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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.

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Empowered Radio.

Thank you guys for tuning in.

I know last week I told you guys I would be doing a lot of episodes coming up around maintenance and reverse dieting and the diet after the diet, sometimes the diet before the diet.

And today I wanted to talk about really a pre-dieting checklist.

So things when we think about biofeedback markers and just things that we need to have in

place before we jump into a diet.

So this really goes off of what I was talking about last week with being more planful

and planning ahead when we're starting our diets and really trying to periodize our nutrition

versus being more reactive and either stepping on the scale and being like, oh, my gosh, I have to start a

diet tomorrow or trying on, you know, a pair of jeans that have been tucked away in the closet

or seeing a picture of yourself and just reacting to those things and starting a diet based on

that. I've done it a million times. I'm sure lots of you listening have been there too.

But today I wanted to talk about ways to ensure that you can have a successful fat loss phase and this will lead to

the reverse dieting after and then the maintaining and keeping it off. So a lot of times when we go

through these fat loss phases,

I did this for what felt like forever, where you spin your wheels because you usually start a

diet from a reactive place. And then everything from there is just kind of spiral.

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