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

Are you somebody who says to themselves that they will stick to their calories every single week

and then every single week that doesn't happen?

This is so, so common and it sounds to me like a calorie target alone isn alone isn't working for you so we need to try

something new something a little bit different that I think is really going to work for you

now when I work with people in this situation which by the way it's most people so I think a

lot of people have a bit of guilt around that or they feel like they should be able to

do it because they quote

and quote know what to do. So take take any of that away because this is most people. A calorie

target alone isn't normally enough. What we need to do is stop focusing so much on numbers,

stop focusing so much on calories and focus more on your life, on your routine, on how you live.

The focus on calories is a bit like saying, let's get you there without saying how. So to play on this analogy, imagine if you

were in London and you were going to meet your parents for dinner in Hampstead.

This is top of my mind because it's exactly what I'm doing later.

And let's say you don't know how to get there and someone just keeps telling you,

okay, well you need to get to Hampstead to meet your parents.

Okay, fine, that's not particularly helpful, right?

Let's say the goal is to have a nice meal with your

parents and someone's like right they're in hampswood so you need to get there to meet to meet them

to have the meal fine that's like saying your goal is to lose fat okay you need to create a calorie

deficit like yeah okay so now I know what like what to do obviously I don't I don't know like a lot of

people don't really need help so much with that part like I'm I'm not completely idiot I know what like what to do obviously I don't I don't know like a lot of people don't really need help so much with that part like I'm not complete idiot I know I need to get

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