Welcome to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon.

Okay, this is a topic that I've been wanting to cover for a really long time because I hear so many people who are, they want to start Eveleau or they want to at least back off their intense

training routine but they're afraid that if they do less they'll gain weight.

And first off I totally understand this fear. I think it's very

natural because we are conditioned to believe that exercise is a good tool for

weight loss and that the more exercise we do the leaner we will be.

But I do want to say that taking care of your body by being more intentional with how you move is so worth it.

So I'm glad you're here listening to this episode

and I want to help walk you through this process.

So for those of you that have been around for a while you know my story but I used to be

an over-exerciser in the sense that I was exercising really intensely almost every single day of the week sometimes more than once a day and

I was also under eating and I was definitely under eating protein and my body

got to the point where it felt like it was completely falling apart and it

wasn't sustainable for me and this was you know in my mid 20s so I was young and I

felt like I was like 80 years old and I'm not going to get too much into my story, but when I backed off my routine, the first thing I changed was exercise and I scaled way way back. And when I scaled back, what I noticed was I felt better, but I truly did not see much of a change in my body composition.

And I'll talk about a possible reason for this here in this episode but after a few

months I started to change how I was eating so I at the time I was seeing a functional

medicine doctor because I was having concerns about focusing, about my brain health. I kind of felt like I was in a brain fog and I was getting sleep issues and all of these improved when I backed off my overly intense exercise routine.

But she really helped me with my nutrition and she encouraged me to fuel more and so I started

eating more. And I was eating really quote unquote clean, so lots of whole foods. I was really focusing on, you know, big portions. So like

lots of avocado, lots of rice, things like that. So I was eating very clean, but I was unintentionally eating in a calorie

surplus. So I did start to gain some weight. But I will say that I felt so much better my brain fog started to lift I started to feel like I was able to focus I was sleeping better I was recovering better

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