12:05:10 About breaking free from energy drains. This matters for your weight loss.
12:05:16 Because if you're constantly exhausted, it's harder to make good choices.
12:05:20 For food. Stick to movement goals and show up for yourself. Energy drains are like Things like poor sleep, unmanaged stress, and time struggles.
12:05:30 They make weight loss feel like a battle instead of a doable process.
12:05:35 The goal today, we're going to identify where your energy is leaking, leaking out of you.
12:05:40 And build habits to reclaim your energy so you feel better and make progress with ease.
12:05:45 That sounds good, right? Make some weight loss progress with ease.
12:05:49 So what's stealing your energy? Think of your energy like a bank account. Every demand withdrawals from it. If you're not making enough deposits with rest and recovery.
12:06:00 And good food, you're going to end up overdrawn. So energy drains, some common energy drains, it would be like poor sleep.
12:06:09 Not getting enough or not getting good quality sleep. Chronic stress.
12:06:14 Your brain is stuck in that fight or flight, making cravings and exhaustion worse.
12:06:20 Time management, feeling overwhelmed, always rushing and overcommitted. Those are going to all be very common energy drains.
12:06:29 So how does this affect your weight loss? When you have less sleep, you have more cravings.
12:06:35 Equal, right? Less sleep equals more cravings. Your body compensates with those hunger signals.
12:06:44 More stress equals more emotional eating. Emotional overeating. Cortisol keeps you stuck.
12:06:51 And no time equals no energy for meal prep movement or self-care.
12:06:55 So where do you feel the most strained? Sleep, stress, time I want to share with you that I felt like this exactly the same when I first started losing weight. And so what would happen is I would feel like it was this never ending cycle and I couldn't get off the merry-go-round.
12:07:13 I was too tired to do anything. I was too tired to cook dinner, so we'd order out. I was too tired to go walk.
12:07:19 So we would do whatever. I was stressed out and so I would stay up late watching TV. I was not getting anything that I actually needed for myself.
12:07:28 I was on the merry-go-round of stress and I wasn't sleeping.
12:07:33 I wasn't moving well for my body. It took everything just to operate with the status quo. And it wasn't feeling status quo. I was exhausted. I was stressed.
12:07:45 I didn't feel good. It started to affect my pain in my body, my digestion, all the things. And of course.
12:07:53 It wasn't helping me lose weight. It kept adding more and more weight on.
12:07:57 Definitely that cortisol kept me stuck. And I felt like there was never going to be a way I could step off the roller coaster, the merry-go-round of the cycle.
12:08:08 So let's go on. Sleep. Sleep was important because I was exhausted all the time.
12:08:14 Sleep was so important. I couldn't catch up on sleep. And when I did sleep, it never felt like it was enough.
12:08:21 So sleep is the ultimate energy recharger. It matters because It regulates hunger hormones like ghrelin and leptin. Less sleep equals more cravings, remember?
12:08:32 It impacts decision making. Ever notice how you snack more when you're tired?
12:08:38 Quality over quantity. Seven to nine hours is great, but deep sleep, it's going to be what matters most.
12:08:45 So some simple fixes for better sleep. Set a bedtime routine.
12:08:49 Dim lights, limit your screen time, maybe do some stretching, journaling.
12:08:55 I like to honestly do a, like I'll wash my face, brush my teeth and put my pajamas on.
12:09:00 I know that like I put all my stuff on the chargers, I lock the doors. It's my And so some of it is just things I do every day. Some of it is going to be like directly to help me with sleep. But that routine triggers my brain to know she's got her pajamas on, she's brushed her teeth.
12:09:16 Brushing my teeth was easy because I didn't want to eat afterwards. So that kept me from eating.
12:09:21 And then I knew like every time this is what I do when I get ready for bed.
12:09:26 A lot of people are affected by digestion. If you have eaten two to three hours before bed.
12:09:33 Sometimes digestion is keeping you awake. And so maybe try eating a little earlier so that you're not still digesting while you're trying to sleep.
12:09:43 Temperature is huge with sleep. Everybody's going to be a little different on this one.
12:09:49 And once you figure out what you really enjoy, you will know. You've seen people who bring practically all their own bedding on vacation.
12:09:57 And so same kind of thing. Ideally, you're going to keep it cool and dark.
12:10:04 Cool, dark, and quiet. And so your body sleeps best in a cool room, but you're going to know what you like.
12:10:10 Personally, I like to have minimal things like I don't like long flowy nightgowns that are going to get wrapped around me and make me go crazy if I try to sleep on one side versus the other.
12:10:21 So what I'm wearing is important. I don't want anything too hot, too heavy, no big inflated anything to sleep in. So I like a light sheet.
12:10:29 And I like a blanket and the blanket I like for the weight. So I have to make sure that because I like using the blanket, I'm not going to be overheated. So I want the temperature to be cool. Some people like the fan or a sound machine or they need to have earplugs in or
12:10:45 Whatever it is. If you are going to tell me that you have to have the TV on to sleep, I would suggest you start working on that. There are so much research about the lights and it's not as relaxing as you think and so
12:11:01 White sound noise machines or something else like that they have lighting systems that have, it replicates the sunset and the sunrise.
12:11:12 Some of those might be better than the other, but a fan can work well too in these instances.
12:11:18 The other thing, consistent wake up. Even on the weekends. So when you're bouncing from bedtime to bedtime.
12:11:26 By more than 30 minutes and waking up at different times, it's not consistent and your body likes its circadian rhythm. That's that internal clock that tells us when it's time to sleep and when to wake up.
12:11:37 It likes it to be the exact same all the time, even on the weekends.
12:11:41 And so let's go ahead and try to find something that's really close that you can wake up most days at the same time.
12:11:49 So we can be consistent. That's where it works best. All right, pick something in that and see what you can do to get better sleep.
12:11:57 All right, our next category was stress. It's the silent energy killer. Doesn't that sound like… So why it matters. Chronic stress keeps cortisol high, which increases hunger and fat storage, especially in that belly fat.
12:12:11 We don't want that, do we? When you're overwhelmed, food can become your quick fix for relief.
12:12:18 It doesn't actually fix anything. It's a distraction, right? So quick wins for stress reduction. Let's go there.
12:12:25 Many stress resets. Two minute deep breathing, stretching, or stepping outside.
12:12:30 That interrupts that whole stress cycle. And just two minutes of that Most people's schedules can handle two minutes.
12:12:38 Plan a joy break, something fun, daily music, movement, book, hobby.
12:12:44 I've had people who said they get up and they dance while they're waiting for their dinner.
12:12:48 Some kind of like their lunch to be cooked, something that just, you know, this is fun.
12:12:54 You enjoy it and it's something you can look forward to.
12:12:58 Control what you can. Time blocking, saying no realistic goals Any of those kind of things.
12:13:06 See what is in your control. I know we want to first jump to everything that's outside of our control and we have no way of doing anything about.
12:13:13 You are going to figure those out really quick. But a lot of times there is something you can do.
12:13:19 You can say no to something else or for a period of time or you can say, I have to do that later or whatever it is, or you can even make it so that you're supporting yourself in the things that you're not able to really or don't want to be able to say no to right away.
12:13:32 You can do a lot of things. A lot more is in your control when you actually start putting your brain to work on it.
12:13:38 And so when you ask yourself what is in my control, your brain will start solving for that. It'll start looking for all of the things that you can do, all the things that are going to help manage that stress that can be very caring and loving for yourself.
12:13:51 Versus all the things that are outside of your control. So one small stress relief habit you can do today. What would that be? Just pick one thing today.
12:14:03 See what you like. Try some different things. All right, time management, making room for what matters.
12:14:11 Why does it matter? Lack of time to totally equals rushed eating, skipped workouts and exhaustion.
12:14:18 The problem isn't always lack of time. It's what we call energy leaks in your day.
12:14:23 So energy saving time hacks. There's this thing called the 3D rule, Ds.
12:14:29 Do it, delegate it, or drop it. Not everything is urgent. Not everything has to be done by you. You can make that decision.
12:14:37 But the more things that are still getting done or it's been an absolute decision that we're not going to do this anymore, that's not that important or it's not important now.
12:14:47 You're going to feel so much more relief because you've just made that quick decision on it.
12:14:53 Pre-decision power. Again, here we are. So many times people are like, I can't make a plan, a meal plan.
12:15:00 Well, that's a pre-decision. And so your pre-decision takes into account what your time is.
12:15:05 We're not going to say make a full turkey Thanksgiving dinner on a day that you work late. We're going to make some decisions.
12:15:12 So plan meals that work for your schedule. Plan meals for how you feel or what you need them to do.
12:15:18 What it is that you're looking for. Workouts, same thing. Sometimes I have been, I have five minutes, 15 minutes I can't do an hour workout. I can't get sweaty or go to the pool because I have five to 15 minutes.
12:15:32 So pre-deciding it helps me figure out what can I do? Again, what's in my control, right? What can I do?
12:15:39 How can I make this fit into the schedule? And I feel so good when I've made that decision ahead of time.
12:15:46 And self-care is huge. We talked about sleeping, but self-care in advance to remove that last minute stress. So whether it was the dance party that we talked about for your managing your stress or anything else you can decide ahead of time.
12:16:03 What it's probably going to look like and then remove any of that last minute stress.
12:16:08 Plan self-care into it in advance. The other thing is buffer time. You know these cell phones that we have?
12:16:15 They have travel time and I've started using that as a buffer time. So if I'm going to schedule an appointment, I've been giving myself 15 minutes or 10 minutes or sometimes 30 minutes if it truly is considered travel time.
12:16:30 And then I make the appointment a little bit longer so that I have buffer time on both ends.
12:16:35 Or I just book the next thing. Or give yourself a break in the schedule so that you have catch up time, whatever it is that you need, but make sure that you're building in some buffer time. Give yourself those extra minutes between tasks so you can avoid rushing.
12:16:49 So where in your day can you buy back 10 minutes? That would be fun. If you think about that, like I need… I need 10 minutes to dance or I need 10 minutes to go outside and just absorb some sunshine.
12:17:02 It's like been in the 70s the last two or three days here in Indiana, and it is amazing.
12:17:07 So like, where can you go outside and just enjoy some sunshine or catch two pages in your book that you're enjoying?
12:17:14 Find 10 minutes to buy back from your schedule. All right, so let's put this all together.
12:17:20 Your personal energy plan. More energy equals weight loss, right? It equals easier weight loss. More energy equals easier weight loss. Doesn't that just sound great?
12:17:32 I would love to have energy and I would love to have weight loss.
12:17:36 And so focusing on the energy sometimes instead of the weight loss it can feel easier.
12:17:42 And definitely makes the weight loss easier. All right, sleep, stress, and time management, they all work together. Can you see how I kind of just jumped back and forth between the three?
12:17:52 When one improves, the rest get easier. I was telling you about my merry-go-round of of all of it in the beginning.
12:18:00 And I couldn't find one to start with. I felt so overwhelmed with all of it because I was looking at how all of it was influencing each of it.
12:18:10 But I wasn't looking at how one influence actually could break those cycles of the others I was looking at how all of it had to be fixed.
12:18:18 It didn't. I just needed to start with one thing. And each day I picked one thing that I could do. One thing that felt like it would be really helpful that day.
12:18:28 Small changes compound over time. You only have to pick one thing to start, just What's the first action step you're going to do to take a break from your biggest energy drains.
12:18:40 They're going to be there. They'll come back to you, right? But we don't need them every single day.
12:18:44 All right, pick one energy boosting habit to commit to this week. That is your homework. And then I want you to jump in, share it in the community. So whether you're on Facebook or Instagram or send me a message, whatever you'd like.
12:18:58 I want to hear what you're doing. If you want more support on managing energy, weight loss, this is something we can work on together. That is exactly what I do during coaching calls.
12:19:10 I listen, not we, you talk, I listen, we've listened together.
12:19:14 About what it is that you have going on, what it is that's making things hard for you, where you need some support.
12:19:20 What it is that you can do. And we keep it so that that structure isn't overwhelming.
12:19:25 It's interactive, it's practical, and it's results focused. While making all of that energy management feel achievable and weight loss achievable.