I did 2021 summer shred challenge. It was great, definetly hard, but I did it and my body changed DRASTICALLY, for better obv. I'm currently on day 24th of 2018 8 weeks shred challenge, but I feel like my body only gets worse. What am I even saying, it's not a feeling-after I compared photo after summer shred to photo from today (and it was the same day of cycle), I see that now I lost visible muscles, my waist and thighs are visibly wider. I also got some stretch marks. Besides Chloe workouts I train pole dance twice a week and run (more walk-run) every two days. I don't track my cals, bc I've had and Ed. I also allow myself to eat some treat once in a while, mostly on weekends. I am currently on some kind of binge eating recovery, trying to figure out why I got it, and I've had anorexia before. Tracking cals isn't the best idea, and I haven't binged for, like 2 or maybe 3 weeks. So, what am I doing wrong? Should I just trust the process? My weight didn't change at all since this moth and a half. And, if this matters. 8 week shred challenge is quite difficult for me since there's a lot of cardio and in my whole life I didn't focused on cardio much. There's no way I can switch this program to something more difficult, because it's really challenging for me already. And besides body goals, I just really want to improve my body performance (which already happens, but it is still wayyy l worse than I want it to be) (Also sorry if I spelled something incorrectly or if my grammar is bad, English isn't my first language and I also used a bit of Google translate to make the story more understandable, and there are no progress photos because I don't want to show my body at the young age I am)
Edit: Guys guys I realized something, I think I focused on my look too much. I mean, tbh I don't think I look "bad" in any sort of way, but the more I look at myself in the mirror the less I eat and the worse I think I look, and perform on workouts. Ig I should relax a bit and give my body some time to adapt. If my look will change, it will change, and it will be great. But I can also be happy and have good workouts results with the body I have now. I started working out to get rid of cellulite, and it kinda happened. I also have Hypothyroidism (whaaaat this name in English is so hard to pronounce! ! Lol) and had a few injuries that make themselves felt when I exercise too intensively. It may take me longer to complete current program now, but at least it will be healthier for my joints and mental health. So yeah sorry that this post is so long, sometimes progres isn't linear and I hope it will help someone in situation like mine! !