About Unstuck

My Story

We are all in this together, me included. I'm still doing this work every single day.

Stuck in the cycle of the next new diet, the next fresh start, the next Monday. Some plans worked for a while - but the weight kept yo-yoing and I kept starting over.

The worst part wasn't the food. It was the stress. Four young kids, a difficult marriage, working hard just to keep everything from falling apart. Running on empty and calling it a life.

Then I walked into a CrossFit gym - injured, overwhelmed, not even able to lift my right arm above my head.

Two years later I was doing ring muscle-ups.

Something shifted. Not just physically - but in how I saw myself. Strength wasn't something you either had or didn't. It was something you built. One small rep at a time.

That led me to get certified and actually back it up. Precision Nutrition Level 1 Nutrition, ISSA Nutrition, ISSA Menopause, CrossFit Level 1, and the one that turned out to matter most, Precision Nutrition's Sleep, Stress and Recovery certification. Stress and recovery, it turned out, were the whole thing.

I spent years coaching nutrition and habit-building, running 4-6 week challenges built around one belief:

Nothing is sustainable without a strong foundation of healthy habits.

Unstuck was born from everything I learned in those years - and everything I lived through before them.

You're not back at square one. You never were.

The base was just never built, and stress kept eroding every attempt. That's the work now: building habits small enough to survive a stressful week, until the foundation holds and you're done starting over.

Today that looks like the Unstuck Circle, a free community where we practice one small habit a week together, and more of the writing I share here. Come be part of it.

Rise Unstuck. 🦋

- Alex