What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the mind of a Macros podcast. As always, I am

your host Mike Milner. I've got a very special announcement to make today, but first I got to tell a story before I get into the exciting news that I have to share with you guys.

I want to tell a story and give you a little background about myself, which you may have heard this before, but I feel like it's necessary to kind of paint some or color some context here.

So I've been a nutrition coach for a long time now going on a decade in the industry.

I shouldn't say I've been a nutrition coach for a decade. a And one of the things that I noticed early on in my career was I started in-person training and really

loved it, but I started to notice that my passion was more on the nutrition side of things just because that was more of my own

personal struggle. I've talked about that openly. You know, I've been the classic chronic dieter,

yo-yo dieter,

restricting binge, orthorexic, body dysmorphia,

like you name it, I've been through it.

And it was always the nutrition

that was like the last piece of the puzzle

that took me so long to figure out and that was why I wanted to help other people like I wanted to pay it forward when I finally figured out everything for myself and achieved a level of food freedom and just removed that anxiety around food and was able to get my life back and live, you know, more

vibrantly and just overall more contentment and sense of well-being, all the

things that nutrition can do for us and should do for us but when we go down the path of chronic

restriction and dieting it has the opposite effect. You know I've talked about

the the lonely nights and telling friends that I couldn't hang out and you know not seeing family and just missing out on so many memories you know for the sake of quote on quote on quote on quote on quote on quote, staying on plan and just being home,

you know, nine o'clock at night

because all I wanted to do was eat my chicken and broccoli

and not go out with my friends

just so I could make more progress towards my weight loss goals and it was never good enough.

So it was my own personal struggle that led me down the path of really finding my passion for nutrition.

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