Hello and welcome to this solo episode of the ESG Fitness podcast. Again, it's solo this time

because I have a lot of thoughts to say. I was going to think of a more eloquent word to say that,

but clearly, no, not today. But this is something I've been thinking about for the last week or so.

And it's about why your why matters.

That's a lot of whys.

And I'm not talking about the why as in, why do you want to achieve weight loss?

Which I think gets spoken about quite a lot.

And although I do think it is important,

I think there's a gap there often. So here what I'm talking about more is the why behind your actions or your intent. And so here are a couple of examples. Self carecare gets thrown around quite a lot at the moment,

and especially during the pandemic, I think a lot of people have been advising self-care,

but without very much context. And I think the context is so important, because people will ask

you, or they'll ask me, maybe, know, what could I do for self-care?

And you often get back, or if you Google this, you go on the NHS website, or you ask anyone, I guess, who's into that sort of thing, they'll give you back a list of things that you can do.

But without context, those things aren't self-care. It's like nothing is

inherently good or bad. Nothing is inherently going to make you feel better or feel worse.

And understanding that, I think, is really important to find something that is actually going to

benefit you. So the outcome of self-care would obviously be

you feeling better long term, not just short term, not just, I'm going to eat this chocolate now,

get a bit of a dopamine rush, and then feel good about myself until I finish the chocolate,

and then actually potentially feel worse about myself if I have guilt and shame associated with

eating that chocolate. So that's quite a good example. Like self-care can be for a lot of people

allowing themselves some chocolate and enjoying it. But if you're the person at least at the moment

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