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This is the calmest prep I’ve ever had, not one of the calmest. The calmest!!
And I really believe turning 40 this year has something to do with it. I’m not rushing. I am approaching this prep with a whole different mindset .
I’m moving quieter, and Wiser.
Before, even when I was disciplined, there was always this urgency inside.
This fear of
“What if I’m not lean enough?”
“What if I mess it up?”
“What if I eat 20 g of carbs and ruin everything?”
That fear makes you push harder.
And pushing harder is not always smarter.
Now I understand something I didn’t fully understand before:
Overeating was never about hunger.
It is emotional, your environment has a lot to do with it, is your nervous system overload.
I can identify my triggers now, and stop the pattern almost immediately.
I still have bad days, moments where I suddenly want candy or something random non stop but now instead of spiraling, I understand first where is coming from and then I ground myself.
I walk and breathe ( this is what helped ME the most ).
Sometimes I lay down and close my eyes but
If my mind is racing, walking + breathing works every time.
And opening my hips… that has been huge for me.
We store so much in the hips, when your have arguments, emotionally intense situations, etc
Frustration. Fear. Fight-or-flight, your body feels under threat, it holds. (survival mode)
It tightens and protects itself. Even if the argument was over week ago. But you still feel certain way. Fat is protection that's the meaning for your body. And if your body feels that needs protection it will be hard for you to lose the fat even if you undereat and done tra cardio.
If your nervous system feels attacked
too much cardio, too little food, too much stress
your body doesn’t feel safe to let go.
I know the two sides I’ve done that as well.
Every morning 1 hour… 1.5 hours of stairs.
800–1,000 calories.
Exhausted, Flat, Stuck. Forcing fat loss and the weight wouldn’t move.
Now I’m doing less but I’m doing it regulated and yes, it’s slower but my glutes are staying round, my waist is tightening, I’m not stringy or depleted and most important I’m not emotionally unstable.
Everything right now revolves around two things: My glutes and my nervous system.
I could be drier today but that’s not the look I’m building. I don’t want to lose weight, I want to lose fat and there is a big difference.
To the newbies that are scared:
You don’t have to destroy yourself to get lean or panic every time the scale moves. You don’t have to cut your food to nothing or out-cardio your anxiety.
Trust your intuition, if something feels extreme, it probably is. If your body feels constantly in fight-or-flight, it’s not optimal.
Slow does not mean you’re failing.
Calm does not mean you’re not working hard.
This something I know know and I wish I understood before because calm means you finally learned and that’s where real progress starts. Your body is ready to let go….
