Welcome to Empowered Radio.

I am your host, Emma Montgomery, an online nutrition and fitness coach and creator of Shred

with M. Each week we'll talk all things nutrition, training, and mindset. You'll be able to take my tips and strategies

and apply what you learn to see results with both your body and your mind. So without further ado,

let's jump into the episode. Hello, welcome back to another episode of Empowered Radio. Thank you guys for tuning in. Just a quick

reminder before I jump into today's topic, the June Shred is going to open for enrollment on Tuesday,

the, I believe it's the 27th. So it's the day after, yes, the 27th, the day after Memorial Day. So it will be open that

week and we will start on June 2nd. That is the last shred before, what I would say is like

summer kicking off. So before the 4th of July. So if you are wanting to jump in to the shred

that will open on Tuesday,

I'll put the wait list down in the show notes for you guys. But again, that'll start on June

2nd. But on to today's topic, which is all about being skinny fat. So when you hear somebody

say skinny fat, basically what they're talking about is a body composition that has

low muscle mass and a higher body fat percentage, especially around the belly area. I will say that

when I first started losing weight, like when I gained the significant amount of weight when I was

pregnant with Weston, I got up to 200 pounds. And as I was losing weight, it was truly weight. I can't even say that it was like all

fat loss. Yes, of course, there was fat loss, but I'm sure that during that time I probably

lost muscle as well because I was not strength training. I was not eating high protein.

I couldn't, I was probably, if I had to guess, it may have been like 50 grams of protein a day, if that.

And the workouts and things that I was doing was a lot of just cardio and jogging.

And so I definitely, if you could see the picture that I have in my mind right now, I was what I would call skinny fat.

So today we're going to talk about the things that I did and things that you can do to change your body composition.

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