Why Change Feels Worse Before It Feels Better (Hopefully)
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Right, we're in the hardest part of any change-making - the bit where it gets worse before it, hopefully, gets better. Changing my diet and fitness regime at the same time has meant learning lots of new lessons, perhaps more importantly, unlearning a lot of what I thought be true, and holding on tightly while the turbulence of change has me desperately wanting to 'eject'.
What I keep coming back to is that what worked for me before had stopped working and a new approach is the best way forward. Even though it's tempting to go back to what I was doing before, that would mean getting to the same place I was without any clearer idea of how to get closer to my goals.
Anyway, it's all a bit unsettling, weird and strange after a few years of feeling comfortable and confident in how I ate and trained. I continue to trust I'm on the right path though...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of The Emma Gunn Show. |
| 0:11.7 | I have three things that I want to discuss with you this week. |
| 0:15.7 | So buckle up. |
| 0:17.1 | Let's have a chat because I'm very interested to hear your opinion. |
| 0:20.6 | Well, on all of them but |
| 0:21.6 | definitely on what we're going to be talking about a bit later on but first up let me just give you a |
| 0:26.6 | teenyy bit of an update because I know that quite a few of you are following along with my |
| 0:30.9 | changes that I've made in nutrition and fitness and I honestly thought I would be on Instagram a little bit more talking about it at this point |
| 0:40.7 | but the truth in the matter is making the change to my fitness and my nutrition and the way |
| 0:47.4 | that I have kind of at the same time is proving to be more mentally more than anything else |
| 0:53.6 | but a little bit of a challenge, |
| 0:55.9 | and I will explain why. So I have definitely eaten in a certain way and trained in a certain |
| 1:02.9 | way for the last six years since I lost all the weight in inverted commas. And that has always been, has always included cardio, there has always been |
| 1:13.4 | strength training and it has always come from the position of more, more is better. And as you know, |
| 1:20.8 | I'm now testing out the idea that working out less, but with more intention and with more sort of |
| 1:26.6 | focus on what I'm trying to achieve, |
| 1:28.7 | that actually I can elicit better results because I have absolutely reached some sort of plateau. |
| 1:33.5 | I have been unable to kind of breach a particular weight, a number on the scale, which again, |
| 1:39.5 | there are problems with that, but there we go. You have to use some sort of metric. |
| 1:43.5 | Otherwise, how do you |
| 1:44.4 | know what progress you're making um so i have been training in a certain way you know as many |
| 1:49.4 | steps as possible try and get some cycling in or some running or da-da-da-da and do strength |
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