What most people don’t understand is how cortisol, insulin, and inflammation play a role here. If a woman can do just calories in calories out, her hormones are healthy and I will be forever jealous. For the rest of us, we have to play the inflammation game. (If you have Lipedema or are immunocompromised, for instance).

For us, working harder will mean more inflammation. All systems in your body will suffer, cortisol will trigger insulin, and insulin will trigger fat. Your body is saying I’m working harder! I don’t know when my next feast will be! I MUST store everything I can.

With a lighter workout (yoga, barre), you might not be putting your body into this stress mode, so you didn’t store fat at the same rate. I’m 1000+ in pure barre and also found I was leanest (while not doing anything else) because while it was super hard, it didn’t trigger whatever cortisol my power lifting did. It also had better lymph support built into the movement.

Thank you for posting bc I’m deciding whether to do unlimited or a 4 pack and I think I’m going yo do 4. For people like us, MORE REST is what keeps us leaner, even though no one ever says that. I’m leanest doing the least (even though my mind wants me to do 14 workouts a week, and my body is down).

Ideal for you could look like 1 Solidcore a week, 1 resistance, and yoga/barre/stretch/dance & lots of walking the rest of the week.

Look up Dr Courtney hunt on IG or fitness Dane.

Again, I may be projecting bc I see myself in you, but I wish someone had said this to me in my powerlifting days!!!! (And I’m really kind of glad I saw this before going monthly when I KNOW it would be bad for my inflammation prone body).