@bean.queen_jackie: I want you to really sit with that for a second. 8 weeks. A personal trainer. Calories tracked at 1,600 a day. 10k steps. Lifting 3 to 4 times a week. 2 lbs. I wasn’t cheating. I wasn’t lazy. I was doing everything I was told to do and my body was barely responding. What nobody told me was that high cortisol was quietly breaking down my collagen the whole time. And when collagen breaks down it is not just your skin that suffers. It is your gut lining, your joints, your metabolism, your hormones. All of it. Stressed bodies do not burn fat. They hold it. They protect it. Because your body thinks it is in survival mode. The moment I started supporting my cortisol AND rebuilding my collagen is the moment things finally started shifting. Not because I worked harder. Because I finally worked smarter. Your body is not broken. It just needs the right support. Comment COLLAGEN below 👇
