Speaker 1: I won't let my body. I'll be out wait everything
Speaker 1: that I'm made. Won't spend my life trying to change.
Speaker 1: I'm learning love who I am again, Sean. I feel free.
Speaker 1: I know every part of me. It's beautiful and that will.
Speaker 2: Always out way if you feel it.
Speaker 1: But she'll some love to the why get there?
Speaker 2: Say go day and did you and die out way?
Speaker 3: Happy Saturday, out weigh. It's leanne here and we are
Speaker 3: back for part two of the Truth about Your Fat.
Speaker 3: And if you miss part one, go ahead and check
Speaker 3: that out because we definitely gave you the context of
Speaker 3: what we are talking about here today. But you probably
Speaker 3: guess by now that we are talking about fat and
Speaker 3: as you'll learn, this really cool thing called fascia. But
Speaker 3: the reason we're doing an entire series on this is
Speaker 3: because I believe that fat is so misunderstood because we
Speaker 3: hate it, we fear it, we name it, we blame it,
Speaker 3: we shame it, and some people will do whatever they
Speaker 3: can to destroy it and eliminate it. But whoever said
Speaker 3: that fat was ugly or something to be ashamed of,
Speaker 3: and whoever said it was a bad thing? Right? Whoever
Speaker 3: said that fat was anything other than fat? And so
Speaker 3: again I'm sharing all of this with you to just
Speaker 3: impress upon you that if you have this dysmorphic relationship
Speaker 3: with your body fat, as in the subcutaneous fat on
Speaker 3: your body, then I absolutely urge you to actually learn
Speaker 3: about it and discover what it is and discover what
Speaker 3: it's not, and that way you can dispel the lies
Speaker 3: and use it as a way to connect with yourself
Speaker 3: or get past any residual body shame that you might
Speaker 3: still be experiencing. But since it is such a prevalent
Speaker 3: enemy in today's world, and yes again I'm definitely putting
Speaker 3: enemy in air quotes, we might as well learn about it.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: In fact, if all we do is hate on fat
Speaker 3: and wish it away, we might miss out on its
Speaker 3: useful and downright cool characteristics because physiologically, neurologically, psychologically, there's
Speaker 3: so many components of fat that there is to be,
Speaker 3: you know, discovered, but no one's really talking about that
Speaker 3: side of it. And it's this metabolically active substance that's
Speaker 3: part of our body. But again, most women don't know
Speaker 3: about that side of it either, And when you think
Speaker 3: about it, we fear what we don't know, and that's
Speaker 3: the perfect place to dive in. So let's get to
Speaker 3: know it. Okay. So, thing number one that I want
Speaker 3: you to know about fat is that it's just fat. Okay,
Speaker 3: it's just fat. Yes, Like your elbow is just an elbow,
Speaker 3: your eyebrow is just an eyebrow, and your fat is
Speaker 3: just fat. But it's also this super powerful substance that
Speaker 3: no one talks about. And just like every other part
Speaker 3: of your body, your fat has an actual job to do.
Speaker 3: In many cases, its job is to protect you. And
Speaker 3: so not only will your stored body fat keep you
Speaker 3: alive if your body experiences a food shortage while roaming
Speaker 3: the desert or while stranded on a deserted island, if
Speaker 3: that ever happens to people in reality, but fat takes
Speaker 3: care of us in other various ways too, And so
Speaker 3: it cushions and protects your vital organs, and it insulates
Speaker 3: your body against heat loss, and it protects nerve tissue.
Speaker 3: But ladies, it also helps regulate your menstrual cycles. And
Speaker 3: what most women don't know is your fat is very smart. Okay.
Speaker 3: So you may regard fat as this stubborn, squishy substance
Speaker 3: that you wish would disappear, but In reality, fat is
Speaker 3: simply a tissue. Technically, it's an ad a post tissue,
Speaker 3: and it's smarter than you think it is. Now, just
Speaker 3: roll with me for a minute because I'm gonna get
Speaker 3: a bit geeky. But it will all come back full circle,
Speaker 3: I promise. So back in eighteen sixty four, a guy
Speaker 3: by the name of John Hilton came up with a
Speaker 3: theory that is well known today and frequently taught in
Speaker 3: anatomy courses. And it's called Hilton's law, that's what they
Speaker 3: call it today, and it states that the nerves that
Speaker 3: supply any muscles and its joints are also supplying the
Speaker 3: skin and surrounding tissues related to that particular joint. So again,
Speaker 3: whatever nerves are supplying your muscles and your joints, they're
Speaker 3: also supplying tissues. Okay, So here's why this is so cool.
Speaker 3: Your muscles and joints are constantly communicating with your nervous system,
Speaker 3: but based on Hilton's law, so is your fat. That
Speaker 3: means that every time your brain sends a signal to
Speaker 3: your elbow to flex that bicep muscle, or that hip
Speaker 3: to extend to activate your glutes, it's also sending a
Speaker 3: signal to the surrounding tissues and fat. But it doesn't
Speaker 3: just stop there. Okay, So back in the day, I
Speaker 3: wrote an article for the Huffington Post. It was probably
Speaker 3: like ten years ago at this point, because, like I said,
Speaker 3: I've been fascionated by this subject for a long time.
Speaker 3: But my editor at huff Post loved what I was sharing,
Speaker 3: but she wanted me to back up my sources. So
Speaker 3: I referenced this study that they did at the Department
Speaker 3: of Dermatology at Queen's Medical Center in the UK, and
Speaker 3: they dedicated an entire study to the nervous system's connection
Speaker 3: to fat. So you can imagine why I love this study.
Speaker 3: But that study stated specifically that at a post tissue
Speaker 3: so fat, it's not just concerned with energy storage, right,
Speaker 3: but it's also a major endocrine and secretary organ as well,
Speaker 3: So hello metabolism. Fat is a hormonal and digestive organ.
Speaker 3: And this blew my mind. I'm like, wait a minute,
Speaker 3: fat isn't just fat, It's actually an endocrine organ, so
Speaker 3: of course we're talking hormones here, and then it's a
Speaker 3: secretary organ as well, so we're talking digestion. And Queen's
Speaker 3: Medical Center literally called fat an organ all by itself.
Speaker 3: So why is this good news for you and you're fat? Well,
Speaker 3: for one thing, your fat is powerful, right, It's got
Speaker 3: brain power, It has neural properties, which means it has
Speaker 3: metabolic power and the survival power that we already talked about. Like,
Speaker 3: that's a lot of power. But here's some other things
Speaker 3: that will be important later on. So fat is also
Speaker 3: temperature sensitive as well. So you know how coconut oil,
Speaker 3: if you leave it out at room temperature, it's solid, right,
Speaker 3: But anything above room temperature and it turns into a liquid.
Speaker 3: Right well, your body fat is also directly affected by temperature,
Speaker 3: both both hot and cold temperatures. So heating pads and
Speaker 3: hot baths and saunas and ice packs, they're a useful
Speaker 3: tool for impacting more than just your muscles and your joints.
Speaker 3: Your fat can be impacted by temperature too, and the
Speaker 3: structure of your fat and fascia, as you'll learn and
Speaker 3: we'll talk about it, it's easily manipulated just by changing
Speaker 3: the temperature of the substance or the organ as we
Speaker 3: can now call it. Right, fat is an organ, right
Speaker 3: bottom line, though, your tissues, including fat and fascia are
Speaker 3: heat sensitive, and that allows you to be able to
Speaker 3: more easily manipulate it, which will come back to in
Speaker 3: a moment. Okay, but that actually brings us to my
Speaker 3: next point. Your fat and your fascia are pliable, muldible,
Speaker 3: transformable things. Okay, So this is actually a really good
Speaker 3: time to tell you about fascia and what it is
Speaker 3: and what it does, because I keep mentioning it. But
Speaker 3: if you're starting to have a new appreciation for subcutaneous fat,
Speaker 3: just wait till you learn about fascia. So, fascia is
Speaker 3: a connective tissue and it's this NonStop, never ending tissue.
Speaker 3: And the way I describe it is it's kind of
Speaker 3: like this tissue, paper thin material that is sticky like
Speaker 3: duct tape. So it's paper thin, but it's crazy sticky,
Speaker 3: and it surrounds everything in your body, from your organs
Speaker 3: to your muscles to your joints. It's really everywhere. And
Speaker 3: besides blood and oxygen and water, fascia is the most
Speaker 3: plentiful system in our bodies. And it's this never ending
Speaker 3: connected chain. So there's no way to tell where fashia
Speaker 3: starts and where it ends because it's this never ending line,
Speaker 3: or it's really a series of lines that run from
Speaker 3: the top of your head to the bottoms of your
Speaker 3: feet and everywhere in between. So just picture fascia like
Speaker 3: literally wrapping around you like a mummy, like top of
Speaker 3: your head, bottom of your feet, around, crisscross, up, down, left, right,
Speaker 3: like every direction, like seriously, there's no beginning and there's
Speaker 3: no end, and it's everywhere, including surrounding your fat. But
Speaker 3: here's the other thing about fascia and why your nervous
Speaker 3: system is just so dang smart and I'm so fascinated
Speaker 3: by it. If your muscles are not doing their job. Okay,
Speaker 3: so let's say maybe you have muscle imbalances, or maybe
Speaker 3: you have some old injuries, right, and that's creating muscle imbalances, right,
Speaker 3: or maybe you're injured right now. If your muscles aren't
Speaker 3: doing their job, or maybe the join itself is not
Speaker 3: doing its job, your body will laid down fascia to
Speaker 3: essentially provide extra structure and support to support your body
Speaker 3: so that you don't get injured. Right. So it's really
Speaker 3: helpful when you think of it that way, because it's
Speaker 3: helping your body do what your joints and muscles aren't
Speaker 3: able to do. But there is a flip side to that,
Speaker 3: because if you don't correct the movement or correct the
Speaker 3: map or the movement pattern, the fascia will stay there
Speaker 3: and sometimes it can actually bind fat within it. So
Speaker 3: it's a bit of a catch twenty two. But it's
Speaker 3: really helpful and can provide structural support, but it can
Speaker 3: also bind fat. So that's why I say it's a
Speaker 3: catch twenty two. So this is where I'll go back
Speaker 3: to what I shared in part one, The truth about
Speaker 3: your fat and a lot of my fashion nation started
Speaker 3: when I noticed that I had these pockets of fat
Speaker 3: surrounding the areas of my body that were affected by
Speaker 3: my spine surgery. But they weren't normal like you know,
Speaker 3: cheesecake and red wine fat, right. It was this thick,
Speaker 3: fibrous kind of fat. And that's because I was feeling
Speaker 3: the fascia that was surrounding my fat, okay, And so
Speaker 3: fascia had laid itself down to help my glutes and
Speaker 3: the muscles surrounding my spine actually do their job because
Speaker 3: I had some like nerve damage and it wasn't doing
Speaker 3: its job on its own, and so fascia just kind
Speaker 3: of came in there and supported me. But my muscles
Speaker 3: weren't magically just turning back on because of the neurological
Speaker 3: damage from my injury and surgery, and so fascia just
Speaker 3: kept laying itself down, kept laying itself down, and it
Speaker 3: was encasing fat within that too. So now I was
Speaker 3: having like layers and layers of fashion and that's what
Speaker 3: I was feeling. So here's what I learned in my research.
Speaker 3: So there's something called lipolysis, and lipolysis is essentially the
Speaker 3: process that needs to take place for your body to
Speaker 3: actually metabolize fat from your body and release it to
Speaker 3: be burned, aka fat loss, which is the thing that
Speaker 3: you know, the world's kind of obsessed with. So it's like, again,
Speaker 3: let's take a look at what fat loss actually is.
Speaker 3: It's this process called lipolysis, okay. And in my research,
Speaker 3: I learned that in order for lipolysis to happen, it
Speaker 3: needed these things called catecholamines, which essentially travel through your
Speaker 3: blood to the targeted cell or the adipocytes, and for
Speaker 3: lack of a better way of saying it, they kind
Speaker 3: kind of open up the fat cell for the stored
Speaker 3: triglycerides to be mobilized or released. And that's kind of
Speaker 3: what fat loss is in a nutshell, right, and again
Speaker 3: I'm totally oversimplifying it, but that's like polysis in a nutshell.
Speaker 3: If there's catacholamines present, the fat cell can release the
Speaker 3: stoarege triglycerides and the fat can be mobilized. Okay, and
Speaker 3: again oversimplifying it. But here's the thing. If you have
Speaker 3: fascia that is essentially suffocating your fat and binding to it,
Speaker 3: kind of like I shared with mine, right, it kind
Speaker 3: of acts like a shield or a blockade, and it
Speaker 3: doesn't allow the catchola means to reach the adipocytes. It
Speaker 3: actually starts acting as a barrier. So this is where
Speaker 3: you can do as much you know, diet and exercise
Speaker 3: as possible, But if you have fascia that is binding
Speaker 3: your subcutaneous fat, it won't matter. Okay, Blood and oxygen
Speaker 3: can never reach the targeted cell and release the fat.
Speaker 3: And that's actually what cellulite is. It's fascially bound fat.
Speaker 3: By the way, that explanation, the fact that cellulite is
Speaker 3: fascially bound fat, that in itself helped me really disarm
Speaker 3: my judgment and my shame around my cellulite too, right.
Speaker 3: I was like, Oh, it's just fascially bound fat, like
Speaker 3: that's what those little pockets or dimples are. Like, Wow,
Speaker 3: that's the data, right, versus like, oh my gosh, I'm
Speaker 3: a bad person. What's wrong with you? You have cellulate, your ugly,
Speaker 3: your growth fill in the blank. And again, for purposes
Speaker 3: of this podcast, I'm oversimplifying this language and I'm not
Speaker 3: getting super technical, so you know, for any of you
Speaker 3: technical geeks out there, like myself, just just know that
Speaker 3: I'm simplifying this for the sake of simplicity. But that's
Speaker 3: how fascia can interact with fat. And then, of course,
Speaker 3: on the flip side, like we said, if you have
Speaker 3: a protective layer of fascia surrounding your muscle because the
Speaker 3: muscle or joint isn't doing its job, once again, blood
Speaker 3: and oxygen can't really access the muscle and allow it
Speaker 3: to turn on. So again, fascia is awesome and helpful
Speaker 3: and this miraculous system in our bodies, but it can
Speaker 3: also be a barrier for muscles and fat for the
Speaker 3: two reasons that I mentioned. So now you can probably
Speaker 3: imagine how I was, like, how is nobody talking about fascia, right, Like,
Speaker 3: not only does it have a lot to do with
Speaker 3: fat storage and fat loss, but it also happens to
Speaker 3: be a big influencing factor when it comes to muscular
Speaker 3: function and nerve function and injury, you know, recovery, prevention,
Speaker 3: all the things. So I'm not going to go down
Speaker 3: the deep rabbit hole of fascia today on this episode
Speaker 3: because it's this massive subject and that's why we're doing
Speaker 3: an entire series on this subject. But i will just
Speaker 3: say this, Okay, there's a couple of sides to this
Speaker 3: concept of your fat and fascia being moldable and pliable, okay,
Speaker 3: And so we'll start with the logical one, or the
Speaker 3: obvious one that it is a substance. Actually, you know,
Speaker 3: fat and fascia are two different substances, but both of
Speaker 3: them are mouldable and pliable, and their textures can be
Speaker 3: broken up and transformed and can benefit from massage and
Speaker 3: touch and using tools to actually break up the knots
Speaker 3: and the adhesions. And we're going to talk about that
Speaker 3: in the next two episodes. But on the other side
Speaker 3: of it, when you think about the areas and this
Speaker 3: is the okay, that was my logic and reason side
Speaker 3: of it. But this is where I really want to
Speaker 3: talk to your heart. When you think about the areas
Speaker 3: of your body where you have excess fat, and I
Speaker 3: see excess, but like just the places that you your
Speaker 3: version of excess. Right, I'm not saying that as a
Speaker 3: dig or a judgment. I'm putting myself in your shoes
Speaker 3: where you are looking at your fat and thinking like
Speaker 3: it's not supposed to be there. So you know, typically
Speaker 3: it's a lot of places like love handles, your tummy,
Speaker 3: your thighs. I don't know about you, but for me,
Speaker 3: when I had all of this shame within me about
Speaker 3: my body, those were the places that I ignored. Even
Speaker 3: more right, I never touched them. They were never exposed
Speaker 3: to sunlight because I was like covering them up with
Speaker 3: cardigans and you know, T shirts and all of that,
Speaker 3: and they had the least amount of exposure to light
Speaker 3: and oxygen. So on top of having a high likelihood
Speaker 3: of being like behind fashionally bound fat, I was giving
Speaker 3: them less neuro feedback than the rest of my body
Speaker 3: because it's the areas of my body that I was
Speaker 3: tending to cover up. Right, And so if you're never
Speaker 3: seeing daylight. They're never getting touched or massage. It kind
Speaker 3: of gets them stuck even further, like even less blood
Speaker 3: and oxygen, which we learn you actually need for mypolysis
Speaker 3: or fat loss. So again it's another bit of a
Speaker 3: catch twenty two. And that's why I talk about like
Speaker 3: the psychological side of fat, right, It's really important. And again,
Speaker 3: I know this might sound a little bit weird to you,
Speaker 3: like it did to me too, because nobody's talking about it.
Speaker 3: I mean, I never heard about fat and its relationship
Speaker 3: with fascia in the health and fitness world, but it
Speaker 3: is as real as real can be. And taking care
Speaker 3: of my fat and my fascia and looking at it like, okay,
Speaker 3: like I have muscles, I have teeth, I have hair
Speaker 3: that I take care of. Why don't I take care
Speaker 3: of the most plentiful system of tissue in my body?
Speaker 3: And why don't I start taking care of my fat
Speaker 3: and fascia? And I literally just started there, and that's
Speaker 3: exactly where we're gonna start next week on part three
Speaker 3: of this series. So really, that is what I wanted
Speaker 3: to impress upon you today, first of all, that you
Speaker 3: have fat and fascia, whether you like it or not,
Speaker 3: So why don't you learn about it and look at
Speaker 3: it and discover how it works rather than just shaming
Speaker 3: it or blaming it. Okay, so that's the number one.
Speaker 3: But also that you can't self love your way to
Speaker 3: something that you don't take care of or flat out
Speaker 3: ignore or disregard. And so what if taking care of
Speaker 3: your body, and we're going to talk about that that
Speaker 3: includes taking care of your fat and your fascia. What
Speaker 3: if that was your path to self love and self
Speaker 3: esteem and self worth and what if that was your
Speaker 3: path to health? And I'm not just saying, you know,
Speaker 3: blindly take my word for it. I'm saying, go try
Speaker 3: it on, see what serves you. And this is what
Speaker 3: my clients and I are doing, and this is how
Speaker 3: I live and how my clients live. The third thing
Speaker 3: I would just want to impress upon you is simply
Speaker 3: to share that fat is so cool and fascia is
Speaker 3: so cool, and when you learn about it and what
Speaker 3: it has the power to do, like wow, you are
Speaker 3: going to be so much more equipped to take care
Speaker 3: of yourself and your health. And I mean it physically, mentally, emotionally,
Speaker 3: all of it. So that's where I'll just leave it
Speaker 3: for right now, and then in next week's episode, we're
Speaker 3: going to start talking about how to start taking care
Speaker 3: of your fat and your fascia so that you can
Speaker 3: get what you really want right which is freedom and
Speaker 3: peace of mind and happiness and acceptance. And yes, we're
Speaker 3: still talking about your fat right So that's it for today, Outweigh,
Speaker 3: and I can't wait to bring you Part three of
Speaker 3: this big Fat conversation next week. And if you liked
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Speaker 3: to get into part three of the truth about your fat.
Speaker 3: So I'm Leanne Ellington and I will talk to you
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