wealth – lil bit of fit

October 7, 2023

Advice from an 81 year old: The most important thing in life

I asked an elderly patient years ago, “What is the most important thing you’ve learned in 81 years?”

And she said somethin I’ll never forget that I also heard on a past podcast,

“One of the most important things I’ve learned is health is the crown on the well person’s head that only the sick person can see & wealth comes in other important forms other than money.”

Ooooof. Who else felt that? 👋

She went on to say, “I wished I had changed my perspectives sooner. Mostly around the perception of being ‘rich’ & that in order to be seen as beautiful I had to be certain size & status.”

She realized she was always chasin a goal like being rich & losing as much weight as possible instead of embracing the experiences of the journey & being grateful for what she already had.

I don’t know about y’all but I love spending time with the elderly. They’re full of magical wisdom. It’s one of the most favorite gems 💎 of my job working in healthcare.

Simply walking & making my bed helped transform my life, lose 55lbs & keep it off.

girl before and after weight loss photo lilbitoffit katie kelly

[It’s not what you think & this is what people don’t tell you.] My healing story here⬇️

https://lilbitoffit.com/1-year-on-the-carnivore-diet-my-story-journey-transitioning-to-a-meat-based-carnivore-diet/

When thinking about a #millionairemorningroutine & the routines of the fittest people on earth, it comes down to the reason AND intention behind their actions.

Let’s be real, simply making your bed is not going to help you lose the weight but being a person that LEADS & keeps commitments to themselves, WILL.

70% of leadership is how you lead yourself. There is a difference between leadership & management just like there’s a difference between PREACHING & PRACTICING what you preach.

I intend to be a human that when someone talks about me I would hope that they would say, “She makes me want to be a better person.”

Had plenty of wake up calls where I asked myself a few things:

How are you maintaining positivity in the face of negativity?
How are you setting goals & plans to execute?
How are you staying committed to yourself despite lack of motivation or judgement from others?

🔥People will follow you if you give them a purposeful reason to.

3 kinds of leadership:

1️⃣Physical leadership: Are you healthy & happy & nourished body, mind, & spirit to be strong & serve as a role model to others?

2️⃣Mental leadership: social media brainwashes & continuously puts what you want to see in front of you. What are you clicking on, subjecting yourself to, & what are you consuming?

Find the people you want to embody so you can learn from them & be better. Release the individuals who don’t take you where you want to go.

3️⃣Emotional leadership: The ability to stay balanced & even keeled in the face of negativity.

Know your mission & values. Your mission should be built on the foundation of your values.

So what are your values?

Mine: Service. Health. Wealth & Freedom. Self Nourishment. Extraordinary Relationships.

“Be who you are & say how you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss

5 things I’ve learned in 41 yrs I’ll leave with you in hopes of you learning sooner than I did:

➡️Joy, purpose, fulfillment (JPF) vs fame, fortune, applause (FFA). Which would you choose? I choose JPF because if you choose JPF the FFA will follow.

➡️Forms of wealth: self mastery, self awareness, family, health, your craft, personal development, money, time, freedom, charity, adventure, your circle of genius & environment

➡️Don’t lower your standards or standard of living to meet your income, live strategically within your means to raise your income & standards of living to meet your standards.

➡️You are always replaceable within a company. Don’t live for them &/or make them your identity. YOU make money for them. YOU are the gem & YOU create your own abundance. Take YOUR GIFTS with you & have the confidence to creat the life of YOUR DREAMS.

➡️If you’re gonna chase something, chase service. Because👇

“To live in the hearts we leave behind, is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell.

Our days are numbered, what are you gonna leave behind?

Abs…a pretty picture…a pretty/handsome face…money in the bank…titles…OR…

…👉the memories of your dream life well & wisely lived?

Reminders for today ✨

You don’t owe anyone anything:
Your healing. Your process. Your happiness. Your peace. Those all belong to you.

Affirm this today ✨

I welcome the harvest with wide arms & with an unfastened heart! ❤️🫶🌽🥩🙏🤲🧎‍♀️

Mantra for today:

Abundance is all around me.
Abundance & Attractiveness are energies.
Abundance, Inner peace & Fulfillment are states of being.
Abundance & Reality are an existence I create.
Abundance is a gift from the Universe. I unlock the door & my vibration is the key 🔑 🪄🚪
Abundance shows up as money & in many other ways.
I AM grateful for the continual stream of Abundance flowing into my life.

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Oxox

Coach K

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Hailing from Fishers, Indiana, Katie is an aficionado of healthcare, fitness, & personal development. Travel Radiographer, motivational writer, nutritionist, Medium — gifts of many things, she grew up on her family’s beef cattle & crop farm where agriculture & healthcare were her first loves.

She is a Purdue University graduate well known for her storytelling of life lessons & personal transformation through Crohn’s disease & life as a radiologic technologist with 18 years experience!

After decades of struggling with her own health issues from Crohn’s, obesity, disordered eating, infertility, hormonal imbalances, & being a competitive CrossFit athlete, she is passionate about helping others find self love, embrace their gifts, achieve their goals, & create sustainable success habits for an EXTRAordinary life!

You can catch her via Instagram @lil_bit_of_fit : http://www.instagram.com/lil_bit_of_fit

Blog: Lilbitoffit.com

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You can simply book a call via email: katieokelly2@gmail.com

September 12, 2022

Lessons I’ve learned overcoming debt & living a life I love at 40

This photo was from 2018. I was living out my office & tryin like hell to pay off $45,000 in debt…⁣

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I told a coworker the other day, she was asking if I ever struggled.⁣

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Basically, “struggle bus” was my middle name y’all

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As one who has made all the wrong decisions before making the right ones, one thing I am most grateful are the things I’ve done wrong that didn’t turn out the way I’d hoped because they taught me how to do things better — with health, relationships, & finances.⁣

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Sometimes it takes a heart break & f*cking up royally to shake us awake, to help us see we’re settling.⁣

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I refuse to live a life of mediocracy.⁣

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The last straw was 2018, when I was livin out of my office, showering at gyms, goin thru a heartbreak & no idea what the f*ck I was doing or going.⁣

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I was eating at the hotel across the street, breakfast was free.

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I did get caught sleeping in my office, which forced me to make the painful decision to move back in with my parents.⁣

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My health & gut issues exacerbated. I was 20lbs heavier.⁣ Yet I knew I was meant for more.⁣

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Each year I made different choices to move the needle forward no matter how small.⁣

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“Never did the world make a Queen of a girl who hides behind a facade of perfection in a house of guarded walls but an imperfect woman of wisdom in a house of mirrors & glass.”⁣⁣

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I’m not afraid to admit there’s many things I still have not mastered & that’s ok.

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I too have been the human who:⁣

◽️was living in the cheapest apartment she could find⁣

◽️was going thru a 2nd divorce feeling like a failure & confused about identity⁣

◽️had a car repoed, $45,000 in debt, $5 to my name⁣

◽️was sick with Crohns, disordered eating & orthorexia feeling powerless & ugly

◽️thought being single meant there was something wrong with me & I needed to settle instead of realizing I needed be the person I wanted to be with 1st

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You CAN do & be anyone you want to IF you believe. I’m here to listen. Y’all can book calls to discover your hope, solutions, & start fresh start! 🔗📲Link here:

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Oxox Coach K

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June 23, 2022June 23, 2022

50 Shades of Addictions and What I Did About It

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50 shades of addictions…like this coffee

here. Confessions of another dirty bathroom photo.

lilbitoffit katie kelly coffee indiana underwear bathroom — Confessions of another bathroom photo…

I made some big decisions lately.

I’m going down part time in radiology. This is my last full-time week & I booked a legacy photo shoot for my 40th in August.

I read a past journalist entry this morning dated October of 2020.

It read, “My coworkers & I were going thru our schedules & I had a gut check moment. I’ve had 3, THREE whole days off in 2 months.”

My reaction, “WTF, Katie! You have a problem.”

I’ve confided in y’all about how I have an addictive personality.

I was never addicted to 1 thing. I discovered thru therapy I was addicted to filling voids.

It’s a hard shot to swallow. Most truth bombs are.

I reflected on my journey this mornin & gave gratitude for how far I’ve come. And I hope y’all can do the same. Be proud of yourselves!

My addictions were similar shades.

pete cat coffee computerlilbitoffit katie kelly indiana — Mornings writing with Pete (and coffee, of course)

I’ve been all 50 shades & shapes & sizes of fugged up, mentally & physically. They affected all my relationships.

Like the memes…

𝗠𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗲: what do we say when we feel like this?
𝗠𝗲: you coulda had a bad bitch?
𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘀𝘁: NO.

Quoting @lizzobeeating seems like a positive life decision for me at this point

You?

My biggest fear used to be gaining weight.

Now, I’ve quickly discovered my biggest fear is missing out on life & working my life away.

I enjoy coaching y’all, writing, speaking, networking with my community, nurturing relationships, & helping others more at this season in my life than trading my time for money.

I want to spend as much time with my mom & dad, my friends & family as I can, making as many memories as I can.
Loving the sh*t out of this life, squeezing every drop.

That’s my true wealth.

I hope I gave y’all a laugh, & let you know that it’s OK. We are always 1 decision away from a completely different life.

Choose your happy.

Xoxo
Coach K

BONUS: words of wisdom from Dr. Nicole LePera about addiction.

“Addiction is an attempt to regulate a nervous system chronically stuck in fight or flight.

Addiction is an attempt to escape from feeling a pain and emptiness that runs to the core of a persons being.

Addiction is a form of self abuse. When we are abused or emotionally neglected as children, we can become our own abuser. It’s all we know. Our brains seek to repeat the familiar.

Addiction is the result of not having childhood co-regulation. An inability to self sooth. A lack of healthy ways to cope.

Addiction is the result of witnessing things that were scary, overwhelming, or downright terrifying without having a safe adult to help you understand them.

Addiction is the childhood LACK OF EMOTIONAL CONNECTION, manifested.

Addiction is an attempt to silence the “dark” thoughts that re-play (like a broken record) the voice of the critical parent.

Addiction is the result of a society’s greatest lie: that says some people aren’t lovable, worthy, or valuable.

Addiction is SHAME. And it’s usually a shame that was never that persons to carry.

Addiction causes a person to engage in survival based behaviors they wouldn’t otherwise engage in like: deception, abuse, theft, or betrayal.

Addiction is a slow spiritual death that no human being consciously chooses.”

Wishing you all so much healing. Love & hugs

All links, free content, coaching, services, discount codes here!

carnivore lilbitoffit katie kelly indiana — Hailing from Fishers, Indiana, Katie is an aficionado of health, mindset, human connection, & entrepreneurship. Writer, speaker, doer of many things, she grew up on her family’s beef cattle & crop farm where agriculture was her first love. She is a Purdue University graduate well known for her storytelling of life lessons & personal transformation through her own relationships, Crohn’s Disease, disordered eating, CrossFit, & adapting a carnivore diet lifestyle. Katie also has over 16 years experience as a Registered Radiologic Technologist, Nutritionist, & Sales Consultant. You can catch her via Instagram @lil_bit_of_fit & blog, Lilbitoffit.com

March 30, 2022

I’m single, broke, and miserable

As one who has made all the wrong decisions before making the right ones, one thing in life I am most grateful are all the things I’ve done wrong that didn’t turn out the way I’d hoped because they taught me how to do things right & how to roll with life.

I made all the wrong decisions with my health, relationships, & finances.

Had a message from a gal this mornin, she stated she was single, broke, & miserable. I felt her anguish, & I’m here to tell you you define your reality. It is what YOU make it.

Sometimes it takes a heart break &/or us f*cking up in business/health/relationships to shake us awake & help us see we are so much more than what we’re settling for.

I refuse to live a life of mediocracy. I decided this yrs ago, 2018 to be exact, when I was living out of my office, showering at gyms, going thru a heartbreak, barely had enough money to purchase groceries, & no idea what the f*ck I was doing or where I was going.
I just knew I was meant for more.

Things still aren’t perfect but I am so grateful for what I have, hopeful & excited for what’s ahead. I am ruthlessly resilient & diligent. Mental fortitude, getcha some.
Ain’t nobody gonna save you or cut you a check but YOU.

I responded to this gal, “There’s always something to be grateful for & if you’re not living life happy, you’re doing it all wrong. But that’s OK because along the way you’ll figure out what to do right.”

She said she couldn’t find anyone she was compatible, no one checked the boxes.🤔

Y’all, everyone will tell you to find someone with the same interests as yours, same values, yada yada…like it’s a parameter instead of a goal that can develop. And none of us are easy to be with, let’s be honest. You shouldn’t be trying to change anyone else in the process either. Let people be. And don’t accept any less yourself.

Don’t settle for ambiguous texts. Stop idolizing men or women that don’t also put you on a pedestal & do for you. If you’re wanting to up level & be a high value person, stop dating beneath your standards because you’re lonely.

Don’t settle for scraps when you deserve that whole piece of prime rib, baby🥩

Yes, you have to have some common ground. But come on, how many failed relationships have you had that started out with this criteria of checking boxes & looking for compatibility?

I’m embarrassed to say how many I’ve had 👀

They fail overtime because you don’t leave room to learn from each other, you don’t go into a relationship open minded & realize you’re both going to change as people & you have to learn how to evolve & grow together or you’re better off growing apart.

That doesn’t mean you have to hate each other. That means you have to love the other person enough AND yourself enough to know the difference.
Lovingly let people go. That’s you loving yourself. And if you can’t do that you have a lot of inner work & baggage to unpack.

My perspective has changed, I view compatibility as loves achievement – not criteria that has to be met prior to trying to get to know someone.

Imagine creating & transforming a life with the right person. The one you chose to be your favorite.

“Your favorite” should not only be the one who makes you happy but they should be the one who pisses you off, who challenges you, who loves you for all your weirdness, who tells you what you don’t want to hear but need to hear, & continues to choose you every day.

Live life happy.
Compatibility is loves achievement.

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” Wayne Dyer

As for me, I have no interest in settling. I read a quote that said, “Settling is what sediment does when it falls to the bottom of a sea or lake, right before it compresses for several million years & turns in to a fossil.”

I’d rather be a fine wine🍷, expensive glass of bourbon 🥃, & some Waygu beef 🥩 than a fossil.

Drop the mic 🎤

Oxox Coach K

February 7, 2022

70% of leadership is this

70% of leadership is how you lead yourself. There is a difference between leadership & management just like there’s a difference between preaching & practicing what you preach.

I strive to be the best woman I can be for others & myself. Has nothing to do with perfection, everything about effort & intention.

Just like fitness, sharing a snippet of mine this morning with the 7am squad! Brutal.

videos here

I want to be a human that when someone talks about me I would hope that they would say she makes me want to be a better person.

Had plenty of wake up calls where I asked myself a few things:

How do you maintain positivity in the face of negativity?
How do you set goals & a plan to accomplish those goals?
When do you stay committed to yourself despite lack of motivation or shade from others?

People will follow you if you give them a purposeful reason to. That is the foundation that 70% of leadership for yourself is built on.

I feel there are 3 kinds of leadership:

1️⃣Physical leadership: Are you healthy & happy & nourished body, mind, & spirit to be strong & serve as a role model to others?

2️⃣Mental leadership: social media brainwashes you & continuously puts what you want to see in front of you. What are you clicking on, subjecting yourself to, & what are you consuming?

Find the people you want to be like, that you want to embody so you can learn from them & be better. Release the individuals who don’t take you where you want to go.

3️⃣Emotional leadership: The ability to stay balanced & even keeled. Choosing positivity in the face of negativity.

Watch your thoughts. Watch your words. Know your mission & values.

Your mission should be built on the foundation of your values.

So what are your values?

Mine: Service. Health. Wealth & Freedom. Self Nourishment. Extraordinary Relationships.

So with that, I’ll step off my soapbox🤗

“Be who you are and say how you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss

I love you all!

Oxox

Coach K

February 4, 2022

I asked an elderly patient what the most important thing she learned in life and this is what she said

I asked an elderly patient years ago, “What is the most important thing you’ve learned in 85 years?”⁣
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And she said somethin to me I’ll never forget that I also heard on a podcast the other day that brought back this memory, “One of the most important things I’ve learned is health is the crown on the well person’s head that only the sick person can see & wealth comes in many other more important forms than money.”⁣
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Ooooof. Who else felt that? 👋⁣
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She went on to say, “I wished I had changed my perspective sooner. Mostly around the perception of being ‘wealthy’ & the perception that in order to be beautiful I had to be skinny. I realize I was always chasing a goal like being rich & losing as much weight as possible instead of embracing the experiences of the journey & being grateful for what I already had.”⁣
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I don’t know about y’all but I love spending time with the elderly. They’re full of magical wisdom.⁣
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3 things I’ve learned in my 39 yrs on this earth I’ll share with you in hopes of you learning this sooner than I did:⁣
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➡️Joy, purpose, fulfillment (JPF) vs fame, fortune, applause (FFA). Which would you choose? I choose JPF because if you choose JPF the FFA will follow.⁣
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➡️Forms of wealth: self mastery, self awareness, family, health, your craft, personal development, money, time, freedom, charity, adventure, your circle of genius & environment⁣
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➡️Don’t lower your standards or standard of living to meet your income, raise your income & standards of living to meet your standards.⁣
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➡️If you’re gonna chase something, chase service. Because “To live in the hearts we leave behind, is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell.⁣
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We’re all gonna die what are you gonna leave behind? Abs, money in the bank, or the memories of a life well lived?⁣
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Oxox⁣
Coach K⁣
Scrubs: @wearfigs
I’m an XXS top, XXS petite bottom for reference (5’1, 105lbs)

February 3, 2021

The Secret to Stop Playing Small

Let me see all the hands of the pros out there in the art of self sabotage like me!🙋🏼‍♀️

Introvert by nature, going after what I really wanted & the thought of being seen terrified me.

The fear of being wrong, judged, & accepted.

It transferred into me self sabotaging, resentment, playing small (literally & figuratively), & chasing a smaller version of myself the majority of my life.

If there was a pro league — I would be a member. 🥇

If you’re looking for clarity or understanding, the best thing I’ve found for me is to look at the pillars of my life.

I categorize these into:

health

wealth

self

relationships

I uncover the triggers, resentment, & blocks holding me back. Instead of making myself feel guilty I’ll use them as anchors for learning more about myself & how I choose to re write my story.

These are the areas you can improve to bring more of that good juju & alignment back into your front door of life.

Yeah, sometimes they’re icky & gross & hurt like a you know what but they’re necessary.

Now — the resentment. Resentment is a sign YOU didn’t honor YOUR boundaries.

In the past before I was self aware of the personal shxt storm I created for myself, I blamed this resentment on the other person or party or situation. When in fact, I was really the fire starter.

Now, when I start to feel resentment & triggered more often by comments &/or behaviors of others — they are a product of me not speaking up for myself & allowing others to cross boundaries I should have set clearly.

These are all things I coach you through as a health coaching client. Wellness encompasses all – body, mind, spirit.

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Happy hump day y’all!

❤️ oxox Coach K