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The Macro Hour

Why Eating Less Was Holding Her Back w/ WarriorBabe Shannon | Ep. 323

The Macro Hour

Nikkiey Stott

Macro Hour, The Macro Hour, Fitness, Warrior Babe, Nikkiey Stott, Macronutrients, Health & Fitness, Warriorbabe

4.8635 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Macro Hour, Nikkiey Stott sits down with WarriorBabe Shannon to talk about how years of doing “all the right things” — eating less, training harder, and working out seven days a week — left her exhausted, frustrated, and stuck in a cycle that wasn’t serving her body. Through WarriorBabe, Shannon learned how to properly fuel herself, train smarter (not harder), and finally build a sustainable routine that supported real strength, confidence, and peace with food. She open...

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0:00.0

Oh my gosh, if I eat more, I'm going to blow up like a hot air balloon.

0:03.0

That's when I realized, okay, I need help.

0:06.0

You guys worked with my age.

0:08.0

And so to me, that was so much better than just seeing perfect people.

0:12.0

It was like, oh, wow, these are real people, like just like me.

0:15.0

I trusted in the process, but my goodness, how good I felt so quickly. It was incredible.

0:27.0

All right, Shannon, can you tell us what your situation was like before you joined Warrior

0:32.5

Babe? Like, where were you at with your health and your fitness? So I was working out seven days

0:37.4

a week.

0:38.0

No joke.

0:38.8

No rest days.

0:39.9

Right.

0:40.7

High cardio, real high intensity, weight resistance.

0:45.2

Hardly eating anything, which is so opposite of what I now know.

0:49.5

But in that moment, I was really barely at like 900 calories, 1,000 calories, and I was getting fluffier by the second.

0:58.6

So that was really, I was super disciplined and in it, but nothing was happening with any results.

1:07.6

And you mentioned doing like with the years of yo-yo dieting and the years of feeling

1:12.5

like overwhelmed and geez, seven days a week. I can't imagine what that was doing to your body

1:18.5

at the time while under eating at the same time. How was your energy during this? Do you remember

1:22.8

what it felt like to be like doing all these things, but it felt like you weren't truly getting

1:26.8

anywhere with your results? So how that make you feel confidence wise energy wise energy was horrible I was tired

1:33.6

I was cranky I was hungry um I was so frustrated because you know week after week of do do do

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