Welcome to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Happy Thursday. Today we are going to talk about

beginner weight gain and why it happens. We're going to explain some things, debunk some myths, and hopefully you walk away with a better

understanding of why your body does what it does. First, before we get into this, I want to remind you that we have eight free Evelo classes in the show

notes. You can click on that, put in your email, and the classes are sent straight to your email. You can keep them forever, continue to take

them over and over. So there's that and then I also just wanted to thank those of you that have

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Okay let's get into this episode. I think it's important to have an understanding

of why your body may change the way it changes

and what happens to your body when you start a new program.

I don't put out this podcast so that we can obsess about what we look like.

That is actually the last thing that I want exercise to do for us,

and I want to educate us so that we're not doing that and we're using exercise as a tool to build our bodies up.

And I want us to understand why our bodies may be responding in a certain way.

I think there's nothing wrong with like wanting to look great, right?

But I also think it's important to understand what exercise is and what it's not doing for our body so that we can be realistic and we can be

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