Good morning and happy Saturday! đ
Wow, what an incredible week! We just wrapped up our Mavy Wellness Workshop in Las Vegas this week, and what a blast it was.
It was so great to connect with some members and some non-members who have now become friends đ± đȘ
The most inspiring part to me was the age range of our members during this workshop, from 53 to 74 years young, and everyone crushed it. Most people think that aging means limitation, less strength, less mobility, and less enjoyment. But everyone in this photo moved like someone decades younger than their age because they took on the challenge of strength training and plant-based living đ±
It was fantastic to see them push themselves, squatting their body weight and deadlifting weights they never thought they could do.
Ivy and I plan on doing another one in January/February of 2027, which we will limit to 6 spots because it was fun to get to spend 1:1 time with each member throughout the three days. We hosted everyone at our house for lunch every day, and that is our maximum capacity.
And for our members who attended, they know how delicious my homemade soy lattes are... and yes, they will be a part of the next workshop đ
So just be ready to reserve your spot whenever we announce it in the upcoming weeks (it will take place in Las Vegas). Also, as you can see in the photo below, you may or may not see similar results... AI may have been used to enhance results đ
Now letâs get into todayâs message:
As some of you know, Iâve been going through my own body recomposition transformation for the past 19 weeks, and this week marked the last week before I start Phase 2 of our Mavy Wellness blueprint, which is âReverse Dieting.â This is where I will slowly re-increase my metabolism in order to stay lean, build muscle, and eat more food to keep the great results Iâve gotten over the past 19 weeks.
Here is the whole journey đ
As you can see, it came with its ups and downs when it came to weight fluctuation, and by all means was it not a perfect journey.
And so today, I wanted to share one big lesson I learned from this body recomposition phase, which started when I came back from my three-month Asia trip with Ivy. Ivy and I traveled a few times during this body recomposition (NHA Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, and the ICNM conference in Washington, DC, since we were sponsors at both events and leading group workouts).
I detached myself from the timeline. When I started this journey, I only knew the end destination I wanted to get to and not how long it would take me to get there, because I didnât care. The goal is the goal; the timeline wasnât my goal.
Letâs use an analogy to illustrate this better. I am going hiking in the Rockies in beautiful Alberta, Canada. I picked the mountain that I wanted to climb to the top of (setting the goal). From there, I mentally prepared myself that it would take me five times longer than I was mentally ready to go for, just so that I could mentally trick myself into managing my expectations and be ready for more, for the unexpected, and for things that were out of my âcontrol.â
Then I started the âwalk/hike.â I looked at my feet at first: left foot, then right foot, then left foot, then right foot, etc. Then I looked around at the trees, birds, etc., because I wanted to enjoy the journey.
The biggest mistake people make is that they set their goal/mountain peak and stare at it the whole way through. I donât know if youâve ever tried to hike a mountain while staring at the peak the whole time, but it feels like you are barely making any progress even though youâve been walking for hours.
My whole strategy was: look down at my feet. Left, right, left, right. Do that for hours, days, weeks, which is the equivalent of focusing on my nutrition every meal, every day, ensuring I stay in a calorie deficit, ensuring I hit my protein daily, ensuring I eat quality food, ensuring I got my strength sessions in, and my cardio workouts in for days and weeks. Then, look up and be surprised at how close that mountain peak was and surprised at how much my body was starting to show signs of body recomposition.
Then Iâd put my head back down and continue on: left, right, left, right. Boom, look up... oh great, I see more change. Iâd celebrate by patting myself on the back (not justifying that I could celebrate with food), and then Iâd put my head back down.
A big mistake I see people make in their transformation is that they try to have the whole journey planned ahead of time, and that is unrealistic. Like I said, Ivy and I traveled during this transformation, and we had good travel days and bad ones, with things that were out of our control.
The best thing I could do was stay adaptable, because sometimes the best thing you can do is the best thing you can do in that moment, and not the âperfect actionâ you had pre-planned in your head, which realistically might not be possible in that scenario. That is when most people lose their minds, because their reality isnât matching what they had planned.
Plans fail all the time. That is why I like guidelines, structures, and systems, because they act more as guardrails to keep you on track versus hoping you can stay on the âperfectâ track all the time, which you wonât.
Now to bring it all together: this transformation could have taken me 12 weeks or 25 weeks, and I wouldnât have cared. It was all dependent on my ability to stay compliant, consistent, and adaptable. Life could have thrown me more curveballs, and it would have taken me longer.
I would have been okay with that because, again, the goal is the goal. All I would have done is put my head up, handle the âspeed up or detour,â put my head back down, and gone left, right, left, right...
I just so happened to look up this morning and boom, I reached both of those goals. I want you all to look at the pace of fat loss during these 19 weeks as well.
I lost an average of 0.52 lbs a week on the scale and 0.21% body fat per week.
That is 2.1 lbs a month.
Remember: âSlow is smooth and smooth is fast.â
So my advice to you is to stay focused (left, right, left, right), enjoy the journey (detach from the timeline), and stay adaptable because it will never go perfectly.
Thatâs how all fit people became fit. NONE of them ever had a perfect journey; they just learned to deal with the âspeed bumps of lifeâ better than others who arenât in their position. That is all.
And that isnât a talent; itâs a skill that you have the ability to acquire as well.
I hope this lesson from my journey is helpful on yours.
Iâll be sharing more in the weeks to come.
If you are wanting some guidance, support, coaching, and accountability on your own transformation journey, weâd love to serve you.
Your first step to your new level of health, fitness, and vitality starts with one step: simply book your introductory call with Ivy over at mavywellness.com.
She will help you establish a game plan to determine what has been missing for you to reach your goal and how we can help you get there once and for all and set you up for life, whether you are looking at our 1:1 coaching program or our Forever Fit Course/Coaching.
Because we understand that we are only part of a glimpse of your entire journey, but our goal is to set you on a different trajectory so that in the next 2-3 decades your life looks completely different than your peers.
Book your call; we look forward to serving you, and thank you for reading this weekâs newsletter đ±
Sincerely,
Maxime Sigouin