This epiphany sparked something so deep down inside me that I used it to help motivate me and push me through workouts, eating clean, eating less, and it pushed me and it still continues to push me every single day. That spark led me to an almost 100-pound weight loss and, because it’s not about the weight, it led me to feeling unstoppable.
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it’s okay, I’ll be caught! I’ve already hit every rockbottom moment, so it can’t get any worse.
Like many women, I wear so many hats: I’m a working mama, I’m a military spouse, I’m a sister, I’m a daughter, I’m a friend, I’m a coach, I’m a speaker, I’m an author—you name it, I’ve done it, I’ve been out there. And the most important role that really Dennis: What does “boss means the most to me is being a champion for up” mean to you? women’s health. It’s my mission, it’s my purpose in Karissa: Bossing up is life to literally help babes doing anything that scares BOSS UP to the next level the living crap out of you. of success in their life, their Bossing up is that moment health, their businesses. when you’re like, “Should I, or should I not?” It takes Dennis: Tell me about the courage, but it’s our job. biggest challenges facing It’s our responsibility in life people when they want to boss up. We can either to lose weight and get choose to stay stuck or to healthy. boss up and become the best version of ourselves, Karissa: The most obvious whether that’s with our is yourself. You health, our personal lives, challenge will get in your our businesses—it doesn’t always way. But I think the matter, the choice is yours. own biggest thing is that you keep your expectations Bossing up is taking reasonable. When I first courageous steps to get started out, I expected to where you want to go. At lose weight quickly, but this point in my life, it’s because I did it the right fun. I’ll think, “This is kinda way, through changing my scary. Okay, do it!” That’s whole lifestyle, it took me the cue that I’m on the three years to lose that 90 edge, and I encourage pounds. Changing your myself to jump because lifestyle means having to
find something that you like to do a lot so that you can do it forever. So you need to think sustainability and lifestyle. I started with two habits. I thought, “What are the needle-movers for me? I need to move my body because the couch and a bus stop are not enough. And then I needed to eat less.” I started simply by eating less—going from three servings to one. Once I mastered that, I looked into clean eating. So really, the biggest challenge is not expecting to get the results so fast. I always tell my clients, “Your body’s not Amazon. Don’t expect change in two days. It ain’t gonna happen. There’s no fairy dust, there’s no magic pill to get to this level of unstoppable-ness.” You’ve got to go through the journey. It’s more about who you become in that process, and I have fallen in love with taking care of myself. Dennis: What was it like to reprogram your mindset to sustainable lifestyle changes? Karissa: I had such clarity. I didn’t realize this was what I was doing at
