What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode of Empowered Radio. I am your host, Emma Montgomery.

Today I'm going to kick off a little series. I've got five episodes that I want to do over the next few weeks.

And this is essentially things that I either used to believe and have learned otherwise on my journey or most of them fall into that

category but it's it's things that I've changed my mind on over the years essentially and the

one I wanted to kick off the series with today was failing because I was chasing a goal not a a lifestyle. And so why I'm starting with that one

is because it, I think, will lay the foundation for everything else we're going to talk about in the

series from things, you know, macro-related, training-related, all of that. But I used to be in a place where um if I was dieting

I was always chasing a goal and I know I've talked about this before but it was I could stay on

plan if there was like a lot at the end of the tunnel and I knew I was like aiming for a thing so

typically it was

competition prep and if I wasn't competing I had a very hard time getting to where I was trying

to go because I was not embodying the person and living the identity of a fit healthy person

that just did these things because that's part of

their lifestyle. I was very much on a diet or off a diet. And so that's what I want to talk

about today because I find there's a lot of women that still are in this same like headspace

that I was in. You feel like you're always starting over or you feel

like you know what to do, but you can't stay consistent.

Or maybe it's that you can lose the weight, but you can't keep it off.

This episode, I think, will definitely hit home for those of you that are in that camp because,

again, that is what I struggled with for years.

I could dye it down and get to the goal,

but then I never could maintain it. So what I want to talk about first is just goals in general,

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