Hi friends, happy Friday. Welcome back. I can't believe that I'm getting ready to say that the

August shred enrollment, August, you guys, it's crazy. Where has the year gone? Um, August shred

enrollment opens on Monday at noon EST. So I wanted to start with that because I know so many

of you have been asking and are super excited.

I'm super excited.

So again, that opens Monday at noon.

EST.

So today we are going to talk about 10 things that I wish that I knew when I was on like in the beginning of my fitness journey.

So these are, I probably could have made this list a little longer, but I was trying to not

make this episode, you know, like four hours long.

So these are 10 things that I wish that I understood or that I really knew because it makes

things so much more simple.

For some of you guys, these are going to be like, oh, wow, I'm so glad she's telling me that.

I'm so glad to know that at the start of my fitness journey.

And then there's some of you that are going to be like, oh, yeah, I already know that.

That's a good refresher or whatever that looks like. But we're going to roll through these because I think they are

important to know. So that's why they're on here. So, and these are in no particular order.

Number one, all diets have one thing in common, a calorie deficit.

So if it is a diet that is designed to make you lose weight, they all have the same thing in common.

They put you in a calorie deficit, so that is where you're eating fewer calories than your body needs to maintain the weight.

So this doesn't matter if you're doing

keto, if you're counting macros, if you're doing Whole 30, paleo, beach body, putting stuff in

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