@linzie.lea: I didn’t lose 70 lbs by doing cardio. I built muscle. And that’s the part a LOT of women over 40 are missing. I started lifting weights (again, because I had fallen off for several years ), focused on building + keeping muscle, cleaned up my nutrition & stopped putting a 30 day time limit on it. It took me 18 months. Not 3 months. Not 30 days. Not a starvation diet and 2 hours of cardio every day. Building muscle changes the way your body looks, moves, performs & responds to fat loss. And as you get older, protecting muscle becomes even more important. You don’t need to spend your life trying to burn more calories. You need to give your body a reason to build something worth keeping. That’s what changed everything for me. If you’re over 35 and trying to lose fat without ending up smaller, softer and exhausted, start lifting. I have full strength workouts on YouTube designed to help you do exactly that. Subscribe to Linzie Lea Fitness on YouTube.

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