Lisa Berney Coaching

Happy 1st Birthday our Jesse boy 🤍🥹
You came into this world at lightning speed, with your own agenda from the very beginning and not much has changed since 😅

The quickest year EVER 😅
Happy Birthday baby boy 🤍

The number on the scale is ONE data point.

We’ve been so conditioned to chase a number that we’ve completely lost touch with the thing that actually matters - how we feel inside our own body.

And here’s what I know after working with women for the last 10 years 👇🏻

The ones who get lasting results aren’t the ones who became obsessed with the scale.
They’re the ones who got tired of feeling TIRED.
Tired of being in the background of every photo (or avoiding photos).
Tired of wearing clothes that hide instead of clothes they love.
Tired of feeling like a stranger in their own body.
Tired of being on / off. Restricting. Doing the newest fad but never actually optimising their HEALTH! It’s a wild place at here at the moment and we’ve lost touch with what really matters - our health and how well we feel within ourselves!

The scale number is a data point. That’s it.

How you feel when you walk into a room?
How you feel getting dressed in the morning?
How you feel when someone takes a photo and you don’t immediately want to delete it?

That’s the actual goal.

And it’s available to you, not at a certain dress size, not at a certain number on the scale.

Right now. In the body you’re in. With the right support around you. Fuelling yourself well and exercising for its true purpose - HEALTH!

If you’re ready to stop chasing the number and start actually feeling like yourself again, follow along x

Some seasons of motherhood feel beautiful and heavy all at once 🤍

And if I’m honest, this season has been one of the most consuming of my life.

A 4 year old, an 11 month old baby, running a business.
Trying to hold onto pieces of myself while giving so much of me every single day.

Motherhood is the most love I’ve ever felt but also the most mentally, emotionally and physically relentless thing I’ve ever done.

The invisible “load”, the thinking ahead, the night wakes, kindy lunches, the groceries, the routines.
The constant feeling of being “on call” even when everyone else is asleep.

And I know so many mums carry this too. I’m not alone in this. Heck, women have been doing this for generations but now, now we’re being more vocal about it - as we should.

Some days I probably don’t seem like the happiest version of myself.
Not because I’m not grateful & not because I don’t adore my children.
But because motherhood can be overstimulating, exhausting and all consuming in ways nobody fully prepares you for.

But these two little humans, they are my greatest privilege & blessing 🥺

Even on the hard days, even when I feel touched out, tired, stretched thin or like I’ve lost pieces of myself.

They’ve made me more resilient & purposeful.

So today, I just want to say Happy Mother’s Day to the mums who are giving so much of themselves every single day, even when nobody sees all of it.

You are appreciated & you are needed.
And you are doing better than you think 🤍

I’ve helped many a mum finally break through and these are the habits that were keeping almost all of them stuck.

1. Treating weekdays and weekends as two separate people 🙅‍♀️
   If you’re “on” Monday to Friday and “off” Saturday to Sunday, you’re not in a deficit, you’re in a balance. You need a plan that works for the whole week, not just the easy days.

2. Eating less than you need during the week ❌
   Hardcore restriction Monday to Friday creates the perfect conditions for a Friday night collapse. Your body is starving and your brain is exhausted, of course you eat everything in sight. The fix isn’t discipline. It’s eating enough in the week so weekends don’t feel like a blowout!

3. Letting one bad day become one bad week 🔁
   One meal off plan is not a fail. One bad evening is not a fail. Writing off the entire week because of it is the only thing that actually sets you back. Progress is not a straight line. The loop is: eat something “bad” ➡️ feel like you’ve failed ➡️ say “I’ll start Monday” ➡️ spend 5 days undoing what could have been one day’s blip.

4. Relying on motivation to show up for food choices 😴
   Motivation is gone by Wednesday. Structure is what keeps you consistent. If your eating plan requires you to feel inspired and rested and in control, it won’t survive a Tuesday night with tired kids and no dinner prepped.

5. Thinking the gym will compensate 🏋️‍♀️
   Training is non-negotiable for your health. But fat loss is 80% food. If food isn’t sorted, the gym just makes you hungrier.

Want help fixing food without feeling restricted?
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