Hi guys, welcome back to another episode of Empowered Radio. Today is going to be one of those

rapid fire, just a few bullet points of things that I think need to be, I guess I would say

normalized when you are on a fat loss journey.

The first one being, I think I have like seven on here,

and honestly there could have been many more.

But the first one is it takes way longer than you think.

Unrealistic expectations are the number one thing that will set you up for failure because fat loss is not linear.

I had the conversation with someone in this most recent shred group and on our live Q&A,

and I was just explaining to them out of thousands of clients I've worked with,

I've had some that have what I call a more resilient metabolism where it takes many more adjustments

for them to lose weight. Even the first few weeks, it may take three weeks at that deficit

to even see anything drop in terms of scale weight or measurements. And it might take multiple adjustments along the way

and they might have to dig deeper and go lower on calories, you know, than someone else,

where I have seen people who literally can diet on the same amount of calories pretty much

throughout their whole deficit and rarely need adjustments.

But the point is, is if you are someone who you have these unrealistic expectations that you're

going to lose weight every week and when you first start a diet, you know the first week, you see

these people talk about, oh, I lost like three or four pounds in the first week because

typically there's a lot of water weight loss. That's not everyone. And that's really

just depending on the amount of water and things that you have in your body, especially if you're

someone who, you know, maybe you ate tons of processed foods and ate out all the time and

you weren't ever in a deficit.

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