Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness podcast. I apologize in advance if I sound

just a little bit unwelled today. That is because I am in fact just a little bit unwelled today.

I know, shocking. But I'm here and that's what counts and the content I promise you will be good so I've been

thinking about this for a few days because on the last Q&A that I did with Andy we spoke a little bit

about self-sabotage and how it's often related to the belief that when you achieve weight loss

you will feel a certain way.

Like, you'll be happy when X.

Then, as you get closer to that goal, you realize it wasn't the body fat at all.

It was the other areas of your life that you weren't happy with, but it's much easier to blame the body fat.

And so usually subconsciously, you self-sabotage. By that I mean,

maybe you overeat or you don't hit your gym workouts, you don't get your steps in, like something

happens so that you don't reach that goal. Now, what I was thinking about is how this really

isn't unique to fat loss. And I'm kind of moving away from the self-sabotage element, but more that we believe that when we have X, then we'll be happy.

So I was listening to another podcast, which is awesome, so go and have a listen to it. It's called Nudge.

And they were talking about, or this episode was mostly about like buying happiness and how you

should spend your money if you want to be happy. And they spoke about one study which looked at

people moving house because they didn't like where they were living, right? So distinctly because

they didn't like the house that they were in.

And the researchers found that people's home satisfaction increased. So they liked their new home,

great, but they didn't have increased life satisfaction or happiness. So another example of it

being easier to blame something external, like, oh, maybe we're

unhappy because we live in a house without a garage, right? So we bought a house with a garage and,

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