Becoming physically fit
doesn't start with your body.
That's according to our next guest fitness
and Wellness coach Deborah Capaccio.
Her program, brain first body,
second teaches women to address their
damaging thought patterns and negative
self talk first before losing the weight.
Here's our conversation.
Deb we are so excited to
have you here a great day.
Washington to talk about
something we all struggle with
and it's just just yoyo dieting.
There's so many diets out there but you
say it's not necessarily a body thing.
It's a mind thing.
Absolutely, it is the prequel to the
sequel which is the diet and this is what
I found with the women that I work with.
When we kind of have a cycle of negative
self talk and feelings of failure and
sabotage when we flip our brain first
to those of that of a fit person,
which sounds a little bit cuckoo, the diet
and the exercise just naturally follow.
It's really quite amazing.
How does that
play into motivation?
I saw a post years recently
talked about motivation. Not.
Not not a good thing, right?
Yes, so this is the issue with
motivation is it fluctuates.
We're humans, and sometimes we're in the
mood and sometimes we're not in the mood.
The issue is if we wait till we're in
the mood or to be motivated to eat
well and exercise well, we will be.
And so we have to kind of reprogram
our brain to that of a fit person
so that we naturally just become
automated to act healthy.
And it really, truly works. How
could we start to do that?
What things should we start to
think about or do to help train
that? The very first thing I tell my clients
is to take maybe 24 hours and start to
become aware of the negative self talk
and the negative identity they may have.
Once we become aware they say wow, I, I've
actually been telling myself I'm a failure.
I can't stick to anything we identify
that first and then we flip the
script and they they choose.
I am affirmations.
I am a healthy fit person and when
they repeat those daily it sounds
absolutely ridiculous it actually.
Motivates us to to eat well and be healthy.
That's amazing, just the little things
that we can change in our minds and
you kind of did something with a play
on the words that we tell ourselves.
You put this huge billboard up
in Times Square last month.
You got, you know,
some mixed reactions on it.
What was the purpose behind this
and what is the reaction been like?
Yeah, so the reaction was, you know,
some backlash of course, which I expected.
But the goal was to reach as many women
who are struggling with self name calling
like I myself was in the hundreds of
women I interviewed and sort of act as a
mirror to reflect those words and maybe
have them say yeah, I do feel that way.
What is this about? Can she help me?
And ultimately that was the end result.
I've had the opportunities to
appear on amazing shows.
Like great day Washington,
and continued to tell women there
is help for them to stop Nevitt
negative self talk and really become
the fit person they've always meant
to me and I I feel like
you know we're changing.
We're talking about the fitness,
the body eating healthy but
just changing that mindset.
How it can just open up a whole new
world in every aspect of your life.
In fact, I'm glad that you brought
that up because my program kind of
lead in is for women with fitness.
And possibly issues with body
image but but that's a byproduct.
The secret to this process is
you can use it in any area.
You can use it for relationships for career.
Just purely self confidence,
and it's mind-blowing.
It changes every aspect of your life.
Some incredible things
for us to think about.
Deb, I know this is a process
that you love helping women with,
so we appreciate you being
here this morning with us.
Thank you. Thank you so much. I loved it.
You can find more of Deb on her website.
Get your sparklebackgirl.net.
I like that name of the website too.
I agree with everything she says
and I I find that once you can
adapt that mentality for me,
you know it was like a decade
long journey to get to being
healthier and eating better.
Once you have it, you have it.
It's so hard to get people to jump on.
That's the hardest part is
continuing that you know that
process it can get so frustrated,
so easy to just fall off and be like dumb.
You know I messed up this time I beat
yourself up lazy and fat you know whatever
the words were that she was saying, yeah.
But imagine the feeling of
being on that journey, right?
Once you finally once you finally know.
Yep, makes a big difference.
Good things to think about.