Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast. I am sorry in advance if there is a little

bit of background noise. I'm going to fill you in on where I am. I'm in kind of the attic area

of our Airbnb in Lisbon. It's half 11 and it is quite loud, mainly because some people have

lives and actually go out at night. But I've just been earlier on a lovely sunset tour of

Lisbon, which was incredible, but it did mean that I didn't have time to do this episode.

And I had told myself that I would do this episode today.

And I'm not one to, you know, break a promise to myself.

So here I am, even though this is way past my bedtime, and this is actually a really, really important

topic. Today's topic is self-compassion, the underrated secret to successful dieting.

And we tend to think, I'm going to go straight into this, guys, okay? It's going to be a short, sharp, snappy one.

We tend to think we need to be hard on ourselves to get results.

But there are a few certainties when it comes to dieting.

And one of them is that it won't be perfect and that you will slip up

every now and again. It's not an if. It's not if you slip up. Like it is when. That happens in life.

So it will happen. And successful fat loss, in fact, success in almost the pursuit of any goal isn't about being perfect. It's about

how you respond when things don't go perfectly. And this sometimes seems to people like quite a

surprising tip for successful fat loss, but forgive yourself. Go a little bit easier on yourself

in some respects. Like instead of holding yourself to be perfect all the time, which is impossible,

hold yourself to responding in the way that you want to respond when you slip up, because it will happen.

And I completely resonate with the mindset of well if I do that

then I'll just let my slip up myself slip up all the time and then I won't get anywhere because I was

definitely in this mindset I was like if isn't that just lowering your standards like doesn't that

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