

31/12/2021

Stacie Swift. I dig her. Do you follow her? She has a gentle and authentic style that seems to resonate with many of my clients.

16/12/2021

I’m on a recent coaching call with one of my clients. She happens to LOVE sandwiches.

Like, LOVE - LOVE - LOOOOOOOVES them.

And over the years (decades worth) of trying to lose weight and keep it off, she’s assimilated all kinds of ‘facts’ and ideas about what she can and can’t eat if she’s going to drop weight and keep it off.

Sadly, sandwiches got put into her bucket of foods to avoid.

On our call, lunch has just become the topic of focus…

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Client: “Lunch is my new problem child - it's when I'm in the thick of the day - and I just don’t have foods on hand that I want to eat…”

Me: Hmmm. Given how much you’ve shared previously that you LOVE sandwiches, what if sandwiches were actually one of the BEST foods for you right now and including them in your days might be a missing piece of YOUR puzzle?!?

Client: What?! You mean I could actually give myself permission to eat sandwiches?!?

Enter: ‘The Sandwich Experiment’.

I’ll be sharing in my posts to follow what happened when my client gave herself permission to add sandwiches to her day to day routine and began her 'Sandwich Experiment':

- What she did.
- What happened.
- Why this coaching worked for her.
- And perhaps even more importantly, how you might take what she did and map it over to your own situation.

Stay tuned!

-- Coach A

23/08/2021

"What took you so long?" (thank you Shoshanna for sharing this and being the light that you are in this world 🙏).
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How to live with my body
my brain and
heart divorced

a decade ago

over who was
to blame about
how big of a mess
I have become

eventually,
they couldn't be
in the same room
with each other

now my head and heart
share custody of me

I stay with my brain
during the week

and my heart
gets me on weekends

they never speak to one another

instead, they give me
the same note to pass
to each other every week

and their notes they
send to one another always
says the same thing:

"This is all your fault"

on Sundays
my heart complains
about how my
head has let me down
in the past

and on Wednesdays
my head lists all
of the times my
heart has screwed
things up for me
in the future

they blame each
other for the
state of my life

there's been a lot
of yelling - and crying

so,

lately, I've been
spending a lot of
time with my gut

who serves as my
unofficial therapist

most nights, I sneak out of the
window in my ribcage

and slide down my spine
and collapse on my
gut's plush leather chair
that's always open for me

~ and I just sit sit sit sit
until the sun comes up

last evening,
my gut asked me
if I was having a hard
time being caught
between my heart
and my head

I nodded

I said I didn't know
if I could live with
either of them anymore

"my heart is always sad about
something that happened yesterday
while my head is always worried
about something that may happen tomorrow,"
I lamented

my gut squeezed my hand

"I just can't live with
my mistakes of the past
or my anxiety about the future,"
I sighed

my gut smiled and said:

"in that case,
you should
go stay with your
lungs for a while,"

I was confused
- the look on my face gave it away

"if you are exhausted about
your heart's obsession with
the fixed past and your mind's focus
on the uncertain future

your lungs are the perfect place for you

there is no yesterday in your lungs
there is no tomorrow there either

there is only now
there is only inhale
there is only exhale
there is only this moment

there is only breath

and in that breath
you can rest while your
heart and head work
their relationship out."

this morning,
while my brain
was busy reading
tea leaves

and while my
heart was staring
at old photographs

I packed a little
bag and walked
to the door of
my lungs

before I could even knock
she opened the door
with a smile and as
a gust of air embraced me
she said

"what took you so long?"

~ john roedel (johnroedel.com)

https://www.johnroedel.com/post/how-to-live-with-my-body

23/03/2021

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I try to remind myself of a simple rule: never miss twice.

If I miss one day, I try to get back into it as quickly as possible. Missing one workout happens, but I’m not going to miss two in a row. Maybe I’ll eat an entire pizza, but I’ll follow it up with a healthy meal. I can’t be perfect, but I can avoid a second lapse. As soon as one streak ends, I get started on the next one.

The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit.

Read more in Chapter 16 of Atomic Habits. Get a copy at atomichabits.com

06/03/2021

You are worthy. Period.

I find it helpful to be reminded of this fundamental truth especially since it's one I will often forget. So when this image and affirmation popped up on my Chrome Momentum start page earlier this week, I snapped a pic and saved it as the wallpaper on my phone.

Seeing it and reading it EVERY time I pick up my phone has been a remarkably simple and effective way to gently reinforce this thought in my brain. This is not a false affirmation, rather...it's a reminder of what I truly believe and know to be true.

Wanna see some stunning landscape pictures and discover your own pop up reminders, declarations, affirmations? Check out https://momentumdash.com/

💜 Annemarie

04/03/2021

Sonya Renee Taylor, author of The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love is the featured speaker tonight 6-730p mst. If I were a betting woman, I'd bet this event will be well worth your time. Signup at the link in the post below.

HT to the Eating Recovery Center for hosting this event. 💜

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04/03/2021

Innnnnnnnhale --> exhaaaaaaaaale --> ❤️