Many women work out with the only purpose of getting skinnier. Are you one of them?

When you look around on the Internet, you can find thousands of tips, tools, and strategies that help you to achieve that thigh gap or shrink down your arms.

But none of this is actually helpful because in reality, if you want to have good health, then getting skinnier can't be your goal.

There are much better goals than that, that actually support your health!

Check out today's video and podcast to see what your focus really should be on, if you want to have a strong, healthy and resilient body.

If you are stuck in the BURNOUT mode, please take a look at my free resource, BURNOUT Recovery Spectrum: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/burnout-recovery-spectrum-later/

Other resources you might be interested in:

Inspiring success stories: https://kerstenkimura.com/testimonials/

Work with me: https://kerstenkimura.com/work-with-me/

Overtraining Recovery Spectrum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2jKeSDbZGQ&t=1102s

Simple Strength For Women: A Bodyweight Strength Training Program for Women After Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Recovery: https://kersten-kimura.teachable.com/p/simple-strength-for-women

Is Your Metabolism Slow? FREE guide to faster metabolism: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/slow-metabolism/

How to Eat to Get Your Period Back: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/how-to-eat-for-ha/

5 Tips to Reverse Overtraining Quickly: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/overtraining-recovery-new/

Your Fit Personality Quiz: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/fit-personality/

How To Stop Overeating? 

In today's podcast episode, I'm discussing overeating, and how you can avoid it.

I'm introducing a simple ABC method that, when kept in mind, can help you avoid overeating.

Check out today's video or listen to it on the podcast!

In this episode of the Balanced Vibes podcast, I am joined by two amazing health coaches — Deanna and Tony Schober.

Their goal is to teach their clients what it means and what it takes to have an ideal body. Their approach might surprise you, because having an ideal body doesn't start with “fixing” your physical body. Ideal body is the side effect, or a result of, self care, proper nutrition, right movement, and enjoying your life outside of food and fitness too.

Find out more about Deanna and Tony:

Fitness and Sushi podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fitness-sushi/id1464150507

Fitness and Sushi podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fitnessandsushipodcast

Deanna's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deannaschober

Tony's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tony.schober

More about Kersten:

If you are stuck in the BURNOUT mode, please take a look at my free resource, BURNOUT Recovery Spectrum: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/burnout-recovery-spectrum-later/

Other resources you might be interested in:

Inspiring success stories: https://kerstenkimura.com/testimonials/

Work with me: https://kerstenkimura.com/work-with-me/

Overtraining Recovery Spectrum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2jKeSDbZGQ&t=1102s

Simple Strength For Women: A Bodyweight Strength Training Program for Women After Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Recovery: https://kersten-kimura.teachable.com/p/simple-strength-for-women

Is Your Metabolism Slow? FREE guide to faster metabolism: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/slow-metabolism/

How to Eat to Get Your Period Back: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/how-to-eat-for-ha/

5 Tips to Reverse Overtraining Quickly: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/overtraining-recovery-new/

Your Fit Personality Quiz: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/fit-personality/

How To Have an Ideal Body – Interview with Deanna and Tony Schober

Today I’m joined by two amazing health coaches, Deanna and Tony Schober. I’m really excited to share with you their really balanced approach to health and fitness. It’s been a journey for them to get there, but this journey is the exact reason why they understand their clients struggles so well, and can help them in a way that truly transforms people’s lifestyles.

Get To Know Deanna and Tony

Tony calls himself an Ideal Body coach. For him, ideal body is a side effect of healthy mindset. In his opinion, body change is an outcome of taking care of your body. That’s why it’s so important to take an inside out approach to health and fitness, not the other way around.

Deanna works mostly with moms. Her specialty is helping moms heal their relationship with their bodies and help them improve their self worth. She believes that if our relationship with ourselves in place, then the physical results fall into place as well.

Fitness and Sushi Podcast

There are two types of exercisers: Those why move their bodies to build real strength and health, and those who exercise to burn more calories.

In this episode of the Balanced Vibes Podcast, you're going to learn why calorie burning should not be your only, or even your main goal.

If you are stuck in the BURNOUT mode, please take a look at my free resource, BURNOUT Recovery Spectrum: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/burnout-recovery-spectrum-later/

Other resources you might be interested in:

Inspiring success stories: https://kerstenkimura.com/testimonials/

Work with me: https://kerstenkimura.com/work-with-me/

Overtraining Recovery Spectrum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2jKeSDbZGQ&t=1102s

Simple Strength For Women: A Bodyweight Strength Training Program for Women After Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Recovery: https://kersten-kimura.teachable.com/p/simple-strength-for-women

Is Your Metabolism Slow? FREE guide to faster metabolism: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/slow-metabolism/

How to Eat to Get Your Period Back: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/how-to-eat-for-ha/

5 Tips to Reverse Overtraining Quickly: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/overtraining-recovery-new/

Your Fit Personality Quiz: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/fit-personality/

Remember, there will be one new video on YouTube every single day until the end of July 2020! Make sure you are subscribed to my YouTube channel so you never miss a video.

Check out the following resources: 

Inspiring success stories: https://kerstenkimura.com/testimonials/

Burnout Recovery Spectrum Intensive 5-Day Course (it's FREE!!): https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/burnout-recovery-spectrum-later/

Work with me: https://kerstenkimura.com/work-with-me/

Overtraining Recovery Spectrum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2jKeSDbZGQ&t=1102s

Simple Strength For Women: A Bodyweight Strength Training Program for Women After Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Recovery: https://kersten-kimura.teachable.com/p/simple-strength-for-women

Is Your Metabolism Slow? FREE guide to faster metabolism: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/slow-metabolism/

How to Eat to Get Your Period Back:  https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/how-to-eat-for-ha/

5 Tips to Reverse Overtraining Quickly: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/overtraining-recovery-new/

Your Fit Personality Quiz: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/fit-personality/

How To Exercise To Regulate Your Hormones When You're Overtrained

As you know, this month I will be posting one brand new video on YouTube every single day, until July 31st!

In today's episode, we're talking about how to move your body right to recover from hormonal imbalances and period issues that are caused by overtraining.

You don't have to completely stop moving your body, but you have to find the right ways to do it so that your hormones feel happy.

Check out today's video below!

Dr Elly Michelle Lieppman is a naturopathic doctor and her areas of expertise are women's hormones, GI health and recovery from disordered eating.

Find more about doctor Elly here:

Website: http://www.drellymichelle.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.ellymichelle/?hl=en

Dr Gabrielle Lyon's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drgabriellelyon/

Inspiring success stories: https://kerstenkimura.com/testimonials/

Burnout Recovery Spectrum Intensive 5-Day Course (it's FREE!!): https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/burnout-recovery-spectrum-later/

Work with me: https://kerstenkimura.com/work-with-me/

Overtraining Recovery Spectrum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2jKeSDbZGQ&t=1102s

Simple Strength For Women: A Bodyweight Strength Training Program for Women After Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Recovery: https://kersten-kimura.teachable.com/p/simple-strength-for-women

Is Your Metabolism Slow? FREE guide to faster metabolism: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/slow-metabolism/

How to Eat to Get Your Period Back:  https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/how-to-eat-for-ha/

5 Tips to Reverse Overtraining Quickly: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/overtraining-recovery-new/

Your Fit Personality Quiz: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/fit-personality/

With Dr Elly Michelle Lieppman

Dr Elly is a naturopathic doctor and her areas of expertise are women's hormones, GI health, recovery from disordered eating and more.

Dr Elly, please tell us little bit more about yourself.

First, let's talk about who naturopathic doctors are and what they do. Naturopathic doctors are licensed doctors whose philosophy is to get to the root cause of our health issues, which sets us apart from most medically trained doctors who are treating the symptoms by prescribing pharmaceuticals. Naturopathic doctors figure out the root causes of issues, creating longer, more sustainable results.

The other distinguishing factor is that our treatments are different. We focus on lifestyle changes, herbs, supplements, so we take a much more holistic approach to helping people solve their health problems.

I had an eating disorder, anorexia, which I developed 14-15 years old. That was my gateway into the world of healing and alternative medicine. I had gone through the conventional system and their approach always felt so wrong. Why did they want me to go on birth control or anti depression medication, instead of asking how I'm dealing with my issues?

After I had solved my eating disorder and started college, I became fascinated with a human body. I also realized how important movement was in my recovery, because yoga and dance had helped me to get out of my head and into my body. I also realized that if I wanted to move my body, I had to fuel it properly.

Once I learned about naturopathic medicine, I knew exactly that this is what I'm called to do. I didn't know in the beginning that my specialty is going to be hormones and eating disorders, but I knew that natural medicine is the right thing for me.

This is how we often find our calling, through personal experience.

Yes.

Here are the resources mentioned in this episode:

Inspiring success stories: https://kerstenkimura.com/testimonials/

Burnout Recovery Spectrum Intensive 5-Day Course (it's FREE!!): https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/burnout-recovery-spectrum-later/

Work with me: https://kerstenkimura.com/work-with-me/

Overtraining Recovery Spectrum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2jKeSDbZGQ&t=1102s

Simple Strength For Women: A Bodyweight Strength Training Program for Women After Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Recovery: https://kersten-kimura.teachable.com/p/simple-strength-for-women

Is Your Metabolism Slow? FREE guide to faster metabolism: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/slow-metabolism/

How to Eat to Get Your Period Back:  https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/how-to-eat-for-ha/

5 Tips to Reverse Overtraining Quickly: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/overtraining-recovery-new/

Your Fit Personality Quiz: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/fit-personality/

How To Find A Happy Medium With Food After Restricting and Over Eating

Don't forget that for the month of July 2020, I will be posting one new video on YouTube every single day (starting July 5th!) Make sure you're subscribed to my channel!

If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below.

Here are the resources mentioned in this episode:

Inspiring success stories: https://kerstenkimura.com/testimonials/

Burnout Recovery Spectrum Intensive 5-Day Course (it's FREE!!): https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/burnout-recovery-spectrum-later/

Work with me: https://kerstenkimura.com/work-with-me/

Overtraining Recovery Spectrum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2jKeSDbZGQ&t=1102s

Simple Strength For Women: A Bodyweight Strength Training Program for Women After Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Recovery: https://kersten-kimura.teachable.com/p/simple-strength-for-women

Is Your Metabolism Slow? FREE guide to faster metabolism: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/slow-metabolism/

How to Eat to Get Your Period Back:  https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/how-to-eat-for-ha/

5 Tips to Reverse Overtraining Quickly: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/overtraining-recovery-new/

Your Fit Personality Quiz: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/fit-personality/

 

4 Weeks Of Tools, Strategies, Education + Stories on My YouTube Channel!

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Exciting news: Until the end of this month, I'm going to share 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗼𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗧𝘂𝗯𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆, answering your most burning questions about ⁣

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🍓Proper nutrition in each stage of recovery ⁣

🍦 Intentional eating⁣

🏋🏽‍♀️ Hormone-friendly movement & exercise⁣

🩸Healthy cycle⁣

👙Body composition + healthy change ⁣

💃 Self care ⁣

💪 Body autonomy ⁣

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These videos will be anywhere between 5 and 20 minutes, and anything that is longer than 10 minutes, will be posted on my podcast too.

On these videos, I'm answering the questions that so many of you have asked, and sharing my best tools and strategies that I've learned from my personal experience + work with my clients.⁣

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Yes, you read it right – one video each day until the end of the month! No sign up, no commitments — just a ton of free information. ⁣

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I do recommend though that you subscribe to my YouTube channel!

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I have plenty of topics ready for you, but if there's anything specific you'd like me to answer, leave me a comment.

Today's Topic: Do I Weigh Too Much?

You can find the answer in the video below. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel!

Resources: 

Inspiring success stories: https://kerstenkimura.com/testimonials/

Burnout Recovery Spectrum Intensive 5-Day Course (it's FREE!!): https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/burnout-recovery-spectrum-later/

Work with me: https://kerstenkimura.com/work-with-me/

Overtraining Recovery Spectrum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2jKeSDbZGQ&t=1102s

Simple Strength For Women: A Bodyweight Strength Training Program for Women After Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Recovery: https://kersten-kimura.teachable.com/p/simple-strength-for-women

Is Your Metabolism Slow? FREE guide to faster metabolism: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/slow-metabolism/

How to Eat to Get Your Period Back:  https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/how-to-eat-for-ha/

5 Tips to Reverse Overtraining Quickly: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/overtraining-recovery-new/

Your Fit Personality Quiz: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/fit-personality/

How To Successfully Move From Metabolic Healing to Balance

In today’s episode, I’m talking about how to successfully transition from metabolic HEALING phase, to BALANCE phase.

Balance is the place where we all want to be eventually, because this is where we feel and look our best, our weight is stable, our periods come every month, we have a healthy libido, we have a healthy relationship with food and body, and enjoy our lives the most.

If you aren’t familiar with my Burnout Recovery Spectrum framework, I recommend that you check out this video, and if you want to get even better understanding of how the spectrum works and how it can help you to recover from burnout, check out this FREE 5-day program.

How to Go From Healing to Balance

If you’re someone who has successfully overcome the burnout and healing phase and wants to maintain her health in the Balance phase, today's post and video are exactly for you. I’m going to share with you my main tips for navigating this change from HEALING to BALANCE.

Of course, there is no strict line or a moment where you go from Healing to Balance, and it doesn't happen overnight. The change is more gradual, but there are still very big differences between the HEALING and BALANCE phase.

Look at the following image. You know that you are in the BALANCE phase when you mostly don’t have any signs and symptoms from the left column, and you’re feeling, for the most part, like described on the right.

1. After Healing, Be Moderate with Your Goals

One of the biggest mistakes I see women make is this: We immediately set ourselves extreme goals and want to achieve them quickly.

For example, you may want to lose 10 percent of your bodyweight, or drop 10 lbs from the weight you gained in your metabolic healing process. You started feeling better, your energy came back, your period came back too — and now you want to get rid of this “extra” weight that you had put on.

Not so fast! This will be a big mistake. Remember that you needed this weight for a reason, and if you lose all of it again, the end result will be no different than last time.

Instead,

Resources: 

Ashley Fillmore's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashley_fillmore1/?hl=en

Inspiring success stories: https://kerstenkimura.com/testimonials/

Burnout Recovery Spectrum Intensive 5-Day Course (it's FREE!!): https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/burnout-recovery-spectrum-later/

Work with me: https://kerstenkimura.com/work-with-me/

Simple Strength For Women: A Bodyweight Strength Training Program for Women After Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Recovery: https://kersten-kimura.teachable.com/p/simple-strength-for-women

Is Your Metabolism Slow? FREE guide to faster metabolism: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/slow-metabolism/

How to Eat to Get Your Period Back:  https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/how-to-eat-for-ha/

5 Tips to Reverse Overtraining Quickly: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/overtraining-recovery-new/

Your Fit Personality Quiz: https://kerstenkimura.lpages.co/fit-personality/

Hormonal Fat Loss with Ashley Fillmore

Today’s guest is Ashley Fillmore — women’s sustainable fat loss coach.

The reason why I wanted to have Ashley on today is that there are so many women in my audience who have tried to lose weight or fat and done so in a very extreme way, losing their health in the process. That was me too. However, Ashley is teaching women how to change their body composition and lose fat in a healthy and sustainable way.

Ashley, tell us a little bit about your journey with weight loss and fat loss and how you ended up doing the work that you're doing today.

I wanted to hit a specific number in body fat and thought that doing so would make me very happy.

Growing up, I was never an overweight person. I was skinny, but I felt like I had more body fat than what I was comfortable with. I started losing weight, but I didn’t focus on better eating, better training, better habits; my focus was on caloric restriction.

I also had a lot of confidence issues. I became a personal trainer and thought that I have to be as lean as possible to be taken seriously. That time, low-carb diet was just coming out and very popular. After that, I went on Paleo, then cut my fat completely out. But I was never happy with the outcome.

I wanted to lose more and more weight. But as the number on the scale went lower, my happiness didn’t go up. I lost my period at 20 years old. Also my hair started thinning, I was injured a lot, I couldn’t sleep thought the night, I was literally daydreaming about my next meal… I had no social life, I never ate out and didn’t even go out on a date night on Saturdays with my then boyfriend.

Over the course of one year, my symptoms got much worse. I had to work hard in order to just maintain my weight. I got down to 107 lbs which was dangerously low.

I hit my rock bottom… I remember a moment when I was sitting in my car and busted into tears…

My clients were looking at me as being the super fit and lean trainer. 90% of them said I looked amazing, but there were also some who started getting worried about me because I was getting too thin.

I really hit my rock bottom as I was starting to feel worse and worse. I didn’t have my period for 2 years, and it took me a full year to get it back. But this rock bottom was a truly great moment for me because it made me change.