Let me tell you a little story about a woman I knew a few years ago. Picture this: She sits down for breakfast and have the same thing she has most days. Half an hour to an hour later, she's hungry again, thinking to herself: "I just ate a big meal, WHY do I need to eat more right now? I don't even WANT to eat more, because if I do it'll just ruin my progress..."  ...but there's a part of her that's just so freaking hungry she can't handle it anymore. So she tried to eat some low calorie rice cakes, with powdered peanut butter... 30 minutes later, she's STILL hungry and STILL not satisfied...🫠 She tried to wait until 12 o clock so that she can push out her calories until lunch time, so that she doesn't end up over for the day. For lunch, she has a big portion of protein, with HEAPS of vegetables, thinking "the more vegetables I eat, the more it'll fill me up, and I'll be full and satisfied, and I can go on with my day.  30 minute after lunch she's hungry AGAIN...At this point she just can't handle it anymore, and starts eating everything she's forbidden herself to eat. Chocolate, sweets, cakes, pizza, pasta, you get the picture. Now she feels TERRIBLE about herself...Ashamed, guilty....how could she be so undisciplined and lose control like that? Undoing all of her progress?  She KNOWS she's gone over her cals for the day, so she decides she HAS to do a second workout today to compensate for the extra calories she ate.... If any of this woman's story just resonated with you...if you feel freaking stressed about counting every last calorie you eat in MyFitnessPal, or if you feel so guilty any time you go over your calories for the day, and even though you know you WANT to stick to your calories, because you WANT to reach your body goals, for some reason you just keep going over your calories for the day/week/month... THEN don’t worry, because this episode has got YOU covered 😉   P.S. Please review my podcast, as it really helps get it out to more women that need to hear this. Review here:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fit-free-podcast/id1651978022 P.S.S. No idea how much and what to eat to lose fat & build muscle? Wanna find out EXACTLY what you should be doing next to lose cm off your waist, and tone your body ONCE AND FOR ALL? Take this quiz: https://lauraswingler.mykajabi.com/plateaued