What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode of Empowered Radio. I am your host, Emma Montgomery. Thank you for tuning in today. We are going to talk about something that I feel like I have talked about on repeat the last several weeks, and it is maintenance, and why maintenance is harder than a deficit. I always say that we do not have, we as

women, do not have a weight loss problem. Weight loss, we've done it a million times. We have a

weight maintenance problem. We will lose it and then somehow it finds us again. And so that's what

I really want to dive into today is why maintenance is actually harder

than the deficit.

And I do have this broken up into different sections where we're really going to talk about

why maintenance feels harder than the deficit, but then also why women regain weight

after dieting. and then we'll talk

about how to successfully actually maintain fat loss. So that's order where we, man, words are hard

today. That is the order we're going to go in. So we're just going to start with why maintenance

feels harder than a deficit. And the first one I have on here is there is no finish

line. I can tell you I fully relate to this if you are a woman who is competitive or you're high

achieving in your career or you are in school or you're just used to being really good at things.

You're going to relate to this because it's much easier when you are in a

deficit and you have a goal weight you're shooting for. You have a sense of urgency. There's a timeline

even. You see visible progress. You get the dopamine hits of the scale going down, whether it's

weekly or biweekly, measurements are, you know, going down. In maintenance, there is no end date because it's infinite.

You know, hopefully that's the idea is to get there and live there once you get to your

goal weight.

Now, obviously, there might be an end date if you are someone that's phasing out your dieting

phases if you have more weight to lose.

But if you are someone that has gotten to the end of their

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