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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
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Stop Apologizing for Taking Weight Loss Medication Here's something that's always bothered me: we live in a world where people apologize for treating their medical conditions. I see it constantly in my practice. Patients sheepishly mention they're "thinking about" Ozempic, like they&
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Why Your Biohacking Obsession is Making You Less Healthy I'll be honest with you—I used to be that person. You know the one. The friend who meal-prepped with military precision, tracked every macro, and could tell you the exact optimal temperature for ice baths (11°C, in
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Why "Good Enough" Beats Perfect Every Time Here's something that'll probably piss off every wellness influencer on Instagram: The secret to lasting health isn't optimization—it's mediocrity. I know, I know. That's not exactly the rallying cry you&
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I Spent $50K Optimizing My Health and All I Got Was This Anxiety Disorder And why your messy, imperfect health routine is probably better than my "perfect" one Three years ago, I was the person you'd hate at dinner parties. You know the type — the one
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Why Your Coaching Business is Failing (And It's Not What You Think) Let me tell you about the worst coaching advice I ever followed. Three years into my coaching journey, drowning in debt with exactly zero consistent clients, I attended a workshop where the speaker said: "Just
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The Great Oil Wars: Why Everyone's Missing the Point Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love my grocery budget Last month, I found myself standing in the cooking oil aisle for twenty minutes, paralyzed. Not because I was choosing a life partner or picking a college