Hello and welcome back to another episode of Empowered Radio. Today we are going to talk about

dieting for summer because I do believe that the misconception is still very much out there that if

you wanted to be ready for let's just say the 4th of July. I know it is January and that sounds

crazy to think that far ahead, but let's be

honest, it will be here in the blink of an eye. But I think most women think, oh, I can start

dieting in May to be ready for a bathing suit in July. And that is 1 million percent not the case.

Even if you have, I'm going to say, 8, 10, 12 pounds to lose and you think that

you're going to be able to do that in a couple of months right before summer, I'm going to

tell you that that is not the case for the majority of women, especially for those of you that

are, I would say, 35 plus. Have you ever heard the phrase summer bodies are made in the

winter? That is literally what we're going to be talking about today because that is so true.

And this is specifically around dieting and not just the calorie deficit part. There is so much

more to a sustainable fat loss phase than just the actual calorie

deficit. So if you want to look good in a bikini this summer and, and, yes, there's an and,

maintain your results through the summer because I know there's a lot of you that, and I've talked to

a lot of you that are able to crash diet right before the summer or a trip

and look great and then after the trip it's like, okay, everything I lost, I gained back.

So today we're going to walk through why starting early matters.

We're going to talk about the phases of fat loss, why priming your body is absolutely everything,

and why reversing before the summer

or your trip is going to protect your results. So if you are someone who has ever waited until,

you know, I'm going to say four, six, eight weeks before a trip, an event summer to try to

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