How to Hit Your Macros When Your Job Is Too Busy to Eat

Nikkiey: What's up, WarriorBabes? Good morning, everyone. Happy Saturday. I hope you all had an amazing week. You crushed it. And now we're here for our WarriorBabe Revolution rally call. Yes. I love this time together. So we'll get started in just a few minutes.

Guys, we're actually going to skip the chit-chat, skip what I talk about every single time we get on these calls, and just get right to the topic, because I have to be with my sponsors today doing a photo shoot. But I wanted to make sure that I got here for our call and shared this topic with you, as I was super inspired by it yesterday and knew that this topic today would help you guys in so many possible ways moving forward. Rethink your perspective about things going into next week. Rethink your perspective when you're in an environment at work.

So definitely let the babes know that we're getting this call started ASAP, like right now. Go to the Facebook group, comment, let them know to get their butts on this call right now. It's going to be super, super fast, and they don't want to miss it.

First of all, if you guys are new, I saw a lot of you guys excited about joining this rally call. Welcome, babes. I am so excited that you are here right now, so excited that you are part of WarriorBabe, where strong is the new sexy, and I cannot wait to be a part of your transformation moving forward. This is so exciting. You came to an amazing community, an amazing environment that is just going to help you excel in everything that you want to achieve and accomplish.

Remember, you guys came to WarriorBabe with one goal or multiple goals that you want to accomplish with yourself and your body. Now, you have the tools and the resources at your fingertips, but remember that I can't be there to prep your meals. I can't be there to eat your food for you. And I can't be there to grocery shop or do workouts for you. You have to do the work. End of story. You have to put in the work. Remember that.

Now, this takes time. This is a new lifestyle that some people are getting used to. It's not like you just got out of your mother's womb and you're walking three days later. Remember, everything new and everything great takes time. And if you aren't where you want to be in seven days or two weeks, it's okay. It's perfectly fine. You are getting used to everything and learning this new style of training and lifting and balance and how amazing this lifestyle truly is.

Okay, so let's get to the point. This was inspired by a conversation that I had with my one-on-one client yesterday. I've been working with her for, oh my God, almost four years now. Her name is Amanda. I'm sure you guys have seen her in pictures. She's shredded and just amazing.

So we got on the call and she was super stressed at the beginning. I could just feel her energy, and she was just overwhelmed and stressed out. The reason why she's overwhelmed and stressed out is because she's currently in a new routine. She's going for her NP, and she's in this new routine of being on clinicals. And mind you, she has to fit in 2,600 calories, 2,800 calories. She's eating 383 grams of carbs right now. So keep that in mind. She's like, "Nikkiey, I'm stressed, I'm bloated, I'm freaking out." And I noticed her inconsistency during the week with getting her macros in alignment.

So she was overwhelmed at the beginning. And the tips I'm going to share with you guys today caused her, by the end of our talk yesterday, to feel a major adrenaline rush, major tunnel vision, and feel like she's going to conquer the world, just from literally a 10-minute conversation with her. And that's exactly what I want to do with you guys right now: shift your perspective when you jump into something new and you're so worried about making sure you're spot on with your macros, but then you've got life in front of you. You've got kids. You've got soccer tournaments. You've got work. You've got your busy nurses. Listen up. This is going to really help you guys. This is going to paint a whole different, mind-opening, I-can-do-this perspective for yourself, okay?

So Amanda just started NP clinicals, and she's on the floor from 8 to 4, 8 to 5, okay? Some of you work 7 to 3, 7 to 7. This is really going to resonate with you guys. Or if, in general, your job or workplace is demanding and it's hard for you to break away to get your food in.

And I can really, really resonate with this big time, from when I was in nursing and was working in the ER. I never knew what was coming through those doors, okay? I had no idea what was going to come through, and I was always backed up. The waiting room had like 50 people in it. It was a hectic and crazy environment. So it's really going to resonate with you guys who maybe are bank tellers, or you're always on the go, you're always doing a lot. Hairdressers, guys, this is really going to help you.

Now, before I started my journey, before Amanda started her journey, we would just go with the flow, right? The ebb and flow of work. You kind of get lost in it. You're not paying attention to time. You're just doing what you have to do in order to get work done. And a lot of workplaces only give you that 30-minute break, which in the nursing world, you barely even got. You had to make your time. You had to stand up for yourself and make that time for yourself.

So when I first started this journey and was making sure I was eating every so often, I wasn't stressed, because I know me, and I'm blunt and very much like, "Hey, I need to do this or else." Okay, and I'll get to that point in a second. But basically, a lot of people can get overwhelmed and allow the excuse of, "Oh, work is too busy. I just can't get a second to myself. It's hard for me to make sure I'm eating because this is happening. This person needs me," blah, blah, blah.

Guys, stop that excuse right now, because coming from a nurse's perspective, everybody always needs you. Everybody always needs you. Your patient needs you. Your doctors need you. Everybody always needs you. And I came out on top by being like, "Wait a second, I need to eat, or y'all aren't going to get me at my best." So you can do that same thing. And I'm going to give you some pointers so it doesn't sound so selfish on your end.

So right now, I want you guys to understand that starting this journey with work behind you, or making sure that you're on point with your days, isn't stressful. Okay? Don't look at it as stressful or overwhelming, because if you look at it like that, that's exactly what it's going to be. You're going to drive yourself insane. You're going to end up stressing yourself out. Stress raises cortisol levels in your body. Cortisol adds inflammation to your body. And then you look like a water buffalo walking around. Okay?

So instead of looking at it as a stressful environment, instead of looking at it like, "Oh my God, I can't do this, somebody always needs me," look at it as a challenge. Look at it like, "I'm going to take this challenge head on. I am going to do something and stand up for myself, because at the end of the day, I'm the one that has to go to sleep on my own pillow and think back about how I was successful towards the goals that I wanted to accomplish that day." Right?

So when I first started my journey and was eating, I was usually working 7 to 3 or 7 to 7. A lot of you guys work maybe 9 to 5 or something like that. Whatever it is, if work is very chaotic, if you have a busy job, this is going to really resonate. I had three or four meals that I needed to eat before I even got to the gym.

The way that I handled this was, instead of walking in stressed and ignoring the time that I had to eat, because when you ignore it, holy moly, you get angry, right? You get hangry. You're like, "Screw this, F this, screw that. I don't care what my boss thinks," right? And then you're stuck in the flow of work. But if you know that you're getting hungry, you know that time's coming up and you need to eat, just voice it. Say something. Stop being timid and say, "Hey, Cheryl," "Hey, Marianne," "Hey, Bobby Joe," "Hey, Susie," whoever you're working with, a coworker, and be like, "Hey, I need to take five minutes."

That's all it takes to eat your food. Literally five minutes. Don't tell me it takes you 30 minutes on your lunch break to eat. No, I've been there and done that. It takes me two, three, four, five minutes to scarf down some food. "Hey, Carly, I'm taking a five-minute break really quick," when I know that I can always be five steps ahead of the situation.

In my case, I knew that patients were coming in. I knew that we were getting this ambulance. I knew this person was coming in from the waiting room. I'm like, "Hey, before this happens, give me five minutes. I'm going to go scarf down my meal and I'm going to come back out, and I'm going to be a hell of a lot better. I'm going to perform better. You guys are going to get me in a better mood. My patient's going to be well handled." Everything around you is going to be better when you feed yourself and stand up for yourself and say, "I'm taking five minutes."

In normal workplaces, you get 30 minutes plus you get little 15-minute breaks. I've worked with people who are like, "No, I can't take a break." Stand up for yourself. In our workplace, we got in trouble for not taking 30 minutes in a very stressful environment. And there were times before I started my journey when I worked straight through, not even thinking about eating. And that's normal. That's what normal people do.

But you have to think about this, because this is a new thought process. You're thinking differently when you're feeding your body differently. You've got to know when it's time for you to eat, and you've got to stand up for yourself and be like, "Hey, I need to take five minutes." Literally, that's it. And then you go back to your work. You go back to what it is.

And then you have three hours or two and a half hours until maybe lunch, right? So you go to work at 7, you take a little break at 9 or 9:30, and then you have your lunch break for half an hour at 12, right? And then by the next time you have to eat, you're probably out and about, done with work. So I don't want to hear this excuse about how people can't eat because their work is so busy. I don't believe it. Something else is getting in your way. And the excuse needs to stop, with these specific tips that I'm giving you.

And let me tell you guys, when you do this, when you stand up for yourself, hold on a second. Sorry, guys. When you say this, it puts you in the driver's seat, right? It puts you in control of what you need to do. And you're going to inspire other people. They're going to look at you and be like, "Wow, she's doing this."

I can't tell you, for example, when I started all of this, how many people didn't eat during the day. And then when I started standing up and saying, "Hey, guys, I'm taking five minutes," they started bringing their food, and everybody's like, "Nikkiey, ever since you did this, you've inspired me to start eating better. You've inspired me to slow down."

Slow down. Oh my God, that is another huge tip. You can be so caught up and go, go, go, go, go, and by the end of the day you're like, "Oh my God, it's three o'clock, I can't even believe it, I didn't even eat." But this causes you to take a minute out of a busy day and slow down. I can't tell you how impactful that is when you actually go back to having to do work. You're going to be focused better. You're going to be energized. You're going to be able to take a deep breath.

And then, yes, you're going to inspire other people to be like, "Hey, she's doing this. I'm going to do the same thing because, A, she's getting results. B, she just seems so energetic. C, I want to be like that," right? So you inspire the people around you to change. And this can be in the workplace. This can be at home. This can be anywhere. You inspire them to do something. This is game-changing, you guys.

So the end-all, be-all, what I'm trying to say here, is that you can make this stressful or you can make it a challenge. You've got to figure out how to formulate your day, how to go about being busy. Guys, I have a photo shoot right now, and I'm doing a commercial for my sponsors. I got up earlier, I packed up my food, and I'm on. I'm pulling up to my sponsor's place right now, and I'm going to be like, "Hey, guys, I need to take five minutes. I need to pee. I just traveled an hour. I need to pee, and I need to eat." And they're going to be like, "Okay, Nikkiey, go ahead." They just get it now, right? They just get it.

When you say something, you're standing up for yourself, and you're changing your whole reality around you to work for you, not against you, right? Like what I say about your metabolism, making it work for you, not against you. You're doing this for yourself too, making your environment work for you, not against you. Because when you just don't do it and you just go throughout the day, you're going to be frustrated at the end. You're going to be like, "Well, I didn't fit my macros in because work was so busy."

Stop that excuse and take it on as a challenge to stand up for yourself in a workplace environment and be like, "Hey, guys, I need to take five minutes. I need to eat, because this is going to make me do this better." Right? That's all it takes. In this entire lifestyle, all it takes is standing up for yourself. Just like the environment conversation I talked about last week, it takes standing up for yourself and having conversations that are going to get the perspective across.

And let me tell you, when you say that to your coworkers, don't imagine the doctor saying, "No, no, Cheryl, you can't go eat. It's not going to happen." Don't play that kind of situation in your head, because the more that you play out how it's going to turn out bad, the more you're not going to do it. You just have to do it. You just have to be like, "Guys, I'm taking five minutes," and structure your day.

And when you do this for the first week, you're going to be doing this for the second week. You're going to be doing this for the third week. You're going to be doing this for the fourth week. And then it just becomes an absolute routine for you.

Okay, so moral of the story, and I know I said I was getting right to the point of today's topic, so if you guys chimed in at a later time, definitely listen to it again. If you guys have busy jobs, hairdressers, bank tellers, where somebody always needs you, nurses, this is spot on. This is really going to help you make sure that you fit your meals in no matter what the environment is around you. If you're a busy mom and you have soccer tournaments and stuff, you actually have the environment working in your favor, so you can take control of it a little bit more.

All it is, is really standing up for yourself, taking control, and taking this as a challenge, not looking at it as stressful or overwhelming. Because, guys, like I said, if you look at it like that, yes, it's going to be like that. Your perspective is going to make it overwhelming. You're going to be stressed. You're going to be pulling your hair out at the end of the day. You're going to be like, "Oh, I don't have enough time." Right, but we all have the same 24 hours in a day. It's a matter of how you structure it, how you stand up for yourself, how you seize the day, right?

This whole journey is like a game. Think of it like that. Like Tetris. Think about this as another game, and you are the one that's in control of it. That's it. You just stand up for yourself and don't let work be the excuse. Don't let being busy be an excuse. Take control. Take f***ing control.

All right, babes. On that note, it was a quick one today, but I'm excited that I got on and was able to inspire you and motivate you. I hope that it helps. Let me know how you guys like today's quick rally call. I'm just getting straight to the point. But this topic in general, if you actually implement it and don't just listen to me like, "Yeah, she's right," actually do it. Actually take action on it and try it at work this week and see how it goes with your coworkers. And screw the ones that say no. Do it anyway. If they're not superior to you, just do it anyway. It's about being ruthless, literally. That's what a WarriorBabe is: being ruthless, being strong, being confident and standing up.

Okay, so let me know how you guys liked it. If you guys are new, tune into these rally calls every single Saturday at 11 a.m., babes. Every single Saturday at 11 a.m. These calls are going to light you up with fire and motivation for the week, and I'm giving you tips and pointers on mindset, macros, workouts, anything that's going to help you be a stronger version of you, right? Strong is the new sexy here with WarriorBabe, and that's what it's all about. Not just diet and exercise, not just the tactics, but also the mindset arena too.

All right, babes, go crush your day. Go crush your week, and I'll see you guys on Wednesday. Bye, everyone. Thank you.