Hello and welcome back to the Stronger by Science podcast. My name is Eric Trexler and today's

episode is going to be a special solo episode. And the reason for that, if you've been following along the last few episodes,

we are doing a bit of a special series of episodes leading into the new year, because obviously this is a time where people are really getting ready to set a bunch of new goals and hopefully start making some really big strides toward those goals.

So in this series what we've been trying to do is just kind of work from the beginning

and cover a lot of the foundational information that someone needs when they're either just

getting into fitness or if they're really getting ready to revamp and kind of revitalize their approach to fitness as the new year begins.

So for example, we've already done an episode covering goal

setting then we did an episode covering motivation and behavior change and

you might remember back in episode 103, Greg did a segment on misapplications of popular

weight loss advice.

Today's episode is going to be different, but it's kind of in the same vein as that episode 103 segment.

So in today's episode, I'm going to cover some of the most common questions about weight loss diets. And so one of the things that's interesting about the podcast is we have often lamented very publicly that sometimes our episodes get very long right and so sometimes

someone will come to us and say hey I where do I find information to get me

started with this particular goal and sometimes you have to well, there's a two hour episode on this topic and a two hour

episode on that topic. And you start putting together this list of what they would need to kind of go through to get

started and you start to say okay well that's that's

about 14 hours worth of material it's kind of a kind of a heavy lift to give

someone when they're just trying to kind of get a comprehensive idea of how to get started.

So this episode, like I said, I'm going to cover a lot of common questions about

weight loss diets. The reason being around the new year, a lot of people do

tend to target weight loss as a goal

Doesn't make weight loss better or worse than any other fitness goal you might have but it's a really common one

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