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.

Hope you guys are having a great new year so far.

I hope if you are on a fitness journey that you're still crushing it.

But thank you for tuning in and thank you for being here.

So today I wanted to touch on one thing that will kill your fat loss progress quicker than anything and i speak from

experience i feel like i say that all the time but i this is the one thing that i can say

absolutely killed my fat loss progress in the beginning and i was so ignorant to it because it

i just didn't do the simple math

behind it honestly.

It was almost like out of sight, out of mind, ignorance is bliss.

But cheat mills.

I hate even calling it cheat meals, but untracted meals or days.

And this gets asked frequently, especially this time of year because a lot of people are in the

dieting mindset.

And if you ever worked with a coach before, I know I've had coaches that are like, okay,

you can have a cheat meal this weekend.

And I'm like, okay.

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