Hello, welcome back. I am happy that you're here every week and I know the last two

episodes were a little bit more serious. I also want to say thank you for the

feedback on my last episode, especially about my hip.

If you haven't listened to that episode, please go back and do so.

But today, I am going to be giving you And typically in August when people get home, you know, the kids are starting to get back into school.

And we've had this crazy summer of like trips and vacations and all over the place and our children are home and we're, you know, eating at the pool, eating all around, and then like not making meals, and it's just kind of chaotic.

Typically in August, I notice an increase in my client intake, and I notice an increase of people saying I want to get back on track and I'm going to go on a diet.

Now, the reason I bring this up is because I'm okay and I'm maybe different than some people in that.

I'm always on board with, you know, improving yourself and bettering yourself, but,

and that's a big but. B-U-T, capital letters. But, do you actually, before you go on a diet?

B, U, T, capital letters.

But, do you actually, before you go on a diet,

before you pick some extreme plan,

before you pick some non-extrem plan whatever your plan is do you

understand where moderation is and what that actually means because typically

I watch people yo-yo back and forth

between like an out-of-control situation where there's no guidelines and then like

an extreme tight I'm gonna do this all or nothing situation and this is the all or nothing mentality at its finest when people yo-yo between like a diet plan and then like totally falling off the rails and having no guidelines at all.

So before you think about making any lifestyle changes, I don't even care, you know, what they are, do you understand

moderation and do you know how to find it especially when it comes to food. So that is what I am going to be

talking about today. I am going to give you the guidelines that I teach my clients because

while most of the time my clients come to me they're not

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