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You're listening to Embrace You're real with me Julie Ledbetter a podcast where I empower you to just be you

With each episode I dish you a dose of real talk and actionable advice for building your confidence, honoring your body, and unconditionally loving your authentic self.

Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace your real, let's get it, let's go. Hello, and let's go. Hello and welcome back to the Embrace Hero Podcast. I am so grateful that you are

here spending some time today. We have listeners tuning in all over the world.

I was just checking some charts and we have Great Britain in the house, Canada, Australia, Germany, South Korea, France,

Sweden, Brazil, Norway, Denmark, New Zealand, Italy, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa,

the Philippines, Singapore, Colombia, Finland, Taiwan,

let's see here, Bulgaria and so many other places which is so incredible.

I am just grateful that this is a community of women all over the world and today

I'm really excited to share with you kind of just some education regarding the four phases of

building the body that you want and how to cycle through them.

I think that there is a general misconception that you should always be in a

caloric deficit and if you're not then you ate too much or you're going to

gain weight. I know so many women who have been

living in a clark deficit or at least trying to live in a clark deficit for

years. And to be honest with you, I used to do the same thing. I was in this

perpetual state of I need to lose weight, I need to cut my calories.

But guess what? Living in a constant caloric deficit in hopes of losing weight,

but it was actually one of the things actually stopping me

from losing effectively and healthily. So let me say this again. If you want to

lose weight in an effective and healthy way, you can't be in a permanent caloric deficit. I know that this

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