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Who is FitGirl918?
FitGirl918 is my fitness community that is focused on rising from our current challenges and circumstances through committing to our physical health and personal development. We lift each other up, hold each other accountable & celebrate each other’s successes.
What is a Virtual Gym?
FitGirl918 Virtual Gym is a private group that provides support and accountability towards your health and fitness goals. It is led by a personal trainer (coach), but the real value comes in the community with others who have also committed to a workout program chosen to best suit their goals. By combining fitness, nutrition, support, accountability and community, a community plays a significant role in helping participants achieve their goals! Each member receives individual attention, coaching, daily encouragement, accountability, a place to communicate struggles and victories, and a sense of community. This is an ongoing environment with monthly themes and focuses. You can join at ANY time. Check in isn’t required but it’s strongly encouraged!
Why Join FitGirl918 Virtual Gym?
Lifestyle changes are hard. It takes sticking to a new routine for 3-4 weeks before we see a habit developing. This is really hard to do on your own!! Most people don’t. As a personal trainer and group fitness instructor, I’ve worked with many people outside of this type of environment. I’ve never seen near the success and adherence to a fitness regimen as I have seen in the context of this supportive haven. Joining a community of likeminded people is crucial to your success. Knowing you are NOT alone is half the battle! I believe and have witnessed these groups help to set myself and many others up for long-term success in ALL areas of life. It pushes you to become more of who you were meant to be. We know our fitness struggles aren’t so much because we don’t know the “what” and the “how.” We can go to Pinterest for cute workout routine graphics and healthy menus. We can search YouTube for great exercise circuits. We can lace up our sneakers and run out the front door of our own free will. But the reason we don’t do those things consistently is deeper. These groups dig into those places and help reveal what’s holding us back from being our best selves all around. It is here that we can come to terms with what has held us back in the past in order to let it go, grow and move beyond it in the future!
How Do I get started?
I want to be your personal trainer (coach), so if you want me to be your coach. CLICK THIS LINK AND CREATE A FREE ONE! If you aren’t working with another coach, CLICK THIS LINK TO fill out the form to see you might be a great fit for my upcoming Challenge Group! Together we will figure out the best program for your goals based on your current fitness level, past experience and interests. Note: A good starting point would be to introduce EveryPlate into your daily diet along with the use the nutrition resources/meal plans/menus that can be found on our website. This is where the results really happen! NUTRITION makes up 70-80% of your results. That’s why there will be a big focus on learning how to eat to FUEL your body!
WHERE DO I START WITH MY HEALTH, FITNESS, AND WEIGHT LOSS GOALS?
- Get active for 30 minutes
- Eat healthier foods and skip the processed stuff (soda, anything in a box, or at a drive-thru)
- Drink your water
- Join an accountability group (Team FitGirl918)
The good news is you don’t have to cut out whole food groups, over-do-it with exercise, or buy an expensive cleanse to see results!
If we could recommend just ONE thing for you to get started, it would be to join PeopleOne Team FitGirl918 plus Calorie Smart Meal Kit from EveryPlate because it includes everything you need and our coaching! Seriously, don’t miss out on your chance for amazing results. Sign up today!
IN ORDER FOR THIS TO WORK, WE DO ASK YOU START BY CHANGING YOUR MINDSET. AS CHEESY AS IT IS, WHEN YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND, YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE.
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let's talk about problems and solutions
As much as we want it to be easy, sometimes LIFE happens. That’s why we focus on a 80/20 rule for our nutrition and workouts. (80% of the time we’re on track with our goals and 20% is left for birthday parties, favorite glasses of wine, and chocolate!) This one rule helps knock out a lot of what life throws at us to derail our weight loss goals, but here are a few more problems and solutions we’ve helped our clients with over the past 10 years!
6 TYPICAL PROBLEMS WITH DIETING & THE SOLUTIONS
#1 PROBLEM: I’M ALWAYS HUNGRY
Have you ever tried a “diet” and end up feeling hungry all the time, weak, and tired? When we’ve tried diets that didn’t fit our lifestyles, we’ve felt obsessed about when we could eat next so much so that we’ve dreamed of food! Can you relate?
SOLUTION: We recommend choosing a diet where no food is off limits! We also like to focus on high volume foods like fruits, veggies, and low-fat pop-corn to keep us from feeling deprived. If you always feel hungry or annoyed by tracking everything you eat, though your PeopleOne Health membership. With that said, focusing on a balanced diet and high-volume, low calorie foods can definitely help!
#2 PROBLEM: I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO EAT.
SOLUTION: Low-fat, high-fat, low-carb, “clean”, organic, keto….it can be so hard to know what to eat with all of the diets out there! If you’re struggling to figure out what to eat, we suggest keeping it simple! Aim for 3 meals with 2 snacks, and all of the meals should (ideally) be something unprocessed and single serving. For example, you could have a 1/2 cup of oatmeal with berries in the morning, a turkey sandwich loaded with onions, lettuce, and tomato and mustard with an orange for lunch, and a steak with a sweet potato and asparagus for dinner. Your snack could be a cup of grapes in the morning and a smoothie in the afternoon. This is just an example as well. The main idea is to not feel like you have to give up a whole food group, eat 100% organic, or starve. Instead, choose snacks that are quick and easy to toss in your bag & go and choose unprocessed options.
#3 PROBLEM: I KNOW WHAT TO DO, BUT I DON’T DO IT!
SOLUTION: Have you ever felt like you’ve tried to diet so many times? We know it feels so defeating when you’ve eaten well for a few weeks only to find yourself eating crappy food until you feel bad again. The main reasons we see people fall off track are that they 1) go too extreme with their diets or 2) don’t plan ahead. We’ll skip the extreme issue since we’ve already preached about 80/20, but it’s also important to do some SIMPLE meal prep ahead of time. This also means identifying if you typically get hangry around 3pm or find yourself munching after dinner. If you do — don’t punish yourself for it. Plan around it! Choose a healthy, hearty snack at 3pm or a high-volume treat after dinner like low calorie popcorn or a fruit pop!
#4 PROBLEM: I’M SURROUNDED BY SNACKS AND EATERS AT WORK AND HOME!
SOLUTION: This problem is the one that still hits close to home for us! It’s hard to avoid temptation when you’re surrounded by snacks and treats 24/7! If it’s possible, limit the treats to being outside of the house. Just don’t buy the stuff! If you can’t limit it in the house, bring in a layer of accountability. Even if everyone else is eating junk around you, you can plug into our year-round support group with other likeminded people! Just email us at hello@fitgirl918.com to get started!
#5 PROBLEM: FRUSTRATING WHEN YOU WANT TO SEE RESULTS FASTER
SOLUTION: It’s so frustrating when you’re doing everything “right,” and the scale is not moving. While we’re not advocates of a crash diet, we will on occasion recommend something a little more extreme to break an exercise plateau or help someone get ready for a big event. These ideas should only be done for a short period of time and under doctor’s approval (as with any diet or exercise change). You could try a 3 day dash, a phase of keto, or Nutrisystem to start to shock the scale! Another thing to try is to make sure you’re getting enough sleep and enough water! Both can affect the scale! So you may do better with a body measurement chart as well!
#6 PROBLEM: I DON’T KNOW WHAT WORKOUT PROGRAM I WANT TO START.
SOLUTION: If you’re not sure what program to start, we want to help you find one that actually motivates you to do it each day! We’ll help you find a workout that fits into your day and current fitness level so it doesn’t seem so overwhelming! You can get our recommendations by applying for our FitGirl918 Challenge. This will tell us a little bit more about you, and we can recommend something from there!
a few of our favorites
We also hope you will reach out by email to get started if you need accountability!
