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Shifting Expectations in Health on Weekends, Vacations, Events / SOLO EPISODE
Have you ever wondered how you can still be successful living a healthy lifestyle while having parties on the weekends, events, or vacations? Sometimes expectations and goals have to change.
Listen to this solo episode by Reagan to make sure you are set up for success creating a LIFESTYLE and how you can feel confident coming off of these situations.
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Hello friends, welcome, welcome back. Welcome back. We'll say that I am doing a podcast every two weeks now and just to give you a chance to catch up on the previous one and just to make sure that the quality of the content is good. And I'm just not putting out episodes, just put out episodes if that makes sense, if that makes sense. But I'm so thankful that you're joining me today. I don't know if you could tell in my voice, but I just I can't quit smiling this morning, which is not a bad thing. But my name's Regan, if we haven't met yet, and I am so grateful that you're listening to today's episode. But all the smiles this morning because it is beautiful here in South Carolina. The sun is shining, I am home for two weeks, we have a wedding and I decided to come and stay a little bit longer, and it has just been the sweetest week, getting to spend time with my family and my best friends and see some of my favorite people. So it's made my heart really happy and I keep saying this, but I really need, I want to do an episode where we catch up, um, but I think struggle like me doing a solo episode talking about myself, and that's something I'm trying to work on is like not feeling like a burden if I talk about myself or if I share things about myself without other people asking um, yeah, I'm trying to work on that, working on it in therapy too, but yeah, so maybe I can get like a friend to co-host it or just do it about myself. But I feel like a lot of exciting things have been happening in life lately and a lot of life changes and just honestly, like big thoughts and realizations that I've had recently that I would love to share, so maybe we'll do that. If you want to hear that, let me know. Yeah, shoot me a message, I don't know, just to me a message, I don't know, just to kind of like yeah, I don't know, okay, but this episode today I haven't done a solo episode in a while and this episode is going to be really short, but it's going to be something that I think so many people I mean even myself, like can utilize and take notes from this to create health or create success inside of their health and fitness and their goals inside of their life. I feel like I probably talk to a lot of clients about this weekly because obviously, as we especially get closer to summer.
Speaker 1:But we want to live life right. We want to be healthy, we want to sweat, we want to take care of our body, we want to put whole foods in our bodies, but we also want to be able to go to our best friend's baby shower and go to a housewarming party and go to a birthday party and go out with friends and have a few drinks and go on vacation Like you want to be able to do those things. You want to live like you want to live. There's so many diets and so many approaches that people take to their nutrition and to their health where it is just so black and white and it's like you're either on it or you're off it, or my diet has a certain name. Like that is such a red flag If your diet has a certain name run, if you're either on it or you're off it, or my diet has a certain name, like that is such a red flag if your diet has a certain name run, if you're like, oh, I'm keto or oh, I'm vegan. Just because like it, it's not necessary. Um, you can. You can have your cake and eat it too, right. Like you can feel good and be healthy but still enjoy life.
Speaker 1:But I think so many people just forget to live Like you want to live. You want to do things that bring you joy. You want to make special memories and be able to share a glass of wine with someone that you love if you want to Like. That is super important to me, because I've been on the other side of it where it's super restrictive and I, um, don't go to events or I don't go out, or I don't go on a date because I fear that I'm not going to be the calories, or I fear being off track or being bad, right, like I used to deem good and bad, but you can have both, and I am here to tell you that and show you that. So one question that I get a lot with clients is hey, I'm going to a um event this weekend, right? Or I'm going on vacation, like. How do I handle this?
Speaker 1:I think one thing to note is that a lot of times, as you're creating these new habits and making changes, the things that we're trying to change, so like if, let's say, you've always been good at five days a week and then just go absolutely crazy on the weekends, a lot of times that is a habit. If that's something that you've been doing for five to 10 years or more, it's not just going to randomly change. You have to learn and practice the weekends and you have to learn how to rewire your brain around that and a lot of times, regulate your nervous system through that and around that food. So give yourself grace inside of that. But I love looking at weekends or events or vacations as practice.
Speaker 1:You're not going to be perfect. Your Tuesday on a random day in April is going to look a little bit different than a Saturday pool party in April, right, or whatever you have going on, but it's going to look a little bit different and sometimes our expectations have to change. So one thing that I like to talk about and kind of give some insight to with clients is okay, my expectations. On a normal day where I don't have any plans per se and I have control over my food I'm not eating out. Maybe my typical day looks like I'm going to train for an hour, I'm going to get my gallon of water in, I'm going to hit my macros, I'm going to get sunlight, I'm going to go on a walk and I'm going to start getting ready for bed at eight, 30 or nine o'clock, and I'm going to start getting ready for bed at 8.30 or 9 o'clock, right, that's maybe a normal day and that is our expectation 90% of the time, right.
Speaker 1:But when you're on vacation or when you have something going on on the weekend, you may not be able to. Obviously, if something's a priority to you, like you will make it happen and like I'm such a believer in that, sometimes time truly doesn't allot for it. Though, if you have to eat out on a Saturday, you're not going to be able to hit your macros perfect. If you, you know, are in the car on a trip for eight hours and you leave at 5. And whatever, you may not be able to work out for an hour, right, like, expectations have to change. So what I like doing is, rather than saying, okay, on this Saturday I can't have my macros perfect, I can't drink my gallon of water, I can't, you know, like I can't hit all six or seven of these goals, so I'm not just going to do, I'm not going to do anything at all, I like to ask myself and have clients ask themselves okay, what are three things that I can do to move the needle forward?
Speaker 1:The biggest thing coming off the weekend and being able to say, okay, I did this, this and this. It's not that it's going to make this crazy difference inside of your physique or inside of your help, but it's more so. It's not that it's going to make this crazy difference inside of your physique or inside of your help, but it's more so just the confidence that it creates. Rather than saying I can't do anything at all and starting over Monday and being like, oh, I didn't do anything this weekend and feeling very low confident, you can say, okay, I did this, this and this and I did what I said I was going to do. I lowered expectations and it wasn't perfect, but I did what I said I was going to do and, like you, feel more confident after that weekend is up or going into the new week. So I think that's the biggest thing that I've seen with myself and I see with clients is you create that trust with yourself on the weekend and you're able to feel confident, um, in the weekend because you're showing up for yourself and you're doing what you say you're going to do, which, like I literally always say that but you build confidence through trusting yourself and hitting your goals that you say you're going to hit. So, um, I would say that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 1:So, for example, um, if you have something this weekend and you're like, oh my gosh, I'm not going to be able to hit all of my goals, and it's slightly overwhelming, I will ask you okay, what are three things that you can do this weekend? And you may say, okay, I'm going to have protein at every single meal, no matter what happens, I'm going to have protein. I'm going to hit my gallon of water and I am going to start my day off with a 20 minute walk. And if I can do that and then maybe I don't hit anything else, but if I can do that and hit those three things that I say I'm going to do, then you feel more confident, right, like it's not, like those three things are just going to completely blow your mind away and change your life, but it's a chance for you to show up for yourself and create confidence inside of that. So that is a really simple way to make sure that you win the weekend and make sure that you win the day is figure out and change your expectations of, okay, what can I expect and what can I challenge myself to today, where I still move the needle forward, where I still value myself and take care of myself, but expectations are just having to shift. So super simple With clients I'm expecting them to fail. Right, I fail. I'm not perfect, I'm human. Right, I mess up.
Speaker 1:But I think that's something that a lot of people think when they start this health journey or they're going to be healthy. It's like you can't skip out on birthday parties, you can't skip out on vacations, you can't skip out on weddings for the rest of your life Like this is something that you are making a lifestyle. It's not a quick fix six week program. Your diet doesn't have a name Like. It's truly something that majority of the time you have these higher expectations and standards for yourself and sometimes you have to be a little bit more flexible with that on the weekends and there's still things that you can do to move the needle forward and feel good about yourself to where every Monday, you're not like ah dang, I'm like starting completely over, I'm starting from ground zero and I'm not having any confidence inside of myself and inside of my routine. So, um, yeah, I think that's the biggest thing inside of that. And then then, once you do that you start to give yourself more grace but still hold yourself to values and standards. But you also see that you're able to give your energy to other things in your life that you love and other people in your life that you love, and shift your energy and focus to those conversations and to those moments and to being present, rather than sitting and stressing about your goals or stressing about food the whole time.
Speaker 1:So, um, but I hope this was helpful. I know this was really short, but it's something that I talk about quite often and I'm like this would be great for a little quick solo podcast episode when someone needs something quick to listen to and, um, a way that you can create some action inside of your health. So, um, okay, I love you guys. Thank you for listening, and if you like this episode and want more solo episodes, let me know. I have a lot of little quick topics that I can chat on and give some insight and value inside on too. So, um, hope I have a lot of little quick topics that I can chat on and give some insight and value inside on too. So, um, hope you have a wonderful day, and next week I have an incredible episode coming out with Adam Powell. Um, it's extremely motivating, so you're definitely going to want to hang around for that one, but talk to you soon and bye.
