Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness podcast. If you are listening to this podcast on Monday,

which is when it's released, well done, because I wanted this to reach your ears this Monday.

If you're listening to it on another day, it actually doesn't matter in the slightest, but in my head,

this was a poignant message to hear on a Monday.

Now, before we get into today's episode, I don't know why that sounded so patronising,

but before we get into it, I just want to be clear, if I ever give you tough love,

it's because I think it's what you need to hear at the time

and I know you can achieve more than you are.

It always comes from a place of wanting the best for you.

And so with that said, the theme of today's podcast is it's not meant to be easy.

Something that comes up quite regularly with clients is something along the lines of,

I find it really hard not to overeat on chocolate. What should I do?

Or sometimes I don't want to exercise. What should I do?

Or there are days when I just don't feel like going for a walk. What should I do?

And the answer is, things are sometimes hard hard and getting in shape is hard I'm going to talk about

not making it harder than it needs to be but at the end of the day even if you're doing everything

right and you're not over-restricting it will still still be hard. There will still be times that it is hard

and you should expect it to be hard. I think sometimes there's like almost a surprise that,

oh, I'm actually quite hungry. Like I kind of still want to eat some chocolate. Yeah, most of us do.

Even the people that are in shape still want to eat that chocolate. Unfortunately,

there isn't a secret there. It's also hard for the people that make it look easy,

is the point I'm trying to make. I will sometimes get questions like, do you ever overeat unintentionally?

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