100% Real With Ruby; nutrition, strength, fat loss, muscle, macros - without the fluff

There were so many avenues to take the conversation and it almost seems like we only scratched the surface. Suffice to say, we're all working from completely different foundations when it comes to how we approach self-improvement.

THIS MESSAGE IS ONE I FEEL I SAY OVER AND OVER - look FORWARDS not backwards - you are not going that way 

FAILURE IS PART OF SUCCESS and it BREEDS success - REVOLUTIONARY YOU PODCAST EPISODE

Ruby Cherie doesn’t just have a lot of knowledge but years of real world clinical experience in the health and fitness space. We get into the biggest mistakes females make when it comes to dieting, creating positive habits, eliminating self doubt, lifestyle factors that need to be addressed and a ton more.

Find Jason's podcasts at https://revolutionaryyou.libsyn.com/podcast  Ruby Cherie returns as my next guest for our newest 4-part series on the show. She was previously on Episodes 96 and 213 which I definitely recommend you check out as well. In this first part, we conquer the reasons why you would benefit from focusing on health before focusing on getting smaller at all costs. Within that, we discuss better sleep, better self-talk, a focus on getting stronger and a focus on challenging yourself with new goals. To learn more about Ruby: www.facebook.com/Rubyreneecherie www.instagram.com/rubycherie.coachingspecialist To learn more about your host: www.jasonleenaarts.com www.revfittherapy.com www.facebook.com/jason.leenaarts www.instagram.com/jasonleenaarts You can also like our Facebook page at: www.facebook.com/revolutionaryou To purchase my book, "A Revolution A Day": www.amzn.to/2R9Larx

From Mark Zarate's podcast - https://coolcalmchaotic.libsyn.com/bring-color-to-the-rest-of-your-life-w-ruby-cherie-194  This Episode Is A Travel Around The World To Beautiful Australia Where We're Joined By Health & Fitness Coach Ruby Cherie As She Drops Bombs of Health, Wellness, and Goodness On Us. Ruby Is A Coach That Has A Grip On The Realities of Weight Loss, Maintenance, Fitness, Etc. and How There's A Lot More That Goes Into It Than Macros & Exercises.  Ruby Covers Everything From Having Empathy, Understanding Personal Histories, Her Own Journey, The Progression of Different Situations, Creating Stepping Stones, Coloring Your Life, Clean Eating & Context, Hiking, Cupcake Batter, and Much Much More! But As Usual There's A Whole Lotta Other Ramblings and It's An All Around Good Time! So Stick Around, You’re Gonna Love It! Topics Include… ✔️ What's Made Ruby Happy Recently ✔️ Overcoming Many Struggles To Gain Empathy ✔️ Understanding The Hardships Makes Progress More Possible ✔️ Scripted Plans Might Not Fit Real Human Beings With Complete Lives ✔️Focusing On More Than Only The Negatives, Highlighting The Positives ✔️ Balancing Being Strict With Yourself and Letting It All Go Because It's Easy ✔️Keeping Your Flavors Simple After Knowing Yourself Better ✔️Mixing Up Your Health & Fitness That Fits Your Lifestyle ✔️Adding Color To The Rest of Your Life ✔️We All Need To Zoom Out At Times ✔️The Batter Is Better, Back Squats, Squidward, Mountain Hiking, & Much More!

Ditch the all or nothing mindset & be COMMITTED to the PROCESS EMBRACE PATIENCE. Take the emotion out of your decisions. Your body has many ways of maintaining a set or settling point based on the lifestyle you have lived up until now. It is so important to SOLIDIFY HABITS and realises the results and progress you get outside of numbers. It is more difficult to unlearn habits than learning new ones, so it is so important to create an environment that serves you - the PEOPLE you surround yourself with, your food environment etc - if you see cake and cookies out on the counter, bets are on you eating those. Make it SERVE YOU and make maintaining your results easier. Your body FIGHTS change. Thats why so many people experience plateaus and frustrations. YOU NEED TO FUEL FOR THE BODY YOU WANT. Maintenance in itself is a SKILL!! UNDERSTAND YOUR HUNGER - is it real or hedonic?? How can you make this easier? Avoid the cafeteria or buffet effect - Avoid tastebudgasms with a million different flavours. HOW CAN YOU MAKE SOMETHING LESS WORSE You WILL become more food focused as you lose more body fat so you have to make it easier for yourself; Yes, your habits will need to be in place in this time - but the grit needed wont be the same to maintain as it was to lose the weight in the first place because you are BECOMING that person. This is why it is so so important to focus on the process. Motivation is fickle. You need to be COMMITTED to the person you want to become and the life you want to live. DITCH THE ALL OR NOTHING MINDSET and focus on progress outside of the scale. ABOVE ALL - know that you will fail, you will struggle, and you will fu*k up. Thats inevitable - so be prepared to work through that and not approach it with the all or nothing mentality. What can you REALISTICALLY do right now to “do or be less shit”

Success mindset. This is the mindset that you need to have to achieve what you want to achieve in life. ..... 1. Know who you want to be and how you want to actually feel. 2. Realise that you need to actually become someone new to achieve your goals because way too often we stay stuck in our comfort zone. 3. This is actually where 97% of people push-up against resistance because they stop before they push through. ... our minds is malleable and we can rewire it to form a new identity and a new belief system 4. I want that but I have no idea how I'm going to achieve that so I need to mould this person this character so that not only do I believe but I can now put in the tools and strategies to achieve.

You are stuck in a cycle? You feel overwhelmed by the process? Impatient for the results? Wondering if what you are doing is right? Wondering why nothing sticks?  Why you lose motivation and drive? Why you are struggling along the way? Why it feels like you are trying all the things but still not getting anywhere? "YOUR BIGGEST HURDLE TODAY, IS THE STORY YOU KEEP TELLING YOURSELF - AND TOMORROW? IT WILL BE YOUR BELIEF IN THAT STORY THAT IS HOLDING YOU BACK!" How you think about yourself and the environment around you is a big predicator of your outcomes! Your thoughts & how you FEEL about yourself IMPACTS YOUR BEHAVIOURS which not only SHAPE your identity – but take you closer or further away from your dreams, goals and desires. If your internal beliefs don't line up with your actions and what you WANT - there will always be a "helpless" feel of struggle. its like a child learning to walk.  first you must learn to crawl, fall, crawl, fall - walk, crawl, fall, until you can walk. and then you can run before you fall and get back up again. but once you can do that, you can then go onto other things like climbing a couch, digging into the playdough and sticking your hand in a fish tank. You unlocked a new level where you now have to learn what you can and cant do and the process continues - much like how you start off your health and fitness journey. You can have the "perfect" diet and training, but how can you expect to stick to it if you haven't yet done the "un-sexy" ground work of getting to know these values and beliefs that hold you back? Of digging into what it is that you need to drive you forward even when shit gets tough! Because you have to develop the GRIT, you have to stick it through the hard stuff and do uncomfortable things without giving in at the first sign of struggle!! You need to push through the dip to get to where you want to be - be it if you are heading in the right direction and not something that's going to cost more than its worth in the end. But you, your LONGTERM HEALTH & FITNESS - you are worth it. YOU CAN DO HARD THINGS. You just have to unlearn all the dysfunctional patterns in favour of ones that SERVE YOU & act as a spring board for even more to come - on your journey of becoming your BEST you! "Dig for the golden nuggets Understanding how and why we do what we do can be as lifechanging as finding nuggets of gold. There is always a DIP. Learn to push past your temporary PAIN or PLEASURE but also understand when the deck isn't in your favour!"    Stephen Dallas - @definebysyd We spoke about the Barretts personal values assessment which you can find at https://www.valuescentre.com/tools-assessments/pva/

WE SHAPE our lives, our situations, our results TO OUR BELIEFS!   change the way you look at things and the things you look at change  watch how you talk to yourself