
If You Feel Skinny Fat, Here's What Needs to Change
Younger me needed this episode so bad. If you've been consistent for years, putting in the work, and you still have that skinny fat look — flat, no shape, not lean either — this one's for you. I spent 5 years doing basically everything wrong before I finally figured out how to build muscle and change my body composition — and my first real muscle-building phase changed my body faster than those entire 5 years combined. In this episode I'm walking through the exact mistakes that kept me (and keep so many women) stuck: skipping meals, chasing a calorie deficit nonstop, obsessing over burned calories instead of building muscle, under-fueling with carbs, letting the scale run the show, switching plans too soon, and basing everything on how I looked instead of how I felt and performed. If you're doing all the "right" things and still not seeing results, it's probably not about doing more — it's about doing the right things, in the right phase, long enough to actually work. Want a personalized starting point? Grab my nutrition plan, my lean building guide, or my free recipe eBook — links in the show notes. Chapters: 0:00 Why I'm talking to younger me 4:00 Skipping breakfast and meals 7:00 Why chronic dieting stalls your metabolism 11:00 Obsessing over burning calories 14:00 Not eating enough carbs around workouts 18:00 Letting the scale run your life 23:00 Switching your plan too soon 30:00 Basing everything on how you look 34:00 What I'd tell younger me now Personalized macros + nutrition plan: lainijojo.com/macro-guide Lean Building Guide: https://lainijojo.com/lean-building-guide Nourish Simply recipe ebook: https://lainijojo.com/nourish-simply
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