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I am your host, Emma Montgomery, an online nutrition and fitness coach and creator of Shred with M.

Each week we'll talk all things nutrition, training, and mindset.

You'll be able to take my tips and strategies and apply what you learn to see results

with both your body and your mind.

So without further ado, let's jump into the episode.

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Welcome back.

Happy Friday. Today we're going to talk about a question that I got on

Instagram. I did ask me a question post and I always get tons and tons of questions. And I try to

answer as many as possible. And I did answer this one on there and the responses and the questions that I got back to my responses on the answer.

Yeah, it was mind-blowing.

So I wanted to utilize the podcast platform to be able to talk about this in depth a little more so that I could give some

some more clarity, I guess, some more clarification around my response to the question.

So the question was something along the lines of, why am I not losing weight in a calorie

deficit?

So the simple answer is, is if you're not losing weight in a

calorie deficit, then you are not in a calorie deficit. So, and I tried to give a little more

information with that answer, but at the same time on Instagram

stories, there's only so much that you can, you know, expand with. So anyhow, I wanted to

dive into really what that looks like and what I see in terms of working with clients.

And if, you know, they say they're in a calorie deficit or only eating 1,200 calories

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