The Follow Through Field Guide

Description

Knowing what to do to reach your goals when life is chugging along nicely is one thing. Knowing what to do when life goes ass-over tea-kettle is another.

You made the plan. You had every intention of following it. And then…

😵‍💫 Your routine went completely sideways.
🍪 Food suddenly got way more interesting.
📈 The scale stopped cooperating.
✈️ You traveled.
🔥 You got overwhelmed.
🎄 The holidays arrived.
😩 You got tired of trying so damn hard. Now what?

THAT is what The Follow Through Field Guide is for.

It’s your “Okay, what is actually happening here—and what do I do next?” resource. It was designed as the coaching companion to the 2027 Follow Through Planner and contains six deep-dive tools for the places where follow-through gets tricky.

🔎 What’s inside?

📈 WHEN YOU’RE DOING EVERYTHING  RIGHT AND STILL NOT GETTING RESULTS 

TOOL: The Rebound Protocol
“Wait. Why did my progress stop?” Put on your detective hat. Instead of immediately eating less, exercising more, or deciding something is “wrong,” you’ll investigate what actually changed, connect the dots, create a hypothesis and choose a doable next step.

🧠 DAILY STRESSORS KEEP WRECKING MY DAY 😩

TOOL: Emotional + Nervous System Rating + Response Guide
I show you how to get a handle on reading your stress and responding to those daily stressors so you can increase your tolerance zone when everything feels hard. Learn to recognize when activation is outpacing recovery—and build a menu of ways to help yourself recover before food becomes your only coping strategy.

🍦 HELP – I’M TURNING TO FOOD FOR ALL THE ANSWERS

TOOL: Seasonal Dopamine Menus
For those times when apparently food has become the most exciting part of your day. Let’s fix that! Identify what you’re actually looking for—comfort, pleasure, novelty, connection, escape?—and deliberately widen your feel-good options beyond food. You’ll even create your own seasonal Dopamine Menus.

🧳 LIFE CHANGED AND NOW I DON’T KNOW HOW TO KEEP MY GOALS IN PLACE!

TOOL: The Routine Disruption Protocol
For those inevitable times when “Everything was going great until X HAPPENED. Vacation. Illness. Visitors. Work insanity. Moving. Caregiving. A schedule change. Instead of waiting for life to “get back to normal,” learn how to adjust your expectations, protect a few useful anchors and return to your routines in layers so you DON’T QUIT.

🎄 I’VE MADE SO MUCH PROGRESS I DON’T WANT THE HOLIDAYS TO WRECK IT ALL!

TOOL: Holidays By Design
NO, November and December really DO NOT have to become one giant exception. I’ll help you decide what you genuinely want to enjoy, identify which days and weeks are actually different, plan for the events that matter, and intentionally navigate celebrations, travel and holiday food without abandoning yourself until January. You’ll get to enjoy what’s most important to YOU over the season, know exactly what do each week leading up to the New Year, and finish the year with confidence and peace of mind.

🔥 STRESS IS PILING UP AND I’M STARTING TO FEEL BURNED OUT

TOOL: The Burnout Recovery Map
If you’re thinking “I cannot add ONE MORE THING to my list.” Good. This isn’t about adding more. I help you recognize what’s happening, identify what needs restoration and figure out what may need to change, so you can start to get back to feeling like yourself.

I’M EATING TO 70-75% FULL FOR FAT LOSS, BUT I’M NOT LOSING FAT!

TOOL: The Advanced Weight Loss Troubelshooting worksheet
Your goals are important and you deserve to reach them! This worksheet will help you figure out if your perception of eating when hungry and stopping at 70-75% full is appropriately fueling you at the slight caloric deficit that allows for sustainable fat loss. No more guessing. Use the worksheet to audit your fueling intake behind your perception and discover if there has been a slow caloric creep in your food choies that stops fat loss in it’s tracks. If so, you’ll recalibrate your NEW perception of 70-75% full with temporary calorie audits to clean up the perception bottleneck in your fat-loss journey. This is a powerful tool that can get you unstuck in your non-restrictive body-based approach to weight management.

🧭 AND THEN THERE’S THE WAYFINDER INDEX…

Look up the issue you’re having then find the answer. I’ve cross referenced with podcasts, planner tools, handouts, and external resources help. You do NOT need to remember which worksheet you need, where you saw that coaching tool, which Planner page addresses the problem, or which podcast episode I talked about three years ago. 🤣You just need to know: What’s happening right now?

You’ll find your problem category in the Wayfinder Index and it will point you toward the most useful:

✨ Field Guide tool
📓 Planner page or practice
🎧 Podcast episode
🔗 Additional resource

It’s essentially “Tell me what’s happening, and I’ll show you where to start.” Which means less Googling. Less guessing. Less spiraling. More focused adjustments which means you spend less time to trying to figure out what’s wrong, and more time following through and getting RESULTS.

WHY THE PLANNER + FIELD GUIDE ARE MEANT TO GO TOGETHER

Think of it this way:

• 📓 THE PLANNER: What am I going to do? Plan → Practice → Review
• 🧭 THE FIELD GUIDE: Okay… THAT happened. Now what? Troubleshoot → Learn → Adjust

The Planner helps you see what’s happening.
The Field Guide helps you know what to DO about it.

That’s why I designed them to work together.

Can you use the Field Guide without the Planner? Absolutely. These are useful coaching tools in their own right. But together? 🔥 That’s where you get the complete Follow Through System. When you purchase the planner AND the field Guide together you get 4 seasonal LIVE Group Seasonal planning sessions with Heather. Great for accountability, motivation throughout the year, AND connection with other women just like you showing up for their goals. CLICK HERE to check out The Complete Follow Through System.

Because the goal was never to make a perfect plan and execute it perfectly. The real skill is learning how to find your way forward when you don’t. 🧭