Hello, hello, welcome back to another episode of Empowered Radio. I am your host, Emma Montgomery.

Before we get into the episode, this is the last call. So today, when you're hearing this,

last chance to join the April shred. So that will close for enrollment as of April 6th. So

that evening, it will be closed. So if you have not joined and you're

hearing this on Monday and you want to join, make sure to jump in. I will link it in the show notes.

But on to today's episode, we're going to talk about if you can build muscle in a deficit

and just body recomposition. I know, I feel like it's

very misunderstood in terms of just body recomp in general. And I will often, when I'm talking to

women, they will say, well, I don't care if I lose weight. I don't want to lose weight. And it's not so much about the scale. I just want to tone. I want to look good. I want to look good in my clothes. I want to look good naked in a bikini, all of those things. And so when someone is saying, I want to tone or look toned, what their meaning is they want to lose fat, they want to build muscle,

they want to look tighter, and typically all at the same time. And while that sounds ideal,

it's also really why women will stay stuck in a cycle of what I will call maintenance purgatory.

So it's your maintaining but not purposely,

like your body's not changing. You're wanting to lose fat. You're wanting to build muscle. You want

to look more toned, but you look exactly the same. And so this is essentially because

body recomposition is not a strategy, it's an outcome from multiple

phases and strategies. So that is what we're going to dive into today. So without further ado,

we are just going to jump right in. I think it's important to start with defining what body recomp

actually is. So body

recomposition is losing fat while building or maintaining muscle. And sometimes the scale

doesn't move much or at all. You'll see people who I'll see pictures and I even have pictures

where I weigh the same in both photos, but my body looks drastically different.

And you'll have one version that might be like, you know, a skinny fat and then another version that is tighter and leaner and more defined.

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