Hello, you are listening to the ESG Fitness podcast. Welcome along. I have a couple of things I want to talk about today.

And I want to start with a really nice message that I got from, I was going to say a listener,

which is actually a client on Commit 6, but it was about the podcast, so she was messaging me more as a listener.

I'm not sure why this is relevant at all, but I thought the message added a lot to some of the

conversations that have been going around the fitness industry recently, and it was just a really

interesting and extremely eloquently written. Oh, that's embarrassing when you can't say

the word eloquent. It's a very eloquently written message, so I thought it would be useful

to share. I thought, do you know what? I thought it would be a shame for only me to read it.

So I've taken out a few little bits for anonymity.

Is that the right word? Yeah, I think it is. She wanted to remain anonymous. So this message is in

response to the anti-diet thing that you posted yesterday. I feel it's important to distinguish between

people being anti-diet and anti-healthy

lifestyle. Commit to six and your approach works for me because in my mind it's anti-diet culture.

It's pro-healthy lifestyle and taking control of your life. The imperfect action and cost benefit always is about compassion and

acceptance. I think that the fat liberation movement has a lot of shared territory with your approach.

I know this sounds mad, but I do. I don't think it sounds mad, by the way. Anyway, she goes on to say that

she follows a couple of people from this movement

and there is much that she admires about their stance and what they're fighting for. She says,

I think the points they make about ableism and the quote unquote, it's, sorry, quote, it's fine to be bigger as long as you're healthy end quote brigade

being a form of policing others behaviours are quite compelling i also personally want to be lean strong

and functionally fit and have visible muscles that's my healthy and that's my happy. For me, fat liberation is vastly better than

diet culture. Diet culture taught me that I was too big in the 90s. It told me that I needed to be

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