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The Effort vs Expectations Gap in Fat Loss

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Emma Montgomery

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Nutrition, Fitness, Mindset

4.9822 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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There's a huge disconnect I see all the time in fitness, where women want desperately to lose weight but their efforts aren't matching their expectations. On today's episode I'm diving into the 3 levels of effort and why most women get frustrated with their fitness journeys. Shred Waitlist sessions starts April 6th Apply for coaching Join the Monthly Membership HAPI supplements The EmPowered Community free Facebook group Follow Emma on Instagram Follow Emma on Facebo...

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0:00.0

I am so happy I finally did this. I've learned so much and I'm going to be able to keep this up.

0:04.7

I've been in such a bad place this last year and weighed the most I've ever weighed. I can't

0:08.9

believe how much my body has changed in the last six weeks. I feel so much better physically and mentally.

0:14.7

Thank you. So that was from someone that was in the January round of the shred. She lost

0:19.8

eight pounds and five inches. And this is possible

0:22.7

for you too. I am opening the next round of the shred. So it will start on April the 6th. It will

0:28.9

open for enrollment on March 30th. So I'm going to have the link to the wait list in the show notes.

0:35.2

When you join that wait list, you are going to get the prime before you

0:38.7

shred guide. This is going to walk you through what you need to do now before you start your

0:44.0

deficit to make sure your body is going to be in the most responsive place that it can be. So that

0:49.2

will be linked in the show notes. Again, the shred will open up on March 30th now on to today's episode we're talking about

0:56.0

effort matching expectations there is a huge disconnect that I see all the time in fitness and

1:02.5

obviously I see this working with one-on-one clients with shred clients but this is where women

1:07.8

will say they want to lose 20 pounds or have visible muscle tone.

1:13.3

They want to have a six pack or see their abs.

1:15.8

They want to feel confident in their body and look great in a swimsuit in the summer.

1:19.9

But the effort that they're putting in looks like inconsistent workouts, loosely tracking their food,

1:27.2

only tracking through the week and not the weekend,

1:30.1

eating low protein, low steps, you know, barely moving. And so obviously those two things do not

1:38.2

match. Your expectations have to match your effort. So that's really what I want to talk about

1:43.0

today because this is something

1:44.4

that I struggled with for a very long time. And it got to the point that when I was struggling

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