When Should I Reduce My Calories If I'm Not Seeing Weight Loss?
Article Round-Up: 8.6.23
Enjoy this week’s curated round-up of articles, podcasts, and more from the web to help you live a healthier, happier life.
Coaching Q&A:
Personal Trainer vs Fitness Coach - What’s the Difference?
Takeaway: Personal Trainer and Fitness Coach tend to be used interchangeably, however, they aren’t the same thing. In this clip, Coach Alex shares with you the important differences between the two, and how to decide which fitness professional is best for helping you achieve your goals.
Published This Week:
“When Should I Reduce My Calories?” [Podcast]
Takeaway: There is a tendency when dieting to cut calories as low as possible because a) you aren’t seeing any weight loss, or b) you’re hoping to see weight loss faster. This podcast episode takes a closer look at what might actually be happening so you can make the right decision for yourself and understand why you might not be seeing the results you want.
“How To Stay Focused When You’re Feeling Overwhelmed”
Takeaway: How to shift focus from paralyzing perfectionism to getting things done imperfectly and accepting that it’s good enough. How does one accomplish this? Well, as the author points out, the answer to that question lies in celebrating your effort to begin in the first place. Or, as Feifer writes, “celebrating saying yes to something.”
Read on to learn how to make the shift to get more done.
Takeaway: As the author points out, we enter friendships for all sort of reasons. Really this can be applied to all relationships we have. The real question is: when do we put time and energy into relationships that don’t make any sense? In what scenarios are we carried merely by the drift of inertia and momentum to continue with a friendship that isn’t actually serving us?
When reading this article, I especially enjoyed the, “does this friendship make sense” graph. You should give it a skim. Do you have any relationships that fit into the “not healthy, not enjoyable” category?