![]() ![]() Moving your body every day is a good thing, no question about it. This routine has become an integral part of my life and I’m 100% grateful for this. Now don’t get my wrong, focusing on increasing exercise to my life was NOT a mistake. Far from it-if anything, I gained weight. I could feel muscles forming, I knew I was getting stronger, I had more energy-but I was not losing weight. I was running faster and longer and my flexibility and strength were better than they had ever been in my life thanks to yoga and Pilates. ![]() I woke up an hour earlier every day and went to the gym four to five times a week before work. I had felt as though I was doing the things you are supposed to do: being mindful of what I eat, pushing myself to exercise more and better, but with little to no result on the scale. Over the past two years I made it a goal to up the amount of exercise in my life. I had recently been feeling really betrayed by my body. And I’m not going to lie…it was frustrating in some ways because, even though I felt accomplished and fit, I was a little disappointed that I didn’t lose any weight. I was running long distances leading up to the race (five miles, then six, then eight, then ten….), and it was a great experience! But I did this at my highest weight ever. One of the biggest things I have learned is that fitness and weight loss aren’t the same thing, and they don’t necessarily come hand in hand… I was definitely feeling stronger and more disciplined than ever before in my life. At the start of her post, she talked about how frustrated she was that exercise never led to weight loss for her. Elsie’s post about her experience is well worth the read and a lot of things she said really resonated with me. ![]() I first heard about the Whole30 on one of my all-time favorite blogs, A Beautiful Mess. ![]()
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