The Walk with Me Podcast: Simplify Your Relationship with Food & Fitness
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Join me each week on the Walk With Me podcast where I help bewildered, frustrated ex-dieters simplify their relationship with food and fitness. Each short, walkable episode is brimming with actionable tips and tools to help listeners lose stubborn fat, make peace with their bodies and master their metabolisms - even after 40. Join my newsletter 3 Simple Things by heading to https://www.simplehealthstyle.com
The Walk with Me Podcast: Simplify Your Relationship with Food & Fitness
028: The Four Roadblocks Keeping You Stuck
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Sometimes the most honest episodes are the ones that weren't planned. Sherie showed up this week not with a perfectly polished topic, but with something more valuable: a real, unfiltered pep talk she had to give herself first.
After a few chaotic weeks of travel, family demands, and a nagging hip injury, Sherie found herself doing exactly what she coaches her clients not to do. Making excuses. Telling stories. Waiting for the perfect conditions to show up. So instead of skipping another week, she sat down on a Saturday and did the work.
This episode is for anyone who has been stuck in a loop and can't seem to break out of it, whether that's in fat loss, fitness, or any area of life where progress has stalled.
✔ How to identify the stories you keep telling yourself and whether they're actually true
✔ Why all-or-nothing thinking is one of the biggest behavior change killers
✔ How to make adjustments without throwing everything away
✔ What radical control means and why it's where your real power lives
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In This Episode, You’ll Learn…
[00:03:30] What the Friction Four are and why Sherie started coaching herself through them
[00:05:00] Roadblock 1: Limiting beliefs, what they are, where they come from, and how to reframe them
[00:08:30] Roadblock 2: All-or-nothing thinking and why living in the gray area is where progress actually happens
[00:11:00] Roadblock 3: Making adjustments, the difference between modifying and quitting
[00:13:30] Roadblock 4: Taking radical control, what it means to own your decisions regardless of circumstances
[00:16:30] This week's Double Dare and the four filter questions to get yourself unstuck
🚶♀️ Your Action Item: The Double Dare
Pick one area of your life where you've been stuck. It doesn't have to be health-related. Then walk it through these four filter questions:
- What stories am I telling myself about this, and are they actually the whole truth?
- Am I making this all-or-nothing? What would an adjusted version look like?
Then ask yourself what taking radical control looks like for you today. Not perfectly. Not on Monday. Today.