if you’re exercising tracking your macros eating clean and still not losing fat you need to Read full this blog post. me 12 years to get my dream body and in this blog post I’m going to share with you the mistakes I made that I thought were healthy but we’re actually sabotaging my fat loss.

I was doing everything right i ate clean i tracked my macros i exercised but still I wasn’t getting toned i tried every possible fat loss diet out there i tried every possible form of exercise from heat to running 10 km on an empty stomach first thing in the morning but nothing worked until I finally cracked the code that got me in my dream body once I fixed these seven mistakes I was making fat literally melted off my body without dieting or exercise and the best part is that anyone can do this.

1st mistake losing fat

I did concluded into this one advice eat clean and exercise so I did i would go for a fasted 10 km run first thing in the morning after which I would drink a berry smoothie for breakfast in the evenings I would bike 7 km to the gym do a 30-minute cardio session there followed by 1 hour intense workout and then bike back home i calculated calories of each cucumber and carrot and I ate only clean whole foods.

basically I did everything by the book but yet it didn’t work i wasn’t getting the results I wanted in fact my body composition was getting even worse i spent evenings reading how can I get toned all these Insta bloggers I followed and these Pinterest girls had such perfect body and I could not understand what was I doing wrong i started thinking could it be that I’m just not trying hard enough maybe I didn’t sport enough and ate too much

so I doubled down i worked out even harder and ate even cleaner i started experimenting different types of sports thinking that maybe the type of the sport I’m doing has something to do with it maybe heat is the answer to getting rid of my muffin top and getting my way snatched or maybe cycling or skating didn’t do a difference then I thought okay then it must be something about diet

i was so frustrated so devastated why wasn’t it working for me where are my abs why I’m not getting toned when I am working this hard and eating this clean i even started to think that maybe my body is just built this way and I can never achieve the results I’m after out of desperation I hired personal trainer which changed everything

I had learned about fitness but at first I couldn’t accept her advice i even questioned her professionalism but turns out I was making the biggest mistake possible the one that kept me stuck for years we’ll get to that soon but first let me tell you where I went wrong what I was doing back then was far from being healthy although yes

I ate clean and I moved my body but being healthy is so much more than just what you eat and losing fat and getting toned goes far beyond just eating a salad for lunch to get in shape your body has to be healthy as a whole and once that’s achieved losing fat happens effortlessly being in shape being fit is a byproduct of a healthy system healthy body so focusing on your entire health is the key to losing fat and I’ll continue telling what did I do to achieve this state where my body just melted in few months into something that I worked so hard for over a decade

2nd mistake losing fat

my second mistake that was sabotaging my fat loss you know how they say that calorie deficit and exercise give you abs well that advice ruined my body and this is actually the most common mistake people do myself included and I know this is hard to comprehend in your head when logically thinking if you don’t eat much you should be losing fat right in theory this works but on practice it is not that simple

let me explain my problem was that I was on a calorie deficit for way too long which ended up wrecking my metabolism and to recover to fix that I had to start eating more but eating more isn’t what did the trick fat loss wise here is what did after I had recovered psychologically from starving my body and I had learned that eating more is fine I started to think about food all the time

i realized that I cannot continue living this way i don’t want to be this obsessed about food for the rest of my life and I don’t want to feel this way full and sluggish and for God’s sake I just want to lose fat why does it have to be this complicated so I realized I cannot continue living this way either so I decided to just it so to say i decided to relax stop everything I was doing and let go and suddenly I had cracked the freaking code

so here’s the thing i started getting the results I wanted once I stopped obsessing over food i stopped starving myself but I also stopped stuffing myself i stopped calculating calories i stopped weighing my food or tracking macros i stopped limiting foods and instead I started just eating normal food still healthy yes but just normal home-cooked meals

my eating became intuitive i only eat when I’m hungry and not because my diet plan saves me that I have to eat at 3 p.m a snack although I’m still full as from the lunch I ate it’s really simple if I crave for something I eat it if I’m full I stop eating i don’t follow a certain diet or avoid certain foods unless

I have to because of an allergy intolerance or other health reasons i do avoid anything that’s artificial or processed or it’s just not good for your health it’s also very simple if it’s natural I eat it if it’s not I most likely don’t however I do still sometimes eat a candy bar or chocolate or chips the key here is being balanced and I really strongly believe that intuitive eating is the answer

coming from a person who has literally tried it all these are the food habits that have done the biggest change for me but it is not only the food habits alone that allowed me to lose fat and getting toned which brings me to

3rd mistake losing fat

my third mistake that was ruining my fat loss now that I think back it’s almost ironic how I run 10 km every morning and got fatter but here’s why working out made me fatter because I overtraining meaning it was in flight or fight mode and in this state it is not possible to lose fat no matter what you do it’s not possible so what you got to do is you need to rest you need to eat more and you need to rest

my personal trainer demanded me to stop exercising and instead focus on recovering my body which can take even few years to recover and indeed for me it took five years to fully recover but it was definitely worth it

after recovery I finally saw the results I had been chasing for over a decade but not in a way that you might think here’s the thing what I had to learn the hard way is that in order to lose fat you actually have to exercise quite little which again goes against the common advice move more eat less and you’ll lose fat three times 1 hour a week is more than enough

I replaced 10 km runs with 1 hour walks which also was a big game changer in getting toned and losing fat so going from high intensity to low intensity exercise is what did the trick for me to start losing fat and getting toned exercise-wise but there was something even more important

4th mistake losing fat

my fourth mistake that was ruining my fat loss and if you don’t fix this you could be wasting years same way as I did i mean imagine spending over a decade working on your dream body without seeing any results that was me and the worst part was that

I did not understand why but now I finally know what was the problem so here’s the thing everything I did in the beginning of my health journey was wrecking my nervous system overeating under exercising and only when my nervous system was regulated I started to see results

so here’s what I did to regulate my nervous system in addition to what I already mentioned eating more and exercising less there are three more things that I did to regulate my nervous system that allowed me to get toned and lose fat finally one I ended a toxic emotionally abusive relationship i was 4 years in a relationship that was really challenging and it wasn’t going good at all it was toxic and emotionally abusive and only once I ended it and I am now in a peaceful and a calm relationship

where we support each other my body composition has changed so much so get yourself a man that will calm your nervous system and not f it up the second thing I did to regulate my nervous system which I still underestimate to this day and this might be an obvious one but I feel like I need to say this because once I fixed this I saw how big impact it had

it’s sleeping enough what’s good and the last thing I did to regulate my nervous system is purpose and self-actualization related but I started doing things I like doing i started prioritize work life balance aka study life balance slowing down following my heart enjoying life a little bit more so the key word is avoiding stress

I know it’s impossible to eliminate it from your life completely but listening to your body will do a lot for you and what I mean is that if you’re stressed maybe doing a high intensity workout is not a good idea that’s not what your body will appreciate right now but instead it would appreciate Pilates or yoga followed by a deep breath session or having a walk in nature and I know it’s a hard pill to swallow cuz it goes it really goes against the common advice eat less and sport more to lose fat but nope girls

it’s not true all you need is a calm regulated nervous system because not having a calm nervous system can cause you even more problems which will deepen the fat loss problem even more

5th mistake losing fat

my fifth mistake that was ruining my fat loss and this is the most important had I not fixed this I would have never lost fat or seen my body getting toned and this could be your case too my healthy lifestyle that I was practicing back in the days did a big damage on my overall health and one of the biggest complications it caused was a malfunctioning turoid aka hypothyroidism

so if you cannot lose weight no matter what you’re doing there might be underlying health issues that needs to be resolved first once I fixed my thyroid my body started to function normal again if I went on a calorie deficit I would actually see results which was so rewarding when you’ve been struggling with this for over a decade but here’s the thing what fixed my thyroid was what I did during those years recovering eating more sporting less prioritizing rest avoiding stress and calming down my nervous system

i did not use medications to fix it and one more thing that played the biggest part in fixing my thyroid was fixing my iron levels and even more importantly feritin levels because iron plays a big part in thyroid function and due to all the dieting I did during those years my iron levels and even more importantly feritin levels were totally empty

i started taking pills and after 3 months oh my god I saw so crazy results my hair started to grow i started to have so much energy i felt so much better and next time I went to do my blood tests my thyroid was fixed now my body was functioning normal and I could see results I was after

so here’s what I meant when I said in the beginning that it’s not about the food you eat or how much you exercise it’s about your health as a whole getting my dream body had nothing to do with pushing harder at the gym or cutting more calories it was about actually getting healthy of course you still need to eat healthy of course you need to eat less and move more in order to lose fat but if you overdo it it goes against you working hard is not the answer

don’t fight your body but work with it this is a major mindset shift that I had to go through that was really hard for me at first switching from that work harder to more slower and intuitive approach

6th mistake losing fat

my sixth mistake that was ruining my fat loss the fitness advice I followed literally ruined my body because most of the fitness advice out there is for men and it does not work for women we got to understand that the male and female body are built different and a lot of the fitness advice out there is from the male perspective so no wonder it wasn’t working and got my body completely wrecked women need to be more intuitive with everything listen to our body do we feel strong today or do

we need something more soothing some days you also need to eat more than others and avoiding certain foods can be seriously damaging your health for example avoiding saturated fats is the biggest mistake a woman can do i used to avoid them like the plague but that seriously ruined my health here is why we need fats healthy but also saturated fats for our hormones to work well i used to avoid eating cheese butter milk

I felt so bad and so weak my face was full of painful pimples my hair was super weak and hormones totally out of balance but when I incorporated products containing saturated fats again back into my diet I’ve never been healthier felt better or looked better

if you are a healthy individual like you don’t have diabetes or any other health complications you don’t get fat from certain foods there is no special diet to lose weight and you cannot lose weight in one place specific place only that all is just created by the fitness industry i also want to mention that body types are different and that’s normal this is genetics you cannot fight this another thing that the women also need to understand and accept is that your body composition will change during the month a week before

my period I cannot wear certain pants of mine and with years I’ve learned it’s okay i didn’t get fat because of the chocolate bar I ate yesterday evening it’s my periods this is just something we need to learn to live with and instead of punish our body we need to learn to nourish them because when we do this is also when we start to feel our best look our best and also perform at our best

7th mistake losing fat

my seventh mistake that was ruining my fat loss there is more to life than just being in shape and when something starts to be such of an obsession that it starts to affect other parts of your life it should be a red flag for you like for me because of my obsession my school performance started to go down and when I fixed my habits and started to take care of myself

I started to notice big changes in my performance not only that I got my dream body but I also started to feel more energetic and my brain efficiency improved insanely much i started learning new things super easy and quick i could stay productive for 8 to 10 hours a day without having dips in energy however I simply couldn’t fit everything into this one blog post so wait next blog post thank you…

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