Welcome to Empowered Radio.

I am your host, Emma Montgomery, an online nutrition and fitness coach and creator of Shred with M.

Each week will 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.

What's up guys?

Welcome back to another episode of Empowered Radio. Today, I wanted to talk to you guys

about why maintenance seems more difficult than a calorie deficit. This is something I get

asked about, and I've actually had people reach out to me and ask if I could do a podcast on this.

So I thought, you know what? I need to.

I'm going to go ahead and do that now. I feel like this time of year, honestly, should be when a lot of

people are at maintenance, when a lot of people think that this is the time of year, they should be

dieting because they're in less clothes or in swimsuits, things like that.

When the reality is in the summertime, we are typically way more social.

We're going on vacations, weekend getaways.

We're going out to dinners and having cocktails and all that stuff.

So it's really a time of year when, you know,

people think they should be dieting again because they want to be slim for all of

the events.

But really, they should be at maintenance so they have more calories to work with so they

can enjoy those things and not, you know,

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