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62. Wellness in 2025: Ditch the Weight Loss Goal, Use your toolbox, Take Empowered Action

• Naihomy Jerez • Episode 62

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As the new year begins, the episode explores the deeper motivations behind health and wellness goals, revealing that weight loss is often an insufficient primary motivator. Listeners are encouraged to set holistic health objectives, emphasizing empowered actions and long-term benefits over simple scale measurements.

• Weight loss as a common but insufficient motivator 
• The importance of digging deeper into health goals 
• Positive lifestyle changes leading to unforeseen benefits 
• Building a toolbox for effective wellness strategies 
• The significance of persistent effort and “trying again” 
• Empowered action as a key to lasting change 
• Invitation for personalized coaching support

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Speaker 1:

Hello friends, welcome back to Wealthy Generation W-E-L-L-T-H-Y. Happy New Year, happy 2025. I'm excited to be back, sharing as much information I can about health and wellness in a relatable and fun way, hopefully for you, where you have tangible things to work through, actionable items, just hopefully, some mind-blown moments up in here. Thank you so much for being here, for being part of this community. I am truly, truly grateful. Thank you for supporting the podcast Every time a new episode drops. Thank you for sharing it with your friends, for leaving reviews and ratings so drops. Thank you for sharing it with your friends, for leaving reviews and ratings. I really appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. It really does help us grow. It helps the podcast get more exposure, more people in our community learning about health and wellness, which is kind of kept on the wraps right, it's like information you have to dig for and there's so much information out there which kind of makes it a lot overwhelming. I know, I know I drown myself in books and courses and all the good stuff. Anyway, I have some, I guess, tips, guidance for you to start off this new year your health and wellness. I know we're well, I guess, nine days into January and you still have time, friend. You can start whenever you want. You can take your time. We are in an overwhelming time right now, so don't think you're late to the party, don't think that it's too late or that you're too old or that time is running out. None of that is true. We're going to talk a lot about how to start and stick to a wellness journey, even though the sticking to it part might look a little bit different at different times, which is totally okay. So I want to kind of.

Speaker 1:

The last episode of 2024 was on tips to do for the new year, right, and I shared about five tips about journaling and goals, doing research, creating space limited and positive motivations from others and taking small actions. Now I want to dig a little bit deeper in a few of these topics, and I really wanted. I wasn't sure how to start the first episode of 2025, but my clients are amazing and, of course, there was a common thread and theme across the week when I started coaching again in 2025 across all of them and I think it's really impactful and you can most definitely relate to this, because I definitely did at first which was having weight loss as a goal. So let's get straight into it. I have like three different categories that I'm going to go through. At first, I was going to name I'm not sure if I'm going to name this episode this or not which is like pitfalls to avoid in 2025 wellness. But I don't think I'm going to talk necessarily about pitfalls. I'm really going to talk about more positive lens to it, like, yes, what to look out for, but what can help you stick to your health and wellness? So let's see what we come up with. Your health and wellness. So let's see what we come up with, and part of it, like the middle, the tip number two that I'm going to talk about, is going to be a mind blown moment. I promise you, if you're a millennial and you grew up in, like, listening to let me see if I find the year of this song oh, my gosh, this song is from 2001. Um, you, you're going to love this analogy, I hope. Or, or this or this, like way of me sharing this piece of information with you. Okay, so, a lot of times.

Speaker 1:

Let's start with number one, which is your goals. I don't know if you wrote your goal down, if you listened to the previous episode and you wrote some goals down and why you want them. But I just want to highlight one specific goal, because all of my clients about three of them in a row, maybe four one of their main main goals was to lose weight, get snatched, whatever it was like, change the way their body looked at some capacity that involved weight loss, and they were having a really hard time sticking to their, let's say, journey, sticking to the habits that we were discussing, practicing that, and they realized they said that weight loss was not enough of a motivator for them. And I was like, wow, that's so interesting, because oftentimes people start their health and wellness journey and their main goal is to lose weight at some capacity and when it comes to doing it organically, naturally, with like exercise and food and all of these wellness branches, that needs to kind of work in unison for weight loss to happen in a healthy way. They had a hard time doing that and it was like they said, weight loss was not enough of a motivator. So then, what is?

Speaker 1:

And I know that I too started with weight loss as a goal and it wasn't. I don't know if I said lose weight, I probably did, um, but I had just had my second baby and I definitely did want to change the way my body looked. I did not feel comfortable in my body, I did not recognize myself, I did not like how clothes was fitting me and I wanted to make that change. But I don't think that that is what helped me stick to a health and wellness lifestyle. Now, eight years later, I think it was deeper than that and often I invite my clients to think deeper as to what it is that they want as a health and wellness goal, but I don't even think that I think that this falls into the category of I don't know what I don't know Like. I don't know how impactful health and wellness can be long-term. I don't know how impactful health and wellness can be to my overall health and how I feel, and I feel like that is the disconnect from choosing a deeper goal.

Speaker 1:

So when I started my journey, I realized that my mood was better, that I had more energy, that I really liked myself more as my own person and I really liked myself more as a parent and as a partner and I was having more fun and I was looking more rested, less tired, even though I had a six month old and a two year old and a one year old and a three year old, and if y'all have been around children and small children or you're a parent, you know is a lot Um. So when I would at first I was playing this little game where I wouldn't eat what I thought I was supposed to be eating for my journey or I wouldn't show up for the gym because I was doing this little seesaw thing Like the other thing whether it was sleeping in or enjoying some food that later would probably make my stomach hurt was more of an incentive or motivator than the weight loss. But then what kept me coming back was the feeling I really liked, when I felt strong, when I liked myself more, when I had more energy, when my mind was more stable, when my mood was more stable, when I was more patient as a parent, more patient as a parent. I loved that. I loved that and that is actually what kept me going and showing up when it came to food and when it came to the gym. I had no idea about the larger long term impacts that this lifestyle would have on my health. I learned this maybe three years ago or something like that. It has really solidified what it can do by me having that lifestyle back then eight years ago, it helped me actually reverse my prediabetes that I had back then. My A1C was at a 5.8 already and that's pretty scary. I wasn't even 30 years old yet and you know, or maybe I was 30 by then but I had pre-diabetes through all that time, because I think that even after I gave birth to my second son, I was still in that pre-diabetic range at about 31 years old. So very early thirties, late um late twenties.

Speaker 1:

So now my, like my client asked me she's like Naomi, what keeps you motivated? We're the same age and one of her goals was like she. She got her health really stable. She was having a lot of health issues, complications, she wasn't feeling well and she stabilized her health in our work together. For we worked together for a year, um a little while ago, like last year, and she created this amazing foundation for herself. And then she's like what keeps you motivated to keep going? What keeps you motivated to take these next steps?

Speaker 1:

And I sat there and I thought about it I mean not for that long, but I know how much of an impact it has on my overall health at kind of preventing or at least delaying onsets of diabetes, of heart disease, of dementia, parkinson's, which my grandfather had so many like aging my muscle health, like preventing fractures, like all these things are so important to me because I am much more afraid of being sick and having to rely on the medical system for medication, for dialysis for my organs, like going out, not being able to show up when friends invite me places, when my kids invite me places, whether I'm a grandmother or not, like whether I'm able to pick up my grandkids or go on the floor and play with them, travel, you know. So there's so much, so much just hanging on my health, depending on my health and my wellness. So, yes, weight loss is great but, again, is not that big of a motivator in the longterm because we become very comfortable and even if we are unhappy with how we look and we do want to lose weight or whatever that is, we become complacent and okay and comfortable with that and we become comfortable being that uncomfortable and then we just stop when life starts coming at us and we don't realize these other factors of how great it feels to have mental clarity. This is one of the main things that my clients just love from our journey together, from coaching. They did not even realize how kind of brain dead they were, how just empty their brain was. They had no mental capacity, the brain fog was so big. So just having mental energy to think, to be creative, to just be present has been a game changer for them, and I love to have them think about these long-term goals.

Speaker 1:

I asked myself and I was going to bring this up later but I like to think about the 90 year old version of me and how am I supporting her and what would she say? And my another biggest fear of mine is for me to be 90 years old and be like, oh, I didn't exercise because I was scared. I didn't exercise because I was always people pleasing. I didn't exercise because I never made it a priority. And here I am bedridden, unable to do things for myself, just like, basically alive but not living right, not doing at least a few things that I enjoy doing and having self autonomy. So these kinds of long-term questions, thinking about yourself sorry, my computer, things are going off are are of value to me, like they're important to me, and that is part of my long-term goals. And also I just really love being able to move well and being able to feel well and not having digestive issues all the time and bloating all the time and acne on my face. I used to have really bad back acne and I would buy all of, like you know, the Neutrogena acne, whatever body wash no, baby, it has never come back again after I have switched my lifestyle around. So not dealing with those things is amazing. You have probably lost the capacity to understand what it is to feel good in your body because you've been so sick for so long.

Speaker 1:

Okay, so I want you to dig a little bit deeper into these goals. If your goal is, you know, weight loss, I want you to pin that to the side because it's important, right, and it's most likely going to happen anyway. If you go, do a lifestyle change, it can be. What I used to say a lot when I first started my business was that weight loss was the side effect of switching up your lifestyle. It literally is a side effect. Your body will start to let go of what no longer serves it, of the inflammation, of the bloating, of the excess accumulated fat. It literally is a byproduct, a side effect, a consequence which a great one of really tending to your health. So I'm here to tell you to switch up your goal. Put it on the side, put it on the nice to have right Of what you want to see happen from you taking great care of yourself, so that it becomes a little bit easier I don't know if easier is the word, but you have a heavier anchor and reason as to why you're doing what you're doing.

Speaker 1:

It gets hard, however, you've done a lot of hard things. If you have multiple degrees, or even one degree, right. If you have children, if you are at a job like, there are so many hard things you've done and you've probably had to do it because you don't have any other choice. Give yourself the same ultimatum. You literally don't have any other choice. One of my clients was like it's not, like this is a life and death situation, and I was like, oh, but it is. It actually is a life and death situation. It might not seem like it now, but it happens so slow. Whatever you're going to experience in your 60s and your 70s, even your 50s, now 40s, is stemming from the actions or the inactions that you take right now, right now, today. Okay, so it is a life and death situation and I want you to treat it as such. Okay, if you're a millennial baby.

Speaker 1:

I truly believe that Aaliyah wrote lyrics to Try Again regarding a health and wellness journey. Okay, let me see if I'm going to play a little bit of the song I might sing to you. Okay, because the tip number two was building your toolbox and learning how to use your tools. And you don't learn how to use your tools right away. And one of my clients was like oh, I always try, and then I can't do it and then I give up. And I asked her I'm like how many tries do you give yourself? And she looked at me and she's like uh, probably like one try, maybe two, baby, no, we need to keep trying and trying and trying again. That can be your goal.

Speaker 1:

The goal at first might be I'm going to keep trying, no matter how many times I have to try, and this is something I did last year with my business finances. Oh my gosh, you should have seen me hysterically crying every single time, like freaking, cleaning my mocos on my shirt like on zoom with my mentors. It was disgusting. Anyway, I told myself this is something that's important. It's something that's important for me to learn, and if I want to grow, I need to learn how to manage my money and know my numbers and blah, blah, blah. And I said I, if I have to cry for all 12 months of 2024 to learn how to do this, that is exactly what I'm going to do.

Speaker 1:

And January I cried. January was hysterical. February I cried. March I cried. April I cried. May I cried.

Speaker 1:

I think I stopped crying in the summertime, maybe, and there was just so many bouts of getting so intensely triggered and crying and just processing all these feelings and emotions. But I was committed, committed and I'm not going to say that I stay here with all the joy in the world and still run my numbers and do these things, but at least I'm not going to say that I sit here with all the joy in the world and still run my numbers and do these things, but at least I'm not hysterically crying anymore. I usually don't cry. I have learned how to manage my emotions. I have learned how to use the tools in my toolbox, reach out for support and manage my mind to a certain extent. So all these things, a certain extent, so all these things and that's actually exactly what happened in my health and wellness journey, where I was committed to my goals and I just did whatever it took. I didn't care what people said, I didn't care what they thought. Um, at first I did and I had different kind of strategies to work around those things, but now it's like I don't care.

Speaker 1:

Have you heard that song? No me importa, no me importa, no me importa, no me importa. That is me. Anyway. I was thinking about this and then I was like it sounds just like the Aaliyah song. Let me turn this on. Oh baby, hey, I hope you're dancing. Thank you, aaliyah. I think when they say it's been a long time, I should have left you. I think they're talking about like this mindset Okay, this mindset of we need to stop it already. Like how bad do you need it to get?

Speaker 2:

What would you do to get to me? What would you say? To have your way? Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. And I said, no, would you turn away or bring me up? What would you say?

Speaker 1:

Dust yourself off and try again. Oh yeah, yep, and try again. Try again, baby.

Speaker 2:

Keep trying, dust yourself off and try again, and try again, try again. Listen to this part. You went to me, but I can't let it go so easily, not till I see what used to be.

Speaker 1:

Be eternity or just a week, like your wanna's journey. It's about to change. It's perfect now, but will it change Honeymoon period, baby?

Speaker 2:

This is how it go.

Speaker 1:

And try again, baby, try again, try again. This is what we're going to do in 2025. You're going to keep on trying. Okay, I love this song because it says chemistry is off, the chain is perfect now, but will it change? And I feel like that's like the honeymoon period hype of yeah, I'm going to eat so great and I'm going to go to the gym and I'm going to get my sleep and I'm going to drink my water and I'm going to go do all of this and then, all of a sudden, it changes right. And then she says just do your thing and see how it goes. See how it goes, just try. If it doesn't happen the first time, you try again and again, and again and again.

Speaker 1:

Every single time you try to stick to whatever you said you were going to do, whether it's the food, the exercise, whatever it is, and for some reason you don't go through with the action, or you go through and you don't enjoy it, whatever. It's just a learning experience. So you can go ahead and gather information and be like, okay, I didn't like how that turned out, and be like, okay, I didn't like how that turned out, next time I won't do X, y, z. Or next time I'll say this this is going to be my answer, or this is going to be my solution or my option when I get a craving, when my abuela tells me to eat five cups of rice, when my friends want me to have all these drinks and stay up so late. Right, Be committed to yourself, keep trying. Just because you went out for the drinks or you had the two cups of rice or whatever it is, it doesn't mean you failed and you stopped trying. You learn what you did not enjoy about the experience or what you did like about the experience and, trust me, you're going to get an opportunity to try again with a similar circumstance. And then you bring that in right, like you see what it was that you have decided with yourself, and you use those tools and you use those tools, okay.

Speaker 1:

So the last thing I wanna talk about is empowered action, and this term empowered action came from a conversation I had with another one of my clients, because she was like I want accountability, I wanna get accountability. I'm gonna tell my trainer to hold me accountable. And I was like well, how? So how do you want that to happen? And then she's like well, I'm not sure, I don't want to make her uncomfortable If she's not comfortable holding me accountable the way I feel like I need to be held accountable. And then I was like, well, how do you hold yourself accountable, accountable? And then I was like, well, how do you hold yourself accountable? And that stopped her in her tracks and she had to think about it for a while and I told her you are already holding yourself accountable by hiring your trainer. You understand that they are planning a program for you, that they are waiting for you at the gym and all these other things, and she is a very respectable and responsible person and she shows up right. And I said but the reason why I want you to hold yourself accountable and build your own identity outside of your trainer for something like working out is because great things are working out great with your trainer right now. That gym is open, your trainer schedules working with yours, everything is in sync right now.

Speaker 1:

But what happens when it's not? What happens if the gym closes? What happens if the trainer doesn't want to train anymore? Happens if the gym closes. What happens if the trainer doesn't want to train anymore? What happens if, whatever, like you, you have a circumstance that comes up. Then all of a sudden, what your let's say, your identity goes out the window, because this is the person that was tied to it.

Speaker 1:

I said I want you to build your own identity about exercise and, for example, like I commit to working out three times a week, it doesn't matter with who, it doesn't matter where, it doesn't matter how, it doesn't matter. Like, I have built that identity, that on a weekly basis, and at first it was I work out once a week, Then it was I work out twice a week once a week. Then it was I work out twice a week, now it is I work out three times a week. I've been building on my identity. So it doesn't matter if I'm in DR, I find a way to work out. I've worked out on apartments, I've worked out in closets, I've worked out in bathrooms, I've worked out at CrossFit gyms, I've worked out in hotel rooms, in my home, at gyms there are many different ways to get a workout in.

Speaker 1:

If that is what you are committed to and it is part of your identity, now all of a sudden, you're holding yourself accountable with something that is important to you. However, I'll have to say you need to work on building this identity. And that's where number two of trying and trying and trying and really refining the tools in your toolbox not only building on your toolbox, but learning how to use those tools effectively become important, right? So sometimes the motivation is not there, right? And that's another thing that we spoke about, where, particularly with another client, where the honeymoon period kind of goes out the window, and if we expect for it, I want you to prepare for this honeymoon period to end Like, yeah, we start off so excited, yeah, I found this class, it's so exciting, let's go, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 1:

And then is eight degrees outside, like it was today, or it's raining, or you had a poor night's sleep, or like there just can be so many reasons to decide not to show up. And this is when, maybe, you're feeling other feelings that are not conducive to motivation. Right, it's not joy, it's not excitement, it's not happiness, whatever it is to get you to go do what you said you were going to do when you were excited. You might be sad, you might be bored, you might be depressed, you might be mourning. There's so many things. And I'm not saying that you have to show up no matter what, because you should also listen to your body and what you need to meet your needs on that day. But this is where empowered action comes in and empowered decision-making, because if you decide not to show up, I want it to be an empowered decision. I don't want it to be like oh well, it's so cold, it's so nice.

Speaker 1:

Like no, own it. Own it, be empowered. Take the empowered action of not taking an action. Being like no, I'm going to stay home today because you know what? My kid had me up all night and I really need sleep Like that is. That is the wellness my body needs right now. That is the action my body needs right now. I need to take these two hours that I would have spent commuting and exercising and all of that, and I need to rest. That's an empowered action.

Speaker 2:

It's not like oh, I'm skipping the gym today.

Speaker 1:

I don't feel well. No, let go of that. Whether you choose to take an action or not is still an empowered decision and an empowered action, and you're still holding yourself accountable to some way. So no, I don't mean like show up no matter what, like that's not realistic, but what you can do is always make an empowered decision and take an empowered action. So when you understand that the honeymoon period is over, you get to be really honest and clear with yourself as to what kind of empowered action are you taking. Are you going to take 20 minutes and make yourself something to eat, or are you going to order out where it's probably going to take 35 minutes to get to you? Are you going to take five minutes and step outside and get some sunshine? Are you going to take a few minutes every hour to move your body? Like know that there are little things that you can do along the way and it might get boring. And my two of my clients, they're like, oh, I don't like boring. Like I need, uh, I don't like. You know I need to switch things up. I don't like you know I need to switch things up. But the thing is that playing around with your health and wellness when it's not time yet. Does that make sense? Then you can skew your results.

Speaker 1:

I had a client who loved to play around with her smoothies and she was making sugar bombs in her smoothies playing around with them. Okay, and that's something that we were like. This must remain boring, like we cannot be playing around with smoothies and sprinkling different kinds of ingredients in here. That actually is hindering your progress and will eventually make you so sick. So we're like let's find other ways to be creative. How can you be creative? And all of a sudden she got an opportunity to bring in her creativity. She started doing other things in her home that fueled that passion for her, instead of always just like let's switch up what we're eating, let's switch up this workout. There is progress in boring sometimes. Yes, we should be switching things up, but sometimes we need to give certain um habits and skills. We need to let them root a little bit. We need to let them take break ground a little bit, because then you won't even know if that's working or not.

Speaker 1:

And here you are switching things around every single time because you're bored and it's not exciting anymore and you're trying to look for that initial excitement that you had when you first started, and you don't even know if these things are working for you or not. Right, so expect for this honeymoon phase to end and see what it is that you're going to do. How are you going to stay committed and accountable and taking empowered action after honeymoon period is done and I want you to bring all your feelings with you this is what I was talking about a little bit before. Like, you can show up for yourself and be sad or be not excited, be super neutral about it. Right, all of your feelings are valid. You, they can show up, you can still eat, you can still make yourself something, you can still order a meal out that is more aligned with what your goals are. So having this expectation that your feelings are always gonna be like on this happy or positive end might not be as realistic and sometimes right, like, depending on what it is.

Speaker 1:

We do need to take a step back. I remember that there was like a huge tragedy in our family and I showed up to the gym and I started to cry. I thought it was going to be fine. I was like, oh, I'll be fine, this is okay, and I started crying and I didn't realize the impact that it had had on me and, instead of training, I spoke with my trainer a little bit, a little bit, and I went home and, instead of doing my strength training, I knew that what would be more helpful and appropriate for me it was actually a really sunny day and it was warm outside I went out for a walk instead. I know that that was going to be better for my mental health, for moving energy around, for just being with myself, thinking, and that's what I ended up doing. Again, empowered action.

Speaker 1:

But what usually happens is that we let our feelings just rule the actions that we are going to take and we stop showing up the way that we said that we wanted to show up, or the way that we know we should be showing up for the results that we want. Okay, that's really important. So just know that you can feed yourself, you can make a meal you can't like. There's a lot of things you can do, and I know that these things are really general and may not align with you, or every day it might be something different. However, you always also have the choice to recommit to recommit to whatever you stop doing.

Speaker 1:

I know for right now, like the holiday season, I was eating a lot of desserts here and there and I was taking my kids out and buying a lot of fun food. I was taking my kids out and buying a lot of fun food and I was eating out a lot because of, just, you know, the holiday season and being out and all this, and I felt the impact. Like I'm like, oh, I feel so bogged down, like, oh, I really need like a vegetable right now. Um, and I didn't worry too much about it. I was like, oh, whatever, like I knew it was a limited amount of time because it was the holidays and then the schedule was kind of it was kind of gonna normalize itself again because the kids were gonna go back to school and all that, and that's kind of what's happening this week. Technically, this week is like the first full, real week for a lot of people and I was like, okay, well, I just need to go back to what I know this week.

Speaker 1:

And, yes, now I'm like tracking my food a little bit right now just to get myself back on. I'm being more mindful of what I'm eating and if I need it or not, because at this moment I'm in a space where I'm like okay, I want to make sure that I'm seeing progress, I want to make sure that I'm sticking with what I said I would do and I want to see more progress. So, in order to do that, I need to take different, empowered action. And right now is boring as heck. Right, it's like for me is the toughest part of the year, where it's super cold, all of the decorations are down, it's just like the dog days of winter, as they say. So why not just be so doubled down on my goals?

Speaker 1:

Right, you have the power, you have the capacity to do that, and with that, oh, with two different things. Right, like you might feel annoyed, or that is too much to collect information, to track your food, to go get your blood work done, to I don't know, see how you're sleeping. There's so much value in data collection. You cannot make pivots, you cannot check your progress, you cannot get a real idea as to what's happening if you don't have any information to go by. So oftentimes, the one and only thing that we are tracking is the scale, like the whole number on that scale, which actually doesn't even really give you much information. Okay, I have a podcast episode where it's about seven different types of tracking the scale, and yes, there are other things that you can be doing ways of tracking. And, yes, there are other things that you can be doing, ways of tracking. So oftentimes that is our only marker or data points, and then you get so discouraged because it's not moving and you're like, oh my gosh, I'm doing all these things and that number is not moving, and blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 1:

Right, so it's important to have other sources of information, like how are you actually feeling? Are you getting stronger? Do you have more of a clear mind? Do you have more energy? Is your skin clearing up? Are you using the bathroom? Well, right, are you less bloated? So many different factors that happen, but we are just taught to look at this number and have it be the be all of everything.

Speaker 1:

If you really want to worry about numbers and focus on numbers, focus on your blood work numbers. Okay, the functional medicine, um, what's it called Ranges instead of the regular us, american ranges? I would recommend that. If you want to talk more about that, you can just send me a DM. We can talk more about that, but those are the numbers that I like to look at. Where's my blood sugar? How are my triglycerides? How is my liver doing? How's my vitamin D? These are more important numbers to me than the scale.

Speaker 1:

I hope that this was helpful in understanding how important it is to dig a little bit deeper into your goal. What do you want your goal and your progress to look like right now and also see how it impacts your long-term health. Right, like what's going on? If you listen to my podcast on the social experiment, where I encourage you to listen to conversations going on with your family, how they're talking about illness, how they're feeling things like that I told my client I'm like I don't need to learn these lessons myself. Like no, thank you. I rather learn it from other people who are just in it and trying to manage it. No judgment to them, but like why? Like I'm totally fine learning from others, as we do, and I'll try my best to make changes so I don't end up in these same situations.

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So think a little bit deeper about your goal. Know that whatever you decide to do now or not do now in the long term will affect you years and years and years down the line. Taking care of our health is like compound interest you put in coins chelitos right now and those things will build up to millions and millions and millions of health quality. Right, it's like a little snowball it starts growing and growing the more you roll it. So just know that what may seem so insignificant that you're doing right now really has an enormous impact. And because we're not seeing the results immediately or these conversations are not happening often, I also encourage you to be around people who understand what you're doing, like these kinds of conversation, the value of health and wellness and the small actions that you take now for the larger impact now and later.

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Uh, so that you can have some mindset support around these things. Right, and you're not just like solo. I was solo for the most part, right. So this is what I would love for you to think about as we're starting the year. You have choices. You can make empowered actions. You can keep trying and trying and trying again. Dust those knees off and just keep doing it. Give yourself as many chances and opportunities as you need so it can start to stick right. It can start to stick for those larger goals.

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And also, if you need support around these areas, if one of those empowered actions that you want to take and support with accountability and motivation is to work with somebody, because it has worked for me in many different areas. The money situation I have a money coach and I was part of this small business program, so the accountability has always been with support from others, but I also do the work on my end. That is the difference. I do my homework. I hold myself accountable to do my homework and then to show up and have discussions with mentors. Okay, so if that's something that you want for yourself in 2025, you're ready to start food and hormone health coaching, where I can teach you how to use food and lifestyle to heal your body, support your hormones right, get weight loss as a side effect of how well you are treating yourself and the changes that you're making. If you want support in building this toolbox and learning how to use these tools, learning how to make these empowered actions and decision-making that will lead to a more sustainable and holistic wellness lifestyle for yourself that you get to what an honor pass down to other generations and support generations before you then I am so happy to support you with that.

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I have one-on-one openings available for six months. That's 24 calls of one-on-one coaching, which is amazing because you get this time just to yourself. Imagine that, to discuss things about you, to focus on you and I think that that probably doesn't happen very often, as you're probably taking care of so many others around you Okay, so I want to offer you that we meet on a weekly basis over zoom. You also have access to me over WhatsApp so you can always message me whenever you need anything, and I think it's one of the coolest features of my program. You get recordings of our calls and notes that I take. You also get personalized resources so that you don't have to go and Google and search and do all these things. Usually I send you the information, whatever links that you need, from whatever it was that we discussed. Right Just yesterday, my client text me and she said I'm looking up her message right now on WhatsApp.

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She said I can't believe how awesome this work is. Thank you so much. It really, really, really is life changing when you start to focus on yourself, when you start to take your power back, when you start to take empowered action and really put like 10 toes down on taking care of yourself. Let's go against the grain together, baby. Okay, I cannot wait to talk to you If you are interested in learning more, in getting to know me better, in how I can support you and you want to share your challenges with me.

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I invite you to book a consultation call. It's totally free. You can find the link here in the show notes or on my Instagram link in bio, or you can feel free to DM me however you would like, and we'll book a call and we'll chat. Okay, we'll chat about what this would look like for you personally, not in a group, not in anything else one-to-one, so that you can really focus on yourself. I cannot wait to see you on Zoom on your consultation call and hopefully have you as my one-on-one client for food and hormone health coaching. I hope you have a great week. Bye.