Ever pushed harder just to get worse results?
The female body is designed to be sensitive to calorie and carb intake, you restrict either too hard for too long and your metabolism and your hormones will end up in the toilet.
I’m not saying that eating less and moving more is never the answer, sometimes it is. But for a lot of women they’ve pushed that to the extreme thanks to diet culture telling you have to be perfect for results. Consistency over perfection.
This was many years ago now (literally 10 years ago) Luckily I was able to bring myself back from that - restore hormone balance, metabolism, GI health, eat intuitively and lose weight after both babies with very minimal restriction or tracking (plan to do the same with this baby). But, This is the reality of a lot of women I work with who feel stuck - like no matter what they do they can’t get the weight off and no matter how little they eat they seem to gain weight.
Sometimes you can try:
1) Backing off on hit training/excessive cardio and opting for heavy lifting.
2) Eating more calories.
3) Eating more carbs or carb cycling.
Sometimes that works immediately for my clients, sometimes we need to look a little deeper at hormone balance and other factors! Have you ever gone all in only to find you got worse results?!?!?
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