Women’s Fitness Expert: What You NEED To Know About Dieting & Exercise | Dr. Stephanie Estima

I want women to stop being losers. And so I'm on a mission to really undo the genuinely terrible advice that most women have been given as it concerns their health and their fitness. So we're gonna talk through some actionable strategies on how to build a body that has curves. More of an hourglass figure. Let's even if I can be Very honest with you. I'm pissed off because we've been sold a lie that our worth is the number on the scale. And I've seen tens of thousands of patients over my 20 year tenure. And right now a lot of online dialogue is I want to be toned. I want to have the Pilates body. Be as small as possible. So this is where I get a little fired up because I also have personal experience. Struggling with my own weight and my own worth. I was trying to become what I thought was the right thing. And I had massive problems afterwards. So I am gonna be very transparent and honest with you. The pursuit of skinny is a bad thing. With devastating consequences, like you're gonna end up with bone disease like osteoporosis. So there's lots of things on the desk here in front of us that I'd love to go through. We've got these

Five fitness myths. Yes, so one of them, for example, is a lot of women are scared to consume more carbohydrates because they think it's gonna make them fat. But we need carbohydrates for our food, our sleep, even performance at the gym. And then there's also women are scared that if they're lifting heavy weights that they're gonna start looking like our bodybuilder. But that's almost impossible. Seven to ninety eight percent of women don't have the hormonal environment to bulk. And then we've also got These archetypes here. So there's four archetypes that women identify themselves in their fitness journey. And the most common woman that I see is skinny fat Sophie. And we'll talk about what this means. So let's talk about what the women listening should understand about hormones. How do you think about fasting in your menstrual cycle? What are the specific issues that mothers face as it relates to fitness? I mean there's lots of things that I'd love to talk about. One hundred percent. That makes me so excited.

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