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

I feel like it's been a while since I've done dinner, since I have done a solo episode,

but it's actually been one week because I do one every week.

I'm not sure why it feels like that.

Anyway, I have been doing check-ins this morning and a few check-ins in

particular made me realize that there is this interesting narrative that people have around

weight loss that nobody really talks about diarrhea. And it's essentially that it's the belief that

if you continuously beat yourself up about not losing weight

and constantly think about losing weight

and have that take up a lot of your brain energy

and put this pressure on yourself to always be dieting,

that somehow that will actually help you lose weight. And actually, I guess more to my point,

that if you let go of that, if you don't constantly think about losing weight, that then you won't lose weight, right? Basically, unless you're putting all this really unhelpful pressure

on yourself, then you won't actually get the result that you want. Now, this belief, sometimes

kind of like subconscious, sticks around despite the fact that it doesn't work, right? Despite the

fact that people have probably been doing that for most of their life and actually not got the result that they wanted

despite the proof that you tend to find it just makes you miserable and then you end up often self-sabotaging or self-soothing with usually overeating and then that obviously isn't going to help you towards your actual goal of losing weight.

If you've been trying that approach for years, if you kind of resonate with this, if you're like, yeah, I always have this kind of underlying pressure that I want to lose weight and I kind of almost don't want to let go of that in case, because I have this belief and I kind of know it's not

rational but I have this belief that if I do I'll put on even more weight. Let me assure you

that is not what happens. I highly recommend that you try this different approach. Most people

actually find it far more enjoyable and far more effective to reduce the

pressure and instead and this is what I have my clients do focus on the actions

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