Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness podcast. Today's episode is a recording of

Q&A that I did with an incredible coach called Sarah for her coaching intake. And I thought

some of the topics that we covered were really, really useful. So I'm going to share it here.

I hope you enjoy. Yeah.

And then you kind of get to a point where it's not as fantastic and exciting, but you haven't

actually got the result that you wanted yet, right? And the best analogy for this is if you think

about running a marathon, nobody gives up at the start and nobody gives up at the end. It's, you know, mile 10 where people are like, there's so far to go. And I don't, you know, like, and it's not fun anymore. There's no proud to anymore. Like, it's not the start. I'm not engaged in it anymore. But when you zoom out and you're like, anything that you want to achieve in life, you have to go through the dip. Say you're starting, this is an example he uses if you're starting, like, learning to ski. At the start, it's kind of fun, it's novel, it's new. And then you go through this period of time where you're just pretty shit at skiing and it's not that fun, until you get to the point where you're like,

I can't actually do some of this myself, right? You have to go through that. Same with like learning language, playing the piano, your fat loss, you know, everything. When you start to notice that like this isn't a unique thing to hear, it's like you want to achieve anything. You have to do the boring work. you have to go through the dip before you get to the

point of like, okay, like I'm actually quite good at this stuff now. It's becoming habitual. I'm

seeing results because that's the most motivating aspects of it, right? So I think that's an

analogy I use with a lot of my clients and you're exactly right. All the research shows and I tell

people that at start as well. Week three and four is when most people give up on diets so commit now

to that not being you like you might not always be motivated but like you're going to commit now

that if you want this time to be different and I'm sure everybody here and all the clients that

come to you like they've done a diet before they've probably lost weight. It's just they've regained it again. Right. So what

needs to be different. And sometimes the difference is not giving up, yeah, when it's not exciting

because it's not always going to be. Yeah. And your analogy that you've put up before about paying

attention to the immediate benefits and not the delayed ones, I think is

very, very powerful because we always just think of the angle. Why are you changing? Why are you

making changes? Because I want to lose weight. It's never, I want to feel good. I want to, well,

it's very rarely, I want to feel good. I want to have more energy. I want to sleep better. I want to stress less. It's just physical. Yeah. Yeah. And I think if you start paying attention to that, it is really motivating. And you probably all noticed this when you first started that after a week, you were like, I already feel a little bit different. I already have a little bit more energy. And that's what's going to keep you going at maintenance. Because if you're like, I've not got fat loss goal anymore, okay, but do you want to feel as good as you feel now with this much energy and show up for other people in the same way that you do at the moment? And then you can put that energy that you were putting into fat loss into other areas of your life, but you still need to maintain that, like, your energy, how much you're enjoying life is essentially like the crux of it. And when you're thinking about gym sessions, like you're not going to leave the gym with incredible results. Like, you're not going to leave the gym looking any different than when you walked in, but you might leave the gym feeling completely different than when you walked in and like

that's part of the result that you need to focus on because that's the immediate gratification that's the

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