Core-Based Movement and Nutritional Counselling for Stress and Metabolic Outcomes in Overweight Women With Functional Constipation

Inclusion Criteria: * Female participants diagnosed with functional constipation according to Rome IV diagnostic criteria. * Age between 18 and 45 years. * Body mass index between 25 and 29.9 kg/m². * Ability to participate safely in the core-based movement exercise program. * Willingness to follow the nutritional counselling program and study procedures. Exclusion Criteria: * Participants will be excluded if they have any organic gastrointestinal disorder or any disease that may affect gastrointestinal transit or colonic function. * Participants with inflammatory bowel disease, concurrent infectious enteritis, malignant tumors, or a history of gastrointestinal surgery, including resection of the stomach, small intestine, or large intestine, will be excluded. * Participants receiving steroids, antibiotics, immunosuppressive medications, or routinely using laxatives will be excluded. * Participants with hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, or other endocrine or metabolic disorders that may affect gastrointestinal function will be excluded. * Participants with serious cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, hepatic, hematological, neurological, or psychiatric disorders will be excluded. * Participants with a history or current evidence of alcohol abuse within the previous year will be excluded. * Participants currently engaged in an intense workout regimen will be excluded. * Participants with a musculoskeletal disability that may interfere with exercise applicability, such as cervical or lumbar radiculopathy, will be excluded.