Too Much Cardio and Keto? How Macros Helped Janna Get Toned

Janna: Hey babes, my name is Janna. I have been a WarriorBabe since March 1st and I am honored to be able to tell you my testimony. I have been in fitness for 20 years. I was 40 pounds overweight and definitely didn't want to be sluggish and overweight. I was in my 20s at the time, and so I started my fitness journey 20 years ago.

Recently, in the last six months, I really decided that I wanted to get some toned muscle instead of being skinny. I could lose weight and I could lose inches, but I was losing muscle as well. I had never heard of macronutrients. I had heard rumor of it through Instagram and other people who had been doing it and had been following Nikkiey. I knew that she was mentioning macronutrients, but I did not understand anything about what macronutrients were or what it entailed. So through Facebook, I ended up joining WarriorBabe along with two of my other good friends.

We did it together as a group. We were very reluctant right at the beginning, thinking it's just going to be another one of those programs, we'll probably end up liking it for a couple of weeks and then we'll be bored with it. To be honest, it took a little bit of a mind change, because I have always been a cardio queen. I love cardio. I belong to a gym that's HIIT, and I would go six times a week for 45 minutes, and I was obsessed with it. Sometimes I would go twice a day. I always thought cardio was the key to losing weight. I was losing the weight, but I couldn't figure out why I wasn't putting on the muscle.

Then we joined WarriorBabe through Facebook, and I was following Nikkiey and her story, and I knew that was the physique that I wanted. It has rocked my world. I realized I was starving myself of carbs, and that's what I had been doing the last six months especially. I wasn't eating enough carbs and I was losing the muscle. I didn't have enough energy to build muscle because I didn't have any carbs to create muscle. My fats were super high because I was on kind of a keto diet, and my protein was through the roof. Everything that I was doing, I was working against myself, and I wasn't getting the results that I wanted.

So in the short amount of time since changing everything, changing my macronutrients, which I didn't know what they were, I have seen a huge change, and I've seen a huge change with my other friends as well. It has been so exciting. Every day we go in there just pumped to do our workout, and she changes the workouts every month, so it's super exciting. Now, I was a little bit reluctant to do her program as well, because I wasn't really much of a conventional gym person. I didn't like going to a conventional gym.

I wanted someone to lead me and tell me go, go, go, and help me. But my mind has completely switched. I absolutely love this. I love putting on my earphones, being in my own space, getting my work done. And I love seeing the results that I'm getting. My results have blown me out of the water, and my friends and my family too. I always get questions: Janna, what are you doing? What are you doing differently? Something has changed.

And not only that, my energy level has gone through the roof as well. So I am ecstatic to tell you it works. It really works. But you do have to trust the process. I know it sounds like a recording, but it's absolutely true, because I was that person who wanted to only do cardio and burn 700, 800 calories a day. That's what made me feel better. But this seriously came from doing less cardio and eating more carbs. I've never felt better, and I feel like I've never looked better.

So thanks to WarriorBabe, I feel like I've changed my life, and I'm so excited to see what the next year brings. I hope you are as excited and you get the results that you want, just like I did.