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Why I Ditched Every Fitness Program (Until This One Stuck) I've got a confession. My "fitness graveyard" is embarrassing. There's the P90X DVDs collecting dust (made it 12 days). The meal prep containers that became expensive Tupperware (lasted 3 weeks). That gym membership I
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I Hired 6 Health Coaches Before Finding "The One" — Here's What I Learned Let me tell you about the time I paid $2,000 to a health coach who told me to "just eat more vegetables" and then disappeared for two weeks when I
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Why Most Coaches Are Using AI Wrong (And How to Fix It) Last month, I watched a fellow coach try to impress a client by having ChatGPT generate their entire meal plan in real-time. The client's face? Picture someone watching their favorite restaurant get replaced by a vending
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Why She Didn't Just Lose Weight—She Found Her River Look, I've read a lot of transformation stories. Hell, I've lived one. But Jenn's story? It's different. And not for the reasons you think. Sure, losing 50 pounds is impressive.
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Why Your Binge Eating Isn't a Willpower Problem And what actually works when you've tried everything else I used to think I was broken. Like, fundamentally flawed as a human being. Because who else stands in their kitchen at 11 PM eating cereal straight from the
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Why Your Fitness Plateau Might Be Your Greatest Victory Three months ago, I watched Sarah slam her water bottle against the gym floor. Not because she'd failed a lift, but because she'd been stuck at the same deadlift weight for eight weeks straight. "I'
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Your Body Fat Isn't Your Enemy (And Other Lies We Need to Stop Telling) Spoiler alert: It's complicated, and that's actually okay. I used to have a very specific relationship with my body fat percentage. By "relationship," I mean I checked it
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Why I Stopped Trusting Calorie Calculators (And You Should Too) Let me tell you about the time I calculated my daily calorie needs down to the exact digit. It was 2,247 calories. Not 2,250. Not 2,200. Exactly 2,247. I'd spent three hours plugging numbers
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Your Hand Knows Better Than Your Scale I used to carry a food scale everywhere. Restaurants? I'd guess and then spiral about the inaccuracy. Friends' houses? Awkward conversations about weighing my salad. Beach trips? That scale came with me, obviously. The obsession with precision nearly broke me.
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Why Your Muscle-Building Strategy is Probably Too Complicated I used to spend three hours researching the "optimal" post-workout meal timing before I'd even stepped foot in a gym. I'd bookmark articles about anabolic windows, debate whether to take creatine with or without carbs, and
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Why Most Fitness Coaches Fail (And It's Not What You Think) I remember the exact moment I realized I was a terrible coach. It was 2018, sitting in my car after losing my third client that month. Sarah had just cancelled her sessions via text—again. "Thanks
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I Tried Ice Baths and Saunas for 6 Months: Here's What Actually Works When my Instagram feed started getting flooded with shirtless dudes sitting in ice tubs talking about "unlocking their potential," I'll admit—I rolled my eyes so hard I nearly pulled something.
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Why I Wish I'd Found My Health Coach Sooner Two years ago, I was convinced health coaches were just expensive cheerleaders for people who couldn't figure out how to eat vegetables and go to the gym. I mean, seriously—how hard could it be? Download a
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Why Ozempic Made Me a Better Coach (And Why It Should Make You One Too) I'll be honest with you - when clients started showing up to sessions talking about Ozempic, my first instinct was to roll my eyes so hard they practically fell out of my head.
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Why Your Grandmother Was Right About Living Long (And Biohackers Are Wrong) Three years ago, I was the person spending $200 on NAD+ supplements and tracking my HRV like it was the stock market. I had a freezer full of organ meats, a red light therapy panel that cost more
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Zone 2 Cardio: The Boring Exercise That Actually Works I was doing Zone 2 cardio before it was cool. Actually, that's a lie. I was doing it when it was decidedly uncool—back when admitting you enjoyed a leisurely bike ride was like confessing you still used Internet