Why Your Body Won't Drop Those Last 5 Pounds

You’re doing everything “right”…
Eating well, working out, staying consistent
and yet those last 5 pounds won’t budge.

In this episode, Shanon breaks down why your body may be resisting weight loss and why it has nothing to do with willpower.

This conversation goes deeper than calories and workouts. It explores the emotional, mental, and energetic patterns that keep your body stuck and how the desire to “lose 5 pounds” is often about something much bigger.

If you’ve been feeling frustrated, stuck, or disconnected from your body… this episode will shift your perspective completely.

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Hello, hello, Fire fam. Welcome back to another episode of the Fuel the Fire podcast with your host, Shannon Safi. This week's episode, I want to get into why the body can't drop five pounds. So before I do that, I'm just going to give you a little life recap on how things have been going so I can set the scene for you. We are coming off of Mother's Day weekend. So typically I record my episodes on Monday and I'll have them drop on Wednesday. Then you're probably getting an email on Thursday reminding you that the episode has come out. If you want to get on the mailing list, just let me know. Just like message me. There's many ways to get a hold of me, whether it's email, Instagram DM, Facebook DM, all the ways work. So coming off of the weekend, I feel like my voice is a little hoarse because we went to see some live music during the day to celebrate Mother's Day with my fiance's family. And I felt like I was probably yelling a little bit. And then of course, we were high on energy on the drive back home because we drove from Easton back to Allentown. It was like a 40-minute drive, so it was a bit of a journey. But during that time, of course, we had to continue and scream sing music. So we were just feeling good, having a nice time, enjoying ourselves on a Sunday because I don't know. You know, it's like we had a long weekend of lots of fun things, but our energy was starting to drop. So we were just trying to think of ways to get ourselves hyped, to keep going, keep flowing, and continue to celebrate Mother's Day. Because we went back to my parents' house and I cooked for my family, which was really nice. I made this Thai coconut curry cod and it was good. It was really good. I mean, there are things that I make that I'm like, uh, that was like a flop, or I have critiques on some of the things that I create. But this one, like, this one really hit. I feel like I really nailed it. I made some tweaks. I've made this recipe before and it was like not as delicious, but this time I made a few tweaks. I little added a little extra turmeric, made it a very beautiful yellow color, and the dish really just popped. So 10 out of 10, would recommend. If you're interested in this recipe, let me know. I'll share it with you. I found it on TikTok, if I'm being honest. I just added a lot more curry and some extra bonus seasonings to it to make it a little more delicious. But anyway, this is not about that delicious meal, though I could definitely go for it again and talk about it some more. Anyway, coming back to it, coming off of this energy and coming into Monday morning after a long weekend of lots of fun things. I slept in. I really needed to actually sleep in. I mean, I got up at seven. I don't know how much sleeping in that really is. But I was in bed for like a solid nine hours. I feel like I needed that after all of the festivities. Whenever I spend energy or time around a lot of people, even if it's people that I love, it's really not about that. It's just about my social battery. So putting a lot of good energy out there, doing my best to be a good listener. I just notice that I have to kind of come into myself, have some alone time, and also shake off any energy that I might have picked up from someone somewhere over something, you know, like when you're a lot around a lot of people, inevitably you pick up some energies that are not yours and you got to shake them off. You got to dust them off one way or another. My preferred way is to do it alone through a little bit of meditation and relaxation, which is always beautiful. Which, by the way, I did also do. I went floating for the first time in a while. It used to be something that I did every month. I had a what they call frequent floater membership. If you're not familiar, floating is a sensory deprivation tank. So that's the type of floating I'm referring to. When I told it to my mom, she's like, Oh, you were floating down the river. And I was like, uh, not quite. But she knows what it is. I've talked to her about it before because I had done it for so many years. I can't even remember. I think the first time was like 2018 or something like that, maybe even before. I don't remember exactly, but I've been doing it for so long and I really do love it. The concept is that you're in a tank that is filled with water. So, you know, not completely filled because your face obviously needs to be in air so that you can lay in it. So it's kind of more like a tub, so to speak, and the water is highly concentrated with Epsom salt. So, because of this, when you lay down in it, you float. Okay. And there are many benefits to it, like it relaxes your body, it helps relax sore muscles. And then when you add in the fact that the water temperature is about the same temperature as the air. So as you're laying in it, it creates the sensation that you're floating because you sort of start to lose the feeling of where the water starts and begins. So you kind of feel like you're just like floating in air. It's also pitch black in there. I mean, you can choose to put on lights if you want, but part of that is to really deprive yourself of your senses. So you can't see, you can't really feel, you can't really smell. It can be disorienting the first time that you do it, but after like the first or second time, you can really just like sink into it and truly relax. It is such a beautiful way for me to relax my body, release any tension that I'm holding in, and to just like get out of my mind a bit. So through this, I really try to practice my meditation. And it's really the art of just like letting your thoughts float on by if they come up, as they come up, and essentially like detach any emotion that is stuck to that thing. So essentially, I just stop trying to control my mind and I let it flow with no judgment, just observing as like a bystander to my own thoughts, which is always really nice. I'm a huge fan of it. I think we should all have some type of practice where we do that. That's where a lot of people miss out on the benefits of meditation because they assume it means like completely silencing your mind when it's really about being an observer of your mind and detaching yourself from the emotions that come up with your thoughts, right? As humans, we always make things mean something. And it's a good practice to realize that we are the ones in control of what the things that we experience and think actually mean and what value they hold in our life. And so with meditation, it's a moment to detach from it and realize we are the one giving it the emotional power that it is carrying. We are the one creating a charge with that thought. So we'll talk about a couple of other things in regards to meditation today as we get further into this topic. But yeah, I just wanted to share that with you because that is personally one of my favorites. I highly recommend it. If you ever have questions, again, I love to chat about it. I'm all here for relaxing in the body. I think that is such an important part of the human experience with the way that we live. We're always used to this go, go, go, and that can happen, but it's also important to layer in times of slowing down and relaxing. It is key for everyone, right? We're not meant to be little robots that just do things all the time. There are times that we need to just be, and we don't have to be productive, release any expectations we have on ourselves, and detach from the emotions that can kind of create that whirlwind in our mind and body. Okay. So getting into today's topic: why the body can't drop five pounds. So, with this, the reason I came up with this topic, when I went into meditation this morning, I just kind of like I have this pretty little meditation room that anytime I go into it, my body automatically relaxes. I've pretty much conditioned myself to get into that, which is so helpful because now I can just sink into things really quickly. So, again, if you don't have this for yourself, having a little space and you don't have to have a whole room, you can have like a bean bag, you can have a chair, just dedicate it to your meditation or relaxation. And so it's really helpful because again, it conditions your body to automatically relax when you're in that space. So when I was in my meditation room this morning, I wrote this. So I'm just gonna read it to you from the paper I have with me because this really is something that I see all the time. This is so common with my clients, and the more and more I put it out there, I think the more and more people realize that this is an experience that they are living. I'm just gonna read it as is. This is something that I was gonna put on a video, but you're gonna hear it here first. So, this is specifically for high performers, be it in sports or career, knowing that disconnecting from the body is often a key to your success. Shutting the brain off from discomfort is what allows you to push your limits and achieve things beyond what the average person can. This is a beautiful skill that you have cultivated. This skill is a powerful tool, and eventually it has to become something that we hone in on so that we learn how to turn it off when needed. If we leave it on too long or just live our lives in that energy, the body eventually tries and forces itself by getting loud to communicate that something is actually off balance in the body that we haven't been able to hear. What that starts to actually look like is inflammation, aches, pains, digestive issues, autoimmune flare-ups, weight gain, vertigo, poor sleep, lack of hunger cues, just to name a few. This can even lead to something like getting blood work with your doctor, they tell you everything's pretty normal or everything's just like you know, mildly within range, everything's still fine. And so you're back to square one, still not having any answers. So to solve this, if you've ever experienced it, what we actually have to do to get your body back to center is to learn to quiet the mind and learn the language of the body so that you can release what is feeling stuck. This all relates to the topic of why the body can't drop five pounds, because this is one of the most common ways and experiences that we have around this that makes us recognize something has to shift. So most people listening to this, you're probably a former athlete or just a high-achieving, ambitious person, which is amazing. And I absolutely love that. And it's something that you continue, you can continue to be. The problem that sometimes we face or the fear that we face when it comes to healing this is that we think if we work on the thing that is actually making us successful, we're going to actually lose all of our success. When in reality is you're just transmuting this skill, you're changing it. You are coming into your body, learning how to function more optimally rather than in an imbalance, so that you can achieve next level success without having to sacrifice your sanity, your peace, and the comfort that you desire in your life. We all want stability and comfort and we want things to flow. And sometimes it takes time getting used to that, especially when we are driven by some of the things that have challenged us, when we operate from this place of needing to prove ourselves, to show everyone that we can do it. Eventually you're like, okay, I've done my thing, I've proved it. Either it's gotten me what I wanted, or actually really hasn't gotten me what I wanted. And so that next level becomes like, okay, well, I just want to be at peace while still achieving success. And so this is really what my body and soul freedom program is centered around. You're getting a lot of insight on this episode as to what goes down in the body and soul freedom program, which I've been playing around with adding another asset into. So I'm really excited about that part of it. But stay tuned for details on that. However, if you are someone that relates to this where you've really struggled and you feel like you're doing everything right, and it feels like things just aren't shifting, even though your nutrition is on point, you're exercising really well, you feel like you're not overeating, and it just feels like you're trying so hard, weighing yourself all the time, and it's just not shifting. So it starts to get really frustrating, right? Like I totally feel that I was exactly there. I felt like I was doing all of the right things and my body was just inflamed. I felt poofy. I felt uncomfortable in my body. I didn't like the way that I looked. I felt like my hormones were all out of whack, like I was struggling with acne on my chin area. Um, and I noticed that like my period pains were almost like increasingly getting worse. My PMS was so wild. And I was just like, this, this can't be right. Like something is off because I don't feel as good as I once did. Okay. And I thought, you know, initially a lot of people just say, like, oh, that's just getting older. And I would like to argue, no, it's not. Right. I mean, I'm only 33 right now, so I'm sure things will continue to shift in my physical body as time goes on naturally. But I also just don't subscribe to the fact that like just because you're getting older means you have to become immobile and unhappy in your body. I just don't think that's true. I know that's not true. I've seen people be really mobile. My ancestors, like, they're still doing things into their 80s, which is like so amazing. I have a great grandfather that lived to be 100 and was still like vibing out, which is so cool. So you can really still live your life and live a good quality life, even though you're aging and you don't have to like hate yourself, which again is I I just feel like we come to say that because it gets like harder in some way when in reality, what I really think it is, the things that we were so easily able to ignore in our youth because our body is so resilient, we can no longer ignore as we get older because our body is becoming more sensitive to things and you can't ignore them. So this is how to learn to actually listen to your body, understand its language, so that you can make shifts happen. Okay. So, what do you do if you are someone who is finding yourself really struggling to lose five pounds? It feels like no matter what you do, you just can't seem to get your body to change and you're not feeling happy in your body. Likely as I was, I was someone that like always needed to somehow like get leaner. And it's funny because I also look back and I'm like, wow, I've been within the same like 10-pound range most of my adult life. And like, it's like I've always been wanting to change it. But I've I was just like stuck in this range, but I've always been in the mindset of like, yeah, I'm dieting, I'm cutting, I'm getting leaner, I'm getting stronger, I'm getting faster, or whatever. And I literally was just in the same window for like I don't know, however many years, 15, 20. I mean, maybe I'm exaggerating going a little too far with that one, but at least 10 years, it's minimally. I I don't know, probably since I was like 20, whatever math that is. And so the point being, it's interesting how that is, where it's like we've always just had this mindset, and that's what I kind of realized like this is my mindset. Like I'm always feeling like I need to change myself to be better, even though things are not actually changing much. Sometimes things in my external reality can change, like you know, just in terms of being a high performer and being ambitious, like sure, you can start to make more money, you can do better in a sport that you're playing, you can get faster if you're, you know, are stronger, like doing Pilates or whether you're doing CrossFit or bodybuilding or powerlifting or high rocks, which is a new race, raise, rage, whatever. So yeah, this is these are just like examples of ways that your external reality can reflect shifts when your internal reality is not actually shifting. So that's where we start to realize that edge exists. Things can change, but you don't actually feel the change that you anticipated to feel when these things happened. So you thought you were gonna feel some type of way when you got the job and the money, but you actually feel the same. You thought you were gonna feel some type of way when you got the body, but things actually kind of feel the same, so on and so forth. And so, how do you actually get the internal to shift so that you can actually enjoy the external reality that you've created? And again, that's where the hangup tends to be. So for me, when I was at a good peak, and again, like I said, I hope to surpass that peak in many different ways, and my life gets to be a lot more full on different levels. But at the time, I was like, okay, I've done it. I have an amazing business, I'm really in shape, I'm winning competitions. This one I was like competing in CrossFit, and I felt like I was on top of the world, like unstoppable. But still internally, I was just like, dang, I'm like not really that happy. I'm just waking up and like going through all of these motions, and I don't even feel that great. And then what I started to notice is like my body was rebelling against me. Like I said, with all those different things with the inflammation and the acne and like just dipping into a lot of like sadness and anxiety that was popping up for me. I knew something had to shift. I was like, I did all the things and I'm still feeling this way, and that's so frustrating. So, what did I do to help? I have six tips for you. Again, lifting the hood up from the Body and Soul Freedom program to show you the process and talk about what I'm actually doing with my clients to get them to shift from this place where they're feeling frustrated and disconnected from their body, and then going into a place where they achieve even greater success and confidence in who they are and their physical body. So tip one the first thing that you're gonna want to do is a full life alignment check. You need to assess everything. This is going beyond health. So you need to expand your scope of what you're taking a look at when it comes to your wellness. So it does matter how you feel when you show up for your job. It does matter the dynamic with you and your partner. It does matter what things look like with your family. It does matter what's going on when you're coming home and the energy that you're in. All of these things matter because our emotions lead to actual like physical experiences in the body. Okay, and so this is all about the body. Taking care of your body is not just looking at your nutrition and your exercise. Those are two important keys, but it goes beyond that. It goes beyond sleep, it goes beyond your lab work. There is more to the picture, and this is the part that tends to be difficult to wrap our minds around because it's not typical Western practice and it's not often talked about like when you go to visit your doctor. I do think that some people address it, but a lot of times your doctor will just kind of say, like, oh, are you stressed? And it's really common. Even if I ask some of my clients now in the very beginning, when we ask, are you stressed? People will say, like, not really, because they're on autopilot. It's almost like we don't even recognize the degree of stress that our body is under because we have normalized those challenging feelings. We just say, like, okay, well, this is how life is supposed to be. I'm just supposed to push in my job. This is how I show up for my family. I have to sacrifice. I have to put them first. I have to put my feelings aside. I just don't think about them, right? And this is why we're in this boat because we are disconnected from what our body has been trying to communicate to us until it gets to a point where your body is screaming. It's a buildup of all of these years of ignoring and ignoring. And again, it led to our success. It makes our family love us, it makes our kids do better, it makes them do well, it makes everyone around us feel supported. But then it makes us feel drained and empty. And that's where we're at. So we have to do a complete assessment of everything that's going on in our lives to see. Where there is some type of imbalance. And by imbalance, I mean, is there a way that you're showing up that isn't in alignment with your personal values? Okay. So step one is super key. You're going to want to take some time to work around that. Number two, you're going to find a place where you can start to implement mindfulness. Because I'm a dietitian, of course, I also believe that mealtime is such a perfect space to implement mindfulness because everyone eats every day. Hopefully, you're eating every day. If you're not eating every day, also hit me up. I got your back. So with that being said, we want to slow down and become more aware of what it feels like to be in our body. So through the mindfulness practice, we're going to assess number one, how am I feeling hunger-wise? Am I actually even feeling my hunger cues? This is something that oftentimes does kind of go down the drain and we can't even feel that we're actually hungry because we're not able to feel our body as well. So we have to start fine-tuning our ability to hear our body communicating. So it's like, how hungry are you? How are you feeling going into the meal? Can you turn off all of the distractions? Can you be fully present in that moment with yourself, with your thoughts, with no one else, just being there. Put down your phone, don't watch anything, don't do work. I don't even care if it feels relaxing in some weird way. It's not really. It is you convincing yourself that you're optimizing your time. When taking breaks is perfectly acceptable and also crucial. So create a mindfulness practice, especially around eating, because that is something likely, again, you're probably experiencing some type of pain, digestive issue, autoimmune flare-up, acid reflux, your stomach hurting, feeling numb. And these are all things that have to do with eating. If your body is in fight or flight mode, it cannot relax itself into rest and digest mode. Okay, so if you're eating when you're in fight or flight, it's going to cause digestive disruption. Your body is not in the mode of processing the food that you're eating. And that's part of why your body is feeling weird with your GI system somehow, some way. Okay. So practicing mindfulness around eating is a huge second step for this. So step three that you're going to take is having an embodiment practice and emotional regulation practice. Embodiment is the act of being in your body. It is feeling everything and allowing it to move through you. This is why I coupled it with emotional regulation. When you are in the Body and Soul Freedom program, I do separate them because they are two different practices. I coupled them in this step because they do go hand in hand. But with body and soul freedom, I break it down step-by-step guide so you don't feel confused. So you get really comfortable with it and you really learn each one individually so that you can understand this Venn diagram of an experience, how they are separate and where they overlap and need each other. Okay, so it's the symbiosis of these two things. With an embodiment practice, it can be as simple as just dancing, just being in your body, moving around, shaking, paying attention to what it's saying. And with emotional regulation, you have to learn how to regulate each emotion separately. There is not just like one way to emotionally regulate. Each emotion you experience calls for a different processing mechanism. So you can't heal or you can't address anger the same way you would address sadness. And like that's why it's really important to even start by differentiating. So when we say stress, for example, a lot of times that's just a coverall for a mix of different emotions, but we actually have to pull that apart and unravel the unique specific emotion underneath each experience. Number four, limiting beliefs, evaluation, and reprogramming. This time we're gonna go into the mind and take a look at what beliefs and what truths we're holding on to that we need to rewire. So, for example, if we are having a limiting belief of like, I'm never gonna drop weight or I'm always gonna hate my body, these are beliefs. They are not true, they are not facts. They're just things that we are right now running in our subconscious mind that are dictating the show. So if you want those things to shift, you have to look at them. And what I like to call the ladder of believability, you have to bridge that gap. So when we have a limiting belief and we try to do a positive affirmation, as much as I love it being the direct opposite, you have to also realize that there are oftentimes steps in between. So, for example, if I'm running under the limiting belief of I hate my body, I can't just like start telling myself, I love my body and expect myself to believe it. If I do that and it's so far-fetched that I'm really not there, I'm never gonna get there. And what I'm actually doing is creating distrust with myself. I'm trying to force myself to believe something. I'm trying to gaslight myself into believing something that is not true. So we have to look at it as like, okay, where is a small step? Where's the first step of this bridge to get from I hate my body to I love my body? Maybe it's finding one small thing that I genuinely do appreciate about my physical body. So I could say, like, I love my curly hair. We can start there. And I know it's not a direct translation, but it's starting to build the greater whole. Or you can even think of it as like, you know, like I can see that there's a reality in which I could appreciate parts of my body. Is that something that I can accept and feel as true? Right? So it's a small bridge that will eventually get us there. And we build off of that time after time as we revisit this practice. Tip number five: creating an optimal function plan. So this is key because none of these things are things that you do once and then you move on and never do again. I would love that. I would love, love, love if that could be true, but that's just not the reality of life. It is an ongoing journey. This is something that you need to continue to show up for every day. And like I always say, it's like medicine. You don't just stop taking your medicine because you're feeling good. You keep taking it, and that's what keeps you feeling good. And these practices are your medicine. You must continue to show up to them in small ways on a daily basis so that you can continue. So the optimal function plan is something that is really like creating a routine, right? Something that is such an easy heck yes that you absolutely will do. So it can be like five minutes, two minutes. I don't, it doesn't matter. It's as long as you consistently show up for it and build on it each day, even if every day, you know, if you if you cap out at like 10 minutes, whatever it is that you can do, start small, build, add on. And it's gonna be through a practice of revisiting these things that you're gonna find a routine that works for you. There's no right or wrong answer. It's finding the thing that is optimal for your function. And our last tip number six befriending the body and making peace with it exactly where you're at. Many people do not want to make peace with their body in this moment because they think that means accepting yourself as you are and that you will never change. That is not what it means. You can desire growth, you can desire a shift to happen in your body and still make peace with it exactly where it's at. Making peace is about accepting the present moment, but it does not mean that it will not change and it cannot change. It's saying that this very moment is a summation of my past. This very moment is what has been created by my past self. I have to forgive my past self. I have to make peace with every version of me prior to this moment so that I can open up to new versions of me in the future. So a perfect example of this and how you can kind of or like like, yeah, an example of this. So, like imagine you were mad at someone, okay? They like betrayed you in some small way, like they called you, or like, you know, they said something that triggered you, but they didn't know they triggered you, okay. So if you never let go of the fact that they made that mistake once and you hold it over their head forever, you're never gonna have a great relationship with that person. You're gonna keep coming back and like digging up old stuff, and they're not gonna want to be your friend or what, you know, whoever this is in your life. This is the same thing that you have to do to yourself, right? You can't hang the past version of you's decisions over your head for the rest of your life because you will never get past it. You have to make peace with it, you have to forgive yourself, and that is the only way for you to move forward with fresh eyes and to be open to better days, better experiences, and for you to be able to start loving your body. You have to love yourself now because loving yourself in this moment is going to create a safety in your body that allows you to rewire things. If we do not have safety in the body, it's going to be really hard to make changes. You might be able to make some, but they don't stick. They don't feel authentic, they don't feel true to you. You have to start from that place of love, true love and devotion and commitment to your body, a commitment to taking care of it. That's how you get that shift to happen. You have to befriend it in this moment. Apologize to your body. I know it sounds silly, but say sorry for all the things that you have said to it or done to it that weren't from a place of love, that might have been from a place of resentment, anger, frustration, hatred. Forgive yourself, forgive or allow yourself to say sorry to your body. Say it out loud. Say it in the mirror. You need to make peace with your body right here, right now, in this moment, and promise that moving forward, that you want to continue to do the things, to show up for it, to take care of it, to love it, to nourish it, to honor it, to be in devotion to it. This is how you move forward and start to make that shift. So those are your six tips. And some of you might be thinking, how the heck this has like anything to do with dropping five pounds. So I totally hear you. I know it doesn't feel like it makes perfect sense because we're not changing calories in or calories out, and we've talked very little about nutrition as a whole, but likely you already know nutrition. If you have the, or you should probably have like a general understanding of nutrition. I think there are always things, things to like unlearn and shift our feelings about in creating a healthy relationship with food, and that's also part of this process. But realizing that this last five pounds or these frustrations in our body or the inflammation that we're experiencing are oftentimes not related to food at all. And that's why most people miss the mark. That's why diet programs don't last. These are the underlying things that allow it to shift, and it makes things stop feeling like you're fighting your body to lose five pounds, and you go into a place of naturally maintaining a healthy body that you love truly. It's going through these six steps, consistently showing up for them, consistently re-evaluating and having checkpoints throughout your lifetime. On a daily basis, we have practices on a weekly, monthly, yearly, and so on and so forth. There are practices that we need to set in place in order to work with our body. We have to see this as cultivating a relationship with our body, learning how to work with it because it is our true partner in this lifetime. Our mind, body, and soul need to be on the same page in order for things to flow the way they're supposed to. And this is exactly how you do that. Address your nutrition, address the fitness element and movement element, and address this mind-body-soul element that we talked about today. If you are really curious, a good first place to start with this is checking out my four-day food freedom reset. I get into the specifics, give you a four-day step-by-step process to start walking yourself through some of these things to start bringing awareness, one, just around the relationship you have with food, because I think that has to be addressed first. Once we get our relationship with food in a right place, then we can get onto that next step of getting into right alignment with our body and soul. So this is the key opener. Check it out. I'm gonna drop the link in the show notes. You're gonna absolutely love it. I made it four days because I want it to be super doable. I want it to be like shorter than a week. Like you can start it on Monday, and then by Friday, you're feeling fresh and ready for the weekend with a new liberated mindset. Um, you can really start any day of the week, of course. I love that. It doesn't have to be a Monday. I just felt like four days was just like the perfect number of days for something like this. So again, this is the first step. I dip into more than just food. Again, I dip into a little bit of these mindfulness practices. I give you concrete examples of meals that actually work with intuitive eating. So if you're someone that has dieted a lot in the past or has been really strict with nutrition, this is going to help open you up into intuitive eating, releasing and shifting your mindset around food, making it feel like something that starts to get to be exciting, fun, playful, enjoyable, pleasurable. That way, again, you can move yourself into that next level of success in your body and in your life with body and soul freedom. So they're it's a perfect build on top of each other. So I highly recommend starting there. If you are someone that's listening that has been my one-on-one client through insurance, then you are probably ready to jump into body and soul freedom. It is such a beautiful experience that gets to take you a little bit further than I can through one-on-one nutrition counseling through insurance. It gives you like that extra juice, that extra meatiness to the experience of really loving your body, liberating your soul. And I get to get into the life coaching side of things, which I really, really, really love. Um, so I went back and studied for additional certifications in things like somatic practices, emotional freedom technique, and of course, like certifications in life coaching. And this was such an important piece of my journey because it really taught me the missing tools that I needed to really help others go through this and in a more efficient way than I did. I mean, I kind of fumbled through once I learned all of this, and like I said, got help and support with really learning truly how to implement these things in a fast, efficient, you know, viable way. The education really helped me put it all together and serve it to you in the correct order, which I've shifted and added to and rearranged. And so it is Chef's Kiss. I love this program with my whole heart. So I hope you check it out. If not, I still love you guys. Thank you so much for listening because that means that you're in a place where you are evolving, you are growing, you are expanding, you're special, you are truly unique. Not everyone does this with their life. You're someone special if you're really showing up for yourself and pushing forward in these ways. Like you're, yeah, you're amazing. So I hope that if no one has told you that yet today, you really take that to heart because it's true, especially if you've listened to this point in the podcast. You are someone that is going far in life. And I love that you finish the things that you start. So, snaps, kudos to you. And I hope you tune in again. If you're enjoying this podcast, I would greatly appreciate you leaving a review so it reaches more people. I love you so much, and I can't wait to talk to you again next week. Love you, bye.