Weight Loss Wisdom
Three years ago, I threw my iPhone across the room. Not my finest moment, I'll admit. But after spending another evening mindlessly scrolling Instagram while my partner tried to tell me about his day, something inside me just... snapped. The phone bounced off the wall (thankfully uncracked) and
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Let me paint you a picture that's probably way too familiar. It's 3:47 AM. You've got blackout curtains, a $300 mattress, magnesium supplements, meditation apps, and a bedroom that looks like a sleep optimization laboratory. You've read every article, tried every
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I used to think my anxiety was defective. Like someone had installed the wrong operating system in my brain and I was stuck running Windows ME while everyone else had the latest MacOS. Turns out? My stress response wasn't broken. It was just... really, really confused. Picture this:
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Here's the thing nobody tells you about stress management: most of it is complete garbage. I spent three years as a product manager at a tech unicorn, meditating in bathroom stalls between meetings and doing breathing exercises while my project timelines exploded. Every wellness article told me the
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I used to think I had a sleep problem. I'd lie in bed scrolling through yet another article about blue light blockers and magnesium supplements, wondering why I still felt like I was running on fumes despite doing everything right. Eight hours of sleep? Check. Morning sunlight? Check.
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Three years ago, I was that person who bragged about functioning on four hours of sleep. You know the type—double espresso in hand, gym at 5 AM, work until 9 PM, repeat. I thought I was winning at life. Spoiler alert: I wasn't. The wake-up call came
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Here's something that's been bugging me for months... I was chatting with my client Sarah last week. She's been struggling with her 3 PM energy crash for ages. We've dialed in her nutrition, her workouts are solid, but she keeps hitting this
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Let me paint you a picture from 2 AM last Tuesday. There I was, sprawled across my bathroom floor like a crime scene victim, except instead of being murdered, I'd just been ambushed by another nuclear-level hot flash. My pajamas were soaked, my sheets were soaked, and honestly?
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Three years ago, I got the email that every health coach dreads. "Maya, I think your nutrition advice made my condition worse. My lawyer will be in touch." My stomach dropped. Not because I'd done anything wrong—my client had stopped taking prescribed medication without telling
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Picture this: It's Tuesday morning, I'm standing in my kitchen, staring at a banana. Not eating it, mind you. Just... staring. Because I'm trying to remember if I read somewhere that bananas spike your blood sugar too much, or if that was just for
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Last month, I watched a highly credentialed nutritionist—someone with more letters after her name than a government agency—completely freeze up when her client started crying during a session about emotional eating. She knew the science. She could recite macronutrient ratios in her sleep. But in that moment? She
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I've seen this story play out hundreds of times now. Someone reads a comprehensive guide about starting a fitness business. They get pumped. They follow the 18-step blueprint religiously. They launch... and then reality hits like a medicine ball to the face. Three months later? They're
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Picture this: It's 2 AM, you're standing in your kitchen in yesterday's clothes, surrounded by empty chip bags and cookie containers. Again. You swore this morning would be different. You had a plan. You were going to be "good." Sound familiar? Yeah,
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I bombed my first real coaching session so badly that my client asked if I was feeling okay. There I was, fresh out of my certification program, armed with all the right frameworks and a shiny new credential. I had my intake forms, my behavior change models, and enough nutrition
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I remember the exact moment I realized the fitness industry had it completely backwards. There I was, 320 pounds, walking into my old powerlifting gym for the first time in three years. Three years since my back injury ended my competitive career. Three years of depression, medical issues, and yeah.
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I spent three years of my life crying in Target parking lots. Not because I had some tragic backstory (though we all have our stuff), but because I was so overwhelmed by the simple act of grocery shopping that I'd have a full meltdown between the toilet paper