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.