173. I stopped making my body a priority and nothing fell apart
In this weekly podcast, I’m sharing what happened when I stopped making my body composition the main focus of my life, and why my progress didn’t suddenly disappear. I stopped weighing myself, stopped constantly thinking about changing my body, travelled through Thailand, ate mango sticky rice and Pad Thai… while still maintaining the habits that actually matter.
I’m still strength training four days per week, eating enough protein, balancing my meals, walking, meal prepping and focusing on getting stronger in the gym. And despite feeling far less “locked in” on my physique, I’ve maintained my results and continued progressing in my training.
We talk about why having a performance goal can be more powerful than constantly chasing fat loss, how progressive overload helps you build muscle and look more toned, and why a sustainable body recomposition approach should eventually feel like part of your normal life, not something you have to obsess over every day.
I also take you behind the scenes of travelling through Thailand, navigating food while travelling, keeping protein high on holiday, trying mango sticky rice and Pad Thai in Phuket, exploring Phuket Old Town and showing you what a balanced approach to fitness actually looks like in real life.
If you’ve ever thought:
“I’m scared I’ll gain weight if I stop tracking.”
“I don’t know how to maintain my results without dieting.”
“I feel like I always need to be in a fat loss phase.”
“I want to look toned without obsessing over calories.”
“I want to enjoy holidays and eating out without losing my progress.”
“I want fitness to fit into my life instead of taking over my life.”
This ep is for you.
Body recomposition isn’t just about eating less and losing weight. Building muscle, progressive overload, eating enough protein, understanding your portion sizes and spending time in a performance or muscle-building phase can all help you create the toned physique you’re chasing, while building habits you can actually sustain.
Because the end goal isn’t to spend your entire life dieting.
It’s to understand nutrition and training well enough that maintaining your results becomes part of how you live.
Welcome to another week behind the scenes of my real-life body recomposition journey 🤍
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