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

If you can hear like a slight, it sounds like purring or like sizzling in the background,

it's actually just a very loud can of Coke Zero, which doesn't seem to like stop making a little noise, but maybe you can't hear

that and I'm over explaining for nothing. Anyway, hello friends and I am very excited to have

you here for today's episode. I was asked this week a question, which was, what do you think

is the biggest problem people have losing fat?

And I let this sit in my subconscious. Now, I'm going to be honest, I think depending on the week in which you asked me this, you'd get a completely different answer.

But this week, and it's probably partly because of recent check-ins I've done or things that I've read

recently. But my answer is twofold. One kind of smaller thing and one bigger picture thing.

So I'm going to start with the bigger picture thing. People tend to stick a plaster over what the

bigger issue is.

And by that I mean, not so much the usual chat that we have of like,

you've not actually got to the root problem, the root cause of why you're overeating,

you're just trying to stick a plaster of it, over it,

and kind of will power your way into change, which very rarely works.

And there's a whole host of reasons that people do over eat, partly environmental, partly

psychological.

But figuring that out first and then coming up with solution is a much better way to do it.

Now I'm not so much going to talk about that statement.

I'm going to talk about another aspect, which is that

a lot of people are trying to change from a place of a pretty rocky foundation.

So what I see with many of the people that I work with, and by the way, this is biased because

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