THERE’S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRAINING FOR STRENGTH & TRAINING FOR THE LOOK OF STRENGTH ⁣
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After killing off the need to look small and thin, I wandered into the wavering and destructive world of needing to “look” fit, muscular, and like I could kick your ass instead.
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It’s a common progression from wanting weight-loss to needing to look like one of Super Woman’s sidekicks. 🦹🏽‍♀️ Especially if you grew up in the ’90s like me and walked into the new trend of “strong is the new skinny” in the 2000s.⁣

After seeing an incredible amount of women being praised for their look in BodyBuilding Shows and CrossFit competitions, I wanted a piece of that glamorous and "healthy" spotlight as well.
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“Screw looking thin, strong is healthier! I’ll just look muscular instead of skinny! I get more calories this way, too right?” -Christi a decade ago
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But here lies the problem within this thinking...⁣

This is just another way of saying, "I want to be skinny." But it's wrapped up and packaged in a wellness bo...

I DON'T DIET ANYMORE, BUT I HAVE TAKEN AWAY SOME GEMSTONES FROM MY YEARS OF CHRONIC DIETING AND I'M PUTTING THEM TO GOOD USE IN MY WORLD OF FOOD FREEDOM.

I'm finding the silver lining through my years of toiling with an unhealthy relationship with food and hating myself lean. I spent too many years of my life living in fear and scarcity around food rules. I self-destructed after living a life of food restrictions such as forbidding carbs, demonizing sugar, and repelling processed foods. I was a meticulous macro counter who spent a lifetime hating my body at all shapes and sizes thinking happiness was another 5 lbs leaner.

After making peace with food and healing my relationship with my body image, I can honestly say that there was some good in all of this. Hear more about my story HERE.

Not only in the fact that I found out that a life of "only clean eating" and living a meticulous "fitspo life" was NOT the life that made me happy. Rather, it was the realization that my worth didn't...