It Really Is Okay To Celebrate

Am I getting in too deep? Maybe. I was just sitting and listening during a recent zoom call waiting for the host to slide in before I gagged myself listening to conversations with a little understanding but not a lot. What was it?

Females discussing how they liked “ valentines Day”, with what seems like a thousands but. I can’t eat the chocolate, I can’t have desserts, the meal maybe overpowering in calories, if I get a drink it may have too many carbs and on and on. You got to be kidding me. You ate heartily during Thanksgiving and Christmas, most was in a drunken stupor the day after New Year celebration. And that one day. The day when an individual wants to follow a tradition and share their love or just caring as a friend and you want to put brakes on.

Okay I understand you probably made a commitment to a healthier fitness and or nutrition journey for 2025. I’m applauding you now. But don’t forget about life. Don’t forget the people who want to express luv and care to and with you.

It is one day. You don’t have to over indulge. However I asking you to enjoy the day. You will not be repeating it for days just that one special when we increase our love emotions. So I say go ahead and enjoy. I’m going to give you a few recipes from nutrition plans that are offered in BODi. Go ahead and try them out, enjoy then give me feedback on the one you use.

From 2B MINDSET
From Fixate love it
Another from Fixate

These are a few recipes you can use a home and enjoy your best of Valentines Day evening . All from the nutrition plans of no guilt. You can thank BODi for the great nutritionists on board

Oh My My

This is going to be a soft and sore topic. I am tipping about. To begin I am NOT coming for anyone nor am I throwing shade or being specific to anyone in particular just sharing my experience and how I feel.

I recently invited a friend or so I thought to join me in a new program I am doing in fitness. It is a hormone balance and fitness program with supplements and a nutrition plan that to me requires more food but since I am seeing a few inches disappear maybe I’ve been neglecting myself and was unaware. I always say if you believe then follow the plan, change does not happen in a few days. Nonetheless returning to the friend I invited and was shock with the response.

” I need to see how Lydia (not the real name), feels about this? and if she will be on board” Huh oh was my only response. REALLY DAMMIT!!! Are we as gracefully loving aging females still co-existing with each other? where is the grown up ? Making a decision you feel will benefit you should be about you. Yes, we do have to discuss things with spouses, significant others but to wait for a friends approval I say NO and a BIG LONG HARD NO.

I think it is awesome to surround ourselves with those supporting our fitness journey or even if it’s personal growth but to have approval NO. I guess I miss cues as I recall on several invites the friend would decline if her bestie wasn’t invited or felt different but expected the friend to be always present in whatever her decision was. Appalled yes. I wonder now on discussions of things she wanted to do to enhance her lifestyle the reasons she didn’t follow through was because waiting for someone else to approve. Not wanting to start a argument or heated disagreement I just replied “Okay”

We all have friends and we may not be on the same page 100 percent, but that support should be there. We don’t have to align our lives with our friends, bestie, BFF but love and support. We are unique and different in our own way. Yep, I’m still in my Hormone balance program and if you’d asked me a month or two about Pilates of course there is more to this, but I would have answered “it’s okay”. But today with this program and the trainer I love Pilates. Oh and it’s not the floor Pilates well only for the warm up.

If you’d like information on this amazing hormone balance program just click on the link, in the mean time I ask that YOU BE UNIQUELY YOU. http://bodi.pxf.io/HRT

Confidence

I’ve listened to several pod casts which led me to re-evaluate myself on confidence and also to realize I am so so guilty in delaying what I want to achieve on somedays because I take so long feel confident.

I have learned and as always every day is growth and learning. I know the action to apply as do you, but there are times we wait for that right moment to do it. I’ve learned I must first believe in myself and just do it. Stop waiting and shake that noisy clutter in your head away FAST. You know that fear noise giving you unvaluable excuses to delay a positive action. And forbid those negative nayers we have as friends. We love them but still we have to step away and then return because they and that clutter will pull that CONFIDENT meter down.

CONFIDENT

I say take a few deep breathes, release with joy and power up for the action. Confidence come with the thought of:

1. Believing in you

2. Know what you want to achieve

3. Willing to apply the necessary acion

4. Know there will sometimes be challenges and you can handle the challenges

5 Sometimes excusing yourself from those that don’t see your vision and want to restrain you. Really they just don’t see because of their limited vision and believes

6. ALWAYS know – ‘YOU GOT THIS”

All that confident

Sometimes We Lapse

Not to make this a daily habit but there are times we lapse, I know I DO. Recently I experience back to back occurrences that I’d readjusted my time to be present. Not to say I was to be present and there was a time change. The communication of remote was stated but not the time change and then there was a cancellation.

I know what’s the big deal this can happen and how correct you are. However if it repeats itself and myself and another keep receiving the omission in the communication with the same results. LOL or I’m sorry not sure how I forgot you. Due to this happening and having to call it out again is not the problem it’s the repeat. I allowed it to frustrate me. I have to take responsibility of becoming frustrated. “We are responsible for our OWN ACTIONS or REACTIONS”. I lost it for a few.

I am currently applying the nutrition plan for one of my now “loving it” workout. It’s hormone therapy program with Pilates. I’ll share that link at the end. But I allowed myself to become frustrated and decided I’d bake peanut butter cookies, a moderate batch. I mixed all the ingredients and then I stopped.

That negative clutter in my head was saying are you really going to waste these ingredients that’s money and you have to compensate your frustration with satisfaction. Peanut butter cookies are your favorite, go ahead bake and eat. Deep breathing and I realized I didn’t want to hinder the changes I’d made and this was going to fatigue me and my energy level would become low and my accomplishments for the day would be super low. Guilty for getting this far. What did I do? I disposed of the mix, into the garbage, stood proud. I then took minutes for meditation. How proud of myself.

If I hadn’t changed my mindset not just at this moment but by listening to positive podcasts, surrounding myself with positive real people, committed for change for me I would have eaten all the cookies and gave that finger to nutrition or the current program.

So yes we may lapse it is human, but how we respond is what matters. Even if you give in PLEASE don’t make it a “FOREVER LAPSE”. Deep sighs, take a walk, meditate and know your gains should not be put to the sabotage storage.

Keep it real. My current Hormone Health Program http://bodi.pxf.io/HRT

Get Ready To Accept YOU And …..

Is there more?, you bet. I’m going to be in the crowd that is applauding you as you make or have begin implement the changes to uplevel you. Yes you’ve finally accepted you have a few fears to overcome because you’ve listened to that noisy clutter in your head.

You have shut it out and this is brave. It took me a few years to learn to do this and to be honest sometimes I hear a few remaining whispers. The biggest of all is that we accept our changes and implement actions this is ongoing. One accomplishment should lead to the outline for a new one. Changes in upleveling just grow and grow what I call “unlimited growth”.

So what is the and…. Well in that growth leveling up you must prepare yourself for losing a few of your friends. At one time I was lost in not understanding. I was slapped in the face with the truth. A few of my friends due their hesitance to make a step to uplevel themselves especially in fitness and a nutrition to a healthier life as well as personal and professional growth were angry at me. Not that opportunity of growth wasn’t available but because I did not join in the what if’s (which that list can grow) or why (not that I wanted to make changes for me) oh a good one is what about your age (since each year I get older I should decrease a greater me to match those fearful of change). I can give you a few more reason people will increase the distance from you as you uplevel. This is okay because you still have those shouting and applauding you.

Accept you and go ahead raise up to another level. Unleash yourself…… GO

Trending or Me-ing

Now I know there is no such word atleast that I know of (me-ing).

I’ll explain and then you decide exactly what it is that you are doing. Are you following the trend of whatever. Is it really you or are you just wanting to belong to a specific group of people and yet you are uncomfortable; but somehow you can’t move past not belonging to the group. Usually it all against your persona but who wouldn’t want to be trending. Ask yourself if a fashion look came out and you know it is not your flavor. The design nor the fit would you purchase it? Most of us would think hmm uh no. A few would awkwardly purchase it and of that a few a percentage still would regret the purchase.

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Looking at this why would you give way to all your greatness just to be trending and if this is you (by the way I am not judging anyone, just want you to not overlook who you really are). Just evaluate now ……

Now Me-ing is just being yourself. In every aspect of your life, fitness, personal and professional you are upleveling and believing in your self. Not only are you upleveling you are surrounding yourself with people that support you whether they agree or disagree. These individuals believe in you and respect the decisions you make. You as well appreciate the support and that your community of peers is not attempting to change you to be like them or follow in their tracks. WELL APPRECIATED.

Now I ask you are TRENDING or are you ME-ING

Have You Decided On Discomfort

I am asking this question because in my workout program and the members of the team I have heard this many times and raising my hand high (I really should raise both but…). This program is too hard. I can’t.

EVALUATE too hard. I recalled once when I would stop doing a workout program as most of my streaming are sequenced for people to obtain the best results also not to over fatigued a muscle to injury. I’d switch to another week or go to another program. It was a bit difficult, and the discomfort was to me at that time overwhelming. And it was. It wasn’t until later after reading an inspiring book and evaluating my discomfort I was the problem.

It wasn’t discomfort but I’d become so comfortable in giving the minimum in my workouts and complacent in what I was fairly good at that I’d failed myself. Failed not because I wasn’t working out, I was definitely doing that. I wasn’t giving my 100 nor was I challenging myself.

I had to do some self-talk and as I begin to get uncomfortable (challenging myself) I was a bit pissed off. Yep, how many other things in my life besides workout that I’d assigned discomfort or uncomfortable to because I was so complacent I couldn’t see it was me.

So today I ask is it discomfort/uncomfortable or is it complacent. Evaluate yourself to determine if you just maybe limiting your growth in fitness and other ares of your life.

Now go award yourself on the change

Your Workout Meter

Of course you have a meter. It fluctuates maybe a few days seems the same but, well no they are not.

This was astonishing to me a few months ago. Hold on let me explain. You know there are days in our workouts at the beginning we are so pumped, ready to go at it. Pre workout has kicked in to give us that extra push and then it happens. You thought the last time you did chest press wasn’t your best and today you was going heavier, or maybe it was the squats, then it could be barre you were leveling up on those leg extensions or just dance you were going to extend your time a few minutes longer before the break and how about boxing a few more hooks and upper cuts yeah. But today didn’t fair out like that. What the hell is happening.

That damn meter switched and now you feel you should just stop for today and resume tomorrow or the next day. Eerk, nope. If you don’t have a fever or feel sick I encourage you to just do it. If that meter is saying 70% instead of 100 well…. So what, give that workout your best 70% and you’ve won the day.

I do encourage you however to maybe evaluate the meter drop. There could be numerous reasons; I’ll suggest a few .

  1. Lack of sleep
  2. Nutrition – maybe you took in too little the day before or too much
  3. Hydration
  4. A beer too many or that extra glass of wine or the night out with the guys or girls
  5. Stress- if it learn to breathing exercises there are apps to assist
  6. An underlined illness
  7. Fatigue -your body just may need a less intense workout.

Whatever it is, correct it and continue on with your day for the next workout will be waiting.

If by any reason you feel you just need a switch you’re invited to join me. I stream and have choices as mentioned my meter too drops. But the choices are great and currently there is a BOGO going on. Click on the link if you feel streaming is for you.

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The Value Of Your Conviction

What is the value, some may say “commitment” many “resolution” and recently “intentions”. I decided on “conviction”. But really it’s all the same.

All said but how do you value your decision? Are you ready to change your decision to a lesser value? I’m going to say kindly but loud – STOP.

You made the decision. You’re the boss now I need you to go ahead and uplevel your mindset.

The value of your CONVICTION is ‘PRICELESS”. Okay go ahead rewrite that plan and applaud yourself right now, today GOOOOOOOO.

How Are You Doing With Your Hormones

Are you experiencing…

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Yes I am excited for this share and I have a group to support you and I will definitely need your support as well

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Let’s do this 2025