She takes a few sheets off one of the rolls and holds them back together. Unsurprisingly, they still look the same. But then she continues to rip off sheet by sheet. Eventually, when she held them back together, the two rolls were completely different sizes.

“Are you frustrated because progress is slow?” Lee asks at the start of the video, holding up one of the rolls. “This is you on day one. A full roll.”

As she tears off a few sheets, she writes: “Each sheet represents a day of putting in the work. A few days later, it doesn’t look any different, right?” and holds it next to the second, full roll for comparison.

The kitchen roll analogy proves that fitness progress takes time and patience