The missing piece for my recovery, advice for someone just starting, and breakfast blues
The missing piece for your recovery
SOMEONE TO TALK TO! If I could do this all over again, I’d get a coach. That’s why I got the education to become a coach! The ability to have someone looking at your specific case and highlight the blindspots that you have in your own habits speeds things up and gives you that confidence you lack while trying to go through it all yourself. When you go through it all yourself, you doubt everything. You go against everything you thought you knew from modern day society–how do you live without dieting?? So many of us don’t know how!
This could also mean the “straw that broke the camel’s back” kind of idea where I tell you what ACTUALLY worked for me. See, as soon as I figured out that recovery was in my own hands, I changed as many things as I could all at once. It was difficult, but I tend to have a very severe personality. Changing my morning routine was HUGE. Before, I woke up at 4 AM, did my bathroom routine which consisted of 20 pushups, did a 45 minute yoga session (fast paced for calorie burn), got dressed for work, made my morning tea (and additional travel cup), ate a scoop of peanut butter from the spoon in slow ecstasy, packed my lunch, journaled a bit, and then ran out the door for my morning drive. And I had timers go off on my watch continuously to move me from one activity to another. I changed most of that. I started sleeping an extra hour until 5, I took out pushups, my yoga session turned into basic stretches that lasted only 5-10 minutes, I cut out the tea (or waited until later), and actually ate breakfast with all 3 macros.
Advice for someone just starting out
Recognize that this and you are flexible. If changing one of your habits feels too difficult, you can change it back and work on something else. If your body changes, IT CAN CHANGE BACK. Give yourself the freedom to treat yourself as a science experiment. It feels scary, but remember you’re listening to someone who is on the other side of what you’re trying to do. Most of the time, the amount of things you are willing to change at once determines the speed that you recover. But I know this is debatable because many people want to change as little as possible. But if you’re working on fertility for the sake of having a baby as soon as possible, jump off that cliff with your coach and try it all. Emphasis on the word TRY. You’re so used to trying to be perfect. Let yourself not be perfect.
Breakfast struggle
While my advice is usually to “let go of the idea of breakfast food” like eggs and sausage, a lot of girls struggle with eating a burger patty for breakfast (I, clearly, am not one of them!). Try this yummy recipe for a breakfast protein ball you can nab from the fridge: protein powder, honey, chia seeds, oats, peanut butter, vanilla extract, and dark chocolate chips. There are about a million of these “energy bite” recipes on the internet–but this one is my personal favorite and it seems to work really well for girls who have the breakfast blues.
