The Strong & Sexy Show

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Seven years ago I moved to Boston, cried the whole drive home from a job interview, and just knew it was meant to be. Now, three days before I move to Connecticut, I'm closing that chapter.

This one is recorded in the moment, tears and all. I'm walking through the past seven years: the friendships I built and lost, the dates, the relationships, losing myself and finding myself again. And the goodbye that surprised me most today wasn't my friends (we already have the girl weekends planned). It was my chiropractor, the woman who helped heal my nervous system and supported me in every area as I stepped into who I am.

This is the final episode of Coming Home to Me. It's about discernment, following God's yeses, and owning who I'm becoming, knowing it in my soul and in my bones.

If you're standing at the end of your own chapter, whether it's a move, a breakup, or a brand new career, this one's for you. It's okay to cry at the goodbye and still be completely sure.

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life update: losing the weight back, ending the relationship, and locking back in

this week i'm getting real with you about everything that's been going on. i'm talking about the 13 lbs i've lost and kept off and what actually worked, ending my relationship and getting so much clearer on my standards and who i let into my life, and why pouring into myself first is the only way i can pour good into anyone else.

i'm also catching you up on my friend weekend with rena, megan, maggie and jared and the conversations that reminded me how exciting and beautiful this life actually is. plus the leap i took this year, leaving my job, leaving my home, and figuring out cash flow for the first time in my life. it's been the scariest and best decision i've ever made.

and now we're heading into lock-in season. flatter tummy, bigger booty, clean eating all the way to christmas and new year's. let's go.

you're in the gym four times a week and still not seeing results. here's the one thing that's actually missing.

if you've been hiit-hopping, pulling random workouts off the internet, following whatever's trending with no plan and no tracking, no real idea if any of it's working, this one's for you. showing up isn't the problem. guessing is.

today i'm breaking down the actual fix, and it's not more effort, it's structure. for my clients that means a plan i build specifically for their body, living in an app, so nothing's made up on the fly. the split itself: 2 upper body days, 2 lower body days, plus walks. low-level cardio, elliptical, more walking, only gets added in if it actually fits the goal. and progressive overload, explained simply: lifting heavier week over week, tracked, not guessed at.

we get into the identity shift too. reach for the 30s, the 45s, even the 55s. strong is sexy, not something to be scared of.

your homework: are you actually tracking your lifts? if not, start this week.

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What if eating healthy got easier when you stopped trying to make it interesting?

I eat a lot of the same meals on repeat and no, I’m not bored, deprived, or living off sad diet food. In fact, simplifying my meals has given me more freedom, more energy, and way less mental noise around food.

In this episode, I’m breaking down exactly what I eat on a normal day, why I don’t believe you need a different recipe every night, and how decision fatigue can quietly make eating well WAY harder than it needs to be.

Because your life already requires hundreds of decisions every day.
What you eat for lunch probably doesn’t need to be one of them.

I’ll share my current go-to breakfasts, lunches, and snacks, where I actually want variety in my life, and why eating the same simple meals can support everything from weight loss to maintenance to building muscle.

And no the goal isn’t for you to copy my calories or eat eggs and potatoes for the rest of your life.

The goal is to show you that healthy eating can be ridiculously simple.

Your meals can be boring.

Your life doesn’t have to be.

Press play and then take my challenge: pick 3 meals (Come over to IG @juliaamaryy and tell me your 3 meals) you genuinely love and eat them on repeat this week. Then tell me whether simplifying your food made you feel restricted… or FREE.

70 pounds down. Maintained for years. Still building muscle. Still losing fat. Still evolving.

Everyone talks about losing the weight.

Almost nobody talks about what happens after.

Because losing weight once is one thing.

Becoming the woman who can maintain it season after season through vacations, busy seasons, life changes, maintenance phases, fat loss phases, and everything in between?

That’s a completely different skill.

In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on what it has actually looked like to maintain 70+ pounds of weight loss for years — while continuing to build muscle, lose fat, and change my body without living in a perpetual calorie deficit.

Because I don't believe you have to be in a fat loss phase forever.

And I definitely don't believe you have to feel deprived forever just because you want to maintain the body you've worked so hard to build.

This conversation is especially for my tall girls  the 5'8"+ woman who already knows the basics.

You know you need to lift.

You know protein matters.

You know a calorie deficit creates fat loss.

But you're stuck on the HOW.

How do I make this sustainable?

How do I stop constantly changing my meals and workouts?

How do I know when to push and when to maintain?

How do I become someone who can actually keep her word to herself?

And maybe, underneath all of that, there's a quieter fear:

Maybe I'm just going to be big forever.

I'm here to tell you: you are not broken. You don't need another diet. You need to learn how to live differently.

This is the part of my story I wish more women got to see.

Not just the before.

Not just the transformation.

The after.

Because the real goal isn't just losing the weight.

It's becoming the woman who knows how to keep it off.

🎧 Listen to Episode 59 and then come find me on Instagram @juliaamaryy

DM me PROTEIN for my free Protein Guide or CARBSfor my free Carb Guide.

And tell me: Where do you feel most stuck right now losing the weight, maintaining it, or figuring out how to make it all sustainable?

Every diet plan, every macro calculator, every "what I eat in a day" video on your FYP was built for a body that isn't yours. This episode breaks down what actually changes when you're tall, muscular, and built to move real weight, the real math behind height, limb length, and muscle mass, why comparing your plate to a 5'3" girl's plate was always going to leave you starving, and what "eating enough" actually looks like when your body has more to fuel. If you've ever felt high-maintenance for needing more food, more recovery, and a different training approach — this is your permission slip. You're not high-maintenance. You're high-output.

I lost a lot of weight the "skinny-bitch way" — and I lost too much. In this episode, I'm getting real about what that cost me (energy, hormones, feeling proud of myself), the shift that actually changed everything, and why most weight-loss advice was never built for women like me. If you're tall, built differently, or just tired of content made for a body that isn't yours this one's for you. We're talking fat loss, maintaining muscle mass, and the mindset it takes to keep it off for good.

I’ve always wondered why I go so hard.

Why I have such a big vision for my life. Why I want to build so much, experience so much, and create a life that can hold it all.

And recently, I realized the answer might go all the way back to when I was 11 years old—when my dad got sick, and I watched my mom slowly lose herself in the process.

This episode is the most honest look yet at the deeper why behind the way I live, the way I dream, and the life I’m determined to build.

Because sometimes the things we’re most driven to create are a direct response to something we watched someone we love lose.

And once you understand the story underneath your patterns, you get to decide: are you still living from the rules you learned back then—or are you finally building your life on purpose?

If you've ever wondered why you are the way you are, this one is for you.

I'm moving to a brand-new state.

No job lined up. No guarantee it's going to work. No perfect plan. Just a decision that feels right—and a whole lot of fear coming along for the ride.

Because here's the thing: I'm scared.

I'm scared of starting over. I'm scared of not knowing anyone. I'm scared of wondering if I made the wrong decision. And sometimes, if I'm being completely honest, I'm even a little jealous of people who seem settled in the life they've built.

But underneath all of that, I realized there was something I'm even more afraid of: staying.

Staying in the familiar. Waiting for certainty. Saying "someday" until I look up and realize I spent years wondering what could have happened if I'd just been brave enough to try.

And I have a feeling you're not all packing up your lives and moving to a new state—but you probably have a move of your own.

The business you've been afraid to start. The relationship you know you need to leave. The conversation you've been avoiding. The dream you've been circling for months.

This episode is about what happens when you stop waiting to feel ready and choose the version of scared you actually respect yourself for.

Because regret hurts longer than fear does.

So the question isn't, "What if it doesn't work?"

It's: "What if I never try?"