Today's Swoll fam spotlight is from Megan. What's going on Beech's welcome to the DailySwool podcast episode 2,600, Sunday, August the 27th. And I am your swole host, Papa Swoleo. Megan writes, hi, Swolefam. I recently just introduced myself in the main chat. Now I'm ready to post here too. I

decided to change my health for the better back in 2014. I had just gone through a breakup so I was

hurt and needing to heal in some way. I decided to join the gym by my house, take control of something

in my life, and I was 20 years old. In my very first pictures taken, I look sick and

unhappy. Those pictures were from 2013 before the breakup and I had been consistently lifting for

five years. With one year focused more on spinning and less on lifting, that wasn't a great year for

me. Now that I'm regularly lifting weights, doing my physical therapy

for a torn meniscus and practicing yoga right now three times a week, I'm in the best shape I've

been in as a whole. I fluctuated from 145 to 165, trying different diets, exercise, routines, etc.

Now I'm sitting happy at 160 with good balance between most aspects of fitness and nutrition,

but I want to be clear the weight that I read on the scale doesn't affect me.

It's simply a calculation that doesn't define my worth.

I know I'm strong and healthy, and that's what matters to me.

And I agree that's fantastic.

Megan, so a little round of applause.

Let's get some gorillas.

Let's get some gorillas for Megan.

Very awesome.

Glad that you're crushing it.

And of course, we all know when you just do excessive cardio, it's very exhausting.

It's draining on the nervous system.

And it definitely very rapidly becomes a negative to building muscle and actually achieving most of the health benefits that you really should be aiming for.

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