09/11/2026
3 things you need to know before a cut!! 👇🏼
1️⃣ You can’t keep cutting from a cut. If you’ve spent years chronically dieting, bouncing between low-calorie weeks and weekends where everything goes out the window, or you haven’t had a solid stretch of eating around maintenance, your first move probably shouldn’t be another deficit. Spend time at maintenance, fuel your training, and give your intake some consistency first. You don’t necessarily need exactly six months, but you should have a stable baseline before deciding what to cut from.
2️⃣ Know your actual baseline before you pull food. Track what you’re currently eating for roughly 10-14 days without purposely changing anything. Your calories/macros, hunger, energy, training performance, steps, weekend eating - get the full picture. Otherwise, you’re basically guessing at what your deficit should be.
3️⃣ Your deficit should support keeping muscle, not just making the scale drop. The goal isn’t to eat as little as possible. Keep protein high, continue strength training hard, prioritize recovery, and use a moderate deficit. Especially for women 30+, we want to lose body fat while giving your body every reason to hang onto the muscle you’ve built & worked sooo hard for!
Are any of these surprising to you? Let me hear it in the comments 🤎🤎
