Ep. 304 - the all or nothing mentality
ESGfitness
Emma Storey-Gordon
4.9 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Do you struggle with an on/off mentality?
This is one of the most common problems people face when trying to lose weight.
Let's see if I can talk you out of it...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm quite tired today which I've noticed because I'm sitting down and normally I stand up to do everything. |
| 0:12.2 | But yeah, sitting down. |
| 0:14.7 | It's been a long weekend. |
| 0:16.2 | It's been Commit to Sixth launch this weekend which is always pretty mental but very exciting and something that |
| 0:24.2 | comes up all the time that I've spoken about before but I just really really want to hammer home |
| 0:31.5 | is trying to get people out of this all or nothing mentality This is by far one of the most common problems people face when trying to lose weight. |
| 0:43.5 | This mentality has a hell of a lot to answer for. |
| 0:47.5 | It's why people over-restrict and then over-indulge. |
| 0:51.7 | It's why when you didn't get a workout in, you tell yourself, |
| 0:55.9 | oh, there's no point eating well today either. And guess what? It doesn't work. And it isn't working |
| 1:05.1 | for you. And so you need to work on changing this. And I think so many people are still stuck in this fixed mindset of |
| 1:12.7 | I have an all or nothing mentality, as in there's nothing I can do to change that. That's just who I am. |
| 1:20.3 | And that is absolute bullshit. People think that you can't change your personality or you can't |
| 1:26.2 | change your traits. you absolutely can. |
| 1:28.7 | You can change almost anything about yourself. |
| 1:32.4 | You can absolutely change your mindset, |
| 1:35.2 | but it's hard and it takes conscious effort |
| 1:38.6 | and conscious work, and most people won't do that. |
| 1:42.6 | And I get that it's easier said than done and I've freaking done it or I'm |
| 1:47.4 | doing it like I'm not saying on the finished product but I'm doing it I know it's easier said than |
| 1:52.5 | done but everything is easier said than done and if you're giving that as a response to something |
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