Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast, which is one of, if not the,

let's just go with one of, the most important episodes I've ever done on the podcast. And that's because it is all about maintenance.

And I've said it before, and I will no doubt say it again. The definition of a

successful diet isn't how much weight you lose in X weeks. It's how much you maintain a year

later, six months later, for the rest of your life. Most people do not have a weight loss problem. They have a weight loss

maintenance problem. So if you've got to the point in your diet where the goal is now maintenance,

I have two things to say to you. One, well done. And two, welcome to the hard part and welcome to

the rest of your life. Most people assume that losing fat is the hard part and welcome to the rest of your life most people

assume that losing fat is the hard part it's not and to prove this most people listening have

successfully lost fat before night i'm hoping that you're nodding along thus you don't have a

fat loss problem you have a fat loss maintenance problem.

And there are numerous psychological and physiological reasons for this. But the point I want to make

before we get on to the rest of those things is getting to this point and then maintaining your

results is the real goal. It's not just getting here.

Getting here is just the first step. It's no good losing weight and then regaining it

again and again and again getting stuck in this yo-yo cycle that so many people are stuck in.

A successful diet is losing the weight and then maintaining the results that you've achieved.

And that's why on Commit to Six, on the EC method and on our one-to-one coaching,

we are all about maintaining results.

It's not just a six or eight or, you know, whatever, three-month fat loss phase, and then like, see you later,

and then you end up coming back when you've

gained all the weight we want this to be the last diet that you ever do because you finally get the

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