Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast.

This episode is all about why people fall in the effort bucket, why people let the scale weight

ruin their progress, and why people have trigger foods and respond in the way that they do,

and then, most importantly, a technique, a technique which will help you overcome these.

I'm also sorry if you can hear this beeping, but where I live is kind of near where like ships come in, and a ship has has come in and there's some beeping on the ship

and the reason I'm not waiting for it to stop to record this podcast is because after this

I'm going to have my dinner and I just really want to get it done. Hopefully no one else can hear that

surely not right okay on we go this is, I think this is a

really, really useful and important episode. So get excited. Oh wow. It's been a long day. Right.

This problem is pretty universal and you can apply this technique to all areas of your life but obviously I'm

going to apply it to fitness and fat loss and just generally improving your life so this is what

happens an action or stimulus or situation arises and then your belief or interpretation of that action,

situation or stimulus results in a given reaction from you. So this model of behaviour is known as

the ABC model and is used in cognitive behavioural therapy. So the A stands for action, the B stands for belief, and the C stands for consequence.

So the basic idea behind this ABC model is that external events, A, the action, do not cause

emotions, C, the consequence, but beliefs, and in particular, like,

irrational beliefs cause the consequence or cause the emotions. So, in other words, it's your belief

about an action that is the problem, not the action itself. Or another way of thinking about

this is that, and this is a quote, a quote our emotions and behaviors which would be under c

consequences are not directly determined by life events a the action or the event but rather by the way

that these events are cognitively processed and evaluated, right? So be the belief.

And I actually prefer, because to me, that's quite a lot of, like, that's a lot of mouthful, right?

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