September 19, 2024 • 16 mins
In this thought-provoking episode we dive deep into the often overlooked aspects of weight loss and holistic health. Have you hit a plateau despite dialing in your diet and exercise? Are you frustrated and feeling stuck? Let’s explore the crucial 'other shift' you need to break through barriers and reach your health goals.
Our host tackles the mental and emotional components of health, emphasizing that true well-being extends beyond food and physical activity. Learn why it's essential to stop dieting and start focusing on a holistic approach to health, which includes your mind and spirit.
Discover practical steps to reshape your mindset, from writing daily affirmations about yourself to reframing negative thoughts. This episode offers actionable advice on integrating mental health practices with your physical health journey, ensuring you develop a balanced and sustainable lifestyle.
Tune in to find out why simply adjusting your diet won't lead to lasting happiness or health, and how combining mental, emotional, and physical efforts can create the best, most vibrant version of you.
Don't miss this inspiring episode that encourages you to face the 'stuff' in your head and heart and transform your life beyond the food.
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>> Jolene (00:00):
So you've dialed in your food, yet you're still
not quite reaching goal, and you just want to
diet harder. But is that really what's holding you
back? Let's dive in.
Are, ah, you ready to give up and toss in the towel of
yoyo diets and all those stupid rules
that come with them? Do you feel like you must be broken?
(00:21):
Because nothing you do makes you any healthier
or closer to a healthy weight? Don't throw
in that towel just yet. I'm here to tell you you
are not broken or destined to be
unhealthy, uncomfortable, tired, and sick for the
rest of your life. I'm Jolene, your
nutritional therapy practitioner and BFF. On, this
(00:41):
wild ride. I'd like to welcome you to holistic
health made simple, where we stop focusing on the
scale and make small steps to reach those healthy
dreams. It's time to take a different
approach to find that success you've been searching
for. So go grab some water, pop in those headphones,
and let's make your health dream a reality.
(01:02):
Hey. Hey, there you
are doing amazing. You've
dialed in your diet. You are
walking and moving your body almost every day
to some extent, yet you
plateaued. You're stuck.
The general consensus out there, and I've said it
myself, to many people and clients
(01:24):
alike, that a plateau is
defined as four to six weeks
of, no scale or weight
loss and no inches lost.
Okay, we can buy into that.
But what happens when that plateau lasts
longer and we try to diet more
or fast more? Whatever it is that you're doing,
(01:47):
and it's still not working, nothing's budging.
So you dialed in your food,
and you're redialing it and redialing it, and
nothing's changing. And now you're
frustrated. You feel broken.
I've been there, but
maybe it's something more.
I recently read this quote. You can
(02:10):
go to the gym, drink your water,
and take your vitamins, but if you don't
deal with the shit that's going on in your heart
and your head, you're still gonna be
unhealthy.
So you see, friends, we're gonna dive a little deeper
today on the other aspect of
holistic health, your
(02:31):
brain. So many of us
have struggled our entire
life. We've got
on a diet, we've lost weight. We really didn't get
any healthier. Sometimes we get sicker when we're
skinny, but that a lot had to do with, the
diet we were doing. So we jumped from diet
to diet to diethyde. Hoping
(02:53):
we'll start to feel better and have more
energy and look good in our genes and feel good
in our body. And if you know me, I've been saying
this over and over again, we've got to
stop dieting and start focusing
on our health. And our health goes
deeper than the food we're eating. But
I get it. We have been
(03:15):
so ingrained that the only way
to get healthy is to look solely at the
food we're eating. And we have all these
influencers, throwing things at us left and
right about be perfect and do this and do
that one. Friends, I'm going to tell you right
now, there is not one person out there
(03:35):
that is perfect 100% of the time. And
if they tell you they are, they're lying,
plain and simple. They're
going to let that bad oil in every now and
then. Sometimes they don't even know it's happening.
But the fact is, is that the
stress of being perfect all the
(03:58):
time is
detrimental to your health. Especially
for those of us who just want to have
a lot of energy, feel good in our skin,
and be healthy, have
metabolic health. We
just want to live life.
We don't want to be perfect anymore. I
(04:20):
am at an age where I have learned
there's no such thing as perfect. Perfect will not bring
you happiness. A number on that
scale does not bring you happiness. A
size of a gene does not bring you happiness.
It will bring you some instant gratification,
just like an Oreo cookie will. And then it
(04:40):
fades before you come at me and say things
like, what are you doing? Why are you saying
this? I want you to have a
healthy lifestyle. Meaning,
if you falter one day, you don't beat
yourself up, you jump back into your healthy habits. I've
said it again, your healthy habits are what
sustain you when you have times
(05:03):
of stress, times of inconsistencies,
it what brings you back to your
healthy lifestyle. They're second nature. So we
want to build these healthy habits?
Yes, we want to eat
healthy. Yes, we want to eat
foods that boost our emotions, that
boost our gut health, so it keeps our
(05:26):
brain happy. Yeah, I'm not saying any of
that. I'm not saying throw all your healthy eating out the
window because there's no sense it doesn't do
any good. Dialing in your food
is imperative. Dialing in your
movement is imperative.
But the shit that's going on in your
head, the things you are telling yourself,
(05:49):
it's time to fix that
as well. I've been there.
I started this last health journey with
the attitude and thought it wasn't going
to work anyways. So
what do I have to lose
now? For whatever reason, this
(06:09):
time the food was a little bit
more enjoyable. It was food I ate
anyways. I just had to alter it a little bit
so it was easier to stick to.
I started building little habits around the
food, but I then had to start
working on my brain.
(06:29):
My brain tells me that it doesn't matter
because at some point I'm going to gain it all
back. I'm going to become unhealthy again.
I'm going to trigger another autoimmune disease.
Something, some shitty shoe is
going to fall or drop and I'm going to be right back
where I started from. This is real talk
(06:50):
because we all talk to ourselves.
We all have thoughts. We have
over 60,000 thoughts a day
and the majority of them are negative
about ourselves. What
if you worked a little
bit on saying some nice things
about this body that got you this
(07:12):
far? Some of you made human
beings inside of your body.
That's amazing. Some of you have done some
amazing things and gone some amazing
places. But stop
talking down to yourself.
Think about what you're saying
to you. Would you say that to somebody
(07:34):
else out loud? Forget the Internet,
because I know some people will say some pretty bad shit
on the Internet, but I'm saying, would you say that
to your mom, your sister, your friend?
Think about it. You
deserve you cheering for
you. While the past is the past,
(07:54):
it often is shaping the way we think
about the future. I
know, I know that seems really ooga booga, whatever,
but what happened in the past
when we did a diet?
Oftentimes we're waiting for that to happen
again. The thing is, is we've got to say that
this time I'm in control. The past is the
(08:17):
past. Learn from the past.
Let go of the negativity of the
past. Take it only as lessons.
You are strong and capable
to succeed going forward, but we need
to get this unhealthy
thoughts out of our
(08:38):
system. We have to get our
head on straight. I know a lot of you
have had some horrible experiences in your
life, some horrible stressors,
family, personal
companionship, whatever it is,
those are things that shaped who we are
and gave us the strength that's deep
(09:01):
down inside of us. Even if you don't feel it,
we are stronger from everything that
has happened prior to today.
The thing is, is we've got to stop
living as if the past is our
future. I'm going to say that
again. Stop living as if the
past is your future.
(09:23):
Take the lessons from the past.
Take the courage it is that you have moved
forward. Build it as inner
strength and pave your
own new future. This
journey to optimal health and a
healthy weight goes beyond
food. Getting healthy
(09:44):
holistically requires the
body to be healthy and the mind,
plus the spirit. The spirit
meaning belonging to something bigger than just
yourself.
So today, your
takeaways. Your tasks
are to write down
(10:06):
five things you like
about yourself. I
want you to start doing this every day. For the
first few days, you might say the same five things.
That's okay, but we need
to look at what happened. And if something
traumatic happened to you,
(10:26):
can you find one positive that came out of it?
Did you get stronger?
Did m you meet a new friend? Were
you surprised at the support you got? Whatever that
is, it's time to
replace all of those negative
thoughts with something
positive. I don't want to hear
(10:48):
a single one of you ever call yourself
fat, ugly,
chunky, chubby.
I don't care if you believe it to be true.
Would you call your best friend chubby
to their face? Maybe behind their back? I get
it. But you need to start treating
(11:08):
yourself with respect. There's a
whole modality about releasing
tension in the body to
start releasing excess weight
and finding health.
But that has to start
with you switching
(11:29):
those thoughts, leaving the past in the
past. We can all go forward and
say, oh, I'm going to do this exercise. It's going to release the
stress and I'm going to release the weight because it's going to
release all that pent up tension from before.
You know, that doesn't work like that if you just
replace it day by day by talking negatively
(11:50):
to yourself. So besides writing
down five things that
you like about yourself every day,
I want you to stop yourself when
you think or say something negatively
about yourself. And it doesn't have to be about
appearance. It could be about your
personality, about the job you do, about your
(12:13):
work ethic. Whatever it is,
anything that you start to say
negatively about yourself, catch
it, stop it, and ask
yourself why you think that way. Or
can you reframe it? Simply looking
at something saying, oh gosh, I
screwed up, I made a mistake and move on.
(12:35):
Rather than calling yourself stupid, it's
little things like that. These are the
small changes after you get your food dialed
in or not just after.
While you're getting your food dialed in,
go hand in hand to make a
successful, healthy lifestyle.
You're not going to have a positive attitude
(12:58):
the minute you lose 20 pounds
without doing the work in your brain
on yourself. I can tell you half of you right now
are thinking I'm nuts. Just try
it. Do me a favor and just try
it.
So, to recap, and I'm going to add one more in
because you got to have three tasks. Come on. First
(13:18):
task, you're going to write five things
you like about yourself every
day. Try to make them different. Don't always
write the same five things.
Two, the minute you realize you're saying
or thinking something, negative about yourself,
you're going to stop.
(13:39):
Reframe it in. I'm confused, I
don't understand. And I'm going to learn this,
whatever it is, but reframe it into a positive
thing. Let me learn from this
rather than I'm stupid. Basically,
I have a strong body that has
carried me for however many years you've been on this
(14:00):
planet versus I'm fat or I'm chubby,
I'm, slow. It doesn't matter.
Just reframe it. Stop
yourself and reframe it. You're beautiful,
you're kind, you're a
wonderful person. And
lastly, don't stop dialing in your food.
(14:20):
Drink your water, prioritize your
protein and then get in some movement.
The movement, the meditation,
eating healthy will all help you
make these mental
adjustments. The mental adjustments
will help you eat and drink and do everything
(14:40):
you're supposed to do on the health side. And the bottom
line is, is when we're not perfect,
these things we're working on will allow
us to fall right back into
our healthy lifestyle and stop us
from beating ourselves up because we may
have fallen sideways.
(15:01):
Whatever the reason is, if you had a piece of cake at
a birthday party, if you start working
on your thoughts,
you will stop beating yourself up for it. And it's easier to
get back on track. This health
journey is bigger than food,
it's bigger than the gym, and it's bigger than
your thoughts. But when you combine them all
(15:23):
together, a, ah, great big
healthy life that you are
enjoying, that you are
happy to be a part of, it's bigger
than you. It's all of you. It's
combined. It's time to be an
adulthood and face the shit that's in your
head and in your heart. They're connected. It's
(15:44):
time to find true health and work on all of
it together to be the best,
badass version of you.
Until next time, be healthy.
Be happy. Be you. Bye.
Thanks for listening in today. I hope you got some nuggets to take
on your health journey. Remember, this podcast is for
(16:05):
educational and entertainment purposes. No medical advice
is being given. By listening to this podcast, you agree to the
full disclaimer, which is linked in the show notes. If you
found this podcast helpful, could you take 30 seconds and leave a
review? Your feedback means the world to me and it
helps others discover my show. Once again,
thank you for being part of my community. Until next time, have
(16:25):
a blessed day.
So you've dialed in your food, yet you're still
not quite reaching goal, and you just want to
diet harder. But is that really what's holding you
back? Let's dive in.
Are, ah, you ready to give up and toss in the towel of
yoyo diets and all those stupid rules
that come with them? Do you feel like you must be broken?
(00:21):
Because nothing you do makes you any healthier
or closer to a healthy weight? Don't throw
in that towel just yet. I'm here to tell you you
are not broken or destined to be
unhealthy, uncomfortable, tired, and sick for the
rest of your life. I'm Jolene, your
nutritional therapy practitioner and BFF. On, this
(00:41):
wild ride. I'd like to welcome you to holistic
health made simple, where we stop focusing on the
scale and make small steps to reach those healthy
dreams. It's time to take a different
approach to find that success you've been searching
for. So go grab some water, pop in those headphones,
and let's make your health dream a reality.
(01:02):
Hey. Hey, there you
are doing amazing. You've
dialed in your diet. You are
walking and moving your body almost every day
to some extent, yet you
plateaued. You're stuck.
The general consensus out there, and I've said it
myself, to many people and clients
(01:24):
alike, that a plateau is
defined as four to six weeks
of, no scale or weight
loss and no inches lost.
Okay, we can buy into that.
But what happens when that plateau lasts
longer and we try to diet more
or fast more? Whatever it is that you're doing,
(01:47):
and it's still not working, nothing's budging.
So you dialed in your food,
and you're redialing it and redialing it, and
nothing's changing. And now you're
frustrated. You feel broken.
I've been there, but
maybe it's something more.
I recently read this quote. You can
(02:10):
go to the gym, drink your water,
and take your vitamins, but if you don't
deal with the shit that's going on in your heart
and your head, you're still gonna be
unhealthy.
So you see, friends, we're gonna dive a little deeper
today on the other aspect of
holistic health, your
(02:31):
brain. So many of us
have struggled our entire
life. We've got
on a diet, we've lost weight. We really didn't get
any healthier. Sometimes we get sicker when we're
skinny, but that a lot had to do with, the
diet we were doing. So we jumped from diet
to diet to diethyde. Hoping
(02:53):
we'll start to feel better and have more
energy and look good in our genes and feel good
in our body. And if you know me, I've been saying
this over and over again, we've got to
stop dieting and start focusing
on our health. And our health goes
deeper than the food we're eating. But
I get it. We have been
(03:15):
so ingrained that the only way
to get healthy is to look solely at the
food we're eating. And we have all these
influencers, throwing things at us left and
right about be perfect and do this and do
that one. Friends, I'm going to tell you right
now, there is not one person out there
(03:35):
that is perfect 100% of the time. And
if they tell you they are, they're lying,
plain and simple. They're
going to let that bad oil in every now and
then. Sometimes they don't even know it's happening.
But the fact is, is that the
stress of being perfect all the
(03:58):
time is
detrimental to your health. Especially
for those of us who just want to have
a lot of energy, feel good in our skin,
and be healthy, have
metabolic health. We
just want to live life.
We don't want to be perfect anymore. I
(04:20):
am at an age where I have learned
there's no such thing as perfect. Perfect will not bring
you happiness. A number on that
scale does not bring you happiness. A
size of a gene does not bring you happiness.
It will bring you some instant gratification,
just like an Oreo cookie will. And then it
(04:40):
fades before you come at me and say things
like, what are you doing? Why are you saying
this? I want you to have a
healthy lifestyle. Meaning,
if you falter one day, you don't beat
yourself up, you jump back into your healthy habits. I've
said it again, your healthy habits are what
sustain you when you have times
(05:03):
of stress, times of inconsistencies,
it what brings you back to your
healthy lifestyle. They're second nature. So we
want to build these healthy habits?
Yes, we want to eat
healthy. Yes, we want to eat
foods that boost our emotions, that
boost our gut health, so it keeps our
(05:26):
brain happy. Yeah, I'm not saying any of
that. I'm not saying throw all your healthy eating out the
window because there's no sense it doesn't do
any good. Dialing in your food
is imperative. Dialing in your
movement is imperative.
But the shit that's going on in your
head, the things you are telling yourself,
(05:49):
it's time to fix that
as well. I've been there.
I started this last health journey with
the attitude and thought it wasn't going
to work anyways. So
what do I have to lose
now? For whatever reason, this
(06:09):
time the food was a little bit
more enjoyable. It was food I ate
anyways. I just had to alter it a little bit
so it was easier to stick to.
I started building little habits around the
food, but I then had to start
working on my brain.
(06:29):
My brain tells me that it doesn't matter
because at some point I'm going to gain it all
back. I'm going to become unhealthy again.
I'm going to trigger another autoimmune disease.
Something, some shitty shoe is
going to fall or drop and I'm going to be right back
where I started from. This is real talk
(06:50):
because we all talk to ourselves.
We all have thoughts. We have
over 60,000 thoughts a day
and the majority of them are negative
about ourselves. What
if you worked a little
bit on saying some nice things
about this body that got you this
(07:12):
far? Some of you made human
beings inside of your body.
That's amazing. Some of you have done some
amazing things and gone some amazing
places. But stop
talking down to yourself.
Think about what you're saying
to you. Would you say that to somebody
(07:34):
else out loud? Forget the Internet,
because I know some people will say some pretty bad shit
on the Internet, but I'm saying, would you say that
to your mom, your sister, your friend?
Think about it. You
deserve you cheering for
you. While the past is the past,
(07:54):
it often is shaping the way we think
about the future. I
know, I know that seems really ooga booga, whatever,
but what happened in the past
when we did a diet?
Oftentimes we're waiting for that to happen
again. The thing is, is we've got to say that
this time I'm in control. The past is the
(08:17):
past. Learn from the past.
Let go of the negativity of the
past. Take it only as lessons.
You are strong and capable
to succeed going forward, but we need
to get this unhealthy
thoughts out of our
(08:38):
system. We have to get our
head on straight. I know a lot of you
have had some horrible experiences in your
life, some horrible stressors,
family, personal
companionship, whatever it is,
those are things that shaped who we are
and gave us the strength that's deep
(09:01):
down inside of us. Even if you don't feel it,
we are stronger from everything that
has happened prior to today.
The thing is, is we've got to stop
living as if the past is our
future. I'm going to say that
again. Stop living as if the
past is your future.
(09:23):
Take the lessons from the past.
Take the courage it is that you have moved
forward. Build it as inner
strength and pave your
own new future. This
journey to optimal health and a
healthy weight goes beyond
food. Getting healthy
(09:44):
holistically requires the
body to be healthy and the mind,
plus the spirit. The spirit
meaning belonging to something bigger than just
yourself.
So today, your
takeaways. Your tasks
are to write down
(10:06):
five things you like
about yourself. I
want you to start doing this every day. For the
first few days, you might say the same five things.
That's okay, but we need
to look at what happened. And if something
traumatic happened to you,
(10:26):
can you find one positive that came out of it?
Did you get stronger?
Did m you meet a new friend? Were
you surprised at the support you got? Whatever that
is, it's time to
replace all of those negative
thoughts with something
positive. I don't want to hear
(10:48):
a single one of you ever call yourself
fat, ugly,
chunky, chubby.
I don't care if you believe it to be true.
Would you call your best friend chubby
to their face? Maybe behind their back? I get
it. But you need to start treating
(11:08):
yourself with respect. There's a
whole modality about releasing
tension in the body to
start releasing excess weight
and finding health.
But that has to start
with you switching
(11:29):
those thoughts, leaving the past in the
past. We can all go forward and
say, oh, I'm going to do this exercise. It's going to release the
stress and I'm going to release the weight because it's going to
release all that pent up tension from before.
You know, that doesn't work like that if you just
replace it day by day by talking negatively
(11:50):
to yourself. So besides writing
down five things that
you like about yourself every day,
I want you to stop yourself when
you think or say something negatively
about yourself. And it doesn't have to be about
appearance. It could be about your
personality, about the job you do, about your
(12:13):
work ethic. Whatever it is,
anything that you start to say
negatively about yourself, catch
it, stop it, and ask
yourself why you think that way. Or
can you reframe it? Simply looking
at something saying, oh gosh, I
screwed up, I made a mistake and move on.
(12:35):
Rather than calling yourself stupid, it's
little things like that. These are the
small changes after you get your food dialed
in or not just after.
While you're getting your food dialed in,
go hand in hand to make a
successful, healthy lifestyle.
You're not going to have a positive attitude
(12:58):
the minute you lose 20 pounds
without doing the work in your brain
on yourself. I can tell you half of you right now
are thinking I'm nuts. Just try
it. Do me a favor and just try
it.
So, to recap, and I'm going to add one more in
because you got to have three tasks. Come on. First
(13:18):
task, you're going to write five things
you like about yourself every
day. Try to make them different. Don't always
write the same five things.
Two, the minute you realize you're saying
or thinking something, negative about yourself,
you're going to stop.
(13:39):
Reframe it in. I'm confused, I
don't understand. And I'm going to learn this,
whatever it is, but reframe it into a positive
thing. Let me learn from this
rather than I'm stupid. Basically,
I have a strong body that has
carried me for however many years you've been on this
(14:00):
planet versus I'm fat or I'm chubby,
I'm, slow. It doesn't matter.
Just reframe it. Stop
yourself and reframe it. You're beautiful,
you're kind, you're a
wonderful person. And
lastly, don't stop dialing in your food.
(14:20):
Drink your water, prioritize your
protein and then get in some movement.
The movement, the meditation,
eating healthy will all help you
make these mental
adjustments. The mental adjustments
will help you eat and drink and do everything
(14:40):
you're supposed to do on the health side. And the bottom
line is, is when we're not perfect,
these things we're working on will allow
us to fall right back into
our healthy lifestyle and stop us
from beating ourselves up because we may
have fallen sideways.
(15:01):
Whatever the reason is, if you had a piece of cake at
a birthday party, if you start working
on your thoughts,
you will stop beating yourself up for it. And it's easier to
get back on track. This health
journey is bigger than food,
it's bigger than the gym, and it's bigger than
your thoughts. But when you combine them all
(15:23):
together, a, ah, great big
healthy life that you are
enjoying, that you are
happy to be a part of, it's bigger
than you. It's all of you. It's
combined. It's time to be an
adulthood and face the shit that's in your
head and in your heart. They're connected. It's
(15:44):
time to find true health and work on all of
it together to be the best,
badass version of you.
Until next time, be healthy.
Be happy. Be you. Bye.
Thanks for listening in today. I hope you got some nuggets to take
on your health journey. Remember, this podcast is for
(16:05):
educational and entertainment purposes. No medical advice
is being given. By listening to this podcast, you agree to the
full disclaimer, which is linked in the show notes. If you
found this podcast helpful, could you take 30 seconds and leave a
review? Your feedback means the world to me and it
helps others discover my show. Once again,
thank you for being part of my community. Until next time, have
(16:25):
a blessed day.
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