Oh, do you feel like you're bouncing back or how are your workouts?

Like it is a topic that comes up quite quickly.

And that's like, that's hard when you are already feeling like a stranger in your body.

Exercise and nutrition helps me feel like the best version of myself.

And that makes me a better mom. It makes me a better partner.

I feel happier. I was unable to lose weight

breastfeeding. I think it's one of the biggest myths that they tell us as new moms. This is the

Pursuit of Wellness Podcast and I'm your host, Mari Llewellyn.

Hi guys, it's Mari. Welcome back to the Pursuit of Wellness Podcast. Today we are getting

very wellnessy. I want to do kind of my first real episode talking about my postpartum fitness journey,

which is kind of crazy. Like I, and honestly, today's sitting down on the microphone,

I feel so much more clear-headed than I have in previous episodes.

I'm feeling more and more like myself as the days go on.

And I'm sure in a month or two months, I'll look back and be like,

wow, I wasn't even myself yet.

Now I feel like myself. But I really am just sort of inch look back and be like, wow, I wasn't even myself yet. Now I feel like myself.

But I really am just sort of inching back to feeling motivated, clear-minded, happy. And I think a lot of

that has to do with kind of entering my new fitness journey, my fitness journey 2.0.

If you are a new listener or maybe a new mom or whatever

it may be, I lost 90 pounds in 2017 and that was what kind of started this whole career for me.

I dropped out of college. I was in a really bad place in my life and fitness was what kind of

took me out of that. I was weightlifting. I was learning about really bad place in my life and fitness was what kind of took me out of that. I was

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