The Secret to Staying on Track This Summer

So now that I got all that out of the way, [laughs] let's hit into summer minimums.

So for a lot of women that I coach, and even for myself, I think why does summer feel hard, right? It's, it's really not any other time of year.

Nothing's dramatically changed, right? The biggest thing that changes is our routines.

So our kids are out of school.

People travel.

Schedules are very unpredictable, and there are cookouts and vacations and late nights and social events, and maybe just this general sort of feeling of people relaxing and taking a breath, right? And most of us have this habit of, "Okay, I had one small deviation, so, ah, screw it." And then the whole we- the whole meal or the whole day turns into the whole weekend.

And then the whole weekend, you're like, "Well, I can't really be good next weekend because I'm going to this, and then it's 4th of July, and then we're heading on a vacation.

So I'll just get back on track when we get back from vacation." And that turns into a whole month.

And then before you knew it, all of the progress or the weight loss that you started having momentum towards prior to this one meal is gone 'cause it's now August, right? But the good news is there's these strategies called minimums that we can just plunk into place that keep the ball rolling forward even when everything is not exactly perfect, right? And that's especially important for us in perimenopause.

So research consistently shows that adults tend to gain weight during holidays and vacation periods, and many never lose it afterwards.

And so we find this accumulated weight becomes then significant weight over time, and the good news is, though, preventing weight gain requires far less effort than losing it.

And so that's one theme I want you to keep in mind here is that preventing the weight gain is a lot less work than trying to lose it, right? I've had to go through periods of losing weight myself.

I'm actually in that season right now.

I've put on a little bit of pounds as my kids refer to it as I got a peanut butt because [laughs] although peanuts are not unhealthy and I do...

Everybody, I encourage people to eat nuts and health- but you have to be mindful of how many you eat.

Um, and I was not.

I was just enjoying them [laughs] and they were sticking around.

So I am unsticking my glutes from the peanut experience.

But anyways, I digress.

The good news is, is that losing the weight is a lot harder than just not gaining it in the first place, and the strategies for not gaining it in the first place are actually quite easy to do.

You just have to be a little more mindful, but you don't have to be perfect.

You just need a floor and a minimum and a standard that keeps you moving forward, okay? Instead of everything out the window.

So I'm gonna give you guys my three summer minimums, and then you can take these and put them, implement them in other seasons of your life too if you're going through, like I said, the chaos and the headwinds of chaos in your life at some other time outside of summer.

But here they are.