What is going on, everyone? Welcome back to Embody Radio. I am your host Emily Duncan. We are back for the new year.

I am so excited about some of the guests that we have coming up in November and just here for the new year.

We are here to bring you guys all of the fitness, wellness, personal development,

just self-growth goodness this year and I am so excited. We are kicking things off this week

with an episode that is really going to help, you know, I know my listeners pretty well. I know that

the vast majority of you for one are into fitness and health and, you know, really optimizing your fitness

journey and for two, I know that a lot of you are, you know, beyond the beginner stage and that's

not to say that if you are a beginner, you are not welcome here, you are more than welcome here

and that's not to say that this episode won't be helpful for you if you are a beginner. In fact,

if you are a beginner, this episode is really honestly going to give you a leg up in your

fitness journey that I bet a lot of us wish that we had starting out. This knowledge wasn't

as widely spread when I was newer in this stuff and maybe when our guest was newer in this stuff

and that's, you know, part of why we do the work that we do. But this is going to be really helpful

for those of you that, you know, maybe you're more intermediate to advance in your fitness journey,

but you've kind of stumbled into some roadblocks. Like you're like, you know, especially with fat loss,

you know, I know that I need to be in a calorie deficit. Calories in calories out, but for some

reason, the deficit still isn't working, right? Like you put yourself in what you believe to be a

calorie deficit, you know, you're decreasing your intake, increasing your expenditure, and you know,

the needle is just not moving. And so what we're going to talk a lot about today is the nature of

metabolism, kind of some, some bigger picture things that are impacting your fat loss that don't

necessarily, you know, get included in the conversation a lot. And I know right now on social media,

there's a lot of conversation around calories in, calories out, doesn't matter, doesn't not matter

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