What is going on, everyone?

Welcome to the fit, healthy, and most of all happy podcast.

I'm your host, Josh, here with my co-host.

KG in the house.

And today we are going over the biggest fitness mistakes we have made.

We want you to avoid making all these mistakes

because they are very detrimental to your gains

and even potentially your mental health.

So what's the first one?

First one is going to be just the person who's always dieting.

So there's some person who's always constantly in a deficit or at least trying to be in a deficit.

And truthfully, from just our experience of helping so many people and just doing it ourselves,

we should have a specific diet phase.

So basically when your calories are under the amount that your body wants to be consuming,

you should not be doing this for 365 days of the year.

And the issue with this is not only hormonal, but a lot of times you do it very poorly.

So I know a lot of people will always be trying to just decrease their body fat at every given time of the year, but they do it very poor to the point where it's like four weeks on, then four weeks surplus, and then it's just like very all over the place. Like they're not trying to do diet breaks or anything. They're just pretty much doing it extremely horrible and it's just very bad for your entire body and your mental health as well. Yeah, like this is just just something and the mistake with this too is when you're always dieting, you'll usually have those big rebounds, which kind of pushes us into our next one of yo-yoing. And I find the people that do yo-yo the most are the people that are always trying to diet. So like Kyle said, you want to make it a phase, you want to be calculated. you know, you want to say, I want to lose this much weight in this time frame, approximately, you know, so it could be I want to lose eight pounds in 10 to 12 weeks. That is a very realistic goal. I want to lose eight pounds in one week, not a very realistic goal. So being realistic with it is important in a diet and actually allowing yourself to have those set time periods. And another way to kind of combat always having to diet is just being intelligent about it, you know, making sure to stick to your plan 100% utilizing tools like diet breaks and other things like that are going to take you to the next level. But next up is a yo-yoing person. So if you think of a yo-yo, it's up-down, up-down. And the way this works is someone who's usually dieting nice and hard. Saturday and Sunday comes and they just go completely off book. You know, they just remove intuitive eating and intelligent eating and they'll kind of just consume everything they physically can. And the problem with this is you're going to lose a few pounds during the week. The scale is going to go down. You're going to be healthy. You're going to feel good. And then from there, everything's going to shoot up.

It's going and you're going to find yourself in an endless circle where you're not really going anywhere and you're always dieting during the week and suffering and then being very extreme on the weekend. And this is just not a healthy practice mentally or for your body whatsoever. You know, we really once again recommend you know learning to eat um you know just even learning to not

overeat is something I've been trying to really work in in my life. I've always loved food and I just, you know, to me there is no ceiling. I'll eat basically until I'm in pain, you know, and I've been really trying to work against that in life because, you know, in the past it wouldn't be, oh, I'm just going to have a few slices of pizza and like a dessert to make it fit it's like okay i'm having a pizza

i'm having a burger i'm going to order this i'm going to eat this thing of peanut butter like you know

i just go hard when i want to do so i've just kind to learn like hey you know what like oh i'm having

a dessert today that's sick i'm going to enjoy this dessert, call it there, and limit it without it needing to be paired with a million things. So if you can prevent yo-yoing, you will be so far ahead. Man, I've been there and yo-yoing is not fun. Like, you just, you get absolutely nowhere. You, like, it's such a painful thing to see people do. And I just really wish that you sit down and you kind of like actually strategically think and be like how can I optimize this because

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