Hello, hello, everyone, and welcome to the Evolve with Emily show.

I am your host, Emily Hayden.

And in today's episode, we are going to talk about the struggles of competing. We're going to get all up in the feels. And this is a perfect

episode, perfect timing, because I am currently in the feels of competing. I am experiencing all of the

feels at this point. So there's a little bit of a progression that happens when you're competing,

which by the way, this is not to say that if you don't compete, you can't go through the same

thing. You absolutely can. There's plenty of people that have, you know, very serious goals that

require so much dedication to their health and their fitness, to their diet. And you may experience some of

these things as well, even if you're not a competitor. I just kind of relate it to competing

because I am a competitor. It's part of what I do. And yeah, that's kind of, you know, how I relate

to it. But if you're not a competitor and you're listening, this can definitely help you as

well because, like I said, there's definitely a possibility that you're listening, this can definitely help you as well because, like I said,

there's definitely a possibility that you were experiencing these things. So especially if you're

somebody that is following like a health and a fitness plan or a diet at all. So it's kind of like

early on in the diet stages, you are, you know, you're dieting, you're starting this new program.

Maybe you're tracking your

macros and when you first start out it can be really exciting and fun and you're like wow

this is literally so easy all I have to do is hit my macros every single day now there's probably

some of you that are listening and you're like okay Emily I've never had that experience because

anytime I start a program,

I'm like, this is the hardest thing ever. In which case, I would say, number one, have you tried

any other methods? Maybe there's a method that's better for you than the one that you're doing.

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