Elle Lipedema Fit

Elle Lipedema Fit Lipedema Coach BHSc | Complex Bodies

I help women train WITHOUT flares
52kg ⬇️ | 2x surgery | Lived experience

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You can take the GLP1s.You can have the surgery.You can do all of the things.But if your mindset is still stuck in that ...
15/09/2026

You can take the GLP1s.

You can have the surgery.

You can do all of the things.

But if your mindset is still stuck in that negative self-talk, self-hatred loop then a smaller body and weight loss, is not going to make you happy or increase you well-being.

And it will not help your lipedema long-term.

This is honestly the biggest struggle I see as a coach because lipedema management requires consistency. You cannot hate yourself into doing the consistently for the next 10, 20, 30 years.

From my experience yes - you can get a smaller body and still be at war with it and a body at war is a stressed body. With higher cortisol, more inflammation, more swelling, more pain, more burnout.. the ‘loop’ that make your Lipedema worse.

Tools like GLP1s and surgery are great but they don’t fix the voice in your head that says you’re not good enough until your legs or entire body is smaller.

That part is mindset work and that is the real work.

I am not asking you to love how lipedema looks. I am asking you to start speaking to yourself with respect.

Would you talk to your daughter,sister or best friend the way you talk to yourself about your legs?

Save this as a reminder 💜

15/09/2026

POV: You’re hypermobile in the gym

Walk into the same machine every day - poor proprioception. Your brain literally doesn’t know where your body is in space because your ligaments aren’t giving good feedback.

Headphones hurt - sensory sensitivity + TMJ issues are so common with hypermobility. It’s not just in your head, your nervous system is just turned up to 100.

Need to sit down constantly - our muscles have to do the job of ligaments. We’re working 2x as hard just to hold ourselves together, plus dysautonomia / POTS fatigue.

Lean on everything between sets - it’s called joint stacking. We are looking for external stability because we have no internal stability.

Not walking into a door frame on the way out = elite athletic performance 🤣

If you have lipedema you probably also have hypermobility. This is why traditional gym advice never worked for you. You don’t need to toughen up, you need more stability, more rest, and more understanding.

Which one are you guilty of? I’m the leaner 🙈

Does weight gain drive lipedema growth?It doesn’t cause it but in my own body after gaining 20kg fast in a year. This EX...
14/09/2026

Does weight gain drive lipedema growth?

It doesn’t cause it but in my own body after gaining 20kg fast in a year. This EXPLODED my lower body in a way puberty and pregnancy never did.
And I see it over and over in clients.
Here’s why: rapid gain isn’t just hormones it’s inflammatory overload + lymphatic overload + more local estrogen production inside the fat itself + stem cell activation.

Research now shows Lipedema progression is linked to abdominal fat gain (WHtR), not just age or hormones.
We know Lipedema fat is resistant to loss, but not resistant to gain and thats why crash dieting after keeps you stuck.
If this is you, then you have to stabilise first. So support stroma, lymph, inflammation, and metabolic health.

That’s how we connect the dots properly.
Have you noticed this pattern too — rapid gain = flare, but hormones alone didn’t? Let’s talk below ⬇️

11/09/2026

I am excited because two brand new research papers just gave us a bigger shift away from single-cause thinking.

You see Lipedema is not “just fat” or “just hormones” or “just lymphatics.”

2026 gave us two complementary frameworks:
1. Viana et al (2026) - Lipedema as a hormone-sensitive STROMAL disorder - a four-pathway translational framework showing how hormonal transitions, metabolic-behavioral amplification, gyne-endocrine comorbidity, and intrinsic stromal-adipose susceptibility converge on a hormone-sensitive stromal microenvironment (ERα/ERβ signaling + intracrine steroid metabolism). This creates feed-forward loops: ECM remodeling ↔ fibrosis, endothelial dysfunction ↔ microvascular alterations, neuroimmune sensitization ↔ chronic inflammation.

2. AFS Framework (2026) - Villa, Muñoz & Padilla-Correa - Lipedema Reframed as Adipoconnective Fragility Syndrome - the clinical translation. Lipedema as a systemic fragility spectrum across 5 domains: Adipose Dysfunction (Hyperplasia/Remodelling) Connective Tissue Fragility (ECM/Fascia) Vascular-Lymphatic Dysfunction, Endocrine Hypersensitivity, Neuroimmune Sensitization/Pain. Central mechanism proposed: Caveolin-1 - dysregulation linking hormonal hypersensitivity to vascular permeability.

Convergence: No single root cause. It’s system interaction → fragility spectrum → heterogeneous clinical behavior & surgical response.

But what this means for women with lipedema?
Its validation and an explanation for why symptoms vary, and why care must be phenotype-based, not a one-size-fits-all approach.

Papers linked in bio. Save this for your next appointment.

10/09/2026

Il go first - I have Lipedema in my JAWLINE! Hard wierd nodules that sometimes hurt 😫

What about you?

I might ruffle some feathers here and good because the latest science tells us there is no ONE primary driver of Lipedem...
09/09/2026

I might ruffle some feathers here and good because the latest science tells us there is no ONE primary driver of Lipedema.

When it comes to Mast cells these are the ALARM, not the architect of Lipedema.
Root = hormonal stromal defect. Amplifier = mast cell neuroinflammation.

You can calm the alarm with antihistamines, mast cell stabilizers, low-histamine. But you still need to address the hormonal, stromal, lymphatic root.

Evidence > trends.

Sources: Kruppa et al 2020 Dtsch Arztebl, Sandhofer et al 2026 J Aesth Med, Collins Hutchinson et al 2025 Auton Neurosci.

09/09/2026

With every man and his dog finding out about Lipedema there are alot of people claiming to cure it or understand it.

Please STOP. Pelvic width does NOT cause lipedema.

I just watched a video claiming our wider Q-angle makes us fall into our joints, create “spirals of adhesion gripping bone” and trap fat = lipedema.

There is no science for this. Like, none.

Lipedema is not a posture problem. It’s a hormone-sensitive stromal disorder. The house your fat lives in so fascia, vessels, lymphatics, immune cells — becomes leaky, fibrotic, inflamed.
The 2026 proof: 24% Lochkern nuclei in lipedema vs 3% controls. That’s fat cell nuclei deformed by lipid droplets transiting THROUGH them.

You don’t get that from spirals.

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