Live Your Personal Best - Workout Motivation and Routine Building For Current and Former Athletes - 43. The One Thing You're Messing Up in Your Morning Routine

43. The One Thing You're Messing Up in Your Morning Routine

12/10/20 • 17 min

Live Your Personal Best - Workout Motivation and Routine Building For Current and Former Athletes

We all love the snooze button, don’t we? Those extra 10 minutes feels like heaven, if only they could last a little longer... But what’s a few minutes compared to the rest of your day? Because the truth is, that morning hour can either make or break the rest of your day. Sacrificing a few morning minutes will make you feel better the whole day than giving in to instant gratification.

In this episode of Girls Gone Healthy, I talk about setting up a successful morning routine- and not the ten-step one you dread. Listen in to learn the benefits of having a productive morning routine.

Key Takeaways:

The importance of following through with a morning routine to set up the rest of your day.
Stop sabotaging your day and instead learn to push yourself in the morning to feel better for longer than satisfying instant gratification.
Boost your productivity by convincing yourself to get up when you initially said you would and give yourself time.
How to create your own morning schedule that doesn’t necessarily mean waking up at six or having a ten-step morning routine.

Episode Timeline:

[2:11] Two morning scenarios that can either set or destroy the rest of your day.
[8:57] Have a plan before going to bed so you don’t have the time to talk yourself out of it in the morning.
[13:43] How to find your own schedule even when you’re not a morning person.

Quotes:

“How are you spending that first hour of your day, because that can be a lot of wasted time.” [8:23]
“Don’t give yourself so much time to think and talk yourself out.” [9:22]

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Key Takeaways:

The importance of following through with a morning routine to set up the rest of your day.
Stop sabotaging your day and instead learn to push yourself in the morning to feel better for longer than satisfying instant gratification.
Boost your productivity by convincing yourself to get up when you initially said you would and give yourself time.
How to create your own morning schedule that doesn’t necessarily mean waking up at six or having a ten-step morning routine.

Episode Timeline:

[2:11] Two morning scenarios that can either set or destroy the rest of your day.
[8:57] Have a plan before going to bed so you don’t have the time to talk yourself out of it in the morning.
[13:43] How to find your own schedule even when you’re not a morning person.

Quotes:

“How are you spending that first hour of your day, because that can be a lot of wasted time.” [8:23]
“Don’t give yourself so much time to think and talk yourself out.” [9:22]

Come join our fitness community: https://bit.ly/2PZ2zTC

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Previous Episode

42. Uncomplicating Eating: How to Take Weight Off Your Eating Habits

I don’t know about you, but I have this mentality of ‘I’m not trying to lose weight but I’m not trying to gain any either’ even though I enjoy eating healthy and working out. We live in a society that promotes thinness and anything other than that is treated unkindly. But think for a moment, what would happen if you took your weight out of the equation in your health and fitness journey?

In this episode of Girls Gone Healthy, I have with me Megan Hadley, a nutrition therapist, and owner of Simple Nutrition. She has helped hundreds of clients recover from diet culture and believes that all bodies are good bodies and that all food is good food. She explains how she uses the principles of getting healthy on her clients without focusing on the weight.

Listen in to learn why most weight loss practices are not sustainable for longer periods. You will also learn about other issues related to food that you can manage other your weight.

Key Takeaways:

The power of intuitive eating in helping you serve your body better and be less concerned about what you eat.
Understanding why most weight loss practices are not sustainable for the long-term.
How food freedom looks like- eating food while honoring your hunger plus moving your body in ways that feel good to you.
How the right timing of meals can help you to enjoy food better.
The strategy of approaching healthy eating without the goal of weight loss.
Why the fear of weight gain is just as harmful as the weight loss pursuit.

Episode Timeline:

[2:01] Megan describes what she does as a non-diet dietician who uses Health at Every Size informed practice, plus her personal journey with intuitive eating.
[7:26] How Megan helps women see it’s the system of weight loss that’s not working, not them.
[16:50] Helping people manage their other issues around food without weight loss as the primary goal.
[21:13] Megan explains what the Health at Every Size movement means and how she helps her client address their weight gain/ loss issues.

Quotes:

“We have a lot of these rules to follow as it relates to food and not in a positive way.”- Megan [11:51]
“As long as weight loss is the most primary goal for a person, you’re always looking at external cues in order to drive your decisions when it comes to food.”- Megan [17:22]
“There are other measures to health other than weight.”- Megan [23:49]

Connect with Megan: simplenutritioncounseling.com

https://www.instagram.com/nutritionissimple/

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Next Episode

44. Sick of Your Bad Eating Habits? Let’s Talk About Breaking the Cycle

How often do you find yourself in the vicious cycle of binge eating, overexercising, emotional eating, repeat? Urgh, how tiring! Don’t you wish you could find an eating pattern that allows you to eat healthily and for comfort without feeling guilty? The truth is that you do not have a problem with food, you only have bad habits that are formed throughout your life. You heard that right, you can get over binge and emotional eating.

In this episode of Girls Gone Healthy, I speak with Estelle Coombe-Heath, a leading expert in helping women who struggle with binge and emotional eating so that they can find food freedom and finally trust themselves around food. She shares how she overcame binge eating and overexercising to achieve food freedom and a healthy lifestyle.

Listen in to learn the importance of understanding your binge triggers to help curb your bad eating habits.

Key Takeaways:

The never-ending vicious cycle of working out and binge eating that does more harm to your body than good.
Stop living in food prison by releasing all forms of emotions around food especially guilt and shame.
Learn to listen to your body cues on what food it needs and release your stigma around cravings.
The importance of understanding your urges and learning to protest against the part of your brain that reaches for food to break binge eating patterns.
Teaching yourself how to have a neutral relationship with food.
Understanding your triggers when it comes to food through hunger, emotions, and habits.
How the restrictive mentality is stopping you from getting over binge eating.

Episode Timeline:

[4:14] Estelle shares her journey with unhealthy eating habits that led to binge eating and the support she got to recover.
[13:12] How to achieve food freedom by balancing your thoughts and feelings around food.
[16:33] How Estelle focuses on balancing energy eating and other foods to help her clients.
[18:34] Understanding where your urge for eating comes from.
[23:38] Steps on how to change your relationship with food to tackle binge eating.
[30:55] How Estelle helps her clients learn to trust themselves around food.

Quotes:

“Food didn’t make me eat it, it was mostly my emotions and habits that was triggering it.”- Estelle [27:21]
“Everything is about a middle ground, there is no such thing as perfection.”- Estelle [32:39]

Connect with Estelle:

https://www.instagram.com/wholesomelifestyleproject/

www.wholesomelifestyleproject.com/

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