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.

Hey guys, welcome back.

Happy Friday.

I am so sorry I I missed y'all last week. I know it was my goal to be on here every single week. And life happened. I feel like I say that all the time. But seriously, just started the last shred of the year. And that was crazy busy. So there's like almost 800 people in there. And yeah, it takes your girl half a minute to get through those plans.

So I was insanely busy running on very little sleep to make sure I had everybody ready to go on time.

And so the podcast just kind of slipped through the cracks.

But I am back this week.

And today we are going to talk about, and I was going to say five, but it's just going to be a handful of things here that will cause the scale to go up

that have literally nothing to do with fat gain. So some of them will spend, and some of them will be

very like self-explanatory. And then some of them will kind of deep dive and talk just a little

bit more on and clear up maybe some confusion

that you guys have.

So I thought this was very fitting for today with the shred having just started because I've

already seen a few people that one comment in the Facebook group and it was like, I hit my

macros perfectly yesterday and I worked out and did all

the cardio and I woke up today and the scale was up one or two ounces, which is nothing. But

in the grand scheme of things, I think a lot of us have been there where we will, you know, all

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