Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness podcast. I've just been to the optician because I thought that I was going blind but turns out, now this is going to be hard to believe, but turns out I've just been on the computer too much and that's why my vision has gone slightly blurry.

Nothing to be concerned about. She was like, maybe have a break. Do you know what was so bad?

She asked me how long, like how many hours a day I spent looking at a screen. I was like, I mean, realistically,

kind of from about 8 a.m. until 8pm,

with like some breaks, but not many breaks.

That is a lot.

That is really quite bad.

And actually, 8pm was probably a little bit generous to myself probably like 10pm oh gosh

I need to change that anyway this episode is mostly about maintenance and more broadly my ethos

to dieting and I am sure I will go on many tangents so buckle up oh god sometimes I can

hear myself saying stuff and I'm like you're so unbelievably uncool but authentic.

One of the problems with dieting is that people see an end point to a diet.

So they think of a diet as a fixed period of time.

Now, if you want to maintain your results, and do remember that the definition

of a successful diet is weight loss maintenance six months after you finish a diet. So when we look

at research, like that's how they're defining a successful diet is weight loss maintenance. So

maintenance defines the success of your diet, not how much weight you

lost in six weeks. So if you want to maintain results, which you should want to do, that is

unsurprisingly going to require maintained effort to some degree.

Now, the good news is that it becomes easier.

So if you're starting a diet and you're like,

I don't think I could maintain this level of effort for a very long time.

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