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Help Your Fitness Clients Improve Their Decision-Making awareness behavior change brain science cbt coaching cognitive behavioral therapy goal achievement mindfulness mindset coach mindset shift personal development visualization Mar 03, 2023

Are you a fitness coach with clients struggling to make behavior changes that stick?

I, Coach Kasey, have a Ph.D. in psychology and am an expert when it comes to health behavior change. My favorite thing to do is teach coaches the skills necessary to help clients make lasting changes (and make...

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Feel More in Control of Food all or nothing behavior change daily mindfulness dieting flexible dieting growth mindset lifestyle change mindset shift thought patterns Jan 06, 2023

Here’s a mindset tip for you, if you want to feel more in control of your food choices, stop trying to control your food choices. 

Just when you thought you had figured this whole "dieting" thing out, I throw this at you. If you are reading this, I am betting that you are feeling a...

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How to Embrace a Growth Mindset behavior change evidence based fat loss fixed mindset growth mindset habits mindfulness mindset shift weight loss Aug 26, 2022

 

One of the coolest parts of being human is that you get to decide what things mean.

And what things mean to you makes all the difference in your happiness and success.

You can let other people, societal norms, and social media decide for you, but you don’t have to.

You can choose for...

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You Can Diet if You Want to calorie deficit calorie restriction dieting fat burning fat loss goal setting lifestyle change mindset shift weight loss Aug 19, 2022

 

Let’s say you choose to dive into a diet phase.

Do you have anyone in your life that would question you?

Like, “Why do you want to diet? Can’t you just love your body the way it is?”

That doesn’t feel good. Not to mention, it’s incredibly assumptive that...

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Eat Carbs and Lose Weight all or nothing calorie restriction dieting fad diet fad diets fixed mindset flexible dieting food lifestyle change macros mindset shift tracking macros Apr 22, 2022

When new clients come to us at KJO Coaching afraid to eat carbs, we aim to teach them that they can eat carbs and make progress. 

In fact, it’s a lot more than possible! Eating carbs is often necessary for our clients for two reasons: 

First, carbs are the body’s main source...

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Not Having Discipline is Making You Feel Guilty all or nothing bad habits behavior change breaking habits change control emotional eating failure fat loss lifestyle change mindfulness mindset shift negative thoughts positive thinking what the hell effect Sep 03, 2021

Having discipline when it comes to food can be challenging, especially if you’re an emotional eater. A lack of discipline can make you feel like you have no control over your actions and eating habits, leading to feeling guilty about eating certain foods and even binge eating. 

It...

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Your Mindset Affects Your Exercise Habits behavior change brain science change evidence based exercise exercise behaviors fitness mindset goal achievement growth mindset habits mindset mindset coach mindset research mindset shift motivation psychology research research Jul 25, 2021

Subtle citation flex coming at ya! You all know that I love sharing the science of healthy living with you, and today, I realized that while I share a lot of studies from other researchers, I rarely share my own. 

In 2018 I conducted research which was published in the Journal of Sport and...

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Best Ways to Track Your Fitness Progress behavior change exercise behaviors fitness mindset goals lifestyle change mindset mindset shift success weight loss Jul 18, 2021

People’s opinions on weighing themselves are all over the place these days. 

Some say you have to weigh yourself daily (you don’t). Others are saying to ditch the scale altogether (you don’t have to do that either). 

We’re here to tell you that it is possible to...

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Mindset Shifts to Harness Stress and Increase Success anxiety health mindset mindset shift stress stress mindset Mar 24, 2020

Do you want to be good at stress?

You might be thinking, “Be good at it?? Stress is bad!

To be honest, that way of thinking is a shitty stress mindset, and that could very well be why stress sucks for you.

Sometimes in life, it feels like everything is uncontrollable, and many things...

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