Cori 0:00

Hey guys , this is Cori from Redefining Strength . Welcome to the Fitness Hacks podcast . This is a show where I share all my free work on the nutrition tips . I'm not going to ever fill this episode with sponsorships or ask you to buy anything . All I ask in return is , if you're enjoying the podcast , to leave a review or leave a five-star rating or , even better , share it with someone you think it might help . This will only take a few minutes and would mean the world to me and possibly change the life of someone you know . So let's jump right in .

Cori 0:30

I got this box and on the outside it says perishable and the return address is an address that I know it's going to be good inside , and opening it up , it was some of my favorite bars and cookies and my first thought was , oh no , ryan sent me really good stuff , or at least that would have been my thought in the past . Now the good thing is is that I see this and I go , yum , how can I work this in ? I bring this up because I think a lot of times we're , you know , given a present . We have a party come up , we have some life event come up and all of a sudden , when we're trying to reach a specific goal , we think , oh , no . And then we feel like the person on the diet and either we feel very frustrated , making a big sacrifice that we don't want to make to try and stick with our healthy eating habits and routine , or we say , well , it's just ruined , I gave up , I'm going to , you know , enjoy the things , life happened right . And then we sabotage everything we're looking to build . But it doesn't really have to be an all or nothing thing or either or thing . We can find a balance , and it's really key that we do find a balance so that we can be consistent with habits to see lasting results .

Cori 1:35

Too often we do think , oh , I'm that person on a diet , and then we say we can't have any of these things , and that ultimately leads to us , you know , white knuckling our way through , feeling like we just don't have the willpower at some point to keep maintaining those healthy habits , instead of saying , hey , you know , I'm going to have cookies at this date , maybe . Yeah , sure , you don't go to the grocery store and get Oreos because you don't care about those as much , but when someone sends you something good , you enjoy it . The key is really not labeling foods as good or bad , but realizing that we have to find a balance . If we can't allow ourselves to enjoy the lifestyle things that we really want , ultimately we're not going to keep doing all the healthy habits we're trying to implement . The more we meet ourselves where we're at , the more we think .

Cori 2:12

You know , what does my lifestyle look like ? What do I enjoy ? And I know I enjoy these cookies and bars . I know if I have this box sent to me , I'm not going to want to give them away or throw them out or anything like that . I'm going to want to enjoy them . But how can I then find that balance ?

Cori 2:23

And I used to say I can't have dessert . I realized that's what I actually sabotaged my lasting habits for the longest time and hindered me from getting the body recomp that I wanted . Once I said no , I want to work in dessert . This is a non-negotiable for me . How can I plan it in ? I struck that balance .

Cori 2:38

So if you've been starting new healthy habits and now you're faced with a life event , whether or not it's a party , a night out with the girls , you know goodies being sent your way . You know goodies even out at work , whatever it is , and you're like okay , either I have to try and willpower my way through , but this is my favorite thing , or I'm going to end up sabotaging all the things I've worked so hard for . No , you're not . You can have that balance . Say , hey , I'm going to have this this day , maybe I'm going to plan it into my macros . Or maybe , hey , I'm not going to hit my macros today and that's A-OK . I'm still going to hit my protein , but I'm going to work this in .

Cori 3:06

The one thing we can't do is either try and willpower our way through constantly , because at some point we're going to give up , or say I've ruined everything . I think that's a big thing is that we make ourselves feel guilty for enjoying the things we love instead of trying to find that balance . And it's like getting a flat tire . If you get a flat tire , you pull over , you call AAA , you put on the spare , you try and get moving forward as fast as you can . You don't go and slash the other three . Yet so often with our nutrition , if we have one cookie , we have one bar , we have one day that didn't go perfectly , we say , well , I've screwed it up , and then we ruin the next week and the week after and the week after that , because we feel guilty and months later we're starting over . But we're not really just starting over . We can't just move forward from where we had been . We've now dug ourselves a hole we have to climb out of .

Cori 3:47

So if you have something , come up a party . You get sent goodies . Find your lifestyle balance . Don't just say you can't have something . Don't label foods as good or bad . Find your lifestyle balance . Meet yourself where you're at and realize that your balance is going to look different than somebody else's . Thanks for listening to the Fitness Hacks Podcast . Again , this is the place where I share all my free workout and nutrition tips . I'm never going to run sponsorships or ask you to buy anything . All I ask in return is , if you're enjoying the podcast , to leave a rating review or share it with someone you think it might help . This will only take a few minutes and it would mean the world to me and possibly change life of someone you know .