Are you feeling frustrated about achieving your fitness goals?  If so, know that you aren’t alone. But let’s get beyond the feeling of being stuck and go deeper into the “why” and “what’s next.”

What's Keeping You From Achieving Your Fitness Goals?

You are a smart woman, and if you are like most of my clients, you know what to do to make yourself feel better. Even so, it feels like a HUGE undertaking! You're a finisher, an achiever, and so you probably don't like to start stuff that you're not going to finish or be successful with. You are a winner, first or last Ricky Bobby, right? 

It can be hard to stop making excuses and start putting yourself first. There are a few common frustrations among people like yourself.

You're Struggling to Clock Out or Unplug At The End of the Day. 

The struggle is real. Even before COVID, we were surrounded by the feeling that we just have to keep going. And we have to do more to stay ahead and get ahead and get to the front and compete with the ‘big dogs.’ 

Cell phones have completely obliterated the line between personal time and work time. Because technology has made it so easy and accessible, we feel obligated to answer emails, text messages, phone calls, and log into work at all hours of the day and night. It's no surprise it’s taking a serious toll on our mental health and our physical health. 

COVID only made it worse. Now, it's not just the phone. But our entire office and school are now where we also eat, sleep, and live. It's all the same place. And it is causing us to stay up late. We're not having time to unwind or relax at the end of the day. And that leads to poor quality of sleep, we're waking up exhausted, and then the cycle just continues. 

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal cited the average adult now spends an average of 16 hours in front of digital media - that screen you're looking at right now. Before COVID it was 12.5. That's still too much. So the problem isn't from COVID, but it definitely got worse, right? 

Another study that measured how much time we were saving working from home and not commuting. Did you know those found hours totaled 62.4 million fewer commuting hours total across America? And can you guess what we did with them? We worked more. Yup. That study found that we're spending 35% of that extra time working. So as if you haven't just spent your whole day working, now you're spending the time you used to commute listening to podcasts, maybe reading the paper, decompressing, and you’re working through that too. It's crazy. 

The boundaries have become blurred and the time in the early morning or late at night when we are supposed to be winding down, resting, recharging, sleeping we are now working. It’s taking a serious toll on both our mental and our physical well-being. 

You’re Struggling to Follow-Through.

You've tried a bunch of stuff on your own to get healthier, get leaner, change your lifestyle. But you also understand that without someone to hold you accountable, it's really easy to just put it off or not do it.

You know what to do, you know all the things, but you just can't seem to do it. You need someone to make you do it right? Or it's easy to push off.

That's super common. Most of my clients are people just like you: very well educated about exercise, maybe they've been doing it forever, maybe they know what they need to do. It's just they can't figure out how to fit it into their day because their day is madness between work (telecommuting or actually working in your office), schooling the kids (either virtual, hybrid), and other obligations. You look at the calendar, and it seems like it's just jam packed, it feels overwhelming to try to fit anything else in not one more thing. And finding the time to plan your food, prepare your food, get to the gym, or even just workout at home (if you have equipment at home), it just doesn't seem possible.  Finding the 30, 60, or 90 minutes to take care of their bodies just never happens.

You’re Struggling with the Constant Feeling of Stress

Let’s face it, the constant stress of life can wear you down. It can be a trigger for you to emotionally eat, to give up on your plans for the day, or simply for you to not take care of yourself. 

This year has been tough, and there have been a lot of really hard moments. Life is like that sometimes. Jobs can get rocky, families can fall ill, finances can throw us for a loop. Remember, you're not alone in this struggle. Things like emotional eating, depression, and anxiety happen to everyone. Statistics for these issues are up across the country. 

The good news is, there's a way out of it. 

What if You had Support In Achieving Your Fitness Goals?

So if after reading all of this, you hear yourself saying, "I just need someone to help me. Someone to make me do it."

Know that you're not alone.

Learning strategies for controlling your emotions, shifting your mindset, and maintaining your motivation will get you past the hurdle. Believe it or not, it's really not that hard. Really!

I've helped so many people who have struggled with these frustrations to move past them and see success. They found more energy, more motivation, and they've made their healthy lifestyle fit into their busy schedule easily. 

Don’t let frustration stop you from achieving your fitness goals. 

Not being able to clock out at the end of the day. 

Not being able to figure out how to make a healthier lifestyle fit into your crazy life. 

Not being able to get past the feelings of stress, overwhelm, emotion, anxiety, and depression. 

If you're feeling any or all of that, you're not alone. 

There's a way to control your emotions, to shift your mindset, and to maintain motivation. You might just need someone to show you that it's possible. Sometimes we can't see the forest for the trees. We get bogged down, and we feel like there's no way out. I’m here to be your support so you can get through this and to the other side of health.

You can find your way out of this. This can happen for you, and it's never too late for a new chapter in your health story.

That's what coaches are all about: accountability.  This is exactly what a coach is there for - to offer you that support and accountability when you can't show up for yourself. If someone's expecting you to do the workout, if someone's expecting you to eat the meals, prepare the meals, it means you're usually more likely to do it, right?  When you are willing to let yourself down, interestingly enough, if I'm expecting you to do it, you're more more likely to follow through because you don't want to let me down.

So let me be your support in this, okay? You're not alone.

Know your limitations and find a way to move past them by scheduling a call with me here. That's how change happens.