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Episode #105 She’s Natty

·1 hr 11 min·4 clips

She says a long-jump attempt left her with a snapped leg, three knee surgeries, and three nose surgeries.

1. Fitness Junkeez episode #105, “She’s Natty,” follows Geo’s Logic with Erica Loren as the guest athlete heading into a Las Vegas show. 2. Geo hosts the conversation, Adam coaches Erica Loren, and Erica describes herself as a competitor balancing bodybuilding with clinic care from Paracel Aesthetics Dermatology and Wellness. 3. The episode asks how a natural bodybuilder keeps training, dieting, and competing while managing injuries, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, narcolepsy, vertigo, and water swings. 4. Erica opens by saying she wants “a bigger bum and a smaller waist” before a holiday and then jokes about tacos two days before a show. 5. Geo ties that to bodybuilding prep by asking how competitors balance food, abs, and “carving back up” before stage time. 6. Erica Loren gives a clinic-style explanation of semaglutide, saying people can lose “one to two pounds a week” and often feel less hunger. 7. She names side effects such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and constipation, then says patients usually adjust as their bodies get used to the medication. 8. Erica says Paracel Aesthetics Dermatology and Wellness monitors biometrics monthly, including muscle, water, and fat content. 9. She also says the clinic adjusts dosing safely and adds diet, exercise, peptides, and hormone checks when weight loss stalls. 10. Geo then moves into Erica’s childhood in upper northeast Ohio, where she describes Geneva, Harper’s Field, farms, buggies, and “dumb country stuff.” 11. Erica says she started tap dance at age 3, then moved into basketball in third grade, volleyball, tennis, and track-related athletic work. 12. She says basketball became a 365-days-a-year sport for 10 years and led to Division I offers before injuries changed her path. 13. Erica lists a herniated-disc problem from volleyball, a torn rotator cuff, and a long-jump injury that left her with a snapped leg. 14. She also says she later had three knee surgeries and three nose surgeries after a car accident at age 17. 15. Erica says she began weightlifting at 15 to stay active and that lifting “was fun,” even before bodybuilding entered the picture. 16. She explains that seeing Andrea Brazier made bodybuilding feel accessible, because Brazier “looked like me” and erased the feeling that she “looked weird.” 17. Adam says he first remembered Erica from her 2015 physique and that they eventually started working together after she came to the Arnold Classic and followed up later. 18. The tone shifts between candid injury details, technical coaching talk, and jokes about tacos, rollerblading, and “fruit booting,” while Geo keeps the pace loose. 19. Listeners who like female bodybuilding, injury resilience, and natural prep will get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners wanting a quick celebrity chat with no training detail may skip this one.

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A grounded look at pre-show prep, water swings, and the logistics that shape a competitive body.

The piece follows a Las Vegas pre-show check-in and keeps its focus on the unglamorous parts of competition prep: sodium, water retention, diuretics, Ehlers-Danlos, vertigo, concussions, and the small travel decisions that can throw a day off course.

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