Why traditional diets fail moms and what works instead

You've tried everything at this point. The meal plans, the Monday resets, the calorie apps. And you've done it well... until life as a mom steamrolled right through it.

Traditional diets were never designed for your life as a mom. They were built for someone with a predictable schedule, uninterrupted sleep, and zero toddlers melting down at dinner. Your approach needs to look different because you are different.

🎙️ In this episode we'll cover:

• The 5 real reasons traditional diets fail moms (and why it has nothing to do with trying harder)
• What chronic stress is actually doing to your body and why it's making weight loss feel impossible
• Why restriction is keeping you stuck in the binge-guilt-restrict cycle
• The mindset shift that lets you eat the birthday cake, skip the guilt, and still reach your goals
• What actually works for moms in every season of motherhood

Plus, stay until the end for details on a free 3-day live training event starting June 9th where I'll teach you exactly how to ditch the diet cycle for good and finally lose fat in a way that fits your actual life.

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Transcript

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Hey friend, welcome back to Stronger Within, the podcast for women who are done chasing quick fixes and are ready to build real strength and lasting change from the inside out. I'm your host, Christy Magri, and here we talk about becoming stronger within in your body, your mindset, and the daily habits that shape your life. If you're ready to build a body in life you feel confident in for good, you're in the right place. In today's episode, I wanted to pull back the curtain on why the constant dieting cycle is keeping you stuck. We are going to talk about why dieting doesn't really work for our lives as moms, the five root reasons why most diets that feel productive can actually backfire what your body is actually trying to tell you and what your body actually needs, and why understanding calories and macros, not just another rigid meal plan or strict food rules, why those are key to breaking the diet cycle for good. Plus, at the end, I'm going to be sharing some details on a free three-day live training event I have coming June 9th to the 11th. So make sure you stick around. Alrighty, so you have been here before, I'm sure. I was stuck in this cycle for a long time myself. Many of the clients who come to work with me were stuck in this cycle where you start Monday super motivated, right? You've got your meal plan, you've got your meal prep, maybe, you've plugged things into my fitness pal. You start Monday morning off with a workout, you're at like 60 ounces of water halfway through the day. Everything is going great. Tuesday, everything goes great as well. And then Wednesday, you start to lose a little bit of momentum and motivation. You still keep pushing through, you keep doing the things, but by the end of the week, you are just you're done. Work is super busy, your kids are driving you crazy, and you have a birthday party on the weekend or some kind of event where the food is not in your control. Um, and if it's a birthday party, for example, what's at a birthday party? Usually it's like pizza and cake and all the things, and those aren't on your meal plan. So you're like, Well, I already don't have the motivation, I don't have the momentum. The week started great, but I missed this, this went wrong, and it would be easier just to like give myself a little break, a little breather, because I did work so hard all week, and so that's what you do. And that let's say the birthday party is Saturday, and then the rest of the day you're like, Well, I already went over my macros. This already wasn't the ideal situation. I'll just kind of like take the day for what it is, eat how I want, not track anything. And then by the time Sunday comes, you're like, it's still the weekend. Like, I kind of want to like, I don't know, do whatever, go out to breakfast or something, and you can go out to breakfast while sticking to your goals. Let's make that very clear. But again, you don't track it, you're just kind of like, whatever about it. And then by the time you step on the scale Monday morning, the scale is back up to where you started. And you've tried so many times already, probably. You're like, I'm putting in all this effort. This is another failed attempt at sticking to the plan. And then, you know, it the whole cycle continues. You start off Monday motivated again, you're like, this is gonna be the week. I actually stay consistent and I actually do it, and I don't fall off this weekend. But then what happens? Maybe your kid gets sick on a Thursday, you miss a workout, you feel like crap about that, or your husband asks you if you want to go to McDonald's for dinner on Friday night because you guys are exhausted for the week, you don't want to cook from the week, you don't want to cook anything, and then the same cycle just continues and continues, and then you look at everybody else around you, and you're like, this person is down 30 pounds so far. This person has seen these results. Like, what is wrong with me? What if the problem is not you, but the approach that you are using? So, first of all, I want to talk about who the diet industry was built for, and spoiler, it was not mom's. Most popular diets, when we think of popular diets, I think of like keto, even calorie counting can be considered a popular diet in when it's done the wrong way. Um, intermittent fasting, um, let's see, uh, Atkins, there's like one meal a day, there's carnivore, there's all these different like popular fad diets. These were studied and designed with a pretty specific person in mind. And often it is a single adult, someone who has a predictable schedule, someone who sleeps through the night, someone who's not breastfeeding, who's not running and managing a household while holding down their job and being a wife and showing up for their kids and bringing their kids to sports multiple times a week and buying the presents for the birthday party and doing the laundry and doing the like I don't even need to go on. And so this gap is where everything falls apart for moms because no, it's known by research and just through our everyday life, we don't even need research to know this, but mothers consistently report higher stress levels, more disrupted sleep, less personal time than single adults. And again, I don't think we needed re any research to back that up to know that. But all three of those things, when we think about stress, sleep, and time, those are foundational to how your body manages your weight. And so when a diet doesn't account for any of those things, it's really setting you up to struggle before you even start. And so today I want to walk through the five biggest reasons traditional diets fail moms specifically, and then we're gonna talk about what actually works because you know that I'm not just gonna like give you all the problems and then give you no solution. We're gonna talk about the problem and the solution. Starting off with reason number one, most traditional diets demand consistency that you can't guarantee, and then the second that you can't fall in line with that level of consistency, you feel like a failure. Because a lot of these diets assume that you control your environment all the time. But when we're moms, our environment kind of controls us. So, for example, let's say you plan to get up at 5:30 before your kids wake up for a workout, but your toddler decides that 5.30 is a great time to wake up right alongside you. That is a problem, right? Because now your toddler's up and you can't do your workout how you planned on it. But if we look at, okay, what can I control? You can maybe do the workout kind of distracted with your toddler by your side, or maybe you push your workout to a different day and you focus on overall movement. When we really shift our mindset to even if I can't control my environment, I can always control something. Even if I can't um, you know, get in the intentional workout today, I can still focus on my step count, or I can get outside for a walk with my toddler later on. Or, you know, when we think about nutrition specifically, when we think about traditional dieting and meal plans, it's typically very strict. It's like a follow this plan and don't deviate, and that does not work for our lives as moms. But when we think about sustainable habits, on the other hand, those are built to be flexible. So instead of eat at these exact times, this is the only thing you can eat. A, B, C, D meal plan. It's understanding hunger cues, having go-to options that work on your very chaotic days, and giving yourself permission to adapt without abandoning the whole thing. It's being able to eat the same food as your family, it's being able to enjoy the pizza or the cake at the birthday party and still reach your goals. And this is where calories and macros really come in because it gives you that flexibility. You don't have to be so strict. Reason number two: most traditional diets ignore what stress does to your body. When you are chronically stressed, and most moms are, your body produces elevated cortisol. You've probably seen this word floating around on Instagram. I feel like I see it everywhere now. Everybody's talking about like hormones and cortisol and all these things, but elevated cortisol does a few things that can make weight loss feel feel nearly impossible. So, what a couple things it does is it increases cravings for high sugar, high-fat foods. It promotes fat storage, especially around the midsection. If that is an area you struggle with and you are somebody that is very high stress, definitely a correlation there. And high stress levels in the body signal your body that it is not safe for your body to let go of stored energy, of stored fat, because as far as your nervous system is concerned, you are in survival mode. And I see this, I've seen this quite a few times with some clients that I work with where they're doing all the right things on paper, but their body is in such a high state of stress that their body does not feel safe enough to respond to the efforts that they're putting in to lose fat. So now we're restricting calories heavily on top of an already very stressed-out system. Your body is gonna double down because your body is literally built for survival. So if it does not feel safe, it is just going to go against anything that you're attempting to do. And this is why when we think about strategy, when we think about what it takes to lose weight, yes, it's calories in versus calories out. Yes, the workouts matter, the numbers matter, all of that matters. But what also matters is stress management. As moms, that's like top three, and most moms don't even think about that, and we think that we have no control. And don't get me wrong, we're gonna have stress to some level. Like it just kind of comes with the territory of being moms. However, we can control a lot more than we think we can, whether that is five minutes of deep breathing, waking up before your kids and meditating or journaling or finding ways to calm your nervous system, getting outside, prioritizing sleep. I know we can't maybe sleep through the night if we have kids that are up at night, but are you sitting on your phone in bed, scrolling TikTok and Instagram? Are you getting to bed at a reasonable time? And these are all things I work with my clients here because it's not always just the strategy. Reason number three, why traditional diets do not work for our lives as moms. They are built on restriction, not nourishment. I find that most of these diets operate on this kind of like subtraction model. So it's about what can't I have? It's like cut all the carbs, go into a huge calorie deficit, cut this, don't eat that, fat is bad, carbs make you fat, like all of these things, and we see so much conflicting advice. We're like, well, what's true? It's exhausting, and logistically, restriction works, right? Like for like three weeks or as long as we can stick to it, and then what happens is your brain starts obsessing over everything you can't have. You think about food constantly, you sneak a bite of I don't know, ice cream or something, and then you're like, Well, I already ruined it, I might as well eat the whole thing. I'm already being quote unquote bad. This is what I like to call the what the hell effect, and researchers have actually studied this that restriction does lead to obsession, and then that obsession leads to a binge, the binge leads to the guilt, the guilt leads back to the restriction, and it's a just it's a constant cycle. What I have found to work better is an additive approach. Instead of what can't I have, it's what can I have. It's this philosophy that I have used literally since the beginning when I started coaching back in 2020. Having what you want and adding what you need. So instead of saying what can't I have, what's bad, instead think about what can I add that nourishes me? Is it more protein so I stay full longer? Is it more vegetables or fiber so that my gut is happy and I'm also fuller for longer? Is it more water so I'm less inflamed? This is a really good philosophy to use when you're going out to eat specifically. It's like having what you want, adding what you need. Because we we gotta have some structure, guys. It's not just like, oh, macros are a free-for-all. I can eat whatever I want and lose weight. Like, that's not the point here. We have structure, we have boundaries, not it's just not this like uptight rigidness with no flexibility. But you need to stop focusing on everything you have to give up and focus on what you can add. This is something that has been really helpful in my own journey because I used to track my macros at one time, and just because you've counted calories or tracked macros before or whatever and say, like, oh, it didn't work for me, it's not that it didn't work for you. Your approach in the way that you went about it is what didn't work for you. So, anyways, when I first started tracking macros, I would track perfectly Monday through Friday. I would restrict myself from everything, my calories would be super low, and then by the time the weekend came, all the temptations would come in. My husband, who was my boyfriend at the time, would be like, Oh, do you want to get McDonald's for dinner? Or his mom would be like, I'm ordering pizza for dinner, and I'd be like, fuck. I'm like, this is gonna throw me off my plan. And so I would what I thought was productive at the time, I was like, okay, I'm gonna do perfectly Monday through Friday. I'm gonna be like completely on it. I'm gonna eat clean, and then when Saturday comes, I'm gonna have what I would call a cheat day. I would literally from the time I woke up in the morning to the time I went to bed, eat as much as I possibly could, fill my day with all the things that I wasn't allowed to have during the week. I would usually end the day feeling so uncomfortably full. This was literally binging behavior, um, literally hating myself. And then I remember Sunday morning, I would wake up starving because what happens when you go through that cycle is you raise your blood sugar like crazy, and then once it kind of drops back down, your body's like, more, more, I need more. And so I would try to like starve myself on Sunday to make up for it. It was just a terrible cycle to be stuck in. But instead, the way that I started approaching it was like, oh, if we want to go out to eat in the middle of the week, that's fine. I can account for it in my macros, I can make sure that you know I'm being mindful about what I order, maybe splitting my meal in half and not eating the whole thing. There are a lot of strategies we can implement here, but the point is that we don't want to restrict, restrict, restrict, and then we go overboard on those same things because that's not productive, and that is what is keeping you in this constant cycle. Reason number four why traditional diets don't work, they do not account for mom guilt. Let's say you're trying to eat your prepped lunch and your two-year-old is having a meltdown, or you're trying to get in a workout and you feel guilty because you're not being present with your kids, or you eat something off plan at your kids' birthday party because hello, it's a birthday party, and then you spend three days hating yourself for it because you went overboard, you're not fully present with your kids and your family because you're beating yourself up about what you did or didn't do, or you're avoiding the pictures because of what you look like. You need a process and an approach that allows for you to be fully present and flexible with your family and your plan while living your life. You can enjoy the birthday cake, and actually, when you give yourself permission, you'll find that you don't have any reason to overdo it anymore. You take food off of this pedestal because if you're stuck in this mentality of good versus bad when it comes to food, the moment that you eat that food that you deem as bad, you are gonna go overboard because you're gonna have this mentality of, oh, once it's back on my diet, once it back to focusing on fat loss, I can't have that again. You can have your cake and lose fat too. It is very possible. And again, this is where macros come in and are such a game changer, especially for moms. And the last reason why traditional diets don't work for moms is they treat your body like it's a problem to fix. Especially right now in this ozempic era that we're in, where now all these celebrities are like sticks, and now we're seeing people rapidly lose weight. We are back to like skinny culture. It feels like crap when we're seeing like people dropping 30 pounds in a month, or you know, all of these things that we are fed, and now you know, when you've had a baby, or maybe you've had multiple babies, and your body looks and feels different than it used to, you can be especially vulnerable to that messaging. But I want you to get out of this mindset that you're not enough because at the end of the day, if we are constantly comparing ourselves to other people or comparing our progress to other people, we're never gonna feel enough. And that is so true because I have been to like right now where I am in my body, for example, I am not at the very end of my fat loss journey of like where I want to be. I probably still have like 20 pounds to lose, and I think about where I was 50 pounds ago, and now I definitely am more comfortable and confident and happy in my body. I love my body right now, but I would be lying if I said there weren't days where I like looked in the mirror and I saw that old version of myself, or I'm like, I have so far to go, or I'm like, this person looks like this and I don't look like that yet, and just comparing myself against other people, and I really kind of have to check myself in those moments. I'm like, first of all, your body has been through so much in your lifetime. Um, you've literally grown and birthed humans and nourished humans, and your body has been through a lot, and we're just doing our best. So when we can start to approach our health from a place of respect and care and gratitude for our bodies instead of punishment, and this needs fixing and this isn't good enough. Because I'll tell you, like I just said, you will get to a point where you're more happy and comfortable and confident, but you'll still have more you want to do, you'll hit that goal and then you'll want to get moving to the next goal and then the next goal after that. And there will always be something new or something more to chase. So you have to learn to be thankful to show gratitude, to show love and respect for where you are right now. Otherwise, it's never gonna be enough. And it doesn't feel good to come at our weight loss journey from a place of self-hatred and punishment and all these negative things. That doesn't feel good, and we don't have to do it that way. But again, when we are just constantly looking at this marketing of the diet industry and this person's doing this and this and just stay in your lane. Don't even look at how other people are doing. If you find yourself comparison, unfollow, block, ignore, do whatever you have to do. Your journey is so uniquely yours, and you need to take it from a place of gratitude, period. Alright. So now that we've talked about the reasons why traditional diets fail, moms, I want to talk about what actually works. We're not just gonna take the negative, like I said, and be like, all right, now you know what doesn't work. Let's talk about what actually does work. And no, it's not cutting carbs, meal prepping, 20 meal prep containers every Sunday, or following rules that don't feel good. We're I think you already know that this far into the episode. But I have five things that you can start doing right now to actually create a lifestyle that works for you and leads to consistent results. So, number one is to start small, not strong. This is a really big mistake I see a lot of moms make. They are ready to start their journeys and they're like ready to go all in, and they take the progress photos and they come up with the meal plan and they have the macros plugged in and all the things are ready to go. You're ready to overhaul everything at once. But research on habit formation actually consistently shows that small, consistent changes compound into massive results over time rather than setting yourself up to have to do so much at once. You're completely overhauling your life, you can't stick to it, it's overwhelming, you're trying to do too much at once, and then you give up. So I want you to pick just one thing this week. Literally just one thing. Maybe it could be drinking a glass of water before your morning coffee, or making sure you're eating protein at each meal, or eating a serving of fruits or vegetables with each meal, or taking a 10-minute walk after each meal, or a 15-minute walk with your family at night. It can literally be whatever, but I want you to master that one thing, and then week by week we start to layer something else in. We do not have to go zero to a hundred. Or let's say we have a habit of tracking our food, because we're talking about calories and macros are the most effective way to have that flexibility with your life as a mom. And so we can have a goal, our big goal is to be able to track every single day. But maybe we start with just three days. Like I'm gonna track three days this week, and the next week I'm gonna track four, and the week after that, I'm gonna track five, and we slowly build over time rather than I have to track every single day perfectly. We can't meet that standard for ourselves, and then we feel like a failure. Let's slowly build over time. Number two, build your easy yes list. So, one thing I like to tell my clients to do is have a master meal plan. Now, in order for us to consistently hit our macros, and again, tracking your macros is the most flexible way to get the most consistent productive results because in order to lose fat, you do need to be eating less calories than you're burning in a day. Only way to know that is by having the data and actually tracking it. So, one thing I tell my clients to do is have a master meal plan or like an easy yes list because when we have really hard days or very chaotic days, we have like zero decision-making capacity left. So you're typically with or you're gonna reach for whatever's easiest. And that's usually not gonna be the thing that's most helpful for your goals. And so when we think about reducing decision fatigue, we want to make the easy thing a good thing, right? So stocking your fridge and pantry with options that take zero effort. So for me, rotisserie chickens are my jam. I get those at least once, if not twice a week, because I freaking hate cooking and it just makes my life really easy, especially for lunch. Maybe it's pre cutting and cooking vegetables or making Greek yogurt bowls, or I've been making overnight oats for breakfast lately. They're so easy. 50 grams of protein. I've been doing chia seed pudding. Um, Things that don't take a ton of effort. Hard-boiled eggs, you could make like um pre-portioned, already packaged, like um frozen smoothie baggies. I don't know why it was so difficult for me to say that. Um we want to make the healthy choice the path of least resistance. We really want to make it a no-brainer when it comes to how to stay consistent to actually doing the work that we need to do. Because I'm sitting here saying, no, you don't have to be perfect, no, you don't have to be rigid, but you do have to be consistent. Like that's a non-negotiable. Number three, you have to let go of the all or nothing mindset. And that is this mindset that if I can't do it perfectly, I'm not gonna do it at all. I see this come in most often around weekends, meals out, days that have not gone according to plan. And I love to use this philosophy, or not philosophy, I guess it's more of an analogy, but you might have heard me talk about it before. But it's imagine that you're in your car, you're driving on the highway to a brand new destination you have never been to before, and your kids are driving you crazy in the backseat. They're like talking your ear off, you're trying to pay attention, there's a lot of traffic, you don't know where you're going, and you miss the freaking exit. And you're like, what the hell? I missed the exit. And so what happens? Your GPS reroutes you, maybe it adds like five minutes to your trip, low-key annoying, not the end of the world though, but you keep driving and you make you know a little detour, you do what you have to do, but you get to your destination. It's five minutes later, but you still get there. Now let's imagine that same situation, treating it the way that we treat our finished journeys. We miss a workout, we go over macros one meal or one day, or we eat the donut we didn't plan for. Imagine if we treated that same situation the way we do our nutrition or our journey as a whole, and we're like, oh, I already messed up, I missed the freaking exit, there's no point. I'm just gonna go home now. I'm not even gonna go to this place that I was going to anymore. That would be freaking ridiculous. You wouldn't do that. But why do you do the same thing in your fitness journey? Because that's exactly what you're doing with that all or nothing mindset. So, what I want you to do is when you have a hard moment, you have a hard day, you just pick yourself up at that next step. This is something that nine out of ten times, if not ten out of ten times, my clients come to me struggling very much with this all or nothing mindset, and it is one of the things I see them sharpen the quickest they get better with because I'm like, no, no, no, we're not doing that. And that's where really the accountability of like having somebody to check in with helps because it's like in those moments we know logically it would be the best thing to just continue on and like forgive ourselves for that mistake or whatever happened, but it's hard to actually do that in the moment, so that's where having somebody like me to come and walk you through that really helps. But, anyways, progress in your journey is not going to be linear, and you just have to take that for what it is. You are gonna see progress so much quicker, picking yourself back up at that next step than saying, crap, I'm just gonna forget about it today, this whole week, whatever. All right, number four is prioritizing sleep like it is a weight loss tool because it is. And if you're a mom, you're like really Christy, like sleep. But even if it's just getting 30 minutes more sleep a night, getting to bed 30 minutes earlier, letting the dishes sit, not scrolling on your phone before bed, your sleep really affects the progress that you are going to get because it affects your hunger hormones, your cravings, your energy for your movement, your decision-making abilities. Sleep is not something that does not affect us. We need to control that the best that we can. And I know sometimes when we have kids that are up at night, we can't always control that 100%. But if you're being real with yourself, I'm sure that there is some aspect to it that you could control more than you are right now. All right, and then number five, the solution to what actually works for consistent fat loss is tracking your macros in the right way. So, like I just said, I used to track macros and I was like, this isn't working for me, this works for other people, but I have been struggling to lose one single pound for three years. Like maybe I need to try a different approach or I need to do this. And it wasn't that tracking macros didn't work, it was just that the way that I was doing it didn't work. And so if you don't know what macros are, basically everything you eat has calories in it. Calories are just energy, and our calories are made up of three different macronutrients, which are protein, fat, and carbs. So everything you eat has at least one, if not multiple, of these, a combination of them. And macros are so amazing because they allow you to stay in that calorie deficit that you need for fat loss, but not at the cost of having to be too strict. So you can have this 80-20 balance where 80% of the time you eat nutrient-dense whole foods that make your body feel good. Because remember, it's not just about the numbers, it's also about the ingredients, about the quality of the food. And then 20% of the time, you enjoy the pizza night with your family. You get the pasta dish at the restaurant, you eat the birthday cake at the birthday party, and you don't feel guilty for it, and you know that you can still make progress without sacrificing your progress. What doesn't work is boxing ourselves into these really strict, rigid meal plans, dropping our calories too low, that is one of the biggest mistakes I see with macros, is I will see moms go into this massive calorie deficit, which really you should only be 300 calories below your maintenance to start. For most women, that is 2,000 or more calories a day, depending on how much weight you have to lose, where you are, your activity level, etc. But tracking your macros, freaking game changer. I lost 75 pounds after I had Carter, almost 60 after I had Chloe, tracked macros both times, never gave up a damn thing either time, either. Easiest way. It didn't even feel like I was on a diet. And honestly, I don't even consider tracking macros to be a diet. I consider it a way to build awareness around what it is that you're eating. Alright, so let's cover those five things of what actually does work. Starting small, building your easy yes list or your master meal plan, snack ideas, etc. Number three, letting go of the all or nothing mindset. Number four, prioritizing your sleep, and number five, tracking your macros. So let's bring this home, ladies. Traditional diets fail moms because they were never designed for us in the first place. And honestly, the dieting industry was they try to keep you as a customer for life. If you know me, you know that I hate the diet industry. But really, these diets ignore our stress, our biology, our just everything in our lives as moms. And every time a diet fails, it's not because you're not trying hard enough. It's because the approach was literally never built for your life as a mom. And the answer is not another diet, okay? It's not another meal plan or another set of food rules or whatever. The answer is understanding how your body actually works, specifically understanding your calories and macros. And like I said, maybe you've used calories and macros before, but not in the most productive way, because there is so much more that goes into macros that is often overlooked, like the four different phases, how to make tracking really quick and easy, how to handle meals out, how to handle weekends, when to adjust your macros. Like there is so much that goes into it. And that is exactly what I am going to teach you for free starting June 9th. I am hosting a free three-day live training event called Ditch the Diet Mom Edition. And it starts June 9th. This is for moms who are ready to learn exactly how to ditch the constant dieting cycle and lose fat for good while balancing mom life. Here's what we're covering across the three days. So, day number one, we are learning how to break the toxic dieting cycle for good. You're gonna understand why you aren't consistently losing fat yet. Key yet. Learning why the traditional dieting cycle is keeping you stuck and why it doesn't work for your life as a mom, understanding more deeply what calories and macros are and how this approach works better for you than your typical diet. Day number two, we're gonna go into how to make macros work for mom life. So you're gonna learn how to make macros work around your life as a mom without rigid meal plans or food your family won't touch. I will go over the four phases of macros and find exactly which phase fits your life best right now. And you'll learn how to eat out, how to survive the birthday parties and handle every moment without ruining progress. In day number three, we are wrapping it up to give you your exact roadmap to making macros actually stick in your life. So you're gonna get an exact breakdown of how to simplify using a food tracking app. Exactly, you're gonna see exactly how personalized macro targets are set. So we'll go over how to like factor in your dieting history, what you're currently eating, your specific goals so we can create numbers that actually make sense for you. Most uh macro calculators are incorrect, and so I'm gonna make sure you have good numbers, and then you will also learn how macros get adjusted over time based on which phase you're in, your goal, how your body is responding, etc. This truly is where you are going to learn how to ditch the toxic dieting cycle for good, and you are going to look completely unrecognizable by the end of summer if you implement the information I'm teaching you over these three days. The link to register is in the show notes. Sign up and then make sure you put it on your calendar for June 9th, 10, and 11th and show up because the moms who show up to this are the ones who will walk away with that clarity, not just another thing that they listen to while they were folding laundry and you know ending up in the same position three, six months from now. Now is the time for us to do this differently. I cannot wait to see you there. If this episode gave you an aha moment, please share it. You can screenshot it, tag me at ChristyFit, send it to a mom friend who might need to hear this. The more moms we can get out of the diet cycle, the better. I will talk to you soon. Until next time, keep becoming stronger within.