From the six-week "all clear" to Instagram mums back at CrossFit by 12 weeks, the pressure to bounce back after baby is everywhere. But what is it actually doing to women? Women's health physio Grace Coombs is back on the podcast to unpack it.

Grace sees the fallout in her clinic every week: women rushing back to exercise before their bodies are ready, then dealing with leakage, prolapse, pain and exhaustion that could have been avoided. And on top of it all, feeling like they're failing at a recovery that was never meant to be a race.

We cover:
– Where the pressure to bounce back really comes from
– What rushing back actually does to your body
– Why the six-week check is a starting point, not a finish line
– The outdated pregnancy exercise myths, and what the research says now
– The signs you're genuinely ready to return to exercise
– Why we'd rest a broken bone for 12 weeks, but not a birth

Grace's advice for every woman: pregnancy isn't an injury, and the goal was never to get your old body back. You have a new body, and you can absolutely build strength in it. No shame, no race, no comparison.

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Are GLP-1s disordered eating in a new uniform? Everyone's suddenly on them and no one's actually explaining what's going on inside the body. So we got Dr Libby back on the podcast to break it all down properly.

This isn't about telling you what to do with your body or judging anyone who's chosen this path. It's about understanding what this medication is doing to your gut, your muscle and your nutrient levels, and what happens when you come off them.

We chat about:

• What GLP-1s actually are
• Are GLP-1s disordered eating in a new uniform?
• Why they work so much more intensely than the body's own version
• The study showing iron stores dropping by around 30% in just 10 weeks
• Muscle loss (yes, even if you're hitting the gym) and why it's not just the muscles you can see
• Why up to 60% of people get gut symptoms like nausea, reflux and bloating
• Rebound weight gain and why the deeper work matters
• How to make your small meals work as hard as possible
• Where supplements fit in when nutrient targets are near impossible to hit

Remember, you are so worth taking care of.

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We're wrapping up the AU leg of our How We Cook tour, and it's time for Peaks, Pits and Bananas! We get real about hitting total salad burnout on tour (yep, even we get sick of vegetables sometimes), why the media landscape has changed so much since our last book tour, what it's like navigating a "viral or nothing" news cycle, and - because priorities - the Melbourne sandwich that changed our lives.

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