Most people have a massive checklist of to-dos (maybe better said, should-dos) they attribute to health. It might be perfecting your morning routine, restricting carbs, or a number of the other infinite ideas people believe it takes to be well. Of course, action is a necessity to make change. And most of the “health ideas” you’ve believed have merit and health benefits.
You should want to be at a healthy weight.
You should fuel your body well.
You should move it daily and build strength.
The problem isn’t what you’re doing, it’s how you’re attempting to do it. If you’re attempting to change, or rather, heal from a low-energy state, it rarely works. Not because the action itself is irrelevant, but because you don’t have the energy to hold it and use it.
Which is why I want to remind you, you’re not lazy. You’re just undercharged.
Health is first, always about how your body responds to what you do. Just because you do something ‘healthy’ doesn’t mean it’s going to be healthy for you. How it responds comes back to your body capacity, which alters how you use what you do.
Your body capacity is not a body problem. It’s simply doing the best with what it has.
But it is information that helps you assess what your body needs. The key is learning how to support it before you change it. The bright side is that supporting your body will create the change without you needing to force it.
Before you dive into another health practice, build capacity. It’s the only way to create lasting change.
In this podcast, I share the simple step most people overlook on their health journey. It’s not complicated, but simple. An undercharged body is always going to be reactive. Learn how to charge your body battery, filling yourself with energy so your body can create change.
The Framework of Health
It’s easy to jump right to the end, doing anything that will expedite the process to change. It’s human to want the action with the least resistance (the easy thing that promises the biggest reward. While it may appear that those solutions exist, the truth is they undermine what’s most important to your body: capacity.
A body without capacity will always crash. That’s true even if your health change seems to be working.
Take weight loss, for instance. It’s easy to fall in line with current nutrition advice and latch onto a quick fix that promises great results. Currently, that might be weight loss drugs or another quick fad diet. And while it appears to be working, that’s only because you’ve attached what you conclude to be working to an external result.
Yet, weight loss and health are not one and the same. You can lose weight and still not get healthy, because health is a picture of capacity, not weight loss. Health is the resources and support your body has to maintain health in any situation.
That’s why you need to focus on capacity. In the process, trusting that with the right capacity, your body will shift to a healthy weight. Most people are only at an unhealthy weight because they don’t have the correct capacity they need to change. Essentially, they’re relying on body weight to ensure safety, which shows that body weight is more of a signal of a need rather than a problem to fix.
All of that to say, the framework of health begins and ends with building capacity. The best news, capacity building is simple, free, and you always have access to it. Get my list of low-threshold, high-energy fills here.
Join us “After The Show.”
In the live “After the Show,” we discuss body weight, sickness, and relationship health through the lens of capacity. I share more about my health journey and the massive mindshift I had that also changed how I showed up in my relationship with my husband. It’s all interconnected.
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Resources from the show:
- Do You Have The Capacity To Change?
- Rethinking Health in 2026
- Why We Obsess Over The Scale (And What We Miss)
- Tired? Here’s How to Get More Energy
- The Positive Side To Dysregulation
