I love the weekends! It’s when I disconnect from social media, take a break from work, spend a little more time curled up with a good book or exploring a new coffee shop with my husband and dog Triscuit, and refill my cup so I can support my clients at the highest level come Monday morning.

But before I learned how to properly calculate and track my custom macros, I used to feel extra anxious every time Friday rolled around. 

I knew that weekend festivities often included eating out with friends or social events that came with calorie-heavy drinks and meals, which would ruin all the progress I made that week.

And shout out to the diet industry for teaching me that I needed to restrict my eating and workout extra hard during the week in order to stay on track with my weight loss or metabolism health goals. Monday night Bachelor pizza parties with the girls? Count me out – I couldn’t deal with the extreme guilt I’d have after I ate a “bad” meal. Cue: missing out on quality time with friends and family.

So what changed?

It wasn’t that I magically got enough willpower to “stay away” from the pizza and ice cream. It was the realization that I COULD have my cake and eat it too. It wasn’t an either or situation like the diet industry makes us think. The idea that your goals should be chucked out the window since you’ve already screwed up is entirely false, and that’s what I work on with so many incredible women in my coaching programs

Here are my top 3 tips that helped my clients and me ditch the all-or-nothing mindset, end the cycle of restarting every weekend, and see endless results…without giving up a single food we love!

1. Tracking Macros – The Right Way

You may track macros, but you might still be taking a restrictive approach to keep your intake low. (I’m not calling you out, I’m calling you in!) 

This leaves you feeling limited in your caloric intake, and you’re likely to end up in the restrict/binge cycles anyway. Saying no to food you think of as “bad” also leads to the: “I just ate one fry, oh well—I am already off track, might as well keep going.”

My approach to tracking macros is to encourage you to eat your fruits, veggies, fiber, and drink your water. I believe in fueling our body with ALL the nutrients, but I will also encourage you to fit something you love into your macros daily!⁣ You get to have your cake and eat it too! I’ve helped 3,500+ women sustainable lose fat long term by resetting their metabolism and healing their relationship with food!

The goal? To free you from restriction, binge eating, and food guilt forever.⁣⁣ 

Eating the right amount of all three macronutrients (protein, fat, and carbs) and adjusting those macro strategically overtime can expedite your results, whether your goal is weight loss, a reverse diet to heal your metabolism, muscle growth, or an overall body recomposition.

2. Learn How to Track Your Macros in Real World Settings

Once you have the proper macro numbers for your goals, your next step is to make sure you know how to confidently track those macros in real world settings: eating out at your favorite bakery, traveling with your food loving family, impromptu date nights with your significant other, and holiday season (which is a fully 3 month party of all the best food during October to December). However, since we’re in the business of fitting all foods into our daily life guilt free, we’re just going to do a little research and planning so you can still plan a dinner out, grab a muffin on your way to work, or truly enjoy a holiday meal with family without guilt.

This part can be hard without a game plan, which is why the ladies who go through my Master Your Macros 6 Week Challenge (a challenge to help you confidently navigate life events while staying right on track with your macro goals) see 10x the results compared to others who constantly are throwing spaghetti at the wall and hoping it will stick. My goal in this program is to teach you how to live your life and still see the changes you desire happen.

3. Make It Your Goal to Fail

If you’re failing, you’re trying. 

Let me explain. We have to fail in order to learn. We have to try in order to make progress. We have to weed out what does and doesn’t work, and then begin to repeat the steps that work.

If you give up at the first roadblock, you’re buying into self-doubt, and there’s none of that here my peach! 

You can’t be fearful of failure. Failure is a part of learning, and that’s really what we’re all on this planet to do. Keep pushing and know you are worthy of fighting for your goals.

As you keep trying, the amount you fail will be less and less, but you have to be willing to try!

Find Support in Reaching Your Weight Loss Goals

If this resonated with you, it’s for a reason! Please reach out via Instagram DM, I am always happy to chat through your specific goals and struggles reaching those goals to see how I can support you!

You are also always welcome to DM me the word “quiz” on Instagram to take my quiz that tells you EXACTLY where to start based on your personal goals, history, and metabolism! All you need to do is DM me the word “quiz” on Instagram and I will send it your way

Don’t forget how worthy you are of reaching your goals!