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What are your top 5 “musts” in a barre class?

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Yes!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻

Abundance. It’s a word I really like. And it’s also one way I have made peace with food.

I used to have a rule: No sweets in the house. I thought “If I buy them, then I will lose control”. But the funny thing is, as I surrounded myself with foods I would have previously labeled “bad”, they lost their power. They became normal. They became old news and no longer threatening.

One of the most common responses I hear to intuitive eating is, “I wouldn’t be able to stop eating _____ (Oreos, ice cream, peanut butter, chips…).” But research shows that people will eventually get tired of eating the same food. This is called habituation.

❤️Think about the first time someone told you, “I love you”. It felt amazing and super exciting! But, years later when that same person says, “I love you,” it’s still special- but not in the same novel way.

Psychologist Daniel Gilbert explains habituation this way, “Wonderful things are especially wonderful the first time they happen, but their wonderfulness wanes with repetition.”

If you are a fan of leftovers (hello, not having to cook a meal 👏), you’ve probably experienced that day 3 or 4 of leftovers are much less appealing.

👉🏼Eating a food over and over causes it to be much less desirable.👈🏼

The point of intuitive eating and giving yourself unconditional permission to eat is not so you’ll get tired of particular foods and not want them anymore. Rather, the habituation process helps take out the novelty factor, so you can decide:

Do you actually want that food? or
Has it just been a forbidden/restricted food?

Over the past few years, our family has slowly put those “forbidden foods” back into the pantry. Sometimes it takes a while to lose the novelty factor. And then one day, I’ll be cleaning out the pantry and notice that these foods are either stale or still sitting there unopened. 🤯 It has been a very interesting process. Now, when I’m really wanting chocolate, I know it’s right there waiting on me and I’ll buy a new bar when that one is gone.

How have you experienced habituation? Does keeping particular foods in your house feel scary?

FULL BODY PUSH…

…with a focus on upper body. I used to be under the impression that if I lifted weights or did anything other than cardio, I would “bulk up” like the Incredible Hulk. 😂

I’m here to tell you that’s not true! I’m not sure why society has given women this narrative that if we do some resistance training, we’re going to look like the Rock. Lol. That’s just not going to happen. Yes, you might build a little muscle mass but is that not the point?

Resistance training has so many other benefits!!
💪🏻 Helps bone density
💪🏻 Boosts metabolism
💪🏻 Decreases risk of injury
💪🏻 Improves muscle endurance
💪🏻 Makes you stronger

And also.. what’s so wrong with looking like the Rock? Skinny doesn’t always equal healthy.

The Deets:
⚡️Push-ups
⚡️Push-up to Push Back
⚡️Knee Push-up to Child’s Pose
⚡️Single Leg Tricep Dips
⚡️Alternating Single Leg Taps
⚡️Superman to Row
Try 10 each, for 3 rounds

Let me know how it goes!