Welcome to Empowered Radio.

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, welcome back. I hope you guys have had an amazing summer. I kind of took a couple

months off there to just enjoy the summer with my family and my dogs and just take a little

step back from working so much and just be more present, which was amazing. So I appreciate all the kind messages

and people asking about when the podcast was coming back. So it's definitely still here,

was just taking a bit of time off, but I'm excited to be back. So thank you guys for tuning in.

Before we get into today's episode, Happy is having a huge birthday sale.

My birthday is on Monday the 12th.

So to celebrate, I am giving 25% off sitewide.

That starts today on Friday when you're listening to this and it will go through Monday at 1159 p.m.

EST.

The code is birthday.

I will link everything in the description for you guys so you can get 25% off.

All the supplements.

It's sitewide.

So make sure to take advantage of that.

But today, I thought we would talk about just compromising with dieting and

really looking at instead of, I think it's so common when we sit out on a dieting or a fat loss

journey, it's easy to think you have to restrict, you have to give things up, what are we

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