Jason Nutting

www.jasonnutting.com Nutrition Coaching, Personal Training, and Elite Accountability to help clients eat well, feel strong, and live lean - injury free.

03/18/2026

That 10PM urge? It’s not what you think. 🌙

At night, everything feels louder.
The fridge light starts calling you. 🧊
The cookie feels like the only option. 🍪
The wine feels like the only way to relax. 🍷
And somehow… your phone becomes impossible to put down. 📱

But here’s the truth no one tells you:

It’s not a lack of discipline. It’s an illusion. 🧠

Urges have one job
To make the moment feel permanent
To make choice feel like it’s gone

But it’s not.

Choice is still there
Just one layer deeper

The moment you pause ⏸️
The moment you name it 🏷️
The moment you choose encouragement over reaction 🤍

That’s where everything changes

You’re not losing control
You’re being given a chance to take it back 🔄

And every single time you do
You rewire yourself a little stronger 🧩

It doesn’t have to be this way

Save this for tonight 💾
And come back to it when it hits 🌙

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03/15/2026

Most people think conflict comes from other people.

But if you look closely, it usually comes from the conversation you start having with yourself after something happens.

Your inner dialogue speeds up.
You replay the moment.
You defend your position in your head.
You predict what might happen next.

What’s interesting is that these same voices don’t only show up in relationships.

They also sabotage our health goals.

The voice of judgment says:
“Why even bother?”

The voice of fear says:
“What if I fail?”

The voice of cynicism says:
“This never works anyway.”

Each voice captures part of reality.

But here’s the catch:

They lie by leaving things out.

And the moment you notice which voice is speaking, something important happens.

You’re no longer inside the reaction.

You’re observing it.

That’s the moment self-leadership returns.

I wrote a new article exploring this idea called:

“Who’s Holding the Microphone?”

If you’ve ever talked yourself out of a goal
or reacted in a way you later regretted,

this will probably resonate.

Link in my bio under Substack.

03/10/2026

Every year I try to do something meaningful outside the gym.

This year will be my fifth year raising money for children’s cancer research through CureSearch.

In a few months I’ll hike 21 miles through the Coastal Redwoods in one day to help fund research for kids fighting cancer.

This cause is personal to me.

Before my sister Jennifer passed away, she told me she wasn’t ready to die. She had more life she wanted to live.

That conversation never left me.

If there’s even a chance that research can give a child more time — more life — then I want to push for it.

My goal this year is to raise $7,500.

If you feel moved to support the hike, you can donate using the link below. Every contribution helps fund research for children facing cancer.

And if donating isn’t possible right now, sharing this post helps more than you know.

Link to donate:
give.curesearch.org/HikeForKids

Thank you for being part of this with me.

— Jason

03/08/2026

Your health goals don’t usually fail because of junk food.

They fail because of a voice in your head.

You’ve heard it before.

“I’ll start tomorrow.”

“I deserve a break tonight.”

“Do I really feel like doing this?”

That last one is the most dangerous.

Because hidden underneath it is another question:

“What about me?”

The psychologist Alfred Adler believed many of our struggles begin when life becomes centered around protecting the self.

Do I feel like it?
Is this fair?
Do I deserve this?

Once that mindset takes over, the mind becomes a negotiator.

And negotiation is where goals go to die.

But there’s a powerful pivot.

Instead of asking:

“What about me?”

Ask:

“What does the situation require?”

That one shift can change how you approach:

• workouts
• nutrition
• discipline
• life decisions

I wrote a short article explaining this idea.

You can read it here:

The Question Quietly Sabotaging Your Health Goals

Link is in the first comment

03/01/2026

There’s a moment most people miss.

It’s not when you “fall off.”

It’s the 10 seconds before.

You’re standing in the kitchen.
You’re about to say something you shouldn’t.
You’re about to skip something you said mattered.

You know the right move.

And then you don’t take it.

That moment isn’t about discipline.

Most people try to fix it by trying harder.

That works for a day.
Maybe a week.

But under pressure, you don’t rise to intention.
You fall to structure.

I wrote a piece breaking down exactly why knowing isn’t enough, and what actually governs behavior when it costs you.

If you’ve ever thought,
“I know better.”

Read this. The link is in the first comment.

02/26/2026

Wedding countdown: on
Excuses: off

Every rep is a vote for the woman she’s becoming.

Arms don’t just “tone.”
They’re built.carter

02/25/2026

Gravity filed a complaint.
She denied it.
Eight times.

02/15/2026

This is where most goals quietly die…

When it comes to behavior change, people rarely fail in one big dramatic moment.

They fail in small ones.

But psychologically, it doesn’t feel that way.

It feels like:

- “I fell off.”
- “I quit.”
- “I blew it.”
- “I messed everything up.”

The explosion is what we remember.

What we don’t see are the 27 subtle concessions that led there.

The quiet “it’s not that bad.”
The small relief-seeking decisions.
The moments no one else notices.

That’s where identity is shaped.

In today’s article, I break down:

- Why regulation isn’t about feeling better
- Why access to choice isn’t enough
- And how tiny concessions quietly train who leads your life

If you care about real transformation (not motivation spikes 😉) this one matters.

Where do you tend to make quiet concessions?

Read or listen to it. The link is in the first comment.

02/08/2026

There’s a pause between discomfort and default…
and it’s not calm or spacious.
It’s a fraction of a second.
Most of the time, you don’t even feel it. You only see it afterward.

That micro-moment is where real change is either trained or lost.

I wrote something this week that gets very specific about that moment…
not about forcing yourself to suffer,
not about mental toughness or fighting yourself.

It’s about learning how to stay present with discomfort just long enough to choose…
instead of handing authority back to whatever brings the fastest relief.

If you’ve ever thought:

• “I know better, but I still do it”
• “I start strong and fade under pressure”
• “Something keeps pulling me off course”

This will land.

👉 The Deliberate Discomfort Practice

The link is in my bio under Substack.

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