SHOCK Performance Nutrition

DOUBLE TAP IF YOU LOVE YOURSELF❤️ (or if you’re trying to!!)
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Rocking out to all the humans doing life and adding activity on top of it!

When workout plans include limited calories it limits the body from recovery.
Whether you’re teaching for stress management, athletic play or a good old “One, Two, I’m Awesome,” kinda workout… all of the above DESERVES NOURISHMENT.

Honour your body with what it’s asking for and check in with the feels.
Yes to yum
Yes to nutrients
Yes to timing , combo and amounts ( if you really want)

No to self-shaming for honouring your cool self K?

your Sport Nutritionist + Gut Health + Body Mind Connector,

-Alex ( Oh & 🥑)

Our job as specialists in Nutrition Counselling is to support and educate unique individuals and meet them where they are at.

It’s a disservice to struggles of others to refer to their struggles as something that has a “simple” solution.

It’s our position in wellness, fitness, nutrition, mental, emotional counselling to help get through the storm together, be honest about the hardships and come up with small solutions to sustainably impact the lives of our clients.

Health Language and information ALWAYS evolves and it is important for representation, validity and community building.

We only know what we were taught and learning words around our health and the health of others that maybe we grew up with as “common” doesn’t mean they last effectively.

Here are some terms in the health world we tend to see on social media that can affect both our inner psyches and our relationships with those saying them.

Hot tip: When we observe, we can observe without immediately expressing what we observe.

Take a moment to ask ourselves: does this need to be said? What “needs to” be said versus “do I need to say anything”?

“I won’t use before and after photos to define my success or my body’s ‘progress.’” -a promise to myself.

There is NO photo comparison of you that will ever show a version of you that isn’t Worthy of Love.
Read that again.

It’s not new news, we’ve heard several people say the “fittest” they’ve ever looked was under serious health conditions like high stress, over-training, under-eating, dehydration and even substance use.

Yet there are still so many accounts posting before and after photos as some kind of evidence…that their program/coaching works and if you want to have this too than use them.

The look of your body DOES NOT represent your health.

There are so many reasons why we hold onto and why we lose weight and there are too many factors to capture in a photo.

The B&A body photo culture is diet culture. And a leading comparison that leaves out the whole picture, discrediting the YOU in your story.

Remember you have genes,
your stress,
your job or schooling,
your family, YOUR LIFE, and the body you are in is a special one.

It got you here, and though you can always choose how you’d like to represent yourself, please know you are already a success.

There is NO photo comparison that will ever convince me your body wasn’t worthy.
You were and always will be worthy.

-Alex🥑

You can HYDRATE with food???
You can RECOVER with coffee??

Whaaattt? But yes, it’s true!!
Thankfully, local coffee biz taught me they have different blends with flavours and strengths because I found using a STRONG brewed coffee to pair with bananas for my favourite summer treat.

By adding the sodium from salt, and the potassium from the banana, it’s a cool down treat that included electrolytes.
Electrolytes help us keep hydrated and are essential to the body.
For captain obvious- we of course need to have water paired with our banana treat!

A little bit of carbs and caffeine (for those not sensitive) is also great after your outdoor activities or running around because it can help muscles refuel!!!

So the next time you’re thinking about summer treats, consider this one!
Swipe for the recipe ➡️

TIP: I freeze and refreeze twice, mixing both times with in a food processor. You can always taste and add more of what you want it to taste like!

Enjoy! - Alex 🥑

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But seriously, how good is Pesto?

Scroll to the left for some recipe ideas that put the green in pesto.

Yum yum you’re welcome.
- Alex 🥑