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

I was going to say last week, someone asked me this, but I'm actually scheduling this

ahead of time because I'm so organised.

So at some point, in the last few weeks for full disclosure and honesty and authenticity,

somebody asked me, what comes first, believing you can lose weight

or putting in the work to lose weight. And I thought that is such a good question. So here we are

on the podcast discussing it. Now, to caveat this, I think it's somewhat individual and some

people probably need to do more work on the side of believing in themselves first and other people

probably need to do more work on the side of actioning. Now, I would argue that most people,

no, even if I'm saying that, probably almost everyone will benefit from

taking action, some kind of action. But the argument against this is kind of that some people

will claim that you won't fully commit to something unless you believe you can achieve it. And I don't

totally disagree with that, but I think that the belief really comes from the proof, right?

It's like sitting at home and waiting to suddenly feel confident.

It's probably going to have to do something that makes you feel more confident, right?

Like edge yourself out of that comfort zone, i.e. take a bit of action.

But this is why I like to break things down.

So rather than do you believe that you can lose

all of the weight that you have to lose, which maybe is a seems like a big task, do you believe

that you can set some targets with me this week and stick to them? You know, and actually the goal

might not just be weight loss. It might be like,

do you believe that you can maintain this weight loss forever? And you're like, oh, God, I don't know. I just don't think I could ever do that. Okay, well, do you think you can maintain it this week? Okay, cool. And then let's make a plan for the next week based on what you have coming up that week. do you think you can stick to that? Yeah, okay, right, okay. And you break it down. And the targets that you're setting, the aim of them is to get you closer to that goal, whether it is fat loss, whether it is maintenance or building muscle or whatever that goal might be. And once we have those check-ins and we set those targets, it's like, great, okay,

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