The Unf*ck Your Fitness Podcast

176. How to Pivot Your Fitness Journey for Pregnancy and Postpartum Success

• Kristy Castillo

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Let’s get real - pregnancy, postpartum, and the beautiful chaos that is navigating your fitness journey through it all can be a LOT. It’s been a minute since I’ve been pregnant (like 17 years), but I remember allll of the feelings and emotions that come with this life-altering season!


I’ve also learned plenty since my pregnancies. I know that your movement and mindset during pregnancy and postpartum is super important, and you MUST give yourself permission to evolve.


Pregnancy isn’t a time for the ‘all-or-nothing’ thinking - it’s a time to shift your workouts, and honor your energy. Movement is still medicine, and taking care of your body and mind is NEVER selfish!


Postpartum is a time for you to heal, nourish, and give yourself grace. It’s NOT about ‘bouncing back’, or forcing your body into extremes. You’re not going backwards…you’re building something brand NEW.


You don’t need to wish for your ‘pre-baby body’. Whatever chapter you’re in, I hope you keep showing up, pivot with purpose when necessary, and trust that every season is shaping the strongest version of YOU yet!


In this episode, we cover:

  • How to approach movement during pregnancy & postpartum
  • Why your pregnancy shouldn’t be an ‘all-or-nothing’ season
  • Prioritizing YOUR health & well-being during pregnancy
  • The power in realizing that YOU are your baby’s home (and that means everything)
  • Real talk on postpartum fitness + sustainable ways to rebuild your strength
  • Embracing the version of you right NOW & letting her take the lead


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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?

Speaker 2:

up. Welcome to today's episode. I am excited to talk about pregnancy today. Pregnancy, postpartum, pivoting your journey, what that looks like, what that feels like. Giving you a little bit of real talk in more of a self-compassion way and kind of a kick in the ass per usual, christy Castillo style.

Speaker 2:

This is such a niche topic and, honestly, some of these topics scare the shit out of me. And, just to be fully transparent with you, some of these topics do scare me because I'm not an expert in the pregnancy department. I'm not even. I mean, I'm an expert in the fitness department, but I'm also. I feel like I'm just not. I feel like, at any time, people can take what I say and pick it to pieces. And, of course, pregnancy is one of those topics where I'm like oh, I'm going to get some shit for this, probably if I say the wrong thing, and it is also kind of scary to have the option of saying the wrong thing, I don't know. Anyway, I don't want to get into that too much, but it is one of those topics that I'm like oh, I would love to give my thoughts and my real talk on this topic and that's exactly what I'm going to do. I mean, once I've decided to talk about a topic, I'm like, okay, here we go. But I also just want you to know that I am a little nervous to talk about it because I'm just sometimes I get nervous about about the feedback and hopefully I'm doing the topic justice. I just want you to know and I want to preface this not so much for my safety but for you to know that I genuinely say these things with love and, you know, compassion and also a kick in the pants, like I said, like I that's what I'm here for and I am speaking to. If I'm ever talking in an episode and you're like this is not true, this does not relate to me, she does not know what the fuck she's talking about. I had a completely different situation. Please know that. I know that that is an option. Okay, I'm not speaking to you sometimes and that is okay. I just feel like I kind of need to say that. But anyway, just a little clearing the air there for myself.

Speaker 2:

But pregnancy is one of those topics I mean, you know, if we're getting into like core and diastasis, recti, you know, post pregnancy and all of that kind of stuff, like it's those topics that, first of all, I'm quite literally not an expert in. I do not have specific training on pregnancy and post-pregnancy. I have general certification in it. I have general education on it. I obviously have been pregnant. I have worked with multiple I can't say hundreds, but multiple pregnant women and post postpartum women I couldn't think of the word.

Speaker 2:

And you know, obviously I feel like I do know what I'm talking about, but there are special circumstances to where this will not all apply to you. So I'm going to speak from my heart, from my mind, and if this speaks to you, fantastic, you're my person, we get each other. And if this speaks to you, fantastic, you're my person, we get each other. If not, and if you have a special condition to where this doesn't apply to you, then that's exactly it. This does not apply to you in that case, because there are so many different experiences that we have with pregnancy. It is just, it's one of those topics that I could seriously talk about for so long and, honestly, it's kind of one of those topics that I like to talk about. I used to like to talk about it in the sense that, like, obviously, when I was pregnant, it's nice to talk about it, it's nice to have someone else who is pregnant at that same time to talk about. It's nice to have someone who was just pregnant and talk about their labor and talk about all the things. Sometimes that can be damaging, Sometimes that can be hard and not helpful, because a lot of times we get the bad instead of the good and all of that, but I think it's so nice.

Speaker 2:

Part of the reason that I wanted to start this podcast was just to talk about my own experience and to make things real, like pregnancy. Now, that being said, I have not been pregnant. Also, it's kind of why I feel like, why am I talking about this? I have not been pregnant in 16 years, 17 years, so it's been a minute okay, which is crazy, but obviously I was pregnant and I did go through it and I remember exactly what I felt in that time and, kind of creating the episode notes for this episode, it was interesting to go back and think about things that I thought then during pregnancy, my experience with pregnancy, what I've learned since then personally with my own postpartum journey. And now I've obviously almost 17 years from my last pregnancy Like a lot has happened since then. My body is completely different, my kids are completely different. My thoughts are completely different. So I think there's just so much to unpack here, which is another reason that it's like God, how do I even start? Because I'm not one to just drill into. Well, this is what I believe about pregnancy and working out. There's so much that goes into it. So I think that's another reason why I just get in my own head sometimes. I'm like oh, what do I even say? What do I talk about? Who am I talking to? But anyway, in true Christy Castillo form, again, I am going to give you my thoughts. This is my podcast and I am going to spin this the way that I feel like I should. So we are going to just get real about fitness during pregnancy and during postpartum.

Speaker 2:

I get a lot of questions about how should I work out while I'm pregnant. Also, how should I treat my pregnancy? Should I treat it as a break? Should I completely take a break and just live it up and do whatever I want? Should I treat it as a bulk, like a build phase, like a bulk phase? You know, should I really dial in? There's so many different questions that I get. And then postpartum what to expect? Again, how should I treat it? Should I give myself a little grace? Postpartum? What to expect? Again, how should I treat it? Should I give myself a little grace? Should I dial in? What's that going to look like? And I guess my first thought is.

Speaker 2:

My first thought is whatever you think your pregnancy is going to look like, there's a good chance it's not. There's a good chance that, whatever you are thinking, I'm pregnant and this is how I want it to be and I want it to be a healthy pregnancy and I want to be so. I don't want to deter myself from my goals. You know I have a lot of clients who come to me and they're like I want to get in shape because I want to get pregnant, and so I want to be healthy and in shape before my pregnancy. And then, you know, get through the pregnancy and then get through postpartum and then get my body back. It's like we have this whole vision of what it can look like and that's great. There's nothing wrong with that and I think that's very wise. I didn't have that. I didn't know anything about any of this when I was pregnant, so I think that's very, very smart and very healthy.

Speaker 2:

I also think the reality is that your pregnancy may not go the way you want it to, and that doesn't mean that it's going to be a very bad experience. It just means you may feel cravings that you're like I cannot control these. You may feel like I actually just kind of want to enjoy my pregnancy and give in to some of these cravings and not be so obsessed with fitness during my pregnancy. Right, like a lot can change. So I guess what I want to say is that this season of life is so messy. Pregnancy is so messy. It's so beautiful, it's so scary, it's so exciting, it's full of change, which your life will now be forever. Once you're pregnant, then your entire life changes after that in ways you cannot see possible, and my life will even change even more. So, like life is just a continuous ball of change, like it just I think the older I get, obviously, the more I realize that, and having kids and being pregnant help with that too.

Speaker 2:

But your workouts, your mindset and your goals have to evolve. They have to change, and I really think that you don't have to bounce back. Yes, you have to have a healthy pregnancy, because your body depends on it, your baby's body depends on it. Like that shouldn't be an option. You shouldn't just totally fuck off and say, oh, I don't care anymore about my body, I'm going to eat whatever I want and like, live it up for these nine months and then, you know, get back on a plan or whatever you're. You know, whatever we would tell ourselves in that situation. I don't think that is a good idea at all, for different reasons. But you don't have to prove anything, you don't have to be spot on. But you also don't have to quit, and I think that's what I want to talk about.

Speaker 2:

A lot here is it doesn't have to be all or nothing. It's not like I can have a healthy pregnancy or I can have a free-for-all pregnancy or I can have a free-for-all. You can have a balance, you can find that middle ground and I think the way that you do that is you pivot. So if you were previously trying to body recomp and you were previously trying to lose weight, or you were previously trying to build muscle, you were previously trying to have a better relationship with food, right Before you found out you were pregnant, you had a certain goal in mind. Well, now you're pregnant, so your goal, your mindset, has to change. This is a pivot opportunity. If I have ever heard of one.

Speaker 2:

Okay, you now have to say, okay, I just found out, I'm pregnant. I'm two months into my pregnancy. I have a few months to go. What do I want this to look like? Right? Or I'm 12 weeks pregnant, so I have six months left. Like for these next six, seven months, five months, whatever it is that you're getting in this space of what do I do now? What do my workouts look like? What do I eat? Oh, my God, everything's changing. Holy shit, I'm so confused and I feel so lost. Pivot okay, you're no longer trying to build. You're no longer, or you're no longer only trying to build. You're no longer only trying to body recomp or only lose weight. Your mission now, your mindset now, your goals now, are to have a healthy pregnancy. What does that look like for you? Yes, go to your doctor.

Speaker 2:

When I was pregnant and I went to my doctor, my doctor visits were all about, obviously, the baby and pregnancy. And here's what's going on. Here's where you are. So many weeks. This is what we need to do in a couple weeks.

Speaker 2:

It was never like. What do you want your pregnancy to feel like? How do you want this to go? Anything like that. It was never that conversation and I wish that it would have been. That would have been cool, that would have been interesting, right, like how I just thought it was like by the book, like this is what you do, and it was never, I guess, presented to me. As you know, I can have, I can work out, which I wasn't even working out then, so lifting weights or anything that doesn't even like really apply, but it was never presented to me in a sense of like okay, you are now pregnant and you are growing this baby, but this can look like whatever you want it to look like. It was just very much. A manual was given to me, basically, and I had to kind of take it from there and just do what I was told, which is fine.

Speaker 2:

But obviously I want to talk about fitness and pregnancy and postpartum and pivoting in this episode, because it's so amazing that a lot of you and I get so many messages like I just found out, I'm pregnant, what does that look like for me? And I'm like oh my God, thank you for asking, your options are endless. What do you want this to look like? What do you want this to feel like? Where are you at in your fitness journey? Where are you at in life? Let's be open and talk about it, and I think that's awesome, because if I would have had the opportunity to experience that in my own journey, if I would have probably been a little older I was super young no, I shouldn't say super young, but I'm in my early 20s, pregnant. I don't know anything, I'm just buying a house and getting married and all the things. Some of you listening are older and I think that's amazing, that you kind of already know about yourself and you already have these options and these goals, and I think that's really great.

Speaker 2:

So, as far as fitness, when you are pregnant, like I said, it doesn't have to be. You're either healthy or you're not, or you're fit or you're not. First things first, talk to your doctor, of course, okay, and because, again, if you have any underlying issues, pregnancy can create complications even more so, and so we definitely don't want to do anything if you are in a state where you're like, I don't know, I'm kind of at risk or, you know, at high risk or something like that, but if you're cleared from your doctor which you have a lot of appointments with your doctor when you're pregnant. So no excuses here. Okay, movement is medicine.

Speaker 2:

I truly believe that through your pregnancy, you can move your body. You can lift weights, you can run, you can do pretty much pretty much anything that you can do not pregnant. While you're pregnant, our bodies are incredible. Pregnancy is not the time to max out or PR. It's about. This is where the pivot comes in. It's about supporting your body, it's about staying mobile and it's about protecting your mental health and staying active and it's about being able to have a healthy labor and a healthy birth and a healthy start to postpartum. Right Lifting is still on the table. You will have to adjust the intensity, the core pressure, of course. That is where I would personally advise you to pay a lot of attention. You can still squat, you can still deadlift.

Speaker 2:

As I'm saying this, I freaking wish that I knew this stuff when I was pregnant. I do not wanna be pregnant right now. Like not at all. That is not even something I should have even messed around with saying Like I do not. But man, would it have been freaking cool to be able to kick ass in my fitness journey while being pregnant? That would have been so cool. And I'm not saying just like kick ass and, you know, max out and set PRs, but just to be able to prove to myself that that was a possibility would have been so freaking cool.

Speaker 2:

There are influencers that I follow just a couple that are younger and they have recently either are pregnant. Now one is really into CrossFit and she's pregnant right now and it's been so interesting to watch her go through it. She still does work out but she's gained quite a bit of weight. She looks so different and she's still out there and maneuvering how she feels about her body. And there's another influencer that I follow and she just had her baby a couple of weeks ago and it's just been so cool to follow these healthy physically, healthy mentally individuals At least they're presenting themselves that way on social media, who knows. But just to go through that and I'm just like man that would have been so freaking cool.

Speaker 2:

But as far as while you are pregnant, it's not all or nothing, it's not setting PRs or not going to the gym at all, you could go to the gym. You can squat, you can deadlift, you can do pretty much anything. Core your core. If you feel pressure down there intensely, if you feel pressure down there that you think that kind of scares me. Don't do it. That would be something that I would stay away from is obviously core work. I would not. I don't know personally. I don't think it's dangerous to do, you know, some core work, of course, but if it's something that you're feeling nervous about, like it's only a few months, right, you can get.

Speaker 2:

I'm proof that you can do literally nothing during your pregnancy and get right back into shape not right back, but you can get back into shape, okay. So it's not like taking a few months off from lifting, taking a few months off, if you want to, from core work, taking a few months off from running, whatever, like you can do those things, but you don't have to. Taking a few months off of that stuff is fine. And working on your mental health, working on everything that's involved when you are pregnant just because you can kick ass in your pregnancy and be so healthy and fit and strong and work out, doesn't mean that you have to. You can spend that time chilling.

Speaker 2:

Because here's another thing that I think and okay, let me first say I do think you can and you should, if you want to remain lifting and running and moving and like doing all the things. Our bodies are fucking phenomenal and you can do those things. And if you are, that and that makes you happy and that's you know, and maybe you do that. For maybe you have six months left in your pregnancy at this point and you're like, okay, for three months I am going to kick some ass here. And then for the last three months, as I'm getting a little bit bigger, a little more uncomfortable, things are starting to happen. You've got to get the nursery ready. You've got to get your body ready. You've got to get work things ready, you've got to. If you've got to get things around the house ready, maybe that's the three months where you pivot again and say, okay, now, these three months are about nesting and getting ready.

Speaker 2:

Because here's what I also think you will never again not have a child once you give birth to this baby and I know that that's like no shit. But also I think if someone would have smacked me in the head and said you will never again not have a child period, pause, that's crazy to think about. You will never again be in control of your sleep schedule. You will never again be in full control of your workout schedule, of your food schedule for a while anyway, and I'm not saying that this is a bad thing. I love being a mom. I think my kids are freaking amazing. I love my body now I've gotten back into shape. I've never had a terrible. My son was a terrible baby, but I haven't had like a terrible life altering experience with that right.

Speaker 2:

But it is true that before you have a child is the only time you are living for yourself and, yes, maybe you're married, you have a significant other and you're living quote unquote, for that other person as well. It's not the same. It's not the same. When you have a baby, everything changes. So I also don't think it's a terrible idea to say, okay, I'm going to go ahead and do some things for myself now, I am going to chill, I am going to go for lots of long walks and not lift. Right now, it's okay to live for yourself in this moment.

Speaker 2:

I want to be very, very clear that that is something I'm very passionate about, because there are times when I'm like, wow, I have spent the last my daughter's 19,. I have spent the last 19 years out of my 43 years on this earth basically surviving for another person, for my daughter, for my son, even before that, for my husband when I got married. And that's hard and I'm not saying that that's terrible and this is kind of a sidebar here but when I think about it, my body, once I gave birth to my daughter, I'm a mom. My body is now different. I'm different internally, physically, mentally, emotionally. It changes you and if I would have known that, and there's no way that you can know that.

Speaker 2:

But this is kind of why I want to say it like here right, this is your body and this is your life, and you get to parent and you get to house that baby and you get to move and you get to do this how you want to do this, and I think that's a very empowering piece that I did not have. And sometimes I get really pissed off about that because as a woman, we are very quickly to give ourselves to our significant other or we give ourselves to our children, and that never stops and that's okay. That's okay. But also, if you're pregnant, this is kind of eye-opening and I would have been very healthy during my pregnancy, but if I would have had this information presented to me, I would have sat back and thought, wow, this is really crazy. This is a really crazy few months that I can really turn into something special, but I can also take control of that right. So total sidebar there, but I think that's really important to say.

Speaker 2:

Also a reminder you're not working out to maintain your body or to stay how you are or to bounce back as fast as you weight possible. You are supporting the home that your baby is growing in and that is so powerful. That is so powerful and that needs to be your pivot. But keep in mind that you're supporting the home that your baby is growing in, mentally and physically. So you are the home. Physically, try to keep yourself into shape and make really good choices, because you are the home for that child. Mentally as well, and this is where I think the part where you choose what your fitness journey looks like during pregnancy mentally you have to be okay with that as well, because mentally you are the home and your mental state runs. Your physical state runs, your emotional state right is helping your baby grow. So I think that's really, really important to talk about. But as far as fitness, I'm just going to, across the board, talk to your doctor, cut back on core work, but you can do anything physically while you're pregnant. Yes, tone back the intensity. Yes, maybe tone back the amount you're doing it. How often things like that? But you can pretty much maintain your physical movement while you are pregnant.

Speaker 2:

Postpartum fitness. A lot of people are like how can I body recomp? What does this look like? Give yourself some grace. Okay, your body just did the most incredible thing. So give it some time, give it some space, give it some respect that it deserves to heal.

Speaker 2:

Take that six weeks that you get from your doctor where they say don't do anything physical, don't really walk, don't go for long walks, don't lift, don't work out. Take that six weeks. And a lot of people think six weeks is such a long time. It's literally not. It's literally not Get some sleep, sit on your ass. Take that six weeks because, again, you're never going to get that back. Your baby will never be as immobile as it is. When you have that baby and it's going to, that baby's going to start moving, walking, crawling, crying, screaming, and then that's it, mama. So, okay, give yourself some time, space and respect the first few weeks.

Speaker 2:

If you want to do something, I would work on pelvic floor reconnection that's so important and then breath work. Those would be the two things that I would start with. And then going on daily walks and I think that's enough. Okay, during that six weeks, like I said, literally do nothing. I'm giving you permission, give yourself permission. But breath work is great, that mind muscle or that mind breath connection that's really really deep and that can bring you back to center in those stressful times, exhausting times, when you have a new body and you have a new baby and you're kind of losing it, kind of in shock, you don't know what's going on. Pelvic floor reconnection I never had issues really with my pelvic floor or with diastasis recti or you know, or any of that really, probably because I was pretty mobile during my pregnancy anyway, without knowing any of this. But that is a really good place to start. It's really important if you can work on that, especially if you've had any issues during your pregnancy, I think that's really good. And then just going for some short daily walks whether it's around your yard with your baby, whatever it is right Get a little tiny bit of movement and I think you'll feel so good mentally.

Speaker 2:

But forget bouncing back, okay, you're not going backward, you're building a new foundation. A lot of people think of their pregnancy as, oh no, I'm pregnant Now. I'm going to lose all my gains, I'm going to lose all of my progress that I've just made, and it's not like that at all. You actually have a new lease on a new body. Basically, once you've had a baby, everything changes and you change and honestly, I mean, I built my best body after I had my baby, so there's nothing's hurt here.

Speaker 2:

Okay, but I don't think it's healthy to look at your pregnancy as obviously not a cut phase and obviously not a maintenance phase. But I have seen this trend lately on social media like should I use my pregnancy as a build phase? No, you should use your pregnancy as you're growing a baby period and then, if you want to, afterwards you do have a little extra weight on your body. Of course, if you're breastfeeding, sometimes that weight goes away faster and your core can come back into shape faster and strengthen up faster. So, yes, if you want to use, you know, yes, you put on a little weight. If you want to start lifting weights when you're able to, if you want to start moving more when you're able to start hitting your protein goal, start thinking about that. If you're breastfeeding, you need to increase your protein or your calorie amount by 500 calories to be able to keep your milk supply and feed your baby. So, yeah, it's a really good thing.

Speaker 2:

I think and we can talk about that for a second what I would suggest if you are in that postpartum stage and you've gotten your six weeks under your belt, you're just walking, doing some breath work and doing your pelvic floor reconnection and then after that, when you are cleared, start getting into the gym. If you are someone who lifts and wants to start a body recomp phase after, I think that's a really good idea. Body recomp for so many reasons that I've talked about in previous episodes and I'm going to create some more episodes about body recomp soon because we are loving that topic here at On Track your Fitness but I think it's a great way. It's very healthy. It's a very healthy way to look at growing your body, changing your body. It's a very healthy way to look at your food intake. Because you eat a little bit more, your relationship with food is a little bit better. So I think, if you're going to focus on anything after pregnancy, I wouldn't focus so much on weight loss.

Speaker 2:

Weight loss. Weight loss Focus on fueling your body. One, eating enough calories to maintain your current state, because your body needs fuel to be able to repair itself and heal from the labor, what it just went through. You need enough fuel to keep that milk supply going. If you are breastfeeding, taking care of your body Again, that recovery is going to take some time, a lot of time, and it's going to take a lot of energy, which is calories.

Speaker 2:

So get your calories in line, start eating protein and then going for walks and then increasing your gym time. If you want to get to the gym, start slowly but start lifting weights. You're not starting from ground zero, but kind of, if you want to think of it like, okay, I'm starting from ground zero with this new body, think of it as you're going into a body recomp phase. You're going to start building muscle while you're losing fat, losing weight, because you will lose that. You just put it on because you had a baby to support and then you can go into a body recomp phase and you don't have to do that any differently postpartum than you would in any other body recomp episode I've talked about, other than be aware you now have a infant in your home. So sleep is going to be crazy, everything's going to be crazy.

Speaker 2:

So give yourself lots of grace and realize that it's going to take time to figure out when you're going to the gym Probably mornings are best. Yes, three days a week is perfect. Progress looks different. That's not a bad thing. It's an opportunity to relearn your strength. This is my new body. This body grew a human. It housed a human. It gave life to a human. It's incredible. It can do really, really hard things. Most certainly, if your body grew a human, gave birth to human life, you can go to the gym and lift heavy things. Okay, mama, so we've got that. But I want you to think about these things when you are going into your pregnancy journey Mindset shifts that you can think about.

Speaker 2:

You don't have to do what you did before. That version of you built this version of you. Now let this version of you lead. I love that saying and I tell myself that quite a bit when I think about going back, like, oh, my body looked great here, or my mindset was great here, or it doesn't matter, I don't have to do that anymore. That version of me morphed me, built me, I built myself into this version of me, and now this version of me is in the driver's seat. Okay, so say that's the same thing for you. Let this current version of you lead. Embrace this current version, this current body, this current mindset, and lead with that. What does she want and go get it. You're not failing if your workouts don't look the same. This is an important mindset shift. After it, you're not failing if your workouts don't look the same. This is an important mindset shift.

Speaker 2:

After pregnancy You're evolving, you're adapting, you are a brand new person. You're listening to your body. That's maturity, it's not weakness. So don't, for God's sake, do not, go back to exactly what you were doing post-pregnancy. You are not that version of her anymore, okay, and that doesn't mean that you are weak, that you are mature. You're evolving. Your workouts don't have to look the same. They're not going to. You just gave birth to a human. You're not going to bounce right back in the gym. The goal isn't to go back to normal. I love this. The goal is stronger, wiser and more in tune. Who says we have to go back to my pre-pregnancy body, my high school body, my college body, like we says we have to go back to my pre-pregnancy body, my high school body, my college body? We don't have to go back to that body. We can go forward into a new one.

Speaker 2:

So takeaways from this episode for pregnancy, postpartum and pivoting, which I think is some great Ps. Fitness isn't all or nothing. It's very fluid and if you don't mold it and pivot during different phases of your life, you will never succeed. So it's not all or nothing. You have to be fluid and you have to pivot. Pivoting on your goals does not mean quitting on them, and I hope we've already discussed that enough in the Unpack your Fitness podcast. Pivoting is the best thing you can do when something changes. It's not quitting. You are quite literally changing and taking a different direction, which is so smart.

Speaker 2:

Pregnancy and postpartum are chapters and they go really quickly, really quickly. They're chapters. They're not the end of your story, they're chapters and when you're in it it seems like forever. But they are the smallest chapters, but they're really important. So stay in tune with them. Okay, take it easy, stay present, remember your goals. They matter. Keep showing up in the way that your body asks you to, the way your mind wants you to, how you want to look, how you want to feel. That's how you do pregnancy, and if you can't discuss it with anyone else because you don't have people in your circle that you can communicate with on this. You need to get into my it Girl membership. That is completely acceptable for pregnant women as well, because we're all it Girls. Even when you're pregnant, even when you're postpartum, you still need people that are like no, you're doing good right, but I see you in this season.

Speaker 2:

I wish I would have had this podcast episode when I was pregnant. It would have been a freaking game changer for me. I needed myself earlier on in my life. I think about that all the time, but I hope this was really really helpful. I enjoyed talking about this on this episode. I hope that you did too.

Speaker 2:

If I said anything to offend you, sorry, also, not sorry because I maybe, just maybe that wasn't for you, okay. So if I did offend you, I'm really really sorry. And again, when you are pregnant, it is your journey. If you, if something I said obviously doesn't relate to you, that's totally fine, but I want you to remember to go to your doctor. It is your body.

Speaker 2:

If you push your body too far in pregnancy, you'll know. You will know and you inherently have that ability and that intuition where, like I, don't feel like I should be doing this. I don't feel like this is right. Something feels off. If you have that feeling something is off, and listen to it. Okay, most importantly, always, always, always, want you to be in tune with your own body, especially while you are pregnant. So I hope you enjoyed this episode. I hope you enjoyed listening to this episode as much as I enjoyed talking to you in this episode. I'm really proud of the way that I delivered this and I know it's going to be so helpful, which that's why I'm so proud of what I said. And, yeah, I hope it was really really helpful. So I will talk to you in the next episode.

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 ChristyCastilloFit. I will see you next time. Bye.