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Sauna from Coldture Wellness

Eating more did not magically make me leaner.

Eating enough allowed me to train harder, recover better, build more muscle and stop spending my entire day thinking about food.

I think a lot of women assume that the second progress slows down, the answer is automatically to eat less. Less food. More cardio. More restriction.

Sometimes that’s exactly what keeps you stuck.

My body looks leaner now, but I’m eating more than I was a couple months ago because my goal isn’t to see how little food I can survive on. It’s to give my body enough to actually perform, recover and change.

More food doesn’t automatically mean more body fat.

And eating less isn’t automatically better.

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A LOT of fitness advice sounds harsh until you realize the goal isn’t to make you feel bad. It’s to help you stop wasting time on things that aren’t actually moving you forward.

You don’t need to be perfect Monday through Sunday. You don’t need to destroy yourself in every workout. You don’t need to fear carbs, ignore hunger, or do 500 crunches hoping your abs magically appear.

Most of the time, the answer is way less dramatic: eat enough, train with intention, recover properly, and build habits you can actually repeat when life is busy.

Fitness gets a lot easier when you stop looking for the most extreme option and start getting really good at the basics.

And yes… I could absolutely make 20 parts of this 😂

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This is obviously just my personal opinion based on what I personally find most effective for me and my clients 👀

Not all ab exercises are created equal, and some look way harder than they actually are. A lot of it comes down to control, ex*****on and whether you can actually keep tension where you want it.

And no, doing endless ab workouts won’t magically give you abs. Your nutrition, overall training and body fat still matter.

But if I’m going to spend time training abs, these are the movements I personally think are most worth it.

At some point I just got tired of being the reason nothing was changing. Not because I didn’t know what to do. I did.

I just kept doing it halfway, getting frustrated, quitting, and then acting confused when I ended up in the same place.

Eventually I got sick of that cycle more than I hated doing the work. That was the shift.