Lindsay's Heath & Fitness Blog

I had guilt over literally every food choice I made…

I ate FUN foods until my stomach hurt like they were scarce in the world like I could never eat them again!

Then the worst part I thought I could out cardio my food choices [eye roll] crazy right?

Really its not crazy so so many of us do the same things maybe in different ways, We think oh we ate a cookie, or Halloween candy so if I go run or jump on the elliptical [the fave cardio machine of most women] for 30 min or more it justifies our food choices.

But year after year my body looked the same or worse :/ from trying to out cardio my nutrition… How about you? Have you put in the work in the gym month after month year after year and still nothing changes?

Girl, I feel you I was there and I talk to women every day that have been in the same position!

So how do we change this? Well, I have a solution for you! I built my coaching program to give you the freedom of eating fun foods without guilt, teaching you...

Yo-yo dieting vs Periodization

Yo-yo dieting is where you go on a fad diet like "keto, paleo, low carb, fasting, whole 30..." and you do great you lose weight, then you plateau and think well this isn't working for me and you go back to how you ate before, what happens then is you gain the weight back and get back up to or more weight than before you did the fad diet! Then back into that fad diet because well it worked for you then...

When will you stop tearing down your metabolism and get real control of your nutrition?

Nutritional Periodization is looking ahead and setting a long term plan for your nutrition; First, we will find out where you are now, then restructure your macronutrients and make sure you are eating enough protein and calories in total, next we will decide from your goals on how long we will be in a deficit, we will set periodized diet breaks which Is taking you up to your now predicted maintenance and kind of reset your metabolism and give you a break from...

What the diet before the diet means, it is priming your metabolism and getting you ready to be in a deficit.

So I have a ton of ladies coming to me that are severely under-eating, and we can't take them into a deficit immediately. So when they come to me, you know, they want to lose weight, and that's their first initial thing. And when I say, "Hey, we need to eat more food", it's probably a little bit hard for them to buy-in, and trust me through the process. But once they've gone through the process, they're like, "Oh, my gosh, thank you so much for taking me through this and helping me eat more and really blessed my body with food".

So what that looks like is is we take their initial tracking, we compare it to what their predicted maintenance calories would be. So most of the time, I will take them to their maintenance calories and refigure their macronutrients, because 95% of the women clients that are coming to me are severely under-eating on protein. So we're going to see...