When Your Brain Feels Full: How to Keep Going Without Adding More | Ep. 112

So I was going to do a bit of a Q&A today.

But then I thought, actually, it's important that I talk about this because it's It's very easy to think that you're one of a kind when you're feeling a bit rubbish.

There's nothing to be unhappy about.

So why do we feel this way? I know I've got a very good idea as to why I got myself in a bit of a funk, but it is normal for our moods to vary.

And I think we can tell the difference often between whether it's hormonal, whether it's lifestyle connected, whether it's lack of sleep.

And I felt like I had this bubbling, buzzing brain, like it just couldn't switch off.

And the other thing that I was experiencing is like physical symptoms.

And that meant I was having like, I felt I was still feeling a bit puffy, but I was feeling really bloated and like literally my clothes were feeling tighter within the space of a week, right? Feeling much tighter.

And I thought I need to say this because at this time of year, a lot of you might have just started setting some goals for September.

Things might've been going really well.

And now you might be at a point where if you are experiencing this bubbling brain, this not being able to get clarity.

these physical symptoms, you might be thinking that you're doing something wrong.

So I thought it'd be important to talk about that today, about what, for me, what I believe is happening, what might be happening for you, but also what we can do to help ourselves when we're feeling like this and why we might be feeling like it.

And I think something that is exasperating this time of year is how social media is.

I think one of the things that we can do when we're not feeling our best is almost look for evidence that we're right, that what we're trying, those things that were working last week aren't working now.

We start looking for other advice.

We'd start looking at all of the things out there.

Social media's fitness scene at the moment, the health and so on, is very noisy and it's noisy for a reason.

It's noisy because a lot of people have been selling programs, myself included, during this September period because it is a time where people after the summer are traditionally ready for change.

It doesn't mean that they shouldn't be trying to sell you things, but it does mean that if you've decided to do something and you've started it and then you're going on social media feeling a bit fed up, And you're being faced with different messaging.

And the messaging might be saying what they're eating each day.

Here's how many calories I eat each day.

Which, of course, doesn't mean that's how many calories you should be eating each day.

But you see that messaging and you question whether you're eating too much.

The other thing that they might be telling you is how many steps you need to do.

So I was going to do a bit of a Q&A today.

But then I thought, actually, it's important that I talk about this because it's It's very easy to think that you're one of a kind when you're feeling a bit rubbish.

There's nothing to be unhappy about.

So why do we feel this way? I know I've got a very good idea as to why I got myself in a bit of a funk, but it is normal for our moods to vary.

And I think we can tell the difference often between whether it's hormonal, whether it's lifestyle connected, whether it's lack of sleep.

And I felt like I had this bubbling, buzzing brain, like it just couldn't switch off.

And the other thing that I was experiencing is like physical symptoms.

And that meant I was having like, I felt I was still feeling a bit puffy, but I was feeling really bloated and like literally my clothes were feeling tighter within the space of a week, right? Feeling much tighter.

And I thought I need to say this because at this time of year, a lot of you might have just started setting some goals for September.

Things might've been going really well.

And now you might be at a point where if you are experiencing this bubbling brain, this not being able to get clarity.

these physical symptoms, you might be thinking that you're doing something wrong.

So I thought it'd be important to talk about that today, about what, for me, what I believe is happening, what might be happening for you, but also what we can do to help ourselves when we're feeling like this and why we might be feeling like it.

And I think something that is exasperating this time of year is how social media is.

I think one of the things that we can do when we're not feeling our best is almost look for evidence that we're right, that what we're trying, those things that were working last week aren't working now.

We start looking for other advice.

We'd start looking at all of the things out there.

Social media's fitness scene at the moment, the health and so on, is very noisy and it's noisy for a reason.

It's noisy because a lot of people have been selling programs, myself included, during this September period because it is a time where people after the summer are traditionally ready for change.

It doesn't mean that they shouldn't be trying to sell you things, but it does mean that if you've decided to do something and you've started it and then you're going on social media feeling a bit fed up, And you're being faced with different messaging.

And the messaging might be saying what they're eating each day.

Here's how many calories I eat each day.

Which, of course, doesn't mean that's how many calories you should be eating each day.

But you see that messaging and you question whether you're eating too much.

The other thing that they might be telling you is how many steps you need to do.