Hello and welcome to the ESG Fitness podcast. The aim of this podcast is to help you think,

learn and grow and hopefully smile and laugh on the way too. My aim here is to break down your

barriers to taking action and provide you with evidence-based diet and exercise information

in a fun and interesting way.

I hope I nail that and I hope you enjoy.

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Without further ado, because I hate long introductions, here is

this episode. Hello everyone, welcome to this episode. Today, I am going to talk to you about

two, maybe three, but definitely two, and maybe I do a full other podcast on the other one,

thought processes that are holding you back. So the first one is the notion that you're on a diet

or you're off a diet. This is perpetuated by saying things like, I fell off the wagon, or if you're me, for some

reason, I've assumed that it is bandwagon, which Chloe pointed out to me is not the saying,

it's just the wagon, but anyway, fallen off the wagon, or I fell in the effort bucket.

Telling yourself these things is massively unhelpful and it just adds to this all or

nothing mentality like I'm on a diet or I'm off a diet. There is not an on-off switch to dieting.

There is no bucket to fall into and there is no wagon to fall off. It is just life. So stop telling yourself that you

fell into the fuckit bucket. Stop telling yourself that you've gone quote quote off track. Start telling

yourself that you have chosen to eat more than you planned. The mindset behind those two statements

is vastly different. So this is something I've

noticed with a lot of clients, changing that framing is key to long-term behaviour change. The former,

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