Janine Natoli

Hey. I'm Janine, and I wanna talk a little bit about, where I was at before WarriorBabe. So before I came into WarriorBabe, I had a lot going on.

I was in the fitness world, so I had always known how to work out.

I ate healthy, I guess, but I didn't even really know what that meant. I didn't had no idea about eating according to, like, my body, my lifestyle, all those things, my age.

I was just regurgitating, like, whatever healthy version of whatever I thought I was doing. But I was able to work out consistently and keep myself in check until I couldn't.

Separation, having to go back to work after having being a stay at home mom for years, and then also managing an autoimmune condition. And also entering my forties just kind of threw everything at me. I literally woke up one day. I was like, man, I'm spending a ton of time in the gym trying to de stress, keep my body in check, fight aging, all of it, and it's not working. I am working out way too hard, and nothing is really showing up.

It shouldn't be in this heart. Something's wrong. So I don't even know how I found WarriorBabe, but thank god I did. It kind of felt found me, I guess.

And I was just like, yeah. Like, you guys know what you're doing. I need help. I don't know.

I clearly don't know the nutrition component at all. All All I know is working out and it's not working. So, yeah, let's see what you got. So I came in and, dude, it was a struggle.

The nutrition piece was, like, hard for me. It was relearning habits. It was rewiring my brain.

But it was so crazy how finally learning what my body needed changed everything.

It no longer made me feel like I was in this, like, prison holding my breath. Like, oh my god. If I don't go to the gym, they're still in shame. Oh my god. If I don't have something healthy in the house, I don't know what to eat. So I'm just not gonna eat anything. Now my body is, like, starving, and it can't function, and I'm tired.

And it just kind of straightened all of that out. I literally feel like if I didn't find Warrior Babe at the time I did, I would have lost a good piece of myself. I don't know how I would have managed, like, that time in my life with all those huge changes and try to figure out, like, what I was doing wrong with my health and my fitness, it just never would have come. The cool part is, like, not only did my autoimmune condition become more manageable, the things that I was doing outside was, like, my doctors and practitioners, like, all of a sudden was, like, elevated, but all the other pieces kinda fell into place.

I was able to manage my stress better. I was able to, like, just feel like I had someone looking out for me when I maybe couldn't see certain things, like, when to release that all or nothing mentality, when to stop giving myself grace, when to give myself more grace, and just learn how to balance things out, and how to stay consistent, let go of that perfection mindset. So it really was life changing, and it came at, like, the perfect time where I don't think I would have the bandwidth to manage another thing. And I am so, so grateful for Warrior Babe and Nikki for creating this and all the amazing coaches that put so much effort and hard work into, like, their clients and create these communities where we get to meet each other and lean on each other and learn from each other's experiences and release that isolation of feeling like you're the only woman in the world going through this and, like, nobody gets it.

You don't know anybody that's dealing with it. So I am forever, forever thankful for myself and, like, whoever else ends up finding this when they need it the most the way I did, because I really do think things kind of just fall in your lap when you need them. So thank you guys, all of you, so much for all your hard work and everything you did. And I know that it changed my life, and I know that you're gonna continue to change whole bunch of people, other women's lives that are in similar situations.

So keep doing what you do. It's amazing.

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