You're listening to Biceps After Babies Radio, episode 362.

Hello and welcome to Biceps After Babies Radio, a podcast for ladies who know that fitness

is about so much more than pounds lost or PRs.

It's about feeling confident in your skin and empowered in your life.

I'm your host, Amber Breezyicki, a registered nurse, personal trainer,

wife, and mom of four. Each week, my guests and I will excite and motivate you to take action

in your own personal fitness as we talk about nutrition, exercise, mindset, personal development,

and executing life with conscious intention. If your goal is to look, feel, and be strong

and experience transformation from the inside out, you, my friend, are in the right place.

Thank you for tuning in. Now let's jump into today's episode.

Hey, hey, hey, welcome back to another episode of Biceps After Babies Radio. I'm your host, Amber

Breesicki. And I want to start this episode off with a little bit of honesty, because this is a topic that feels deeply personal to me and at the same time incredibly universal for a lot of women. And it's about the weight that we live in, the body that we live in, and what is attainable

for that weight and for that body, and then what's maintainable and what feels right for each of us.

And so if you've ever chased equal weight or you've ever chased a dream of fitting into a

certain size clothes, you know how easy it is to get caught up in the numbers.

And I talk a lot about data and I talk a lot about allowing the data to guide your actions.

But the truth is that not all weights are created equal in terms of how they feel to live at,

how sustainable they are to maintain, or what they demand from us mentally, physically, emotionally. And so this is

something that I have learned firsthand throughout my journey. I've gone through bulks. I've gone through

cuts. I've gone through maintaining. I've gone through everything in between. And I've experienced

the difference between pushing myself to hit a weight that's attainable with some extreme effort versus learning to

live comfortably out of the weight that is maintainable long term. And I will tell you that

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