Jessi Greenlow

You can't 'scale' (improve, or optimize) something yr not doing yet. Start. Start small. Small & slow will soon become fast. Make what you're doing NOW sustainable.

"Don't just eat, eat right" he said. 🤔

🛑Ooohh....hold up. I have perspective here...listen up!👇

Another health coach threw up a post about how food can hurt you or heal you and I do belive that.
....But....
I don't believe there's a one size fits all plan. No cookie cutter bull s**t will work for everyone.

🔥💪There's a lot of nuance to this.

I am a master-level certified health coach with a focus on behavioral health and wellbeing. I believe in balance - especially while healing from disordered relationships to food and fitness. Ya know calling less and more nutrient dense foods good/bad or feeling like you have to "work off" your food or "earn" your food.

Dropped 120 lbs by eating for fuel AND fulfillment. Ended binge eating in less than a year, and stopped yoyoing after 2+ decades and it was due to moderation. Got incredible blood pannels ever since to prove my methods work without being extreme.

I don't believe in all-or-nothing behaviors.

I started a new group Over Scales: other health habits for happier humans. My mission is to ensure everyone feels safe, secure, healthy, and well living a life they love. It would be irresponsible to advocate for just one way of eating FOREVER. Especially when life had so many seasons of sunshine and storms.

Building a strong and supportive relationship with food opens up a whole new world.

Would love to have you step inside the group, practice your non scale victories with me and be around folks who want to learn moderation while hitting their healthgoals without fads, restrictions shoulds and shame.

We can do this together and create more joy along this journey without any of the disordered far left or far right bs from the health & wellness industry.

🔗in comments.

Drop a 🍾 in the comments to get my 7 Healthy Habits to Party on Purpose when You've got Goals resource. You can have your cake & eat it too.

What do you use for workout inspiration?


My workout today: was dedicated to my grandmother. My Nani.

This feels like A horse of a different color. In my experience when you search 'fitness motivation' or 'workout inspiration' all you see and hear are hard, sleek, muscular people grinding in the gym or side by side "before & after" pictures of weight loss.


🔥👉The hard bodies don't work for me anymore.


I'm so fu*king against before and after pictures FOR ME, FOR YOU, AND FOR OUR BABIES (ESPECIALLY OUR BABIES) and the narrative they imply. 𝙼𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛.


What works better than ever for me: is honoring THIS DAY, THIS MOMENT. (It's the only one we can count on).

..Honoring energy levels.
..Honoring gratitude.
..Honoring peace & joy.
..Honoring time.

🔥🫶Honoring those who might not be AS ABLE as me or you.

🔥💪Honoring yourself and all that you have been, who you choose to be now, and who you have yet to be.

🔥🤔Honoring perspective shifts.

Today is my 6th year vsg anniversary. The choice that has forever changed my life. Yes, surgery for weight loss was a decision because my doctor told me I was too unhealthy to carry a baby at 293 lbs. That I would be too much of a high risk to be "serviced" at my own doctor's office. Yes, it started like every other time I tried to lose weight before (extreme changes) but it's not about the 120 lbs that was lost and the 180° lifestyle changes that I actively choose daily. It's not about recent decisions to step up my nutrition (as I work with the fears that lume over a potential hereditary autoimmune disease). It's not just about being the role model I've always wanted to be. It's not about future endeavors of wanting to cross a 5k finish line when I'm 80 or put on my pants with ease when I'm 90.


𝗜𝘁'𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝘁. The harsh, the hard. the disappointment, the heavy, the sad, the rage, the scary, the neutral, the excitement, the joy, the adrenalin, the happy, the elation & total fulfillment.


For me: it's about the whole kit & kapoodle, and being able to create comfort amongst things that we allow to be uncomfortable or just foreign and unfamiliar - growing through what we go through. WITH PROGRESS and PRACTICE because perfection or trying to be perfect never got me (or anyone else I love dearly) to feel amazing in their pursuits and push off that feel-good feeling until they achieve their goals.


This isn't GROUNDBREAKING or earth-shattering news. In my mind, it doesn't even feel that profound. But the ability to think and feel differently about yourself amidst 'life's experiences is next level, otherworldly, and has allowed such peace and freedom from doing less and being so much more.

I used used think that every time I spoke, I was drama. Too much. Not good enough.

Now I know what a gift it is to be able to articulate how I think and feel even imperfectly.

...That's what changed my life.

...I'm not talking about NOT doing healthful habits, I'm talking about choosing a perspective that doesn't diminish your life or detract from it and supports living audaciously in all your forms.


We're going through some heavy s**t with my grandmother. Tears upon tears release as we navigate some of her health challenges, and decode and decide who we choose to be in these very delicate times. For her and ourselves.


For me, this perspective of honoring the moment and who we are being is what matters most. Sure visible abs can matter to some, but for me, they are just not as important as the ability to move without pain, eat without vomiting, and live without needing to be close to a doctor's office.


Today as tears stream down my face, I'm both sad and elated. For who I am choose to be in this moment, what I will do for myself, and the knowing with every fiber of being that I have this day, and the ability to move and breathe and live this life I love fully.


And so that's what I choose as inspiration.

Can you see and feel how that perspective could move the needle?


🔥🫶Who or what do you choose as your inspiration?

Want to be the kind of person that sticks to your plan?


The key is in your habits, the system you create and the meanings that you assign to why you're actually doing it in the first place, and your ability to soothe your feelings better.


"Getting started is the hardest part."


Only because you don't have the science behind motivational psychology and the simple steps to how habits become habits that we embody.


And let me let you in on a secret - it's not 21 days, 30 days, 90 days, or 300 days.


Want to make sure you have the map?


✨️It's a formula that strengths over repetition, started by a cue!


The cue triggers a craving, which motivates a response, which provides a reward, which satisfies the craving and, ultimately, becomes associated with the cue.

...Decide the reward.


And reverse engineer. Deliberately choosing the cue that gets you to take action.


Behavioral Health Habits aren't just "I want to lose weight so I take action" There's science, emotional intelligence, and mind-body mapping that allow you to be in, stay in a,nd stop yoyoing.


🤔What questions do you have about creating sustainable, attractive AF habits that really accelerate your success?

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JG

Choose * just * one health habit to focus on today and maybe another tomorrow. No one said you have to do it all at once.
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WHAT is the thing in your FITNESS that's got YOU saying, "YES I CAN do THAT!"

???

Just going to leave this right here.

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Real.

This! 💯‼️

Be inspired to share and celebrate your health, well-being and happiness in TRAILS OVER SCALES.

You are free to BE you and celebrate all you're capable of.

Join the mission for a bright future:
https://www.facebook.com/share/v8XLVHZwx4ewhLGU/?mibextid=A7sQZp

I've needed this a few times in the last couple of weeks.

Maybe you could use it too.

A REAL FLEX is being able to LOVE the LEVEL YOU'RE living TODAY.
J. G.

From not being able to walk up 6 steps w/out being winded to climbing 4k footers is a flex - putting trails over scales AND yourself first is the real deal!

Had this discussion over the weekend. How toddlers actually have EVERYTHING figured out.

-i known what i know
-Ill figure it out
-super curious
-The best defective
-i know I like it
-i know I don't like it.
-i ll do it
-i won't do it.
-you can't make me do anything.
-i love with my whole heart
-most everything is interesting
-so attuned to intuition
-blunt & straight forward

IF THE REST OF THE WORLD COULD BE 2 - THE WORLD WOULD BE A MUCH BETTER PLACE.

Perhaps this is supposed to be funny (maybe even sarcasti)..but where are all my HELLLLLLL YASSSSSS friends at!?

Because. Yes. THIS.

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Seek to understand without recklessly abandoning yourself. You just need to understand you.

Normalizing shifts and change and typical everyday stuff.
We decide WHAT IS WORTHY. If you've decided something is unworthy and now untrue, change that blueprint by changing that thought and deeming it worthy just by making a 1° shift. My bridge thought from "my content isn't sexy & i dont have anyhting worthy to share" is "I'm safe to show up just as I am." 🤪
I'm showing up IN EVERY FORM & version of myself, regardless of who likes it and who doesn't. I don't want to be trapped by that fear anymore, I don't want those thoughts to have power over what I say or do anymore.

💖Maybe you needed to hear that, maybe not. Let me know.

Cheers to the shifts that are happening.

🫶
JG

Strong is allowing yourself to be smart and savvy.

No longer needing to prove anything to anyone.

Taking your time with aligned action is sexy.

Do a little bit at a time.

Be strong, smart & savvy.

🤍Your soul's engery thanks you!

Not sorry.

What would you add?

I'd add - they use energetic alignment, preserve their peace, advocate for themselves, take rest routinely, meet their needs, take radical responsibility, uphold boundaries, ask for support, try after they've failed and celebrate wildly.

Facts!
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Just this.