Hello, I'm super excited for this episode. You will not be able to tell unless you are watching,

but I am in studio for the first time after five years of podcasting. I'm actually in a podcasting

studio and the nerves are at an all-time high, but I'm super excited to be here and I can't

like even, it's just wild to actually think what can happen when you start

something and you're consistent with it. I remember this is just like a little side quest before we

get into this episode, which by the way I am very excited about because we're going to go back

to basics. We're going to talk about calories. We're going to talk about calorie density.

We're going to talk about how to stuff your face with food without having to touch my fitness power.

You can literally delete it right now.

Side quest, though, that we're going to talk about is I remember when I first started this podcast, crying my eyeballs out because I couldn't get the hum in the background to go.

If you've been listening for a while, you might remember me always having an absolute spas

because there was motorbikes in the background. So to be here in Austin, Texas, like in a studio

and just to see how far you can come and what can happen when you just stay consistent,

even when you hate the process, which is everything that we talk about on this podcast.

It's a very meta moment for me and everything that we talk about here.

Let's get into this episode, though, because what I want to do with this is go back to a little bit of the basics that

I used to talk on this podcast, which is really understanding how calories work and how

to actually eat to get into that weight loss zone.

My story really started about 15 years ago for, I mean, and it will be the same for most women.

Struggled with my weight when I hit puberty, had been kind of skinning up until that point

and didn't have much information when it came to how to lose weight.

There's so much confusion when it comes to weight loss that I just thought,

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