Hello and welcome to this Q&A episode of the ESG Fitness podcast. Andy, how are you?

Great, thank you. How about yourself? I'm not bad at all. How's your cut going?

Good, good. I had a couple of weeks. I'm just kind of relaxed of just kind of more from my head more than anything

else because I was hungry. I was not tired, but my recovery was a bit poor. So I kind of just

played it by year for a couple of weeks and then was back on it as of Monday. And yeah,

no, so lightest didn't lightest so far in the cup so yeah, being pretty good.

Just kind of stick to the simple principles even when I was having a sort of, a sort of diet break and it worked nicely.

So yeah, yeah, that's good. I was chatting to Chloe's day about diet breaks and like when they're useful and when they're not so useful.

And it sounds like you have done like exactly what I normally talk about which is I guess more

it's like a mental break rather than anything like you might have actually been eating the same

calories like being the same deficit or training is hard, but you've taken that pressure

off yourself, and that's what has a massive impact.

Massively, yeah. I think it's just having that sort of little time out where you're not

having to over, not overthink, but you're not having to think too much about what's going on

and you can kind of just ease off a little bit.

But to be fair, I think even like that, I've never been one to go overboard on the other

side. So if I know I'm going to like went out for dinner one night, right, I'm going to

still stick my intermittent fast in. You know, I've been still hitting my steps every day um so yeah i think as long as

that's the case you know you'll you'll be fine yeah agreed okay first question takes me oh wait sorry

takes me rather a while up to my oh god it's not started well takes me rather a while up to my weights

and to be fair i'm not oh basically i think it takes her a while to up her weights and she's not

too focused on that nevertheless after plateauing for a while i usually tend to add a few

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