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Hi everybody, it's Dr. Ray Heinisch and I'd like to welcome you to the next episode of CutTheFatPodcast.com.

I'm all alone today but I'm really excited to be with you because I want to talk about a topic that is so critically important because it really needs to come very early on in the weight loss journey.

And what I find is that when I inquire about this topic, which is the topic of how do we set real achievable weight loss goals?

What I find is that people get it all wrong and in fact they get it so wrong that the way that they set their goals actually causes a lot of guilt and frustration.

And it's our philosophy that if we're going to be going on a weight loss, fitness, health, journey, that journey should really be a journey of personal development.

One that really lifts you up, that makes you stronger, that makes you feel better about yourself, not worse.

You know, we like to say that CutTheFatPodcast is powered by science and psychology, not by guilt because guilt is the go to emotion that people use whenever they try to lose weight.

And we're going to stop that today.

We're going to stop by starting with a goal setting process that actually serves us.

And I think you're going to find some really interesting and new stuff today.

Stuff that you don't commonly hear weight loss gurus discuss.

You know, what do they discuss? Well, they discuss what's called smart goals.

And we're going to talk about that in today's podcast because I'm not a fan of smart goals when it comes to setting weight loss goals and you'll find out why.

Alright, so let's get into it.

So let me ask you, did you know that setting weight loss goals requires different strategies than setting career or financial goals, for example?

In fact, if you set your Fountain Loss goals the same way that you set career or financial goals, you could literally be setting yourself up for failure.

And that's exactly what I find people do.

So in today's podcast, I'm going to share with you the best approach for setting realistic weight loss goals and then how to immunize yourself against the frustration that usually occurs when people use the smart goal formula for their body change goals.

Now I'm using the quotation marks in the air.

You can't see it because this is an audio podcast, but you'll see why in a second.

So let's talk about why smart goals aren't so smart for fat loss.

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