All things Nutrition, Training, + Habits.
End of Year Grief: 5 steps for processing through unmet expectations as you start 2024
Did 2023 not go as you hoped?
Are you dealing with some unmet expectations, and as a result, some unwanted emotions?
The 5 Most Crucial Nutrition Habits for You to Build if You Want to Get Lean
These 5 nutrition habits are SIMPLE, PRACTICAL, and NEEDED for you to build if you want to get lean and healthy.
Coach B’s 2022 Reflection & 2023 Goals
All in all, 2022 will go down in history as one of those pivotal years packed full of core memories and pivotal moments in who I am and where I am headed. It was, what we call in psychology, a year of “awakening.” Awakening seasons are essentially processes in which we kind of “come to reality”…
30 journal prompts to guide your year-end reflections
Benefits of a regular journaling practice include:
Encourages healthy mindfulness + awareness skills
Lowers stress and anxiety
Increased mental, emotional, and spiritual clarity
An ability to more accurately visualize and understand your reality (brings clarity”) …
Why you will not see “before and after” pictures from us at LET
…here are the 4 reasons you will not see before and after photos displayed in our marketing efforts: 1. We are a holistically-focused company- we help you build MORE than your physique. You are capable of changing YOUR ENTIRE LIFE by optimizing your habits and taking a holistic approach to health. Why would we mislead you into thinking that your physique will offer you the health, life, confidence, freedom, functionality, and peace of mind that optimizing your healthy habits can give you?
“Starvation Mode” Explained: Can you REALLY gain weight from eating too little?
“Calories in vs calories out” IS what weight gain and weight loss ultimately come down to. However, this drastically oversimplifies the science of metabolism and it makes us think that if we just “eat less and move more” then the scale should tip in our favor. The thing about metabolism is
4 Tips for Staying on Track through the Holidays
As a Holistic Health Coach who specializes in Strength Training and Behavior Change (Habit Coaching), I heckin’ LOVE the holiday season. While most people dread it and get anxiety just thinking about trying to stay on track towards their goals during the months of November and December, I’m over here in my coaching-corner getting STOKED about how strategic we can be during these stressful months and how much our habits can actually save us stress during this time. Before you think I’m crazy, check out these 4 tips I have for staying on track through the holidays:
High Protein Chicken Noodle Soup
*Recipe makes about 6 servings
Estimated Calories per serving: 450
Protein: 52 g/serving
Carbs: 12 g/serving
Fat: 12 g/serving
3 Ways to Know if Your Nutrition Habits are Sustainable
“Sustainable” is quickly becoming one of the most-used buzzwords in health. But what ACTUALLY makes a habit sustainable? And can effective strategies for reaching specific health goals like fat loss and muscle gain also be sustainable? I’ve compiled 3 ways to know if your nutrition habits and strategies for supporting your health are sustainable.
5 Questions to help you explore if it’s REALLY a self-control issue around food
Most of the time, it’s not as simple as “having no self control.” While I know it may feel that way, there is almost always more to the story than our brains and bodies “running away” from us and making decisions without motive. But how do we know if it’s a discipline issue or if it’s deeper than that?
About Body Composition Revival (BCR): What is it and who is it for?
Body Composition Revival (BCR) is our signature strength program that currently comes in two versions: a gym version and a minimal equipment (home gym) version. We also have our BCR: PRO version coming soon which will be an advanced/athlete version.
Is LET right for you?
Our main desire as Health Coaches is to help you find the next-right-thing for your needs and goals. We created this blog to help you further identify if LET is the right place for you to find guidance and community around your health efforts. To that effect, LET might be right for you if…
About Holistic Health Coaching: What to expect as an LET client
Since there are so many different types of Holistic Health practices, we want to make sure you know what LET’s take on Health Coaching is and what it would look like for you if you were a Health Coaching client. Here’s what to expect:
About Habit Coaching: What to expect as an LET client
Habit Coaching is a fancy way of saying that you will be collaborating with a trained professional to change current habits, break existing habits, or create new habits. As a Holistic Health Coaching client at LET- whether you are talking about exercise, nutrition, or any of the other 6 Fundamentals of Health- your time spent with your coach will be focused on the habit-sized pieces of your personal health puzzle. Here is what you need to know about Habit Coaching at LET:
About Personal Training: What to expect as an LET client
Becoming a 1-on-1 Coaching client is the only way to receive private Personal Training through LET. Since that’s a big decision, we feel it necessary to clarify what makes training with us at LET different from other training programs and experiences before you decide. Here is what you need to know about Virtual Personal Training at LET:
About Nutrition Coaching: What to expect as an LET client
If we claim that sustainable health is our main goal for our clients, we have to do things differently than the rest of the health industry. Since nutrition is the number one area of the industry clouded with misinformation, scams, and fads, we want LET to be a place where you can be confident you are getting accurate information with your best interests at heart. Here is what you need to know about our Nutrition Coaching approach:
Our Coaching Philosophy: What to expect as an LET Holistic Health Coaching client
With our principles being so different from what we are all used to hearing in the Diet Culture-driven society we live in, we find most people don’t know how to respond to the way we run things here. So before you go any further, here is what you should know about our coaching philosophy:
The LET Story: Chronic illness and altered plans
Being able to see the intense ways small actions could influence my health and the health of those I loved broadened my perspective and helped me understand why the health industry is failing to truly help people achieve lasting change. It is my belief that we way over complicate health, while also drastically underemphasizing what actually creates a healthy life. We have been trained to manipulate the body rather than support it. As a result we have produced a culture that relies more on quick fixes and pills than the lifestyles that produce many of the issues in the first place. Here at LET, my goal is to help people optimize their lifestyles by sticking to JUST the fundamentals of health.
What is the Sustainable 60 Challenge?
The goal of the challenge is simple: do the 6 Fundamentals more days per week than you don’t do them (4/7 days). The 6 Fundamentals are:
Sustainable 60: Sleep Fundamentals
If you can create strong, sustainable night time (and day time) habits geared towards promoting quality sleep, you might just be sleeping like a champ in no time.