Showing up for your authentic body is one of the most amazing things you can do for yourself. It’s not about restricting your food or exercising every day or even about that goal body weight. It’s about finding what works for you and your body type and choosing to honor that every day. From the exercise that feels good to food that nourishes you and the sleep that supports you to the clothes that feel authentic - let’s unpack how to show up for your authentic body.

 

Support Your Authentic Body By

1. Identifying your body type (ectomorph, mesomorph, endomorph)
2. Eating foods that nourish your body type
3. Finding movement that your body loves
4. Figuring out your ideal sleep schedule
5. Wearing what you want and what your body feels good in

 

Find Out Your Body Type

Showing up for your authentic body means doing the things that feel good for it, regardless of what you “should” do. This might take some trial and error to find how your body functions best, but trust me when I say it’s worth it.

A big part of showing up for your authentic body is figuring out what your body type is. There are three main body types: ectomorph, metamorph, and endomorph. Each body type responds differently to exercise and nutrition, and it’s up to you to choose how to honor that.

 

Eat, Move, Sleep, and Dress to Support Your Authentic Body

The other keys to supporting your authentic body stem from knowing what your body type is. Each body type needs to follow some more specific nutrition guidelines - but that’s all they are: guidelines. It’s up to you to figure out what works best for you.

It’s also so important for you to find a way to move your body that feels good for you. If you don’t like to run, don’t run. Exercise should be both enjoyable and make you feel good, so if it doesn’t do either of these things, don’t do it.

Finding your ideal sleep schedule is an important step to supporting your authentic body. You maybe need more - or less - sleep than your friends and both are totally valid. I also talk about how to dress to support your authentic body, and the importance of the words you use for yourself.

Think about how amazing your ideal body is. Do you want to get to know it better? Today you are in your amazing body. You start showing up for your authentic body now. How does it like to be talked to? Rested? Fed? Worked out? Dressed? Ask those questions and dive in. It’s so worth it. Let me know what you’re thinking in the comments on the episode page.

 

In This Episode 

• Why it’s important to learn how your body functions best [3:15]
• What an ectomorph body type is [11:00]
• What a mesomorph body type is [11:45]
• What an endomorph body type is [12:45]
• How to talk to your authentic body [14:45]
• How to eat for your authentic body and body type [18:30]
• What happens when you find out your authentic body’s ideal exercise [21:30]
• What dressing for your authentic body looks like [26:00]

 

Quotes

“For me, showing up and knowing what it feels like to be in my authentic body is so much better than any goal weight or any goal body fat percentage or any parameter like that. It engages the mind-body connection, and ultimately, that is what we have to do for long-term, sustainable results.” [4:45]

“As I was starting to see that I was feeling so good, some of the things that I used to view as restriction became extremely clear that it wasn’t restriction. It was honoring my authentic body. All of a sudden, everything changed.” [19:36]

“In order to achieve fat loss or whatever your primary goal is, you can eat all of the things some of the time, you just do all of the things all of the time. When you think of it that way, it feels restrictive. But when you think of it as, ‘I feel amazing in my authentic body, what can I do to show up for it?’ Things will change for you. That’s when our plan does not seem restrictive any longer.” [20:27]

 

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