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Fitness Stuff (for normal people)

How to Lose Fat During the Holidays (Yes, Really)

Fitness Stuff (for normal people)

Tony and Marianna

Health & Fitness

4.9644 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, Tony and Marianna are diving into how to keep your progress moving forward even when you are completely out of your routine. Today, Fitness Stuff for Normal People breaks down how to adjust your diet, tweak your workouts, and set real guardrails so you can stay consistent through the holidays or any season when life gets busy. The holidays in particular make it tough to manage your routine and habits, but the right structure can keep you feeling in control without giving up the fun. These tools work whether you are traveling, moving, changing jobs, or juggling a full calendar. Long term success comes from learning how to pivot, not panic, and they are here to show you how to make that happen.


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Timestamps:

(7:26) Concept of "Guardrails"

(10:56) Diet Guardrails

(29:09) Training Guardrails

(38:12) Mindset

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today, we're not only going to set you up to not lose your gains and progress over the holidays,

0:06.9

but to actually keep you making progress when you're out of your routine, from how to structure

0:12.1

your diet to manipulating your workouts. And this doesn't just apply to the holidays, but anytime life

0:17.7

gets crazy, whether it's a move, job change, or anything else.

0:21.7

If you want to be more successful, you have to learn how to pivot when you're out of your

0:25.6

normal routine. But before we get into that, if you haven't joined FS Premium, what are you

0:30.5

doing? It's just $5 a month and you get access to every single one of our complete 12-week training

0:35.9

programs that we have programmed out on Google Sheets so you can track and make sure you are making progress. You also get other

0:41.8

great perks like a weekly Ask Me Anything episode that we have on Fridays and much more. It just

0:48.2

takes a few seconds to sign up and we'll leave the link in the show notes below for you to do so.

0:53.2

And real quick, if you love us or even like us a little bit, it would mean the world.

0:58.9

If you took the next 15 seconds to go write us five stars on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or whatever

1:03.7

platform you are listening to us on, you can also comment on Spotify.

1:08.8

Let us know what episodes you guys want to hear come New Year's as we're

1:12.4

planning those episodes out right now. And run, do not walk over to legionathletics.com,

1:20.3

who is the sponsor of today's videos where they have their cheapest prices and best deals

1:24.4

all gear through the holidays. Don't forget to use code F-S-P-O-D at checkout. We'll put a link to their show notes down in the store below. Let's get cracking. That was efficient. That was easy. What? That's the best we've ever done. That just was quick. Do you know what you just said? You said, we'll leave it in. You said, we'll leave a link.

1:45.6

What I said? We'll leave a link. You said, we'll leave a link to the show notes down in the store below. Instead of we'll leave a link to the store down in the show notes below. I thought I killed it. No, it's so fine. That was so funny. We'll leave a link to that in the show notes down below fixed.

2:03.1

I was like, what are you talking about?

2:03.9

I killed it. No, it's so fine. That was so funny. We'll leave a link to that in the show notes down below. Fixed. I was like, what are you talking about? I killed that. No, I think it's so funny. This is one of the reasons why I love YouTube because with just like any natural long form, like chatty content, it's like you could just leave that. It doesn't matter because you just mess up and you're like, oops versus on TikTok, it's like, oh, I have to go back and refill that.

2:19.0

Like you know what I mean?

2:19.5

On TikTok, you got like 60 seconds. It's like real life. I talk like an idiot everywhere on and off the podcast. Me too. Fun fact. Are you going anywhere for the holidays? No. Well, I am going away after New Year's. So actually, it's the lie home the first week of January.

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