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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. Good day, everyone and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast.

Today, I'm going to talk about something that is very important. And that is a cycle that I have noticed emerging.

And it's so important because I think that it is the reason that most people don't get the results that they want.

And I speak a lot about how it's more about how you respond to things rather than the

things themselves that end up tripping you up. And I know that seems quite vague. So to put it in

context, something from a fat loss perspective that often trips people up is the scales not dropping.

And a little side note on this, because sometimes I daydream about this, and I'm like, how insane is

this? But when you think about, like, how you would explain to an alien, it doesn't even really have to be an alien, but like, okay, let's just say it's an alien, right?

If an alien came down to the world, to Earth, and they were like, well, why is everyone

so fixated on these scales?

And you're like, yeah, so basically we let this number dictate our self-worth. And no one really

cares about the number except for ourselves. And also, no one actually knows what that number is

apart from ourselves as well. Like, but actually still, like, we still, we still let that

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