Hello, welcome back to Empowered Radio. I'm your host, Emma Montgomery. Thank you guys for

tuning in today. We're actually going to do a little mindset episode today, and I've been reading

the book, The Mountain is You. If you've ever read it before, it's a great book. It's about

identity change and self-sabotage, and I think this is a great one for women on their

fitness journeys this is when we're talking about self-sabotage it's one of those it sounds

insane because you're like why would I do something to keep myself from losing weight

when losing weight is what I want to do?

And I'm like, I know, right?

But this happens in so many areas of our life.

And a lot of times we don't even like really realize we're doing it.

So I wanted to talk about, you know, it's you're not self-sabotaging because of lack of discipline it's because

succeeding would require you to be someone unfamiliar and our brain will seek comfort and

familiarity so is that a word um what's familiar in terms of keeping us safe it doesn't care that we have

goals it is literally just seeking what is comfortable what is predictable what is familiar and so

when we start doing things out of line with our current identity our current character our brain is

like wait a second I need to do some

things to make this familiar. And so that's where those sneaky little things will come in

as far as a self-sabotage. So it truly is an identity protection. And so today I wanted to talk

about self-sabotage and really creating a new identity as it sounds

kind of cheesy.

But I promise you, you will become a different person at the end of a fat loss journey.

And spoiler alert, if you do not change your identity, you will regain the weight.

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