Welcome to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Let's talk about maintenance today. I'm going to discuss how to know you're ready for maintenance, the difference between build mode and maintenance mode and how to measure muscle mass in this

episode. Before we get into today's episode I would be so appreciative if you

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Okay, so let's get into today's episode. I do hesitate to talk about these things

because I think that women, not just women, a lot of people are afraid to

strength train and build muscle and I really think that women may be tempted to lean into maintenance mode too soon when they could really benefit from continuing to be in build mode and I really want to talk about

that today in the beginning of this episode. I always have to preface as well that

Evelo is not a weight loss program we are a muscle building program. We'll talk about body composition

and we're even getting to fat loss a little bit in this episode and kind of play off

of some of the topics that we talked about in last week's episode about body

re composition. And again, I know there are many people who talked about body recomposition.

And again, I know there are many people who listen to the podcast

who are not here for body recomposition reasons

and they're here for health, overall health reasons.

And I just wanted to give you that disclaimer

and give you full permission to skip this episode

if you'd like.

So today we're going to talk about how to know

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