Ploughing on and how to stay sane in a mad world.
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
I'm still persevering with this new nutrition and training plan but I'm not going to lie, it's not easy. Not to sound like a brat, but without any feedback (read: scale results) it's difficult to believe it's working so, six weeks in, I'm still leaning heavily into hope. I hope this works, I hope the effort will lead to reward and I hope that I am working smarter, not stupider.
There's no escaping that some really dark and frightening things are happening the world right now. Yes, we should all be aware and informed but the fact is, we need a little distraction. Don't take my 'doom scroll' away from me when my 'doom scroll' is such much less terrifying than the actual news, you hear me? What do you think? Is a little distraction just what we all need right now?
And finally, I interviewed Maxine Laceby from Absolute Collagen last week and after tapping out of interviews for a while because the podcast formula of rags-to-riches was so predictable in every chat I had, I am back! Maxine restored and renewed my faith in a format that I adore. My happiest and most rewarding work has always been via interviews and after feeling so inspired by my time with Maxine, I'm booking more guests for upcoming episodes - is there anyone you really want to hear from?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of the Emma Gunn Show. |
| 0:12.2 | Thank you so much for joining me and for spending this time with me. |
| 0:15.5 | As you know, it's always a delight to be in your company. |
| 0:19.5 | I think this one is going to be a little different, |
| 0:24.2 | not different in a bad way, but I hope not. Anyway, but I wanted to sort of get you up to speed |
| 0:30.2 | on how things are going with my new training plan and diet and everything like that. And then I |
| 0:37.1 | just wanted to talk about a few things that are sort of |
| 0:39.1 | in the wider world. So first up, let's talk about the training, because I know a lot of you |
| 0:43.9 | are invested in this. There's the training, there's the diet and nutrition. And I suppose those |
| 0:50.2 | are sort of the two major prongs. I was going to say something else then. But really that's it. |
| 0:54.5 | And we are six weeks in. And it's kind of after my sort of buoyant week a couple of weeks ago |
| 1:00.2 | saying, I'm beginning to feel it. I just feel like my luteal phase and just general stuff |
| 1:09.3 | just meant that I really felt like I took a backseat, if you have not a backseat, |
| 1:14.5 | I just felt like two steps forwards, three steps back. And it was really frustrating. And what I'm |
| 1:22.9 | realizing a little bit is that in this effort to body recomp, what I did last year, last spring, was kind of |
| 1:29.5 | nonsense. I was an idiot to think that that was going to be the thing that was going to make the |
| 1:34.8 | difference. Essentially, what I was doing was I was just dieting. And I have to, I have to now see that |
| 1:41.2 | experience and the way that I've done things in the past through that |
| 1:44.4 | lens now because of how much of a challenge it is to actually do this Roddy Recomp, |
| 1:51.4 | body recomp because it's a much, much tougher proposition than I think I realized. I am results |
| 1:59.2 | driven. I like to get some feedback and right now six weeks in, it's hard, |
| 2:07.3 | it's hard to find it. I'm not feeling the body changes as much as I would have had I just |
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