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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, hello, welcome back to another episode of Empowered Radio.

Today I want to talk to you guys about dieting through the holidays.

So I know on the last several episodes, we've talked tons about nutrition periodization,

the importance of that, maintenance, the importance of maintenance before you start your diet,

after the diet, reverse

diet. We've touched on a little bit of everything in terms of just how you're like mapping out

your nutritional journey when fat loss is the goal. Even if fat loss isn't the goal, just mapping

out if you have a physique goal of some sort, whether that's building muscle, losing

fat, a combination of the two, just really periodizing your nutrition and mapping that out so

that you can be very strategic in how that's going to look for you over the course of a year.

But I did want to talk on because we are, well, when you guys are listening to this, will it be November?

I think it's going to be like November 1st when this comes out.

So is starting a diet during the holiday season a bad idea?

And the answer is no, absolutely not.

And I have five or six reasons on here why starting a diet during this time of year in November could actually be a really good idea. So I know I told you guys, I think it was last week when we were talking about nutrition periodization. And that was the one thing that I did that changed the game for me. When I periodized my nutrition and sat down and started that whole like phased out

nutritional journey, that was in November.

And so I, again, that would have been a, if I was probably at the time too, I was probably

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