What's going on everybody? Welcome back to the Mind Over Macros Podcast. As always, I'm your

host Mike Milner. And today I'm going to give some tactical information because I am running a free group right now and

there's a homework assignment that I gave and it was just blowing minds left and I realized that there's a lot of people who have never thought of approaching social situations or alcohol or having a meal out,

you know, go into a restaurant, that sort of thing

in the way that I presented it.

And there was just so much positive feedback

and people who were literally mind-blown with something that, you know, this is the

approach that I take with clients and we're doing this free group, people were kind of blown away by this approach and let's be honest one of the most common

challenges that we face when it comes to fitness is that some of us like to drink socially

and I am definitely one of those people and it can be a kind of you know push-pull situation where you're like well I have these

fitness goals I want to be healthy I want to be fit but I also want to drink socially I want to go out to eat I

want to enjoy my life and and as you guys know, I am all about balance and flexibility.

There are sometimes where we have to sacrifice certain things if, let's say say I'm really trying to get super lean for a

photo shoot or you know I just want to look my best for whatever vacation summer

it doesn't matter you know if you have a specific goal that requires a little bit

more discipline and being a little bit more strict and aggressive in your approach

then obviously some of those things have to go we have to sacrifice a certain level of flexibility, but for most of us,

we want to get to a point where we can enjoy our lives, have fun, be social, and not feel like we're ruining all of our progress.

And that is, from a mindset perspective, it's such a challenge because when you think about

going out with friends, when you think about having a drink, when you think about dining out with friends when you think about having a drink when you

think about dining out with your family it can bring up you know fear and anxiety and

guilt and shame and we do not want that you know we don't want those emotions present.

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