Weight loss is the most common thing new clients mention when I ask about why they want to work with a personal trainer. I hear it from all women, regardless of their size. Why is it that we, as women, constantly strive to be smaller? To shrink and take up less space?

Your ideal weight is the one where you can live your life. Where you can enjoy food without fear, exercise because it feels good, and use your brain for more important things than calculating calories. Those “extra pounds” you regularly fixate on losing — that is where your body naturally wants to be — that is YOUR LIFE! You do not have to spend it constantly trying to take up less space.