Hello and welcome to another episode of the ESG Fitness podcast.

I feel like I've done a lot recently, but sometimes if I leave it too long, then I don't feel

passionate about what I have to say. And I really want to talk about this. This is going to be

a bit more of a practical, science sciencey coaching one as opposed to more theoretical

mindset one because this has come up quite a lot recently and I think it's something that

a lot of people really struggle to get their head around and I would say actually clients and coaches and that is metabolic adaptation.

I will also touch on reverse dieting but I want to start with what happens when you diet.

I don't know why there's a really long pause there.

So I've been listening to a couple of business coaching podcasts,

and they do really long pauses in like random parts of sentences.

And I'm always like, oh, is my phone, has like the internet gone?

No, no, no, it's like a dramatic pause.

Maybe I should start doing that.

When you diet, you experience metabolic adaptation.

Yeah, maybe that's more impactful.

I think that will get quite annoying quite quickly.

As I quickly found out, so I shan't be doing that.

But I do want to start with what happens when you diet.

So when you do diet, you do experience to an extent metabolic adaptation.

And this simply means that you adapt to eating less and to losing weight. And the point I really want to emphasize here is to an extent.

And this is where I think people get a bit confused. Thank you media headlines for this because I think that

they often portray this message like there's no point dieting at all because you're just

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