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

If I was to define my key speciality, it is essentially women who struggle to lose fat,

and then obviously the most important part to keep it off,

which means that there are inevitably a few kind of key areas or key topics or key demographics

that I focus on because these things make fat loss harder, right? So these include menopause

or women, especially perimenopause, PCOS, ADHD, and today's topic, being a small woman, which I just don't think is spoken about enough

so if you're a small woman and you're struggling to lose fat and you keep kind of

wondering what you're doing wrong because everyone else seems to be able to

lose fat on higher calories and some person on Instagram told you you just need to

boost your metabolism up to 2000 and then start a dieting phase and da-da-da-da-da. This episode is

for you. So firstly, yes, it is genuinely harder for smaller people to lose fat. All things

being equal, you will need to diet on lower calories. So I'm going to

show you a comparison of someone I have named Tall Tanya. She is 5'9, which Google told me is

the cutoff for being a tall woman, right? So if you're over 5 foot 9, congratulations,

you are officially a tall woman.

And then small Sasha, who is 5 foot 3,

and Google told me that that was technically

the cut off for being a small woman.

So if you are 5 foot 3 or under,

you are officially a small woman.

Anyone in that range in between your average, apparently, which includes me, I'm 5 foot

5 just, I mean, realistically, 5 foot 4.8 or something.

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