Dash Of Pepper Coaching

👉🏻Enrollment is open for this one time event! Click the link below to save your spot, as seats to this event are limited!

🗣A portion of your ticket purchase to this online challenge event will go to the Comfort Zone Camp here in RVA

Let’s make the most of this time we have with the kids!

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See, pizza does have healing powers! 😝🍕🙌🏻🧘🏻‍♀️

When health becomes a part of your identity, you don’t skip it.

That DOESN’T mean I don’t take rest days from my fitness routine.

What it does mean:

1️⃣ I make moving my body a priority no matter where I am.

2️⃣ I pay attention to the things I put IN and ON my body (quality of the food and skincare)

3️⃣ I don’t surround myself with people who radiate negativity. You are the product of your environment. Who you surround yourself with-you become, whether you want to or not. Habits are contagious.

4️⃣ I set firm boundaries with my time and attention, and have 0 regrets saying no. “No” is a full sentence.

5️⃣I do my best to be my authentic self each day, and vibrate at a higher frequency. If my vibe isn’t for someone- they’re welcome to the door. I don’t fight to keep someone in my life if they won’t choose me back.

6️⃣ Learning to choose my battles. This has been a hard one for me. I’ve shed many layers of the different person I used to be, and continue to do so month after month, year after year. Some battles are just NOT worth your energy. And you have to be okay walking away. That doesn’t always mean defeat- that means choosing a better path.

7️⃣Do what makes you happy! Not every passion or hobby needs to be your business venture. You can enjoy things just because you enjoy them. No pressure to make something bigger out of it☺️

8️⃣Trusting my gut, always. Anytime I’ve gone against or silence that feeling/inner voice I know is trying to tell me something- I lose. Just listen. It might not always make sense, but it knows the way.

9️⃣ Striving to learn something new everyday and putting it into action. Just bc you “know” something- doesn’t mean you practice or embody it. How many people do you know, “understand” that working out and eating better would benefit them- and yet they don’t change their habits to reflect that. Don’t just talk the talk- walk the walk. Do the work.

🔟Accept failure as a re-direct, not a destination. I have “failed” more times in life than I care to count. But I don’t accept defeat. I try to see the lesson, and apply my new perspective. The only failure in my eyes is making the same mistake over and over. Fail forward

One of the more frequent questions I get as a nutrition coach is,

“How do I sort through all the information about processed foods to understand which ones are good, and which ones are harmful? What does the word ‘processed’ actually mean?”

☝🏼Processed doesn’t necessarily mean “bad for you.” Processing foods can be done so to assist our bodies to digest foods better, like steaming a vegetable for example to further break down its cell walls so our bodies can absorb the nutrients easier.

Any method of modifying a food from the way it’s found in nature is considered processing.

When you get into the unhealthy part of food processing, we’re talking about companies adding in fake and artificial ingredients to alter the texture, flavors, and shelf lives of foods. Stabilizers, fillers, dyes, chemicals- those are the items that cause harm because they’re foreign to our bodies, and our bodies have to work extra hard to digest and excrete them. This is where you hear the term Genetically Modified come into play.

The best way to decipher is to read your ingredient labels. Stay away from:
🚫corn syrup (including high fructose)
🚫soy lecithins
🚫modified corn starch
🚫vegetable and canola oils
🚫red, yellow, or blue food dyes, any number
🚫acacia, locust bean,gellan and guar gums
🚫caramel color
🚫carrageenan
🚫bleached flour
🚫maltodextrin

.. along with most any other ingredients you can’t pronounce.

The best way to know you’re choosing a cleaner food item off the shelf at the store is an ingredient list with 1) items you can pronounce 2) items you recognize 3) the least amount of ingredients possible.

Hopefully this helps you make some more informed decisions when choosing which food items to fuel yourself with on your journey!

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