Hi everyone! I'm taking this snippet from a well-known psychologist and coach Carol Kauffman, Ph.D.. She based the whole article on Ted Lasso, which I have admittedly never watched. But the theme is around being able to shake it off when you make a mistake, and focus on the 80% you're doing relatively well at, rather than the 20% where it feels like you blew it. If you think about anything where you've done where most people give you glowing feedback, but there's that one person who has a criticism (constructive or not), and that's the thing you fixate on. We do this ourselves a lot, and we see it all the time with people on a health journey, which is hardly ever linear. Kauffman concludes with this: "You don't need 100% certainty. You don't need a flawless record. You don't need to know exactly where you'll land. Learn from the 20%. Remember the 80%. And then get back on the field. Because perhaps the real test of belief isn't whether you believe in yourself when everything is going right. It's whether you can still believe when something goes wrong." Still believe when something goes wrong. Ever struggle here? An example would be where you eat something off plan, and then just shrug and say, "Oh well, I blew it," and then you continue to eat garbage, when you *could* treat it as simply a lapse and get back on the horse. We are here to support you in learning how to relish in that 80%! Thoughts?

Today we are celebrating @Renee Younger at a baby shower for our future granddaughter, due in a couple months. Looking forward to celebrating! Knowing that this beautiful little girl is coming into our lives is yet another reason for us to always make sure we’re taking care of ourselves, as we plan on chasing that little peanut around as often as possible! 😁

Please join me in wishing one of our community members a happy birthday. Happy Birthday @Lanee Reichert

The sodium in your diet was never from your shaker... It was in the food you bought. For decades, the advice was simple: put down the salt shaker. But most people were never getting their sodium from a shaker in the first place. Roughly three-quarters of the sodium in the average diet comes from packaged and processed foods — breads, sauces, canned goods, deli meat, frozen meals, restaurant food. It's baked in before it ever reaches your table. You could throw your salt shaker away entirely and barely move the needle, because the real source was never in your hand. It was in the ingredients list. This is why "cutting back on salt" so often misses the point. The problem was never seasoning your own food with real salt. The problem is a food supply built on processed products that use sodium as a cheap preservative and flavor enhancer to make low-quality ingredients palatable. When you eat real, whole foods and season them yourself, something interesting happens: your sodium intake usually drops — not because you're trying to avoid salt, but because you're no longer eating the processed foods that were loaded with it. And sodium itself isn't the enemy people think it is. It's an essential electrolyte your body needs for nerve function, muscle contraction, and fluid balance — especially if you're active, sweating, or eating a lower-carb, whole-foods diet. The fix was never "eat less salt." It was always "eat less processed food." Reply and tell me — has cutting out processed food changed how much you actually crave salt?

I hope everyone enjoys some downtime today. Today would’ve been our little sister‘s birthday, and I am with my dad in North Carolina. I’m dropping a note to check in, and to also say that being tuned into what we need is a really important part of our health journey. Sometimes that means stepping away from the day-to-day, and taking space and time when we need it, and that is what this time with my dad has been for me. Is there something that you need right now and can take some action around today?