One morning last November, I stepped on the scale and looked down to see a number I haven’t seen since I was pregnant and thought “Huh? How’d I get HERE?”

I started to look back at how the heck a HEALTH COACH could get to this point.

Taking a hard look at the past three months, I realized there was a lot going on. 

We sold a house, bought a new house, and moved. 

We ate out almost constantly because we were trying to sell our house and didn’t want to mess up the kitchen.

We sent our youngest son to college and became empty nesters.

My older son got engaged and wedding planning began.

Talk about all the emotions! This is a lot to deal with, especially when I struggle with emotional eating.

Obviously, I’d avoided the scale for quite some time. But when we got settled into our new house, I decided it was time to cook and get my health back in check, because I am a health coach after all. Geez!

As a health coach, I knew what to do. I just wasn’t doing it. 

I thought back to 2017 when I found myself in a similar place. Where I’d let my weight creep up after losing my dad to cancer. There was stress, emotional eating, and I’d let my healthy habits slide. 

It was a HUGE answer to prayer when I was asked to be in a test group for a nutrition program focused on mindset and intuitive eating. I slowly and steadily lost 20lbs I’d been unable to lose and I was able to maintain those results while feeling amazing! I gained a new level of confidence because I had control over my mindset around food.

I was doing 5 simple things every day:

Weighing myself.

Tracking what I was eating.

Drinking almost my weight in ounces every day.

Eating mostly veggies.

Drinking Shakeology, my superfood shake.

Extra credit: working out

So simple.

In November of 2018, some new emotional triggers put me in a funk, including ongoing grief over my dad and several other family members we lost in quick succession, and sending my oldest to college. I couldn't seem to get out of my funk.

Little by little, most of those simple things I was doing every day to keep my health in check started to fall off. 

I didn’t feel like weighing myself because it was cold in the mornings. Aka avoiding the number on said scale.

I didn’t feel like tracking what I was eating because I knew how to eat. Aka avoiding accountability.

I didn’t feel like drinking ALL that water. Aka at least I drink a lot and I’m probably drinking more than other people do.

I got tired of eating SO MANY veggies. Aka I like my comfort carbs, thank you very much!

But I still drank my shake every day, so I was good, right?

Wrong.

When I stepped on the scale in November, I asked myself “How did I get here?” I needed to reflect on how a health coach could get so far away from the confident, feel good in her skin woman that she was just a few years before.

Here is what I learned:

*Stress steals joy.

*Grief is sneaky and sometimes you just have to sit in it for a while but you will get better.

*Habits are easy to slip out of.

*Little changes cause big results, good or bad.

*I needed all 5 of my habits in order to be healthy. 

So what do you do when you fall off the habit wagon? You put aside excuses and get right back on. 

I know that my five simple habits are EASY, simple, and sustainable. Practicing them daily leads me back to the healthy, confident woman I was just a few years prior, perfectly timed to be a mother of the groom. Goal setting is good, y’all!

Speaking of goal setting: I figured I need to lose .2 pounds per day or 6 pounds per month in order to reach my goal. So, for every 6 pounds I lose, I will buy myself a new blouse or outfit. Having a reward system with goal setting is an important piece of achieving your health goals so be sure to add that in!

I hope that this will encourage you if you are looking at the scale (or avoiding it) wondering how you got where you are. These 5 habits can help you get back to the confident, amazing woman God created you to be!

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