How do you want to feel?

This is a question that I often phrase to many of my clients, and on my FREE Strategy Calls.  I use the Strategy Calls to help women with any number of challenges that they are facing, and help them come up with simple, sane, and sustainable solutions that help them move forward on their journey.

When it comes to making choices about your health, fitness, and nutrition, how do you want to feel ? It's a powerful one, ain't it? It gets the wheels spinning.

Ask yourself that every single time you get ready to start something new, particularly a new diet.

How is that diet gonna make me feel in the long-term?

How is this running making me feel?

How is the Keto dieting making me feel?

Do you feel empowered in your decisions?

How are those social media accounts, or other accounts that you are following making you feel about your body?

Or do you feel rundown, lethargic, exhausted, unhappy, hungry, and consumed with food thoughts?

I could go on and on. You get the point. Ask yourself questions - better ones that will help you determine if what you are doing will serve you, help you THRIVE in all areas of your life, not STRESS it!

I know how I want to feel. I wish that I had asked myself “how do I want to feel” when I was restricting and binging for the years that I did. When I was exercising excessively and everything that goes along with that mindset.

Sure, in that moment, I felt like I was on the top, but little did I know I wasn't gonna feel great in the long-term.

Like I said about the CRUSH The DIET BOOTCAMP - wishing that something was around like this back when I was in the cycle! I so wish that someone would have had my best interest at heart and asked me this same question that I am asking you - How do you want to feel?

To take it a step even further - How do you want to feel TEN years from now or when you are 60 or 70 years old?!

Which brings me to one of the homework questions from the DITCH THE DIET BOOTCAMP. The challenge participants were asked "If you still want to look athletic, fit person in your seventies you can, but......

{Fill in the Blank} Reply back and let me know your answer if you'd like. I always love hearing from you.

My answer to the question is below:

I don't know about you, but I want to be fit, strong, capable, able-bodied, and be able to get off the toilet when I'm older.

Be able to take care of myself, still do everyday activities that I love doing now such as walking, biking, hiking, lifting the damn things, playing with my grandkids, etc.

I was killing myself with the No Pain, No Gain workouts, Team No Days off back in the day. I was training like a maniac with LITTLE To NO food, even 2 a days for many years! I did burn out, by the way!

Disordered eating, under-eating, binging, and over exercising, under recovering anyone?! Me! You cannot continue to train this way and expect to have a good quality of life in your older years.

If I continued to train that way, I would NOT be where I am today!

Maybe you don't care how your quality of life will be when you are in your 50's, 60's, or 70's, and want to train and eat as little as possible to fit into some arbitrary number, or weigh a certain number on the scale NOW.  If that’s you, then by all means, then go for it.

You will regret it, Trust and Believe!

If you want to FEEL Better, do things that we FILL Your WHOLE Cup for Life!

So, how do you want to feel?

Thank you for reading! I hope your week is going well. Any questions or topics you like me to address, don't hesitate to reach out! I'd love to hear your response to the questions as well!

In Strength

Xo

Candace

P.S. We are having a good time busting down the Diet Mentality one day at a time over in the Crush The Diet Bootcamp, it's not too late to join. We are on day 3, but all the homework and videos are there for you to devour! Get in on the action by signing up here!