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What actually happens when you spend months building muscle before going into a fat-loss phase?
In this episode of Beyond Fat Loss, Sean puts Katie in the hot seat to break down her 10-month body transformation - from a dedicated muscle-building phase through to an aggressive fat-loss phase.
Katie shares what happened when she gained weight during her muscle-building phase, why she had to get comfortable with seeing the scales go up, how her training and physique changed, and why building muscle completely changed the way she approached fat loss.
You’ll also hear exactly what happened during her 9-week aggressive fat-loss phase, including why the scales didn't always reflect the changes happening to her body - despite her getting visibly leaner and seeing more muscle definition. Across the three cycles, Katie lost around 11 lb in total, with the biggest change happening in the first cycle.
We also get into:
- Why building muscle can be more important than simply losing weight
- Why you need to get comfortable with the scales going up during a muscle-building phase
- How to transition from muscle building into fat loss
- Why a little body-fat gain during a building phase isn't necessarily a problem
- How Katie approached holidays without tracking every calorie
- How to enjoy more food without completely losing control
- Why the scale can be misleading during fat loss
- How to use aggressive fat-loss phases strategically
- Why having an exit plan after dieting matters
- How to structure a long-term, multi-phase approach to changing your physique
- Why Katie chose to end her aggressive diet early and move back into a building phase when she needed more energy and focus for her exams.
Most importantly, this episode shows why the goal shouldn't simply be to weigh less.
Katie's transformation came from spending months giving her body the time, food and training stimulus required to build muscle - before using a shorter, focused fat-loss phase to reveal the physique underneath.
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