At Risk and Overweight

Feeling stressed? Know you’re not alone. We all inevitably have stress in our lives, and we need to manage stress in healthy ways while also staying productive. On today’s podcast, Daria Tsvenger joins us. Daria is a mindset coach and has also studied cognitive neuroscience at Stanford University. Daria has a unique program called The Dream Sprint, a personal growth challenge that people gain clarity and pursue their dreams.

 

Next Steps

Wherever you are today, I want to challenge you to take the next small step that will lead you to where you want to go. Daria’s Dream Sprint program could be a great way to get some support and accountability as you move forward. We all need support and encouragement. Once you have those, you also have hope. And hope is a very powerful thing. That’s why I make this podcast. So I want to encourage you to keep taking intentional small steps as you are on your journey. 

Step into your greatness by taking action with intention and purpose.

Ryan Stanley, a Certified Personal Coach, dives into the driving force behind living life without fear and on your terms. He talks about the impact of stress and anxiety on the mind, the body, and life. Taking steps toward change will make you the creator of your dreams.

Ryan delves into the importance of shifting your mindset, pushing through negative self-talk, and utilizing your time intentionally. He talks about building patience and pushing through the stress to increase your level of success.

 

What you’ll learn:

• Living on purpose doesn’t happen by accident. 
• The Doc Brown Theory 
• The first step to overcoming negative self-talk. 
• Dealing with the mindset and taking the first step. 
• Be Patient, Be Present, Be Joyful: A First Aid Kit for the Emotional Bumps, Scrapes, and Bruises of Life

More about Ryan M Stanley:

• Website: https://www.ryanstanley.com/be-patient-be-present-be-joyful
• Website: https://www.ryanstanley.com/free-ebook 
• Website: http://teachmetocoach.com 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rms_ryanstanley/ 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmslifecoach/ 
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/RMS_RyanStanley 
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RMS.Life.Coach/ 

 

Recommended Reads:

• “Be Patient, Be Present, Be Joyful: A First Aid Kit for the Emotional Bumps, Scrapes, and Bruises of Life” By Ryan Stanley
• “Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself” By Dr. Joe Dispenza. 

I've been absent here for a while, and part of that is because I "fell off the wagon." It started as a planned cheat day that turned into a cheat 3-week period. I had gained 8-9 pounds of the 18 I lost, and it felt defeating. But I have since lost 4, so I have 5 pounds to get back to my weight a month or so ago.

We've all heard the mantra for weight loss:

"Eat less, move more."

While this does play some role, what really affects weight loss is insulin.

It can get easy to struggle, get frustrated, or give up if you don't have accountability with your goals. This is true for health goals as much as with anything. Today I want to share a conversation I had with my mastermind group last week.

Travel (and many other things) can disrupt our schedules and routines. If we don't have good habits around our health, these changes can cause us to derail our health goals.

"The One Thing" (great book!) shares the study that it takes an average of 66 days to establish a habit. As a result, they created a free 66-day challenge calendar to help you (and me) track our progress.

Keto is short for Ketogenic diet. It is a low-carb, high-fat diet that allows ketones to be produced.

So, you are basically drastically reducing the amount of carbs that to take in, neglecting your body the direct sugar it’s looking for. When you do this, your body doesn’t create insulin to process the food, so the body creates ketones from your fat cells to produce the energy it needs. Hence, the ability to burn fat and lose weight.

n February, I went to the doctor, and, for the first time ever, I talked with him about getting my weight under control. 

One diet I had tried before, and had good success while I was on the diet, was the Keto diet. I’m planning on talking about this in a future episode, but it’s basically a low carb diet. My doctor said that it was a good idea to follow that diet, but also for me to try intermittent fasting.

I've been working on this, but I've been having struggles.

As I just mentioned in the introduction, my name is Joshua Rivers, and this podcast is basically an audio journal of my journey back to better health.

To be truthful, though, I’ve never really been healthy - I just had a high metabolism until my mid-twenties that caught up to me. I went from 190 pounds in early 2008 to 294 pounds in early 2020.

I’m basically on a journey to lose almost 100 pounds and get my overall health away from being “at risk” as much as possible.