Redefining Strength Podcast

Honestly succeeding at anything in my opinion is hard. It often means doing things we don’t like. Sticking with things even when there doesn’t seem to be progress. Not only putting up with failures but embracing them and learning from them… There is lots of not so fun things along the road to success…but you have to find ways to embrace these things if you want to see results and maintain them. Th...

You Must Let Go To Move Forward A psychology professor entered the classroom with half a glass of water in his hand. The students expected the old common question “was it half empty or half full?” But to the surprise, he asked them “How heavy is this glass of water?” The answers given by the students ranged from 7 oz. To 25 oz. But the professor replied that the actual weight of the glass with wat...

One of the hardest things for me personally to do is PAUSE. Pause and assess. Pause and learn. Pause and reflect. I like action. Honestly I’m prone to working harder wasting effort to just DO something over slowing down to learn and assess. But the secret to the best results in as short a time as possible isn't hard work... It's efficiency of work. And efficiency comes from constantly le...

I think sometimes we WANT a change. We WANT a new and better result… But we aren’t truly READY to do what it takes to make a change. And so we will never succeed no matter how motivated we are. Now you may be thinking how can I be motivated but not ready? Because motivation is the DESIRE to do something. Being truly READY to make a change means you’re in the headspace to make sacrifices. You’re ca...

One size doesn’t fit all and tracking isn’t right for everyone. And even those that do track won’t use this tool in the exact same way or even forever. Heck, I was a person AGAINST tracking for a very long time. I made all the excuses about why not to do it. And I never saw the results I wanted. Until I decided to try to see opportunity in a different perspective. Until I decided to be open to som...

While we each do have our own unique set of circumstances, our unique needs and goals, often there are some fundamental things we can adjust no matter what if we aren’t seeing the results we want. There are actually 5 things I like to focus on first before we move into more of the details if a client comes to me saying they aren’t seeing the results they’d like…

How Do You Even Know What Is Possible? I got asked on a post about getting abs the other day… “How do you even know what is possible for you?” It was one of those moments where you sit back and you go… “Well huh!” And my honest answer back was… “I don’t think you can fully know what is possible until you try.” I don’t think we can ever fully know how far we can go with something until we’ve tried....

Everyday we are either working toward our goals or moving farther away from them. And while I don’t think we can always be focused on the future, and immediate gratification will at times “sabotage” our long-term goals and focus, I think recognizing that every day is building our future result… That your situation today is a result of your past hustle… Is super key. Because so often we stress perf...

There is nothing better than going on vacation. But it is often where we feel like we sabotage our results and our diet and exercise routines go to die. I wanted to share 7 tips to help you stay on track while you travel so you can keep moving forward toward your weight loss goals. However, I also want to mention that I believe vacations can, and should, be a time to relax and enjoy. Diets often f...

I’m horrible with internet slang, acronyms, phrases…whatever. The first time someone posted TLDR I had to google it. I thought of this the other day when my managers and I were talking about abbreviations and acronyms and lingo that may be helpful to make a list of. I made the joke about how I’m so bad with knowing what those things are… And I mentioned to Michelle, my lead Dietitian, the first ti...

You’ve reached your goal…Now what? Now comes oddly the hardest part…MAINTAINING YOUR RESULTS! And maintenance is hard because it’s a new process in and of itself. You can’t keep doing what you did to get to your goal - you can’t stay in a deficit forever. And you can’t go back to what you were doing prior. Old habits will just lead to you losing everything you’ve worked hard for. Soooo, what do yo...

As kids some of us loved asking WHY…like annoyingly so. Ok…we were asking it often more JUST to be annoying, but still…as kids there is a curiosity there to understand more of our world. But at a certain age, we stop….we stop assessing and being as curious. However, as annoying as constantly being asked WHY is, we need to embrace our inner child more if we want to learn and grow. If we want to ove...

I was one of these people… So I always sympathize with this comment, “I’ll workout all day. It’s just so hard to change my diet.” Or… “I can train hard. I just can’t change my diet. I love food too much.” The thing is… We CAN change our diet. And yes, we all know we just aren’t “willing” to or we don’t “want” to…. But what we don’t realize is that training is NOT easy. We’ve just become comfortabl...

I think something we too often like to gloss over is the sacrifices and challenges involved in achieving results. Getting a new and better result, making a change is NOT easy. Even something that eventually feels sustainable can be hard to start because it isn’t instinctual. It isn’t what we’ve always done. So when I work with a client I like to discuss the options in how we move forward. While I...

Often when we start a new program, we tell ourselves it's going to be THE THING. The lifestyle change we've been looking for. We tell ourselves it's going to be easy and magical (ok maybe not the magical part). Heck maybe we've even been convinced of this by friends who claim it was soooo easy to do and the BEST thing they've ever done. We can even manage to convince ourse...

Honestly the more we want overnight results, the less likely we are to truly see the results we want and deserve. Fad diet results often not only aren’t real results, but they aren’t lasting results because we haven’t truly created sustainable habit changes. So as much as I know we all want results yesterday, we have to get ready to make some true lifestyle changes if we want to see the amazing re...

Yup you heard that right. We make things impossible because we tell ourselves they aren’t possible. And guess what? Sure…everything isn’t possible…nor we will achieve that goal in the same way someone else has even if we get there. Getting abs for you may be different than for me. We of course all have genetic limitations and pre-dispositions. But to just say you can’t get abs…well why not still s...

Body acceptance…Loving your body… I’m going to be brutally honest, I don’t think we’ll ever be 100% happy with ourselves or content.  I think it is the human condition to always want more.  BUT I also think we need to find a balance where we appreciate who and what we are flaws and all. We need to love ourselves despite the struggles and even value ourselves potentially more because of what we’ve...

I got an email saying “What about the stubborn belly fat? Yeah I know macros, but what else can I do?” My reply - “Why add complication to something that should be simple?” Too often we want to do more. We want to do things that maybe make that 1% difference over staying focused on the thing we just simply need to do consistently. Because it makes us feel more in control…or often we even hope we c...

Raise your hand as high as you can. Go ahead...do it right now. Now raise your hand higher.... You did didn't you? Funny how I told you to raise your hand as high as you can and yet you could still raise it higher when I said to.... Funny how it didn't take really much more effort to raise it a bit higher either.... Why do I mention all of this? Because A. Often we don't realize we...

You end up pleasing no one. Especially not yourself. I personally believe we will ALWAYS care about what other people think…it’s how we can actually function as a society. But we also have to learn to filter what we care about. We have to learn to recognize when someone gives us an opinion that isn’t in line with what we need or want. And then we have to be ok with them judging us because we don’t...

Often we DEFEND previous dieting and exercise practices as having “worked” for us because we did see potentially an immediate result from them. Yet often as we are defending these old ways of doing things, we’re fighting against something new we’ve sought out because we no longer have the result we wanted. Aka the habits or routines weren’t sustainable. So the question that always comes to mind fo...

The Elephant and The Rope - Question Your Boundaries Question your limitations! I had a woman tell me that she was told women can’t get the ab definition I was showing in my picture. I’ve had people tell me they gave up lifting because they were told they simply shouldn’t after x age… Do not be an Elephant tied up. I found this story the other day and thought it so highlighted how we can all hold...

Struggling to lose weight? Need that little tip to kickstart your results?  Well let me save you a lot of wasted time and effort experimenting to find what works and share 15 fat loss tips tips I’ve found to make all the difference in my results.