It Starts With Truth Podcast

My Body Wasn't Broken—It Was Just Burnt Out: Healing My Relationship with Food, Fitness & Faith


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In this deeply personal episode, I’m sharing the journey of how I unknowingly ran my body into the ground in the name of “health.” From intense workouts and chronic fasting to under-eating and chasing discipline, I found myself exhausted, losing muscle, missing my cycle, and wondering why I felt so disconnected from my own body.

But what looked like “willpower” on the outside was actually burnout on the inside.

This episode is for the woman who’s doing all the “right” things—tracking, training, fasting—and still not feeling right. I’ll walk you through how I:

  • Lost muscle and disrupted my hormones through not hitting my macros

  • Reversed hair thinning and restored my period by eating more (not less)

  • Found freedom in learning to track macros—without obsession

  • Traded punishing workouts for intentional strength training and rest

  • Balanced cortisol by managing stress from both physical and emotional angles

  • Shifted my relationship with fasting—reserving it for spiritual connection, not weight control

  • And most importantly… how my faith brought peace to my nervous system when nothing else did

This is about more than food or fitness. It’s about coming back home to your body, your intuition, and your Creator. Whether you’re in the middle of your own healing season or just starting to question the hustle, this episode will remind you: you’re not broken. You’re just being invited to soften.

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It Starts With Truth PodcastBy Ali Lohrman