Welcome to Empowered Radio.

I am your host, Emma Montgomery, an online nutrition and fitness coach and creator of Shred with M.

Each week we'll talk all things nutrition, training, and mindset. You'll be able to take my tips and strategies and apply what you learn to see results

with both your body and your mind.

So without further ado, let's jump into the episode.

Hi, friends, welcome back.

It is week two of our hot and healthy summer series for June. So today we are diving into how to have a social life in the summer while incorporating drinks and dining out and barbecues and all of those things, but still hitting your fat loss goals and making

progress towards those. So today we're going to talk about how you can fit all of those things

in while working towards your fat loss goals. So first we're going to dive into things like

parties, cookouts, restaurants. We're going to talk about what to prioritize and really focusing on having a strategy going

into it, not relying on survival mode.

So really we want to be proactive versus reactive when we're going into any of these things.

If you've ever listened to any of my podcast before or read any of my content, you guys

know I'm all about pre-planning, pre-logging, all that good stuff.

It just takes a couple of minutes, but will make your life so much easier.

But also, in these instances, it gives you control over the things that you can control.

And again, being proactive versus reactive.

So regardless of the situation, whether we're talking about a cookout, going out to dinner,

whatever it is, the first thing I will say is starting your day and anchoring it with protein.

The worst thing that you can do, and I used to give this advice years ago because I used to do this and it would always end up blowing up in my face at some point.

It would like work till it didn't, basically.

But I would try to save calories and bank them for later in the day.

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