08/01/2026
Eating for you goals! 🍔
I hear this all the time:
“I want to perform better, but I want to be lean”
But Eating for performance and eating for aesthetics don’t play by the same rules.
Instead they have completely different priorities.
When printing for performance your body needs fuel. This means:
1️⃣ Adequate calories to train hard, recover properly and adapt.
2️⃣ Carbohydrates to perform, protein to rebuild and fats to support hormones.
3️⃣ A focus on what your body can do, not just how it looks.
When you eat for aesthetics this is where performance often quietly unravels:
1️⃣ Chronic calorie restrictions.
2️⃣ Aggressive macro manipulation (high protein, low to no carbs, minimal fats)
3️⃣ Pushing body fat too low and negative metabolic down regulation starts to creep in.
Something a lot of women don’t know about is while we train hard and under fuel, we are on a slippery slope to:
• Low energy availability (RED-S)
• Plateaued or regressing performance.
• Loss of valuable muscles…. Not fat.
• Poor recovery and increase of injury.
• Hormonal disruptions.
• Burnout, food obsessions and disordered eating patterns.
Remember this isn’t discipline, this is your body saying “red flag!”
You can definitely chase both performance and aesthetics but not accidently.
It takes individual phase based nutrition protocols along side training, and knowing when to push and when to pull back.
Try bottom line you can’t thrive in a deficit.
It’s not choosing between strong and lean it’s learning how to build both without sacrificing your health, and long term progress.
That’s not found in 6 week shred plans or instagram macros.
Strength, endurance, power are build on energy available, not restriction.
If this is something you want to achieve In 2026, I can help you with that.
