Jesse Stokes Coaching
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10/04/2026
If you’re trying to lose weight you’re going to need to pay attention to your energy intake.
And probably in a way that you never have before. Which can be confusing, and honestly, intimidating.
Now I don’t often recommend that you count your calories, mostly because I think that level of scrutiny is unnecessary for *most* people, and partly because I know that it can cause more problems than it solves.
Queue disordered eating…
But becoming mindful with your food choices is step number one to creating not only change, but lasting results.
Mindfulness around your eating and your food choices covers things like:
🥩eating more protein-rich foods
🥦 including more fruits and vegetables in your day
🥜 being aware of the more energy dense foods like nuts, oils, and other high-fat foods, and certain highly processed foods that often contain a lot of calories without necessarily bringing a lot of nutritional value with them.
Building this awareness gives you the ability to make better food choices related to your goals without having to follow a strict and often restrictive meal plan that typically accompanies a weight loss diet.
But this isn’t to say that you should always choose the lowest calorie option available to you, because your body still needs those calories to function.
Not to mention that if your diet is nothing but the lowest calorie foods you run the risk of certain macro- and micronutrient deficiencies because these foods are typically low in protein, carbohydrates, and fats, but you also risk constant constipation thanks to their high fiber content.
My hope is that you find the ideal balance for your lifestyle and your goals whereby the majority of your diet consists of foods similar to what’s on the larger plates, but that you still give yourself the freedom to enjoy the foods on the smaller ones.
Importantly, what’s not pictured here are foods that are particularly high in protein, such as beef, chicken, pork, fish, eggs, tofu and other soy products, as well as some dairy products like Greek yoghurt or cottage cheese.
Remember, a good weight loss approach starts with a high(er) protein intake.
There are so many things that come into play when we’re talking about getting better sleep and I’d need a 12 hour podcast to cover even half of them, but the things in this 3 minute clip are strategies that you can implement immediately, and at little to no cost to you.
I’m tired (pun intended) of better health and wellness being kept behind significant and often unrealistic paywalls.
Better living should not be something reserved to those who can afford upwards of $1000 a month to spend on coaching, supplements, various memberships, and expensive (often ineffective) therapeutic approaches.
Here’s the truth:
Some of you have more serious obstacles to becoming healthier… injuries, illnesses, autoimmune diseases and complications, and many other things.
Those things are their own unique situation and often require unique and specific (sometimes expensive) solutions..
But for many of you, you just need to know where and how to put the right amount of work in.
And a lot of that effort is free, or at least very inexpensive.
Start with what you see in the video and give it a few weeks to see how it works for you.
If you need more help, guidance, advice, and support, I do have an online coaching community that you can join for only $99 a month.
You can find a link to sign up at the link in my bio. And your first 14 days are free so you can sign up and see if you like it before you’re ever charged anything.
And yes, I do charge for it. Not what I used to, but I have to charge something…
After all, I have to keep the lights on too.
Just not too late and not too bright 😉
As always, remember to like, save, and share the video, and consider leaving a comment too! Any engagement helps me help someone else.
Thanks for being here!
If you have any questions you know where they go 👇
I don’t know who needs to hear this…
But it’s okay to do stuff that you’re bad at.
As someone who has been coaching full time for more than a dozen years, you can imagine just how many conversations I’ve had with people who are afraid to get started for a fear of getting it wrong, doing it incorrectly, or just not being great at something right out of the gate.
Better health and fitness is made up of dozens of skills and habits, and these are usually things that will be entirely new and unfamiliar to you.
Things like eating more protein, eating less processed foods, getting more sleep, walking more each day, lifting weights on a regular basis, creating better self care routines, or even just drinking more water.
These are all skills that need to be practiced and developed every single day. And you will be bad at them.
You will fail. Dozens, if not hundreds of times.
And that’s just a part of the process.
But you can fail without being a failure.
You see, in order to be great at something, you have to get good at it first.
And in order to even get good at something, you might have to suck for a while.
So get comfortable being uncomfortable.
Enjoy it. Learn from it. Grow from it.
I promise you that it’s worth the learning curve that comes with it.
Love yourself enough to try. Love yourself enough to fail.
And love yourself enough to try again.
You’ve got this.
I apologize for the on and off blurriness of this clip but I hope it helps!
If you have any questions please drop them down below.
And if you found this helpful, remember to like it, share it, save it, drop a comment, and/or send it to a friend.
I appreciate you being here!
