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Pura Vida Health, Grand Rapids, MI (2025)

01/01/2025

Last run of the year. And it’s around the base of an active volcano. 🌋

For those of you already feeling grief over what you didn’t accomplish this year, or anxiety over what you’ll face in this next year, I want you to remember these things:

1. There is no deadline for achieving your best health. There is no finish line. There is no end zone. These are made-up things. The only time that exists is the one moment you’re living in right now. Let the past go - it’s gone. Stop living in the future - it doesn’t exist yet. Embrace the moment you’re in right now, and ask yourself how you can make it SO, SO good for you and your health.

2. There is no ‘new year, new you,’ and there is no ‘old year, old you.’ There is only ‘different year, different you.’ Allow yourself to evolve continuously, every day, every moment, WITHOUT JUDGMENT of mind, and of heart. This year isn’t new, and neither are you. It’s just…. different. Nothing is good or bad. Nothing is right or wrong. It’s just different. And you’re here for it.

3. Strive for contentment, not happiness. Happiness is the opposite of sadness; both are extremes and neither are terribly useful. Contentment, on the other hand, is the promise land. Strive for contentment - the neutral space - that lives between these two extremes, where there is neither sadness nor happiness, but much calm and peace. Buddha said so, so just do it.

Feliz Año Nuevo from CR 🇨🇷, to my friends, family, and clients around the world. I wish you incredible health, peace, and clarity in this next year.

PURA VIDA 🌺

Coach Angie

11/28/2024

FREE GUIDE: MY TOP 10 SECRETS TO WEIGHT HAPPINESS (link in bio)

Today marks the 8th Thanksgiving since I lost 105 pounds, back in 2017. And here's what I want you to know:

For these last 8 Thanksgivings, I have eaten and drunk whatever I wanted to, without rules, plans, limitations, restrictions, trade-offs, or bartering of any kind.

And I still lost the weight. And I have still kept the weight off.

AND YOU WILL, TOO.

Your body is damn smart. It can up-regulate and down-regulate metabolic performance with every single bite of food you take. There is NO POSSIBILITY of your body not being able to deal with whatever curveballs you throw it today. So Let. It. Go. Hit the pause button. Enjoy the foods you love, enjoy the people you're with, take what looks delicious to you, and pass on the things you could care less about. Be mindful about what you want, be mindful about what you don't need, and then go after it. Give yourself permission to create the Thanksgiving experience that is special to you.

Tomorrow, we resume.

🙏 Coach Angie

11/28/2024

FREE GUIDE: MY TOP 10 SECRETS TO WEIGHT HAPPINESS (link in bio)

Today marks the 8th Thanksgiving since I lost 105 pounds, back in 2017. And here's what I want you to know:

For these last 8 Thanksgivings, I have eaten and drunk whatever I wanted to, without rules, plans, limitations, restrictions, trade-offs, or bartering of any kind.

And I still lost the weight. And I have still kept the weight off.

AND YOU WILL, TOO.

Your body is damn smart. It can up-regulate and down-regulate metabolic performance with every single bite of food you take. There is NO POSSIBILITY of your body not being able to deal with whatever curveballs you throw it today. So Let. It. Go. Hit the pause button. Enjoy the foods you love, enjoy the people you're with, take what looks delicious to you, and pass on the things you could care less about. Be mindful about what you want, be mindful about what you don't need, and then go after it. Give yourself permission to create the Thanksgiving experience that is special to you.

Tomorrow, we resume.

🙏 Angie

07/24/2024

FREE GUIDE: MY TOP 10 SECRETS TO WEIGHT HAPPINESS (link in bio)

'I CAN'T HAVE THAT.' It's a myth. A lie. One of the many false narratives our former self tells us in an attempt to keep us solidly rooted in our own ways. It's safe there. Perhaps unhealthy, perhaps a place where we don't feel good physically, or about ourselves, but at least it's known, and familiar.

The reality is, there's never been 'I can't have that.' The power of choice never left us. It was always there - hiding in plain sight. Recognizing it, believing in it, and designing our nutrition and movement around that power of choice is how we achieve the health and the weight loss outcomes we want. That power of choice feeds the idea of strategic selection, the concept of: I want to say yes to this, ergo, I'm choosing to say no to that.'

We always had it. It never left us. And it will always be there.

Are you with me? ❤️🌿

07/23/2024

FREE GUIDE: MY TOP 10 SECRETS TO WEIGHT HAPPINESS (link in bio)

Did you know that you already follow a diet whether you’re ‘on’ one, or not?

A diet is something we have. It’s a noun. It is not a verb, despite what Diet Culture has conditioned us to believe, nor is it some temporary torment we put ourselves through because Spring Break is around the corner.

If you eat, you have a diet.

Having a successful diet is being in charge of it. Being in control of it. Our diet should be a deliberately and intentionally designed relationship with food that supports our health goals. It should help us arrive at the weight we want, the body we want, and the blood sugar levels we want. It should help us feel happy, safe, comforted, and peaceful. It should make us feel productive, strong, energetic, and proud. It should fit into our budgets and feel simple to manage. It should be something we run in the background, without it taking center-stage, or being in our faces all the time.

How well is your diet working for you? Is it checking off all your boxes? Is it helping you achieve your health and weight goals? Is it making you feel happy and productive? It should be. It absolutely should be. ❤️🌿

Are you ready to have a conversation about how to make your diet work better for you? It’s time to make your diet work smarter, not harder. DM me and let me know your thoughts. Let’s chat.

07/19/2024

FREE GUIDE: MY TOP 10 SECRETS TO WEIGHT HAPPINESS (link in bio)

It's been a hot minute since I've been on the 'gram; I've been up to no good! 😜

Recently, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Pamela Keim of Grand Tap Media, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We explored all things weight loss, HEALTH GAIN, and nutrition for women.

Take a peek at the interview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfWSOCwwfRE&t=63s ...
..and learn more about how you can silence all the conflicting nutrition noise out there, and get clear and focused on your health and weight goals!

05/09/2024

FREE GUIDE: MY TOP 10 SECRETS TO WEIGHT HAPPINESS (link in bio)

Big food companies are getting desperate. Their new product development pipelines are running dry as consumers get smarter about their diets and re-direct their dollars to ‘healthier’ alternatives. Problem is, ‘healthy’ means about a million things to a million different people, which continues the widespread confusion in the marketplace about what truly healthy food is. The response to all of this has been the launch of new, niche food companies and new food brands that claim to deliver those ‘healthier’ alternatives, but the truth is, THEY DON’T.

There is no lab, in a large OR small food company, that can formulate and manufacture a food better than nature can. This is a universal truth. And this universal truth is often the key differentiator between a woman’s ability to successfully and permanently lose excess body fat, and her burden of struggling with excess weight forever. Food education is key. Informing ourselves is the #1 best thing we can do to protect our health and our weight. If you want healthy, sustainable weight loss, here’s what to do:

1. Grocery-shop with a list.
2. Buy only what’s on your list.
3. Make sure that 80% of the things on your list grew, walked, or swam.
4. Make sure the other 20% are as minimally-processed as possible.
5. When you see something that wasn’t on your list, read the list of ingredients, know the ingredients, be critical of them, and use the food product to challenge yourself to identify a nature-based alternative to buy instead. ❤️🌿

04/22/2024

FREE GUIDE: MY TOP 10 SECRETS TO WEIGHT HAPPINESS (link in bio)

Weight loss is hard, and becoming the future version of ourselves is hard. But there are many things we can do to set ourselves up for success with both. Cultivating a constructive and supportive mindset that encourages us to follow our healthy habits every day is one of those things. Here are 4 things that can help you cultivate this mindset:

1️⃣ Choose Progress over Perfection. You are not setting a bar of perfection. Perfection is a fallacy. It does not exist. You'll end up spending all day, every day, trying to make food and movement decisions in support of an end-state that you'll never reach. All that truly matters in a health journey is advancement. Work toward progress. Celebrate progress. Your job isn't to attain 'perfection.' Your job is to do things in support of your health and your weight that are a little bit better than the day before. 1% more everyday is all you need.

2️⃣ Choose Persistence over Patience. The difference between these is monumental and not talked about enough. Persistence is active. Patience is passive. Persistence is working your plan. Patience is waiting - and hoping - for your plan to produce outcomes. You are not waiting. You are not hoping. You are working your plan. You are making change. You are persistent. You are actively creating change.

3️⃣ Choose Consistently over Constantly. Your body is both resilient and forgiving. Making decisions in support of your health and weight goals to the tune of 100%/0% is both unrealistic and unnecessary. Pick a different ratio - 60/40, 70/30, 80/20, 90/10, whatever FEELS best to you mentally, socially, emotionally, and physically, and then stick to it over the long-term. Like, for months.

4️⃣ Choose Purpose over Pleasure. This one is a bit of a misnomer. Pleasure is critically important in our food and movement choices - we need to eat what we love, and move our bodies in ways we love. But we need to be purposeful about our choices, FIRST. Be BOTH purposeful AND love how you eat and move, and you'll be on your way to finding your weight happiness solution forever. ❤️🌿

04/13/2024

FREE GUIDE: MY TOP 10 SECRETS TO WEIGHT HAPPINESS (link in bio)

Here's your weight-happy Lunch of the Week: 🌿 PRAWN, AVOCADO AND GRAPEFRUIT SALAD (Salade des Îles) 🌿

When I lived in Paris, there was a little corner bistro directly across from my office that had this salad on their menu. I ate it nearly every day for lunch for over a year. There's something magical about the combination of the tart grapefruit and the creamy avocado together. And large shrimp - steamed, broiled, baked, grilled, chilled, whatever - is just the icing on the cake. I use baby spinach for my greens, but anything works. Go simple: buy already cooked shrimp, make your dressing in a batch, divide everything out into separate containers so that lunch is an easy grab-and-go. And if there's anything here you don't like it, sub it! Use lobster, crab, or rotisserie chicken for the meat, or oranges instead of grapefruit.

Here's my recipe for the Champagne Vinaigrette: emulsify 1 tsp of Dijon mustard with 2 Tbsp of Champagne Vinegar with an immersion blender in a pint-sized Mason jar. Slowly drizzle in 1/4 cup EVOO while your immersion blender is running. You need about 10 seconds for the dressing to go 'thick,' then stop or the emulsification may break. Add 1 tsp Coconut Aminos, or low-sodium Tamari, 1/8 tsp Salt, and a pinch of freshly-ground Black Pepper. Garnish with fresh chives.

Weight loss is supposed to taste good, feel good, and look good, friends. All the time. This one should be on your lunch plan this week! ❤️🌿

03/28/2024

FREE GUIDE: MY TOP 10 SECRETS TO WEIGHT HAPPINESS (link in bio)

🌿 RULES 🌿

I know, I know, we are paralyzed by this word. But hear me out...

RULES are not actually this punishing, restrictive, prohibitive thing that we think they are. RULES are nothing more than guidelines we use to make decisions. They provide structure. Governance. Oversight.

If our food rules have been designed in a way that support our health and weight goals, they will never feel punishing, restrictive, prohibitive, or cruel. They may feel challenging, but that's because we designed them to create CHANGE.

Poorly designed food rules feel restrictive, depriving, and result in shame, guilt, and remorse when 'broken.' Properly-designed food rules create freedom. They create room for all of our favorite foods, and the space for us to meet our weight goals at the same time. Well-built food rules are empowering, enabling, and supportive of our weight journeys. ❤️🌿

How are your food rules working for you? If you're slaying your goals and feeling awesome about how you're doing it, then you've hit the nail on the head. But if you feel trapped, deprived, or are yo-yo-ing, your food rules may need tweaking. DM me. Let's chat.

In the meantime, which word for 'rules' feels and sounds the most neutral to you?

03/25/2024

FREE GUIDE: MY TOP 10 SECRETS TO WEIGHT HAPPINESS (link in bio)

It took me a looooong time to get comfortable going on vacation without the stress of worrying about how much damage control I was going to have to do when I got back. That thinking used to wreck my entire trip, and I hated that I couldn’t get rid of it. It was like a fog hung over me, and it robbed me of vacation-joy. Weight loss seems to go with you everywhere.

Part of healing is learning how to trust our self again, and that trust radically changes how we approach ideas like ’taking a break’ and ‘indulgence.' When we’re wrecked with worry over how we’re going to manage ourselves around vacation food, and how we’re going to recover when we get back, what’s really happening is we’re saying, ‘SELF, I DON’T TRUST YOU TO TAKE CARE OF ME, AND I DON’T TRUST YOU TO MAKE PURPOSEFUL AND INTENTIONAL DECISIONS FOR ME WHILE YOU’RE ON VACATION.’

But when the trust is restored, and we have confidence in our ability to take care of ourselves, no matter where we are or what the occasion is, vacations feel like any other day. Food choices come and go, movement decisions come and go, sleep decisions come and go, and you just do the things.

Old-Me used to treat vacations as occasions not just to splurge, but to let go entirely, binging at every meal and God-knows-what-in-between. New-Me enjoys the indulgence 1000%, but the balance I use today is closer to 70/30 than 100/0. I practice my Personal Health System 70% of the time, and the other 30% of the time involves exceptions.

I’ve put together a mini-guide that I hope you find helpful if you’re traveling next week. Perhaps the biggest reminder is this: TRUST yourself, to make purposeful and meaningful decisions most of the time, and GIVE YOURSELF permission to experience a few of your favorite pleasures here and there. ❤️🌿

So, where's everyone going this year?

Save this post for reference when you need some reminders next week!

03/22/2024

FREE GUIDE: MY TOP 10 SECRETS TO WEIGHT HAPPINESS (link in bio)

I have heard you loud and clear, friends: 'lunches are such a struggle for me. Give me ideas, Ang!'

I've got a gooooood one for you next week. My Cucumber, Tomato & Avocado Salad with Whipped Cottage Cheese is lunch-perfection for early spring. It's crunchy, sweet, sour, tangy, herby, creamy, and salty. It's no-cook, and takes just minutes to assemble. With rockstar nutrition and epic flavor - you won't get tired of this one even if you eat it everyday next week.

Weight loss should be simple, hit your nutrition goals, and taste good. The end. 🌿❤️

Save this post for prep this weekend, and tag a friend who's looking for a good lunch idea!

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