Hey there and welcome to Pursuing Health. I'm Dr. Julie Fouche, family physician and

former CrossFit Games athlete. Here is your bonus weekly CrossFit Health Tip, which

was originally published on CrossFit.com. Enjoy!

I'm here today with Sarah Hopping, Australia, who is a CrossFit Level 3 trainer, and she

also holds a Master's in Nutrition and Human Performance. And we're going to talk about

what it looks like to set ourselves up for success when we want to make a change to

our nutrition. So, where do I start with this?

Well, I think the first thing is that traditionally people tend to start this sort of journey

with a fairly negative mindset base, feeling like they need to try harder or they shouldn't

be doing all these things, they shouldn't be eating all these things. And I think it's

really important to recognize that a positive mindset of, you can do this, there's nothing

wrong with you, you're falling victim to your environment or to your habits. And that

requires change, but it doesn't mean you're broken. And so I think recognizing that there's

hope and there's some strategies you can use to set yourself up for success so that you

don't find yourself in the position where you're not achieving your goals later on.

Absolutely. So, you know, one example, thinking about coming home from work every day, being

exhausted, sitting on the couch and eating a bag of chips. That's a habit that someone

could get into that could go on for years and years, and it just becomes part of, you

know, their daily routine. And it could be easy to think, okay, I'm going to make a change.

I'm not going to do this today and maybe being successful for a day or two and then falling

back into it, but then really feeling like, gosh, I fell back into this habit, I'm a failure

or I'm never going to be able to do it or there's something wrong with me.

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