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“Corona-Fit”: Maintaining Your Personal Fitness in the Age of Coronavirus

By Concita Thomas| 2020-04-15T09:14:01-07:00 April 15th, 2020|Mindset Articles, Podcast, Weight Loss Advice|

Sports are cancelled. Graduations are cancelled. In per [...]

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Secrets for Endless Meal Variety & Actually Liking the Meals that Deliver Results

By Concita Thomas| 2020-03-02T12:35:13-07:00 March 2nd, 2020|Nutrition Articles, Podcast|

  I know you may not want to hear this but that list of [...]

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Figure Friendly Eating: What it Is & Why You Need it to Lose Weight and Feel Great

By Concita Thomas| 2020-02-19T11:39:42-07:00 February 19th, 2020|Nutrition Articles, Podcast|

Ever feel like your healthy eating efforts aren't produ [...]

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Meal Mistakes that Well Meaning Healthy Eaters Make on Their Weight Loss Journey

By Concita Thomas| 2020-02-19T12:02:44-07:00 February 11th, 2020|Nutrition Articles, Podcast, Weight Loss Advice|

  "I eat healthy, but I can't seem to lose weight". Hav [...]

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How to Thrive on Your Weight Loss Journey During the Holiday Season

By Concita Thomas| 2019-12-10T10:39:43-07:00 December 10th, 2019|Podcast, Weight Loss Advice|

We know that balancing all of the moving pieces involve [...]

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Why “Everything in Moderation” Isn’t Working on Your Weight Loss Journey

By Concita Thomas| 2019-10-29T07:20:26-07:00 October 29th, 2019|Podcast, Weight Loss Advice|

  We've all heard the saying "everything in moderation" [...]

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Why Cheat Days and Lasting Weight Loss Don’t Mix

By Concita Thomas| 2019-10-23T10:13:27-07:00 October 23rd, 2019|Podcast, Weight Loss Advice|

On the surface, a regularly scheduled cheat day may see [...]

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How to Make Filling Meals So That You Don’t Have to Fight Hunger

By Concita Thomas| 2019-10-14T16:12:38-07:00 October 14th, 2019|Nutrition Articles, Podcast|

So many of us have suffered through hunger and cravings [...]

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How to Stop Quitting After Getting Initial Weight Loss Results

By Concita Thomas| 2019-10-02T13:05:50-07:00 September 24th, 2019|Podcast, Weight Loss Advice|

It’s easy to understand why someone quits when they are [...]

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One Overlooked Reason that We Struggle with Exercise and Eating Consistency & How to Change it for Better Results

By Concita Thomas| 2019-09-18T04:48:44-07:00 September 18th, 2019|Mindset Articles, Podcast, Weight Loss Advice|

  One of the most popular barriers to lasting results i [...]

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What happens when two recipes from my book come to What happens when two recipes from my book come together. Can you believe that THIS is Figure Friendly food? It was sooooooo good. Yum 😋 Please don’t let anyone convince you that eating for pleasure and eating for health can’t coexist. They can. Do you know how to combine the two? Or, does it feel like you have to choose? 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Here’s why waiting for the perfect time or waiti Here’s why waiting for the perfect time or waiting to get it just right is a trap. . Consistent action is rarely perfect because it’s done again and again AND again. At some point, the action is less than perfect, but it gets done. You still move the needle. . Perfect action takes a lot of energy- mental and physical. Unless you have only one job to do in life, that energy will need to be shared. It will be nearly impossible to summon enough energy to execute perfectly again and again. . No need to wait for the perfect tune or the perfect way. Do it imperfectly, but KEEP doing it.
Fierce Friends, can we talk about trying to lose w Fierce Friends, can we talk about trying to lose weight and stay (or get healthy) while being black? . Yes? Great! . I can remember when my struggle with my weight began. I was a student at an Ivy League university that had won several culinary awards for their cafeteria food. I had heard horror stories about cafeteria food but wasn’t worried because ...hello... culinary awards. . You can imagine my surprise when I set foot in the cafeteria evening after evening only to discover food that I didn’t recognize. If it weren’t for the labels, I would have had no clue what was being offered many nights. . Why? Because the food was not CULTURALLY FAMILIAR! . In my house, cooked chicken wasn’t white (seasoning please). Quinoa and couscous were not the starches we served. And, our cooked vegetables were soft. They don’t resemble warm salad. Don’t get me wrong, I had plenty experience with dining out - including expensive restaurants - but this food was not MY food. . Needless to say, I often ate things I recognized. Hello burgers, fries, pizza, ice cream. These were things we ate every now and then at home. However, since collard greens, cabbage, pot roast and the likes weren’t in the rotation, I started surviving on what would be considered snack food. And, of course, there was lots of nightly snacking on junk food because the type of meals I was eating don’t keep you full for long even though they pack a ton of calories. . It didn’t take long for the pounds to add themselves to my once wiry frame. Despite my diet attempts (more on that later) in my junior year, I STILL graduated wearing a size that was THREE TIMES the size I wore when I arrived on campus freshman year. . As for dieting, I didn’t know what I didn’t know. I never questioned the sustainability of various programs. I just followed “expert” advice and figured that would do the trick. . It did. As long as I abandoned MY FOOD. The food on the diet plans looked a lot like what I found in the cafeteria. Most foods that were culturally familiar were “cheat foods”. . So, I had a choice to make. Lose weight and maintain my health OR embrace what was culturally familiar. . I’m sure you (cont’d in the comments)
Hello, Fierce Friends. . There are quite a few new Hello, Fierce Friends. . There are quite a few new friends here, so I’m reintroducing myself. . I’m Concita Thomas, The Food & Fitness Strategist. I help women, near their 40s and beyond, on a weight loss journey create lasting results without giving up the food they like, tracking and counting food, or living in the gym. . My passion for doing so comes from my own struggle with my weight- both struggling to lose weight and struggling to find an enjoyable way to eat and live after I had lost weight. The whole story is in episode 1 of my podcast (link in bio). . It took a long time to figure out how to end this struggle and honestly, I’m not sure if it would have ever happened without becoming a mom. Something about becoming responsible for another human helps you give up extremes- out of necessity. . Following the exact approach that I teach my clients, I lost 63 pounds while running a business, taking care of my newborn, and keeping that good wife status WITHOUT tracking calories or macros, giving up my beloved dessert, and spending 67% LESS time working out. . While all of that was exciting as can be what was better was ✅ Not obsessing over food ✅ Having the brain space to grow my business . So, now you know who I am, what I do, and why I do it. . I’d love to know a little more about you. Fire away. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
It is not OK. WE are not OK. #blackouttuesday It is not OK. WE are not OK. #blackouttuesday
No carbs. Why? . No meat. Because what? . Listen, No carbs. Why? . No meat. Because what? . Listen, their rules have nothing to do with YOU! . Sure, there are some basics that work for 99.9% of the people, but everything else is highly individual. . Start with eating the foods that fill you up with minimal calories (veggies, water, etc).. . Add the foods that keep you fuller longer. . Figure out how much starch and fat you can get away with while looking and feeling how you want to look and feel. . Get strategic about incorporating the indulgent foods you like without jacking up the “look and feel how you like” factor. . Ignore everything else. . Chances are your style of eating won’t fit neatly into any one box because it will be unique- just like YOU. . That’s OK. Your eating style doesn’t have to fit neatly into a box to work for you. . I’m curious 🤔🤔🤔... . How many different food approaches have you tried? . Have you created one that works for YOU?
Feeling like it is not a requirement for doing it. Feeling like it is not a requirement for doing it... . For me today, that was a workout. . Some days it’s the extra sleep . . Other days it the rest. . Sometimes it just comes down to doing it until it becomes a habit. . One of the ways that I make that feasible is turning it into a game. A “don’t break the streak” or “beat the last streak” type of thing. . How do you trick yourself into doing what you know you ultimately want to do?
I’m seeing a lot of “the struggle is real” p I’m seeing a lot of “the struggle is real” posts on my timeline as the pandemic and shelter in place linger. . Here’s the thing about struggling though... . Trying harder when it’s not working - trying to do more when doing less isn’t working - is like trying to fight your way out of quicksand. . You sink deeper faster. . While it’s natural to want to be done with a struggle, the most efficient way out is one step at a time. . It may seem pointless to drink that glass of water while also downing cookies like nobody’s business, but it’s not. . Our actions have a ripple effect. Each thing we do in favor of the result we want is a nod to ourselves that we mean it- it’s not just a thought. . Soon, one action follows another and what used to be so hard is actually the norm. . Start smaller. . Keep building.
If I'm being honest, I'd have to admit that I had If I'm being honest, I'd have to admit that I had no idea that we'd still be sheltering in place a month after this all started. While I held firmly to some daily norms, I let others slide because I naively thought this was only temporary. I was wrong, and letting go of some of those norms came wit a price. Now I'm layering on the things I let go that I know make me feel and perform my best. I'm having more and more conversations with ladies who are trying to figure out what is looks like to settle into this new normal. How they can still feel good even though In my latest podcast episode, I shared my perspective on how we can all maintain our personal fitness in the age of coronavirus. You can check it out at the link in my bio 👉🏽@concitathomas I'm curious... are there any personal fitness practices that you're working to add back to your weekly rhythm?
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