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

Okay, before I tell you what this episode is going to be about,

I just want you to have an open mind because this is a very important topic

and there is a reason that I'm talking about it right now.

And I know you might hear the words and just kind of switch off

and be like, this is ridiculous. But like, bear with me, okay, I do realize it is the start of

November and don't hate me for this, but this episode is about the quote unquote holiday season

or Christmas. And I am not normally one to talk about Christmas at the start of November but I'm

going to explain why and why it's so important to talk about now and then hopefully by the

end of this you're going to forgive me so I'm just like just trust me on this right I've never

let you down before and I'm not about to let you down but but this is why it's important. Okay. Number one, I already have

clients that are concerned about social events kind of from Halloween all the way into January.

Two, I want you to go into this year with intent and that means thinking ahead and three and this is the

main reason actually just left it to last but I read a review recently and I wanted to discuss it

and I like to discuss things when they're new and exciting to me rather than be like oh I should

probably discuss that in two weeks when it's more timely.

And then I'm not as excited about it. And I always talk about things better when I'm excited about them.

So, and this is probably going to be a little bit different than what you normally hear from fitness professionals around the holiday season.

So buckle in, right? This review looked at weight gain over the holiday period and it found

unsurprisingly that most people gain weight over the holidays. No shock there. But the more

concerning part is that that weight tends to stick around. So this is a quote from the

review. One concerning observation is that most of the weight

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