Are you tired of rebounding after every diet?
2 hard truths upfront
➡️ Without eating enough, you’re not maintaining—you’re still dieting.
➡️ You can’t keep shrinking smaller and expect to look leaner. Training builds. Food fuels. Maintenance keeps it all stable.
This episode dives into why it happens and the one piece of fat loss that keeps getting ignored. I sit down with Dal to talk about:
Stress
Control
Maintenance
Why dieting feels like its working but ends up keeping you stuck... again
You’ve been ignoring the missing link in fat loss.
Why stress tricks your brain into thinking you’ve gained fat overnight
How dieting becomes a coping mechanism
Why food never builds the body you actually want (training does!)
🎙️ Why is maintenance the hardest phase no one ever does right?
We’ll diet for months. We’ll cut calories until there’s nothing left. But when it comes to maintenance? Most women skip it, rush through it, or eat so little that it never actually works.
In this episode, I sit down with Dal to talk about why maintenance feels so scary
✨ Why we never give maintenance long enough to work
✨ How eating too little in “maintenance” keeps you stuck in diet mode
Real stories of letting go of timelines, choosing maintenance, and finally building self-trust instead of clinging to the scale
Stress literally makes you feel fatter.
Dieting feels like control, but never solves the problem.
You can’t keep shrinking smaller and expect to look leaner.
Food fuels. Training builds. Without lifting with intent, all you get is smaller—not stronger.
Stop calling your last diet a failure. Call it feedback and pull out the lesson.
Shift your focus from food tweaks to your last three reps in the gym—that’s where change happens.
Practice maintenance now. Prove to yourself you can hold results without panicking back into a diet.
If you’re sick of repeating the same cycle, share this with someone who needs it. And if you want to come on and talk about your own journey, message me—I’d love to have that conversation with you.
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take homes:
Stop calling your last diet afailure.. everything is feedback
Pull the lesson. Move forward
Give maintenance a real shot...withreal calories (+ carbs)
maintenance isnt "trying tostay lean and build on "safe" calories and pulling back when it feelsheavy
it. means fueling enough andtraining with effort, purpose + direction.... for long enough
yeah, maintenance feels scary because it feels like losing control. In reality? It’s how you finally gain it.
Shift your focus from food tweaks to your last three reps in the gym. That’s where change happens.
Change isn’t in food swaps or macro manipulations... it’s in your last 3 reps, your training videos + how youveprogressed your program over the last 6-12 months...
obsess THERE over the scale
Food fuels. Training builds. Without lifting with intent + close to failure, progressively… without changing exercises every couple months, your body wont change how you want.
smaller ≠ looking leaner. strength changes your shape. strength changes everything.
