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What if the reason you can't lose weight isn't your willpower, but the wrong goal entirely?

In this episode, Corey and Christine continue their weight loss series with Brenna Kennedy, a strength and conditioning coach who has spent over a decade in the fitness industry helping women, especially women over 40, break free from stubborn fat loss. Brenna grew up rough-and-tumble between two brothers in Oklahoma, started working in gyms the day she turned 16, and was three and a half years into a dietitian degree when a personal health crash sent her in a new direction. Navigating multiple autoimmune disorders of her own, she pivoted to exercise physiology, interned at Equinox in Boston, and eventually built her own coaching practice so she could help people the way the gym-floor model never let her.

Together, they get into the difference almost nobody explains: weight loss means getting the scale number down, no matter where it comes from, while fat loss means strategically holding onto muscle and shedding fat. Brenna walks through why the scale can drop six pounds and more than half of it be muscle, why "eating clean" and high-fat ancestral eating can quietly stall fat loss, and why so many women feel healthier than ever but still don't look the way they hoped. The conversation gets honest about what it really takes after 30, why most trending workouts won't preserve your muscle, and how to navigate all of it as a mom without passing diet culture on to your kids.

✨ Topics Covered in This Episode:

✔️ The real difference between weight loss and fat loss, and why it changes everything

✔️ Why you lose 3 to 8% of your muscle every year after 30 if you're not strength training

✔️ How "eat less, move more" oversimplifies what's actually happening in your body

✔️ Why "eating clean" means a hundred different things and none of them guarantee fat loss

✔️ The high-fat ancestral trap: too much fat, not enough protein or carbs, and dropping muscle

✔️ How to find your real maintenance baseline before trying to lose fat

✔️ Protein, carbs, and why cutting carbs too low costs you muscle

✔️ Body composition vs. the bathroom scale, and what DEXA and BIA scans actually measure

✔️ Why Pilates, swimming, rucking, and mobility training won't preserve muscle on their own

✔️ Strength training, bone density, and protecting against osteoporosis

✔️ Doing fat loss postpartum and breastfeeding, and how to navigate it with grace

✔️ Feeding your family nutrient-dense food without modeling diet culture at the table

📚 Resources & Links Mentioned:

📍 Limited Edition Training (Brenna's website) – https://www.limitededitiontraining.com

📍 Brenna on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/coachbrennak/

📍 Brenna's second handle – https://www.instagram.com/le_coachbe/

📍Listen to the first episode in the weight loss series with Deanna DeWitt

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