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132. Simplifying Macros: Why Flexibility Is More Important than Perfection

• Kristy Castillo

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I’m digging into one of my favorite topics today - MACROS! 

I looove the world of macronutrients (aka macros), but I’ve found this is something that gets very overcomplicated for people as they’re navigating their fitness journeys. There is no shortage of information about macros today, but even if you feel like you understand macros fairly well, that doesn’t mean you know how to make them work for you. 

I freaking LOVE the flexibility and freedom that macros have brought me; that’s why I’m passionate about teaching my clients and community to take more of a ‘balanced’ approach with tracking macros. I’m no longer obsessed with macros, or feel like I need to be ‘perfect’ when tracking them. However..I didn’t always feel that way, and I’ve learned a LOT on my 15+ year journey!

From following rigid diet plans with color-coded containers as a Beachbody coach, to counting and measuring every.single.thing I was eating, I used to really struggle with my nutrition. I also had NO idea what I was doing! I knew I needed something sustainable so I could actually achieve my goals, and still enjoy my life.

Thankfully, I chose to educate myself and took more of a ‘flexible’ approach to macros. As a result, I've built my BEST body over the last several years!

I know there can be confusion surrounding nutrition labels, food measurements, etc., but you can’t get wrapped up in all of that. This journey doesn’t have to be so damn stressful or ‘perfect’. Find what works for YOU long-term, and give yourself some grace as you’re fostering a healthier relationship with food and fitness - you’ve got this!! 

In today’s episode about simplifying macros, we cover:

  • How I want to teach macros + why flexibility matters
  • My journey with tracking food, counting calories, tracking macros, etc.
  • Why taking control of your long-term health and truly understanding what you’re doing is key
  • That ‘perfection’ mindset that often sets in when tracking macros + finding what works best for YOU
  • What to do when you’re struggling with tracking certain foods and macros + trying to hit your initial macro targets
  • The confusion around nutrition labels and measurements + choosing to aim for progress, not perfection
  • Why being both intentional and flexible has allowed me to build my BEST body

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Speaker 1:

Welcome to the Un-Fuck-Your-Fitness Podcast. I am your host, Christy Castillo, and I'm here to give you real talk and cut the BS so you can actually enjoy building a body you love. I'm a personal trainer obsessed with giving you simple action steps to take you from feeling stuck to feeling sexy. Let's go. Hey guys, what's up?

Speaker 2:

Welcome to today's episode. I am going to be talking to you about macros today. Macros are a very popular well, they seem to be a very popular topic, I should say. I talk about them a lot with my one-on-one clients, with fig club clients, with literally anyone who knows me will ask me about macros. Just because who doesn't know that I love macros? Right?

Speaker 2:

They're also complicated at times in the sense that a lot of people don't know how to make macros work for them. A lot of people don't know what macros are period, and maybe that's you. A lot of people do know what macros are in terms of them being carbs, fats, proteins that make up the calories that we eat. I remember learning that and thinking honestly how did I make it into my 20s without knowing what macros were like, what food was made of? That's just kind of weird to me. It seems like in a health class in school that should be a topic, but anyway, it wasn't for me anyway at the school that I went to, whatever. But even if you know what macros are, that doesn't mean that you know how to make them work for you. And even if you are a personal trainer or a nutritionist or registered dietitian, it doesn't mean that you know someone's exact macros based on very little information or without knowing someone. Even someone trained in the field can't get it right a lot of times. First estimate, first calculation, you know, first target. So they are complicated, but I don't like people to become obsessed with them and I'm going to talk about those reasons why in this episode. I love macros because they have taught me to not be so perfect and to be okay with it and they have taught me flexibility and they have taught me food freedom and they have taught me how to be more in tuned with my body and what it needs and what it's asking me for and what it requires. So macros have helped me in a lot of ways. But I want to talk about why you don't need to become obsessed with them in the sense of being absolutely perfect, and I've had a lot of conversations, the last, I would say, two weeks, bringing on some new one-on-one clients.

Speaker 2:

We do talk about this in our first call. It's an onboarding call where I talk with them about what they've been doing, what they did in the past. Have they tracked their food? Did they do beach body and use containers? Have they measured food? Did they. Have they not done any of that stuff right? What are they currently doing? What do they understand about macros if anything like kind of to get a good gauge on what I need to teach them and how I need to walk them personally, based on their answers to those questions or the information that they give me how we need to walk them through that.

Speaker 2:

And a lot of clients are either nervous about being obsessed like I've tried macros in the past and I became really obsessed with it and so I'm nervous to start that back up or a lot of clients don't know anything about macros. So once they start tracking and once I give them targets to hit, they then become obsessed with hitting those exact targets and I do teach them why that's not necessary and why I'm not ever going to harp on them for that or kind of get down on them for that. Yes, I will get. I shouldn't say get down on them, I will get. Not, I shouldn't say get down on them, I don't know what, what term I was looking for there, but yes, I will get on someone that's you know can be doing better and ask me like hey, really hold me accountable.

Speaker 2:

I will say like, hey, why are we drinking so much on the weekends? We said we weren't going to do that. Why are we eating so many Oreos? This is me when we said we weren't going to do that. Why are we going over in carbs every single day? When we said we weren't going to do that? Right, there are times, but there are other times when you are enjoying a weekend out, you are enjoying a night out, you did plan to go over your macros or things happen whatever. You miss a workout and it can go any way and it's like, okay, you need a little grace and you need to understand why you did that, so that you can fix it for next time, if that makes sense.

Speaker 2:

But I want to teach macros from a place of the unlearning the idea that you do not have to be perfect, the idea of self-love and feeding your body because you love your body, not being mean to your body because you hate your body. I want to teach you macros in terms of fueling your body because if you do want to lose fat and you do want to build muscle and you do want to look strong and you do want to have a well-running adaptive metabolism and you do want to have a healthy hormone base, like if you want to be freaking healthy, honestly blanket statement there period you will have to feed your body what it needs, period. So that just is what it is, but it doesn't have to be perfect on a daily basis. I've said this in other episodes before that and these are all things that have helped me through the years. All things that have helped me through the years and I want to kind of get into that in a second kind of where I came from and like where I am now and where I kind of veered off and what I've learned and honestly, just kind of teach you that, because I think it's really important to actually walk a journey with someone and realize how these things, why these things matter, how they matter.

Speaker 2:

But knowing that you don't have to be perfect is so important because your body doesn't know that it's Monday, that it's Tuesday, that it's Wednesday. Your body keeps a running tab of all the calories that you are intaking with food and all the calories that you are outputting via movement. So you don't have to be perfect every single day. I teach a lot of my clients to do like a seven-day average and I talked about this in a podcast not that long ago where I kind of got into the details of more flexible macro tracking and how that can work for you. Because, like I was saying, you can have all the information about macros but if you don't know how to make it work for you specifically, it's not going to matter.

Speaker 2:

And for me that was something when I I don't even, I don't think I was even, I don't think I was taught that, I think it's just one day I was like, wait, I don't have to eat perfect. Like my body doesn't know it's midnight to midnight and how many calories I had right in that 24-hour period, like it doesn't know. So I can kind of just, you know, maybe if I overate Monday, I can kind of under-eat on Tuesday, right, like isn't that kind of how it works. And so I started experimenting with that and, yeah, that was how it worked. And I learned that I didn't have to be absolutely perfect with. I didn't have to be absolutely perfect with when I was hitting my macros. Like, yes, I needed to be approximate, right, I want to hit around X amount of calories and X amount of proteins, fats and carbs per day, but I don't need to be perfect. That's a really hard thing to lean into or to maneuver into when I personally knew nothing about health and fitness and food and calories and macros and any of that stuff right. Until I started I was married.

Speaker 2:

Well, like I said, I I'd already had my daughter and my son was six months old he's now 16, for reference but we started doing the Beachbody program, p90x, and I started tracking my food with the little portion control containers and literally measuring all of that out and tracking it on a piece of paper. And then I kind of went from there to they had the 21 Beachbody had or it's body, now whatever, it was Beachbody then. So that's what I'm going to say. Beachbody had the 21 day fix app where you could track your food inside the app. So that was like revolutionary right. So I started doing that and I don't really think that I liked the app because I was so used to just measuring and portion controlling. So I would actually measure my lettuce in a container and then dump it into my on my plate or my bowl, whatever. I would measure the chicken in a container and then put it into the salad. I would measure my ranch dressing in a container and then I would put it into the salad, so things like that. Like I would measure everything and that worked. I'm not going to say that it didn't work, but it was not sustainable because I'm not taking those containers everywhere I honestly don't want to be.

Speaker 2:

I was so obsessed with it I did not know that a red container, I think, was protein. This is taking me back. Red container was protein. It was probably eight ounces, but I didn't know that. Eight ounces of protein was, I don't know. We'll say 15 grams, or eight ounces of chicken was, I don't know. We're just, I'm just going to guess. I literally don't know, cause I don't know what I was eating and I don't know what it was told, but cause this could be different for steak and whatever. Let's say like 15, 10, 15 grams of protein. I don't freaking know. But then it was just like I wasn't even counting my proteins, fats and carbs as far as grams. It had me having like six quote, unquote portions of protein a day. So like I would have however many of these containers every single day measured out, and that was. If I had like six of those, then I hit my protein goal for the day.

Speaker 2:

I didn't know that that was like calculated into grams. I didn't know that that was like calculated into grams. I didn't know that. I just thought, well, I'm eating like six of these red containers every day and that's working. I didn't know that that could be turned into grams and I didn't know those grams were estimated based on my body weight and my goal of muscle building. I just didn't know, I didn't learn anything.

Speaker 2:

So it was like I was doing this, I was seeing results, but, like I just didn't know, I didn't learn anything. So it was like I was doing this, I was seeing results, but what am I doing? What am I actually doing? And when I finally decided to learn, when you finally get to a place where you're like, even though this is working and I want to understand it, because how am I going to make this work long-term? Or I'm doing this and it's working, but it's not sustainable, so I have to find something else that's sustainable.

Speaker 2:

The goal is and, honestly, if you want to take control of your health and fitness, you will eventually have to get to that place where you want the information for yourself, so you understand it, and you don't need to know all the ins and outs of that, you just need to know why it matters for you. Like that's it. That's why, on this podcast, unfucking your fitness to me is not talking about the BS and the routines and like all the corny shit. You don't need a morning routine. You don't need, like, all this stuff. You don't need it. It's fine to have it. You don't need it. You also, unless you're a personal trainer and are like doing all this, you don't need all of the scientific stuff behind it either.

Speaker 2:

That can get a little overwhelming. I want to turn this into like how can you make it applicable for your life? So that's the base of this podcast, right? So me telling my clients like okay, your goal weight is 140 pounds. You should be having 140 grams of protein because your body needs that much to sustain what it has now to build more muscle. That's going to be more balanced food for you. You're going to be more satiated, you're going to have more energy. And once they do that, about two weeks in, they're like oh yeah, I do feel better, my cravings are better, I'm not hungry as much and I feel better and I can see muscle mass growing. So I kind of explained just enough for them to understand, but not so much that they're overwhelmed. But you do not ever have to be perfect. And this is something else that I learned about macros was I was absolutely trying to be perfect at first when I did maneuver from Beachbody into bodybuildingcom.

Speaker 2:

That's where I started to have to track my own food, figure out what I'm going to eat without these containers. At that point in time I wasn't quote unquote allowed to have. Like Oreos weren't on the food list as a beach body item to eat, so I wasn't having them. It was like I wasn't having anything that wasn't on this list. So when I maneuvered out of that, I was like, well, am I going to eat Oreos again? I mean, eventually I am. So I should probably figure out are they a fat, carb or protein? How many of that? You know? What's the calories? What do I need? Like I started to have to figure that out and then I went from there into because that's kind of the if it fits your macros world you can have any kind of food you want, as long as it fits in your macros.

Speaker 2:

Then I went to more of a clean eating approach to help my gut issues and to also just clean eating was best. That's what you should do at this point in time when I was maneuvering through that, I don't know Everybody's doing it right, a whole 30 and the whole clean eating thing and there's nothing inherently wrong with that. So you know, I did that and tried that for a while, again realized I didn't really want to live like that. I wanted to be able to have cake at my young children's birthday parties. I wanted to be able to eat certain foods at Thanksgiving dinner. I was just like this isn't working for me. So I had to kind of maneuver out of that again and try to figure out how to make this work for me.

Speaker 2:

I was still really stuck in, like at birthday parties, tracking certain foods that are not trackable, right, like how do you track a taco? How do you track how much meat is in the taco? How do you know how much sour cream you put on the taco? Like it's that perfection mindset of like I can't track a taco, or I can't track chili. I don't know how many cans of beans my mom put in the chili that she made for me. So I guess I can't track it. So I guess macros aren't for me that kind of a thing. So, on that, let's kind of maneuver into that perfection mindset when it comes to macros. So for me there's kind of two ways that you can look at macros.

Speaker 2:

Macros for me meant a lot of unlearning and it's a process. You will not get a macro target, hit it perfectly and understand macros all in four weeks, all in 12 weeks, maybe not even all in a year. You can learn it all, but making it look specific to your life takes a while and that's the foundational work and you might have to do this foundational work every 12 weeks as you pivot. I talked about this in previous episodes but a lot of coaches don't teach it this way. They give you macros and they say, hey, hit these macros, do these workouts, fill out this form once a week, see you later like good luck kind of a thing. I love to learn it and I love to have people unlearn things. That's part of the macros being perfect.

Speaker 2:

The first way you can look at macros, in my opinion, is perfection. You can only eat things that you can track and measure and you can be perfect. I have clients that really cannot, will not rather change their mindset and go outside of that box of if I can't measure it and log it, if it's not a single food item. I can't eat it because I don't know how to track a taco. I don't know how to track unless they actually measure out the beef or the protein they're putting in their taco. They actually measure out the sour cream, like I used to.

Speaker 2:

That perfection part is what I used to do back in the Beachbody container era my Beachbody container era. That's what I did. I didn't have anything that I couldn't measure. Everything on the list that Beachbody gave me in this particular list, that's all I ate. I ate off of that list and I measured everything in those containers and if I couldn't measure it, I didn't eat it.

Speaker 2:

I remember the first time I had pizza. It was after my daughter's dance recital, and if I couldn't measure it, I didn't eat it. I remember the first time I had pizza. It was after my daughter's dance recital. I think I talked about this in an early, early episode. But I had been perfect, perfect, perfect for one month, which is for me crazy, crazy that I didn't have any like cheats. I didn't sneak any food out of the trash cans, like what I tell you. I put in max effort and was absolutely perfect, so proud of myself, just killing it.

Speaker 2:

And when my daughter had her first dance recital she's little we go family dinner to Pizza Hut. I have pizza, and I was like, well, I can't put that in a container. Now what am I supposed to do? I went back and started again on Monday kind of a thing, and started measuring my foods again in these containers. But that was a moment for me when I was like I'm either not going to enjoy this celebration for my daughter, I'm going to have a salad at a pizza place I don't think so or I'm just going to kind of figure it out. But I remember doing that and thinking I can't track a lot of foods that I eat. So for me I don't want to do that. I understand some people do. They want to measure it, they want to weigh it on a food scale, they want to measure it in a container, they want to measure it in a measuring cup, and we'll talk about that soon. I don't hate all of those things. I don't think that they're worthless, I don't think anything. But I personally do not weigh my food and I personally do only occasionally still weigh my food. I don't think that they're worthless, measure my food into like measuring cups, but I do sometimes have my clients do that, like it's okay to do that.

Speaker 2:

At first I put my time doing, you know, doing that. I put in my time. I went from measuring things in containers not knowing why and what I was measuring and why literally what am I doing this for? To like having this list of like. Oh okay, the back of this protein bar says this new you know these nutrients. You can put it in my Fitness Pal app, scan it and it breaks it down for me. And now I'm having a chicken salad for dinner or whatever. So I need to put eight ounces of chicken, aka a cup for me, and my brain's like eight ounces is a cup. So I'm just going to fill the one cup measuring cup full of chicken and plop it in my salad For me. That teaches me to eyeball it. I see it, this, you know measuring cup. I flip it onto my plate. I can visually see that's what eight ounces or one cup whatever of chicken looks like. I can see how much one cup of cereal looks like. I can see how much a cup of oatmeal looks like a cup of blueberries. But you see what I'm saying.

Speaker 2:

There's nothing wrong with and I do think you should measure things in the beginning of your journey, because that does help you, but you don't have to be perfect. So the number two way that you can do this number one being perfect across the board good luck with that. Number two is flexible and in my opinion, the sooner you learn to be more flexible, the sooner you learn to be on perfect with your life and with your macros, the better off you will be. So I was actually having this conversation with three different clients kind of over the weekend, and it was really really good because I was just having clients that were being very hard on themselves for not hitting their macros perfectly inside of the app. Mind you, these are newer clients.

Speaker 2:

So when I set a client's macros in the first, the first number that I set macros at for a client is my best guess, and that's just being honest. And now it's a pretty damn good best guess because I'm pretty damn good at what I do. But I have the knowledge of their height, if we haven't talked yet. I literally have their height, weight, age, sex and a very brief overview of their goals. So I will set some targets in there and say, okay, these are the targets that I'm setting for you for the next two weeks. Try to get close.

Speaker 2:

But I can also see what you're tracking. I can make edits, I can make suggestions. We can change this number at any time based on how you're feeling, because it's literally a starting place. But even when I calculate them six weeks, eight weeks out, I'm like, yep, these are it. This is what I love. We're going to shoot for these. These are our targets. Now I've seen how you've been tracking for the last month. I see where your habits are. We've gotten new habits in place, new stable foods. We've done a little foundation work. We're good. I love this number for you.

Speaker 2:

It's still not absolutely perfect and here's why the goal might be fine. I'm pretty proud of my goal that I've set for you, right? But it's not 100% accurate. I'm a human. I'm a human being, so I'm still going off of just based on what I know about this person. I don't see this person in person every day. I don't know exactly what they're eating. They could be lying to me. I don't know exactly how hard they're pushing in their workouts. They could be lying to me about that. I don't know. Hopefully my one-on-one clients aren't lying to me, but you literally never know right. But also, food nutrition labels are not 100% accurate. So if you are trying to track your macros perfectly and you're like, god damn it, I literally cannot hit my macros. Nothing in me can hit my macros perfectly. The macros that the internet gave me, the macros that Christy gave me, the macros that I calculated myself I can't hit them perfectly. I suck at this. No, and I'll tell you why. Because nutrition one nutrition labels are not accurate and I pulled this right out of PartnerMD and it was in 2020, but this is still true as far as what I could find out now. Am I saying this is absolutely accurate? No, I know, the internet is the internet, but I do know this to be true.

Speaker 2:

The food labeling regulations from the FDA do allow for a 20% margin of error on nutrition labels For anything that says there is a certain amount of carbs, calories or sugars in it. There could be up to 20% more. Also, some items, such as artificial flavors, are not included in calculations for the total percentages listed on the label. Again, this is that same article as far as the percentages listed on the label, which I personally don't ever look at. I don't really teach my clients to look at it. But if you are a percentage person, those percentages are based on a 2,000 calorie per day diet. So if you are not eating 2,000 calories per day, then those percentages aren't going to be accurate for you. Does that make sense? You might expend more than 2,000 calories per day. You might expend less than 2, 2000 calories per day. So just because you're looking at that percentage wise on a nutrition label, that doesn't apply to you necessarily either.

Speaker 2:

But I remember learning about the 20% margin of error on food labels and it makes sense because you know there's error in the package. There's like the weight, like all the things and it does make sense that, obviously. I mean you see, when people create things in factories and foods and how things are packaged and how things are made and how things are measured right, it's not perfect. They're doing it really freaking fast. They don't care if the right serving size amount it's like one third cup is a serving size and there's eight servings in this box. Yeah, probably not. There's probably not. If you were to measure it out, it's probably wrong. Okay, but a 20% margin of error. So if the numbers on the back of the package, the numbers on the food you're eating.

Speaker 2:

If they're not correct, your measurements might not be 100% correct. Let's say you heaped a cup of blueberries. Let's say you under measured a cup of blueberry, whatever right Like, our measurements are not 100% accurate. And if the macro calorie calculations you're aiming for are not accurate, you have three inaccurate ways of measuring and calculating your macros. So even if you did hit your numbers perfectly, it doesn't matter. Good job and good job trying and measuring and putting all that time into it. I do that. That's exactly what I do. You don't see me saying like oh well, none of this matters. If there's three ways that I'm calculating it are inaccurate, then what's the point of getting close? No, I'm still going to get close, real close, but that's why I never give a fuck if I don't hit it correctly. Okay, that's just aggressive, but that is what it is.

Speaker 2:

If I get within 10 grams, or like 10% of my macros in the day, I am good. Okay, I am good. And that's how I want you to be too, because some days I might be 10 grams under on my protein. Two days later I might be 20 grams over on my protein. Like, I want to be close, but I don't want it to be perfect.

Speaker 2:

Okay, these protein shakes that I drink every single day. I might scoop that out different every single day. I might measure the eight ounces of milk a little bit different every single day. The ones I get from the store might have a few grams less of the liquid in it and could be off by all the grams of carbs, fats and proteins. So everything that you're consuming is a best guess. Everything that you're measuring is a best guess.

Speaker 2:

Everything that I've set for you, every target you're trying to hit, is a best guess. Everything that you're measuring is a best guess. Everything that I've set for you, every target you're trying to hit, is a best guess. So you will never be perfect. And I know that's kind of triggering, disheartening. And if you're thinking like, well, what the heck, how am I ever supposed to make progress? That's the beautiful thing is that my clients learn to kind of ballpark things and add things no matter what, and get a little extra protein in, if anything, right. If you're like, oh, I don't really know if that was measured right, my mom made this, my dad made dinner, my boyfriend made dinner, my girlfriend made dinner, like whatever, then just err on the side of caution and have a little more protein or a little less, something you know like you can kind of use your judgment, but this is how we learn to live life. This is how we learn to not be so perfect.

Speaker 2:

Okay, this was something for me that took a lot of time and a lot of like. It was hard. I don't exactly patience with myself. I guess it took a lot of patience. It took a lot of self-talk to be like I don't know if I'm doing perfect. In fact, I'm not doing perfect because I never will, but I can still see results. I don't have to be perfect.

Speaker 2:

So there was this time of growth and learning and being like okay, I'm going to track all this stuff, I'm going to get really close to my macros for the day, and then I'm going to shut this app and I'm going to move on because it's not perfect regardless. So I'm going to do my very, very best. That shit is not optional. Do your very best in everything, period. But track your food. Try to hit your macros Very, very, very close. Kick some ass in your workouts. Build some freaking muscle. Okay, stop focusing only on fat loss, only on weight loss. Who cares, especially if you don't have much fat to lose, build muscle instead. That's something you can control.

Speaker 2:

So once I started to be like, okay, if I can really focus on giving 100% in my workouts and making those really really count, because now I don't have to focus on 100% in my workouts and making those really really count, because now I don't have to focus on being perfect in my macros, I can focus on being perfect, giving more energy to my workouts. I'm not joking, I told a client this the other day. I saw my best body. I built my best body. I should say I freaking built that. I built my best body, learning how to eat more carbs, not track perfectly, lift so heavy and so intentionally not even I shouldn't say so heavy, but heavier than I was, so intentionally and being very, very productive and trying to build muscle and that mind muscle connection and putting all my effort into that. I had my best body and I've continued to try to maintain that body here on out.

Speaker 2:

That's where I feel very healthy mindset as far as food. Very healthy mindset-wise as far as workouts. Very healthy mindset-wise as far as myself. Personally, most days I still have these shitty body image days, but that is what it is, okay. So, instead of trying to be perfect, learn to ballpark your reign and control more of what you can and put your energy into that, instead of being so perfect with your macros when you honestly aren't going to be perfect with it anyway because of all the things those three things particularly that I mentioned.

Speaker 2:

So I kind of realized that I think for me that just was really helpful, like no matter what. Like yeah, I'm going to try to get really really close, but I can't obsess about this because it's not going to be perfect either way. Like, even when I was obsessing about my containers, it wasn't perfect and here I was obsessed with it freaking obsessed with it. Like acted like it was the only way anyone could ever lose weight was these freaking stupid containers, and they weren't even accurate, right. So this is just such a better mindset for me and I really wanted to give you this information to hopefully help you with that transition as well, because I know that this is a big thing.

Speaker 2:

Like counting macros doesn't work for me. I can't be perfect, I can't track perfectly. It just you know it doesn't work. I don't understand. I want to give you hope that doesn't have to be perfect and you don't have to understand all the details about it. Right, just be consistent, show up and focus more so on your movements and building muscle, and the rest will come, and this journey doesn't have to be so stressful and so perfect and you can give yourself more grace and be a little easier on yourself. So I hope this was helpful. I will talk to you next week.

Speaker 1:

Thanks for listening to today's show. Go ahead and leave a rating and a review and, of course, follow the podcast so you don't miss out on any future episodes. And I would love it so much if you came to connect with me over on Instagram at Christy Castillo Fit. I will see you next time, thank you.