Blasphemous Nutrition
The orthodox wellness industry keeps you in purgatory with vague, overly simplistic advice or plunges you into the depths of hell with restrictive commandments that are impossible to sustain. At this point you may be tempted to pursue hedonism instead, but at the end of the day you want to feel and age your best and you know a devil-may-care attitude won’t serve you.
ITS TIME TO LEAVE THE CHURCH OF WELLNESS AND GO TO HEALTH.
Double-degreed functional nutritionist and holistic health coach Aimee shares over 20 years of clinical experience and emerging research on the impact of lifestyle on our healthspan, offering a holy marriage of practical street smarts and relevant data that will empower you to take action.
She’s not just another preachy face looking to sell you on the latest superfood or baptize you into the latest health cult; she’s on a mission to give you balanced, nuanced, honest information to help you make informed, grounded decisions about how to achieve your health goals, whether you aim to lose weight, manage blood sugar, prevent Alzheimer’s or simply age like a bad-ass.
The best results don’t come from listening to what any one person has to say but being able to discard the bullshit, be open to experimentation and learn how to make the best choices for yourself.
When everything is a polarized extreme of vegan vs carnivore or cardio vs weights, tuning in to Blasphemous Nutrition will give you a scandalously nuanced perspective on nutrition and actionable tips that you can begin to implement immediately, so you can rescue yourself from the eternal torment of chasing one dietary savior after another.
Blasphemous Nutrition
Ep3: Beyond SMART Goals Part 2: - Creating the external frameworks to achieve your intentions.
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Episode Summary:
In this episode of "Blasphemous Nutrition," Aimee discusses the importance of creating external frameworks to achieve health goals, emphasizing that successful goal achievement is not willpower, but skill power. She shares strategies she and her clients have successfully used as well as principles from the book "Atomic Habits" by James Clear to guide listeners in transforming their goals into actionable steps and offers practical tips for reducing obstacles and increasing ease in making positive changes.
Key Takeaways:
- Focusing on the outcome of a goal can be problematic. Instead, create new habits to bring about lasting change.
- Break down goals into small, repeatable habits that can be monitored regularly for progress.
- Create systems and methodologies to support the implementation of new habits and track progress.
- Modify the external environment to reduce obstacles and make positive behaviors easier to adopt.
- Celebrate small successes to reinforce belief in one's ability to make lasting changes.
Notable Quotes:
- "To create change effectively, we have to maintain this change in our behavior by creating new habits."
- "The key to making lasting habit change is to reduce the obstacles that make it hard and increase the ease of making the change."
- "Goals are about the results you want to achieve, and systems are about the processes that will lead to those results."
- "Building incremental small changes can lead to a complete transformation over time."
- "Be the person who intentionally does the actions and habits of the person you want to become."
Resources:
Photography by: Dai Ross Photography
Podcast Cover Art: Lilly Kate Creative
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- Book: "Atomic Habits" by James Clear
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Photography by: Dai Ross Photography
Podcast Cover Art: Lilly Kate Creative
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