In 2006, when I first started Shape It Up (my first fitness business) , I did and taught Dieter’s Mentality – count the calories/macros/ meal prep/ obsess about every little morsel I put in my mouth AND the grueling workout no pain – no gain crap! I looked great on the outside, but it was never good enough. I was a mess on the inside. I hated my body. I hated that I could only get it to look fabulous for very short periods of time. I hated having to go out to events because I thought people would look at me and think “who does she think she is? A personal trainer?! Hah! She’s not fit enough.” There were times when I would curl up in the fetal position and sob because nothing looked good on me…that I was still not ripped enough.

I trained for fitness competitions, but my mindset always got the best of me. I couldn’t understand what we wrong with me. When my mindset work got stronger, I realized there was nothing wrong with me. What was wrong was the method I was using…Dieter’s Mentality. If you grew up in the 70,80 or 90’s you were taught to eat rabbit food and do tons and tons of cardio. I was beating myself up – berating myself because I thought I wasn’t good enough. Wasting all my time on weighing every little thing I put in my mouth to the GRAM! Food logging – stressing out when I had to eat outside of the house. Taking pre-made meals with me wherever I went. I was a freakin’ full time job! One that I was no longer willing to put up with. I thought “There HAS to be a better, easier way. I do NOT want to spend the rest of my life food logging and micromanaging everything about my weight and body.” I had to learn how to STOP hating myself skinny!

The day I divorced my food logging app was a hard day for me. I didn’t realize how dependent I was to it. I imagined it was what someone coming off drugs felt like. I knew I had to get it out of my life because I was not about to be chained to a kitchen scale for the rest of my life. I wanted to eat whatever I wanted. No foods off limits. I wanted a healthy, lean body too.

It was hard at first but once I separated myself from it got easier.

Overtime, this is how I created my current weight loss programs. Testing it out on me first then incorporating it into my client’s plan. AND it worked!

Not just for me but for my clients too.

I found freedom in how to eat and how to maintain the body that I want to live in. I was able to teach this to my clients and it is all centered around mindset.

We get to think what we want to think.

Our default patterns are driving our bus. We spend so much time thinking that Dieter’s Mentality is the only way to lose weight. And yes, you can lose weight using a diet and a beat-down workout, but it is not sustainable. And I am pretty sure your goal is to not lose the weight and then gain it back. NO ONE signs up for that! But you repeat it every time you choose to go externally to solve your weight problem.

Sustainable weight loss comes from within…from what is going on between your ears.

Life without Dieter’s Mentality is so freeing!

Eat whatever you want.

No foods off limits.

Go to a restaurant and just pick what you actually want to eat.

No more food drama.

No more grueling workouts (unless you love them).

Life without the scale is so much better.