Month: January 2018

(W)holistic Transition Program – Month 1!

January: The Month for New Beginnings!

It’s important to develop and collect moments of confidence and accomplishments to keep you going throughout the year. That’s why each month there will be a few different areas of life for us to make a small change. This process is all about continuing on, and bettering ourselves little by little every single day. That is why this month, the first month, the goals that we will set need to be small, yet powerful.

Setting achievable goals doesn’t mean they aren’t worth your time. On the contrary, my opinion is that they are just as challenging and even more fruitful in the long run! My best New Year’s was the one that just passed, because I was able to look at at 2017 and see that I had progressed through the entire year without hitting a plateau! I had to kick my impatience to the curb – several times… – and just allow myself to simply be. Now I’m on a mission to help others feel this way this time in 2019!

Month One Goals: Set an achievable, realistic goal. Nothing is too small; you can decide on one, or multiple goals, as long as you know that you can continue it on throughout the month. Grab a piece of paper and a pencil; open up your notes on your iPhone, and get to thinkin’! Have fun, be courageous, and make a change! You deserve it, and you can do it!

*The meaning behind this is to begin collecting simple but powerful victories to keep you moving throughout the year!

Here are some example:

  • One Starbucks a week
  • Add one additional workout a week, or just add in one day a week if working out isn’t already within your daily/weekly routine.
  • Eat out once a week, or remove all together.
  • My recommendation: Eat breakfast within one hour of waking up!

For me, my new personal goal for January is to go soy-free! The reason for it? Because even though I am a gluten-free vegan already, it’s still very possible to eat junk food – most of that junk food includes soy. Over the holidays, I have found myself excited about the choices for sweets, and snacks, but feeling ultimately blah at the end of the day. I didn’t understand why… until I started looking at the ingredients of my cookies and crackers. Soy was in every single one of my treats, and so that lead me on a hunt through a Google search. I’ll be posting a blog next week about the health pros and cons of eating soy on a regular basis, so I’ll save all the good stuff for that!

Have fun, and welcome this new year with confidence! I’m right here with you!

One of my personal hang ups is outside encouragement and validation alongside accountability. Since I need all of those things too, I’m offering the option of receiving monthly, weekly, or even daily affirmation, support, and accountability to help keep you on track with your goals! For an even more personal accountability you and I will be in contact so I can help you plan, execute, and accomplish all of your goals for 2018! If that sounds like the extra push you need, please feel free to contact me for more details!!

(W)holistic Transition Program

January… The month of “New Year, New You” is here, and I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait for the new year as much as I can dread it. Setting goals for the length of 12 months can be daunting, and more often than not it seems that most people tend to alter, change, or stop their plans altogether when life starts back up.

I was twelve when I made my first New Year’s Resolution, and it was something unreachable and unrealistic not only in general but also because, you know, I was twelve. My body hadn’t really begun shifting around into the body I have now, yet still, when the end of the year rolled around I found myself facing my first a many Year’s End disappointments, because I was still gaining weight, not losing it. In all honesty, I didn’t actually try, and that was a part of the misery. But what could I really have done at that age? Especially when the goal was to be “skinny”, not healthy; when I had no knowledge of what is inside the food I was eating, or the realization of the age I was at. So when 2008 came nothing was different.

Soon, Resolution after Resolution was slapping me upside the face. I finally, in January of 2017 (Yes, it took me that long to figure it out haha!) I made a realization that made me actually keep a Resolution: go month-by-month! This incredible, simple tactic that has given me a hell of a 2017, and has allowed me to continue on with my progress to this very moment.  Think about it. You end up having accomplished way more – at least twelve separate goals reached by the end of 2018! Once I really bought into the slow and steady techniq, I found all the results I had been looking for since 2006, and actually excited to begin another year!

(W)holistic Life & Nutrition is starting off the (W)holistic Transition of 2018 right here, right now! Over the next twelve months, I will be posting the guidelines of the month’s goal setting, along with examples for you to choose from or simply to get your own ideas flowing. The key to this program is taking our time, and taking control of our choices, our goals, and time after time reaching those goals!

If I haven’t lost you yet, I want to make sure that I tell you that feeling overwhelmed by this is completely understandable – but believe me, it is possible for everyone! Because of the gradual aspect of this program, there is a strong ability to mold this around any hang ups or potential doubts that you may be feeling in your life and with your daily routines. Time, responsibilities, and daily “to-dos” involving ourselves, our families and our work can create a series of roadblocks, but believe in yourself – you can follow along with the (W)holistic Transition Program; you can find yourself living a more holistic lifestyle by December 31st of 2018! All it takes is starting, no matter where you are!

One of my personal hang ups is lack of outside encouragement and validation alongside no accountability. Since I need all of those things too, I’m offering the option of receiving monthly, weekly, or even daily affirmations from yours truly to give support, and accountability to help keep you on track with your goals! For an even more personal approach you and I can be in contact so I can help you plan, execute, and accomplish all of your goals for 2018! If that sounds like the extra push you need, please feel free to contact me for more details!!

Without further ado, let’s start this already!