If you are wondering why you have trouble losing fat, losing weight, where those plateaus come from, what you can do about it, we've got 12 reasons why stick around for today's quick wits. Welcome to the Wits and Weights podcast. I'm your host, philip Pape, and this twice a week podcast is dedicated to helping you achieve physical self mastery by getting stronger, optimizing your nutrition and upgrading your body composition. Feel and cover science backed strategies for movement, metabolism, muscle and mindset with a skeptical eye on the fitness industry, so you can look and feel your absolute best. Let's dive right in. Alright, everybody. That teaser was definitely a tease because the 12 reasons why you can't lose weight are not going to be revealed in today's episode. Sorry to say, but we do have something very special for you tomorrow. So this is a teaser for tomorrow's episode, which is the very first co-hosted episode we've ever done on the Wits and Weights podcast. It is co-hosted with my friend colleague, fellow podcaster, all around great guy, scott Friedman of the Power of Progress podcast. I'm going to include a link in the show notes if you want to follow his podcast ahead of time. Both of our episodes are going to be dropped the same day into both feeds, so I'm not asking you necessarily to watch it, to listen to it twice on both, but you can listen to half on one, half on the other. At the very minimum, go, follow both shows so you can catch the other episodes.

Scott is very much into the mindset of fitness. He has lots of great lessons and proverbs and tactics, strategies. He comes from a very deep emotional and practical place both sides when it comes to understanding the mind's contribution here to unlocking your fitness journey. And we cover a lot in this episode. It's a good, solid, well over one hour episode epic where we go back and forth on all the reasons why you struggle to lose fat and other people seem to not have that problem Everything from what are the differences between fat and weight loss to the pitfalls ahead when you get into a fat loss phase restrictive versus flexible dieting, being too aggressive, not being aggressive enough, how to manage hunger, how to manage movement, how to manage training, on and on. We did so many things very practical, full of stories, full of anecdotes, full of client examples, full of all the things that you need to come away with tons and tons of takeaways and value and make progress yourself. So if that sounds exciting to you definitely.

Follow Wits and Weights right now on your app. Go follow the Power of Progress. You'll have your choice. Maybe you want to flip a coin and decide which one you're listening to and on, but I will include the link in the show notes for this quick Wits episode to find Scott's show. That's the Power of Progress with Scott Friedman.

Tomorrow the episode comes out. It's going to be epic and the title is why you Can't Lose Weight While Others See Great Results. Look for that episode in your feed tomorrow, february 27, 2024, or, if you're listening to this quick Wits later, it's already there. So enjoy the benefits of time travel and go look for episode 150 on the Wits and Weights podcast or the February 27 episode on the Power of Progress. Thank you for tuning in to another episode of Wits and Weights. If you found value in today's episode and know someone else who's looking to level up their Wits or Weights, please take a moment to share this episode with them and make sure to hit the follow button in your podcast platform right now to catch the next episode. Until then, stay strong.