41. SKINNY-FAT SERIES: How to eat more/increase your calories, WITHOUT gaining weight

What do you do when you're stuck in this vicious cycle of restricting your calories, but every time you try to increase them, you gain weight on the scale? For most women, they go right back to restricting their calories again so that they can stay on track with their body goals. And I was no different!  I can literally remember back in the day, scrolling through YouTube trying to figure out  "how do I increase my calories without gaining weight" because my goal was to avoid weight gain at ALL COSTS.  This meant that I was constantly hungry, and constantly thinking about what to eat, and how it would impact my body. It meant that every time I hadn't been to the gym yet to burn calories, I was riddled with guilt. I believed that if I didn't exercise that day, I'd be going backwards and I'd just gain weight again And I believed that I HAD to be good, and eat clean if I wanted my ideal body... We live in a world where people say things like: No pain no gain if you’re not exercising you’re lazy the sweatier the better etc... So how could you NOT start to become conditioned that more exercise and less calories = moving towards your goal? This episode goes into depth on this belief and way of doing things, why it's ultimately SO flawed, and how you can free yourself from this vicious cycle of restricting because you don't want to gain any weight? EPISODE LINKS: My relationship with exercise: The dark side of exercise: my unhealthy relationship with it, and how I recovered https://lauraswingler.mykajabi.com/podcasts/the-fit-free-podcast-2/episodes/2147897453  Will resistance training and lifting weights make you bulky?: SKINNY-FAT SERIES: MYTHS that are stopping you from reaching your body goals  https://lauraswingler.mykajabi.com/podcasts/the-fit-free-podcast-2/episodes/2148058349 Body recomposition: SKINNY-FAT SERIES: Signs it's time to build muscle and STOP losing weight https://lauraswingler.mykajabi.com/podcasts/the-fit-free-podcast-2/episodes/2148039076  P.S. Please review my podcast, as it really helps get it out to more women that need to hear this. Review here:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fit-free-podcast/id1651978022 P.S.S. Plateaued with your weight loss? Wanna find out EXACTLY what you should be doing next to lose cm off your waist, of tone your glutes ONCE AND FOR ALL? Take this quiz: https://lauraswingler.mykajabi.com/plateaued