02/04/2024
Building body trust requires consistent, adequate nutrition for your body’s workload, muscle mass, training goals, and genetics. Where you are in your life can change the nutrition your body requires.
In our 20’s and 30’s our hormones are primed, we might be thinking about starting a family...meaning everyone needs to be optimizing their nutrition to make this process as seamless as possible. You are probably training harder and longer because you can. You have more time, your body is able to withstand the demand.
As we reach our 40s, life is often more hectic. Work commitments, family dynamics, history of injury, dieting, metabolic changes, hormone changes. Health concerns. Our body needs different nutrition. If we try and feed it counter to what it is asking, and what it requires, it starts to become skeptical, or even rebellious. “I just don’t know what my body wants?”…
“nothing is working anymore”. Sound familiar?
Then we start chasing results. The scale, performance, different diets...anything! But we are not consistent, we are not patient. We are hot and cold with what we want and can commit to...and so the trust suffers.
To build back body trust we have to listen, respond appropriately, and timely. We have to honor the cues our body gives, let go of control, and let it know that you are on the same team.
THEN...once the trust is rebuilt, the metabolism is healed, the mixed messages have stopped, and your body believes in your ability to give it what it needs….NOW you can let go of control and trust yourself because your body is an amazing, and intelligent system.