Feeling Good on Purpose To Lose Weight

Feeling good on purpose to lose weight. Think about this for a second. Every time that you've ever tried to lose weight, you've actually done it by trying to make yourself feel bad, right? Either feeling deprivation or forcing yourself to go work out hard or choose the right foods, whatever it may be. It's hard. It's difficult. It doesn't feel good. That's probably why you're avoiding doing it now. It's probably why you didn't stick with it in the first place. So what if we just completely rethink weight loss from a different perspective? And imagine if your goal was to lose weight and the first thing you did was to intentionally start doing things that made you feel good. Now, I know some of the smartasses out there say, okay, I'll start eating cake. Cake makes me feel good. No, I'm talking about non-food-related things that make you feel good. Going to the movies, reading a book, going for a walk, meeting a friend, taking an art class. You know, there's a million things. Taking a nap, getting some sleep. You know, there's a lot of things you can do that feel good to you, that make you feel better. And this day and age, a lot of times we don't take enough time to feel good. We're always busy, kind of first we got to suffer, then we can feel good. Right. And that's really the philosophy of the diet industry for the last 50 years. Right. It's kind of no pain, no gain sort of mentality. But what if we went into it and we said, I want to feel good from day one? You know, program yourself thin. That's what we're focusing on. So on day one of program yourself thin, you're not restricting foods. You are listening to a 5-minute hypnosis session, which you've never done. One feels good. Why? Because you're relaxing, right? Physically, you relax, you calm down, you breathe, you turn your attention inward, you shut the world out for a moment, step into the present moment. And from that place, it feels good. You hear positive things, positive messages. You imagine yourself succeeding, doing the things you want to do, and it feeling comfortable and enjoyable. Feels good. And when things feel good, when you start to have more and more things you do that make you feel good, how do your food choices reflect that? Well, think about your own life. When you feel genuinely good, When you feel grounded, calm, present, fulfilled, happy, rested, don't you make better food choices naturally? Right? I'm not saying they make perfect food choices, but don't you tend to make better food choices? Don't you find it's way easier to make the healthier choice, to stop when you've had enough, you know, to say no to the unhealthy stuff? Isn't it easier? And isn't it true that your entire life, when you have felt better about yourself, more grounded, calm, motivated, connected to your goals that you've naturally made better choices. So again, I think dieting tells us that first experience pain, first experience lots of pain so that you can feel pleasure. And this approach here says, no, let's feel pleasure first. Pleasure in a new way. Certainly not pleasure through the food, but pleasure in all the other ways of life that a lot of times we've forgotten about because the pleasure from food is just so easy. It's always there. But it's not the deepest, best pleasure you can experience as a human. You know, there's other ways to feel good, and it's different for each person because we all have different, you know, unique things that we like to do. But when you consider first off what feeling good is for you, when do you feel your best? When do you feel good? How can you start to feel more of that in your life? When you make that the focus, and through that feeling you say, that's how I'm going to manage my weight. That's how I'm going to manage my eating is by feeling good, rested, refreshed, centered, calm, grounded. That's what I want. Because when I feel those things, it's all so much easier to do the right things, as opposed to when I'm frazzled and stressed and tense and anxious and upset and all those things, right? So instead of making feeling good contingent on you losing weight, instead of saying, I got to lose weight first before I can feel good, no, you don't. You can start to feel good right now, literally right now. Go do something that feels good. I'll give you an example, and it's really quick. You can relax your shoulders, relax your chest, your stomach, and your face. Take a deep breath in and slowly let it out. Now, if you did that, it probably felt good. This isn't rocket science. This doesn't have to be hard. That's what I'm trying to say. You can feel good pretty easily. And the more little things you do to feel good, the more of the time, more often, the better you start to feel. And the bigger the good things that you can do to feel even better become. And it starts to build on itself. And you're eating the entire time a lot of times is going to reflect that feeling better. So if you've never tried this approach, I suggest you give it a shot because best case scenario is you found a new easy way to manage your weight for the rest of your life. Worst case scenario is you just felt good for a little bit and whatever. But if you want some real help making this happen, one of the best ways I know to feel good that won't cost you anything is go get the free hypnosis session that I made for you. It's called The New Thin Me. If you're on TikTok, you can click the picture of me up on the top over— no, there, there. Click that. You'll see the link in my bio. Go get it. If you're on Facebook, all you have to do is type mind, M-I-N-D, into the comments and it'll automatically send you the link. And if you're anyplace else listening to this and you want to get it, you can just go to programyourselfthin.com and go and grab that. All right. And if you have any questions, feel free to ask them. Any weight loss questions are welcome. Um, really talk about anything here. Uh, what's up, Debbie? Let me say hello. Finally got in. All right. Was it hard to get in? Maybe, maybe because I, I set the thing today, huh? I set like the, when the class was going to start, maybe I Started a minute or two late. Um, yes, yes, Debbie's in the program. Dave says totally relaxing, more than I've ever been allowed or able to. Yeah, yeah, we hear— I hear that all the time with Program Yourself then. And you know, that was one of the first things as a hypnotist, that was one of the first things that really shocked me. I would say really, this is one of the things that shocked me most when I first opened my hypnosis office and began doing it professionally. Is I realized I am relaxing people more than they've ever been relaxed in their life. Most of the time, the vast majority of clients I worked with, working with me was the most relaxed they had been in a long time or ever. And I found that so fascinating. You know, it made me real. And I'm a yoga instructor too, by the way. Okay. But what I realized is being a yoga instructor in that world, well, everyone kind of relaxes regularly. Right, they practice it. But in the normal world, people really have a very, very limited ability to relax. And they don't really practice it. They don't really, you know, kind of dedicate much time to it. And so they're not very good at it. And we live in a world that's constantly tweaking us and stressing us out. So, you know, relaxation is a skill. It's a skill that you learn and you practice, you know, and/or you go to, you know, a professional hypnotist gonna help you do it mentally. Geez, you can go see a massage therapist help you do it physically, right? But you know that's the professional route, and then the personal route is if you just kind of commit to it. It's not rocket science; you just have to kind of do it. But it to me is one of the most fundamental and foundational pieces of not only mastering your weight, but really mastering your life, being the person you want to be. And you know, in program yourself then, we follow the goal weight pyramid here. And if you look at the lifestyle component, right? So we got mindset. Lifestyle, eating. And if you look at lifestyle, I put these in order of importance, right? Sleep, hydration are the first 2 most important. And then there's relaxation. Relaxation right there. And I always put relaxation and breathing together. They go hand in hand. Okay. So to relax as deeply as you want to, you need to also influence your breathing. Right. And they go to work together. But I would say those are the top 3. Sleep, hydration, relaxation to me are kind of the holy trinity. of being able to manage your weight. And without them, it is absolutely going to be harder and potentially impossible, right? Because again, when you look at your behaviors, you're going to notice that a lot of times the most egregious behaviors are happening when you're most stressed out, when you're most tense, when you're most tired, when you're most dehydrated. That's another topic. So yeah, learning to relax is a skill no different than learning how to write. How to use a computer mouse, how to drive a car. It's not something that you should just naturally know how to do. It's a skill. And on top of that, we live in kind of an alien environment, and it stresses our nervous system out in a way that's never happened in history. So again, relaxation becomes even more important because you are constantly being triggered and stressed and exposed to things that tweak you up. So I think it's really important to have the ability to kind of bring ourselves down regularly, kind of ground ourselves, relax ourselves. And if you don't, again, what you'll most likely do is you'll go grab the food as what you think is relaxing, but in reality is really more of a distraction from the stress. And there's a complete difference between going deep into relaxation and kind of just avoiding stressful things or ignoring stressful things that are happening to you. It's totally different things. So, uh, yeah, then he says, relaxation, a skill I'm learning slowly but surely. Yeah, of course you will. You know, that's the other piece too, though. You know, please understand, just like writing with your hand, you know, at one point you thought it was gonna be impossible, and now you can do it. Now you can do it so well you don't have to think about writing. You just do it on autopilot. That's how good you've gotten at it. And you've done that with riding a bike, using your phone, using a computer, using a computer mouse, driving your car. There's just hundreds and hundreds of behaviors that you have practiced and learned how to do And once you gain mastery over it, you just take it for granted. Okay, but relaxation is one of those things, and a lot of people just think they should—they should just be able to relax. Well, why? You know, I mean, it's like saying I should be able to play the piano. I like music. I should be able to play it. Well, no, you have to practice it. You know, there's got to be some, you know, that piece to it. Debbie says, "Visiting my daughter drove seven hours yesterday." Oh my goodness! To get here, we went to dinner last night, and I ate slowly and definitely stopped eating before I felt I had eaten. Until full. Congrats, Debbie! I'm so proud of you. And again, you're doing the behavior in the environment that's most stressful to you. But again, I think you'll find that the more you practice relaxation, Debbie, the more adept you get at being able to eat the way you want to. You know, people just dieting has conditioned us to think that okay, the secret about eating right is to just make the right decisions. You know, but again. I can take you who knows everything you need to know about whatever diet you may follow, right? So everyone's got their own philosophy they want to follow, right? You know what to do. But wouldn't you agree when you reflect on your life that there are times, you know, when you're stressed out, when you're tense, when you're anxious, you're eating— you tend to eat more, you tend to make unhealthier food choices, you tend not to care as much, right? And then there's times when you feel more calm and grounded and relaxed and centered Don't you follow whatever your plan, whatever you consider to be better eating? Don't you eat better when you're more calm, relaxed, grounded, and centered? Right. You know, and it's like dieting never looks at that because dieting for dieting, the answer is always willpower, right? Dieting, the answer is always willpower that you're just going to force yourself to do the right thing. Who gives a shit? Tired, stressed, centered, motivated. None of it matters. None of that matters. Doesn't matter. Oh, you didn't sleep last night. That doesn't matter. Just make the right choice. Oh, you're dehydrated. Doesn't matter. Just make the right choice. Oh, you're not motivated at all. It doesn't matter. Just make the right choice. Huh? Huh? You know, it's like you can't just make the right choice. I usually use the example, you know, that dieting is kind of like trying to sprint a marathon. And I like that example so much because it makes clear the capacity issue that is at play here. And the capacity issue is this: that if you try and sprint a marathon, as motivated as you may be, you hit a capacity wall, right? At some point during the marathon, if you're going to sprint the whole thing, at some point you're going to run out of gas and you're going to collapse. And it's the exact same thing with your weight loss approach. You are relying on willpower 100%, and you're going to force yourself to do the right thing. And is it not true that you're able to do that for a period of time? And then what happens? You collapse. And it's because you burn through your willpower, you burn through your motivation, and you get into places where you can't muster the ability to make the right choices. It's not a character issue. It's not a character issue because in other areas of your life, you, you're able to exhibit what you consider to be willpower. But with the food and the weight, you're not. But it's not a willpower issue, it's a programming issue. You're programmed to eat a certain way. You've been programmed your entire life by the culture, the people you've been around, the environment you live in. And it's, it's conditioned you and programmed to eat a certain way that if you're overweight, your programming keeps you overweight. And it does it automatically. And you do everything you can to fight against that programming, and the programming always seems to win. You always go back up. Your weight always goes back up to your normal range, which is maybe what you consider to be overweight. So the approach of trying to fight against your programming is proven in your life and everyone else's life who struggle with their weight that it doesn't work. Dieting does not work as a strategy. It's proven. It works for a little while while you can do it, if you want to consider that working. If you want to consider that you can successfully lose weight on a diet for 2 months and then can't stick with it, if you want to define that as success, then go ahead. But to me, that's failure. That's a blip. That doesn't mean shit. Who cares if you lose weight for a week or 2 months or 3 months and you put it all back on? That is not the goal. So in no way am I going to say that's success. Success is being able to comfortably and enjoyably start to dial your weight down to where you want it to be and then stay there for the rest of your life in a way that feels comfortable, natural, automatic. So I have a much deeper criteria for that. But nice job, Debbie. Nice job. What's up, Jane? Jane says, I know I have to get back on track with you because the stupid shot is not working as well. I'm getting food noise big time now. I eat less but crave sweets. So annoyed with myself again. Um, don't be annoyed with yourself, Jane. I mean, you know, listen, we're always on our path, and sometimes our path— we got to kind of step off the path for a second and kind of Do a few loops around. I don't know what they call them up in Canada, but here we call them roundabouts or rotaries, um, and just kind of get stuck on it. It's completely normal, uh, Jane. But I would say you utilize this experience, right? Because you're not alone. Most people on GLP-1s are going to experience exactly this. You're going to get an initial burst of this, um, and for some reason or another, either the price goes up It's not as effective anymore. The side effects are worse. You don't really enjoy your quality of life while you're doing it. You're going to want to not be on this. You're going to want to get off the GLP-1. That's most of you if you're even considering it. And again, I sit here as— I'm not saying I'm the only one. I'm sure there's other people out there here doing something similar to what I'm doing, I guess. But at the end of the day, you're going to have to, in my opinion, You're going to have to manage your mindset, manage your lifestyle, manage your reading. And I would suggest, Jane, that you use this as an opportunity to really internalize and realize that there is no other way. Like, there is no other way. There is no shortcut. The quicker you all stop chasing shortcuts and just do the work, the better. Right? And the shot seems like a shortcut. Of course it does. It's not, it's not. It's a band-aid. It's a temporary band-aid for the vast majority of people because again, the big question is going to be how long do you want to stay on this? And you cannot even begin to answer that question until you've been at your goal weight on it for at least a year. You cannot answer that question while you're actively losing weight because you're too excited about the weight loss, you know. So again, the GLP-1s I've had already, I mean, we're only into really 2 years, I suppose, um, you know, of a lot of, you know, GLP-1 really be out there in any, you know, scalable way. And, um, I've already had a bunch of people that have been on it and then off it, and it wasn't for them. And I have a bunch of people in the program now that are on it and actively learning how to again tweak their mindset, their lifestyle, and their eating so that they can think, live, and eat like a thin, healthy, happy person. Again, as far as I can tell, the only guaranteed way to mastering your weight. Guaranteed. It's the only guaranteed way because it's a holistic, comprehensive strategy. Just telling you what to eat is clearly not enough to change your weight, right? We know this, don't we? Don't we? So it's like instead develop the skills. Develop the skills. It's no different. Mastering your weight is no different than learning how to play the piano or learning how to play tennis or You know, learning how to draw. It's just practicing. You you take the thing you want to do tennis. You want to do tennis. You take tennis and you break it down into parts. Oh, get the serve and we get the return. We get the volley. We got this shot, drop shot, right? We break it down into components and we work on those components, and then all those things kind of build together and we get better at tennis. Okay, what skills are you working on when you diet? You're not working on any skills. It's always the same thing where it's not a skill. You're just trying to force yourself to do something. It's not a skill because a skill. Is something that you work on and it's hard, and then at some point it becomes easy. Again, writing with your hand— you remember when you were a kid learning how to write and how it just felt impossible, and then all of a sudden something just starts clicking, and now writing is so easy for you you don't even think about it, you just do it automatically? And again, you've got hundreds and hundreds of those things that you've learned. Your eating is the same way. Your eating runs in patterns, patterns you're not even thinking about, they're just running automatically. But they're patterns that cause you to be overweight. And again, dieting has taught you that you have to fight against that program. You have to fight against those patterns. I think that's a waste of energy, and it brings you— talk about traffic circles or roundabouts— um, the diet approach always brings you back to the exact same spot because nothing changes. You're not changing your programming when you diet. You're fighting against it, and you can fight against it for a little while. And then you come back to what you always do. Then that's what happens every single time. So doesn't it make sense that you might use your willpower to reprogram yourself instead so that you could implement and develop skills that ran nearly automatically that get you and then keep you at your goal weight? It's not rocket science. I mean, we break it down right here. How to think, live, and eat like a thin, healthy, happy person. How do you do that? Well, okay, you have to know how to motivate yourself. You know how to change your self-image from an overweight person to a thin, healthy, happy person. You need to know how to influence your habits. Okay, what does that mean? It doesn't mean that you stop bad habits. It means that you overlay the bad habits with the ones that you want instead so that they run automatically. It learns— so you learn how to run your emotions without needing food, so that you know how to think, literally the nuts and bolts. What thoughts, questions do I ask myself to think like a thin, healthy, happy person? How do I maintain it? How do I deal with times of stress? Jim, what do I do when I get off track and I need to get back on track? You don't know. That's why you're not getting the results you want. You don't know the answers to those things. You don't know how to do those things. All you know how to do is try and force yourself to follow a plan, and you've been doing that for decades now, and it ends the exact same way every single time. You're in a perpetual stuck loop. Get the fuck off of it because it's just going to keep giving the same results, you know? And that's just the mindset. Then we move on to lifestyle. Like, imagine you had the skill where you slept better, you slept right, you got the right amount of sleep. Imagine you had to hydrate yourself just the way you drink water every day and the way you consume food. You're perfectly hydrated. You knew how to relax and breathe deeply, so you're calm and grounded. You nourished yourself naturally, so you just naturally nourished yourself at a higher level. You moved more, so you were comfortable and felt better. You were able to meditate, quiet your mind down. You practice gratitude. You felt good about things, enjoyed the process. How is that person not going to be superior to the person who doesn't know those things? In terms of dealing with their weight, user 863 says, "Do you agree it's better to eat fiber-rich food before eating junk food so insulin doesn't spike?" Yeah, I think it's always better to eat fiber-rich food anytime you can—before, after, during—I don't give a shit. You know, the more fiber-rich food, the more whole natural foods you put in your body, the better. I don't care when you eat them, right? And so, would it have the benefit of reducing insulin spikes? Perhaps. You know, test it out and see. But I think there's so many benefits to it that it doesn't even matter if it helps with insulin or not when you eat junk food. You know, anytime you can get more whole natural foods in your body, do it because it's going to support the big picture, right? We don't want to just be thinking— we don't just zoom in and be like, okay, is this going to help the next hour or two of my insulin? You know, my glucose spikes. We want to see the bigger picture too, you know. So again, the more whole natural foods you can put in your body, the better. Doesn't matter when you eat them. But yeah, if you have any questions, feel free to ask them. What's up, Susan? Susan says this seems like an emotional eating problem because I'm being social. All my food inhibitions go out the window. Oh, sorry, you asked a question before that. I didn't see it. Oh, whoopsie whoopsie. Susan says, "What tricks do you use when eating out so you don't overeat? Eating at restaurants and buffets make me go crazy, and I eat everything in sight." And again, Susan, I apologize. I always forget if you're in the program or not. I get confused sometimes. Some people's names, I'm not sure. So I'm not sure if you're in the program or not. Tricks do I use when I'm eating out so I don't overeat? Okay, I'll give you a couple of them that I use. And the most important—the reason I asked if you're in the program—is the most important. And I don't really think of it as a trick necessarily, but a strategy. I think the most important thing to get better at eating out is to use the redo rehearsal technique. So that's why I asked if you're in the program. So I would absolutely— that would be my number one answer: using the redo rehearsal technique. That that's going to allow you to get really good at going out to eat much quicker. Okay, there you go. But I'll give you some tricks. Okay. Now I never like to rely on tricks because tricks. are kind of like a surface thing, right? And so the, the deeper part is always your mindset, and that's why the redo rehearsal helps you create the mindset that will help you thrive when you go out. Um, but I'll give you some tricks too because that's what people like, and so here you go. Um, but so I think some basic tricks that work pretty well, um, is your hunger level, right? So if you're gonna go out to eat, if especially you're gonna go buffet, you do not want to walk into that situation being extremely hungry. Okay, now you don't be stuffed either, but eating an apple, a banana, glass of water within a half hour of going there, I think is a smart move if you want to manage the the calories. Going in there more relaxed and calm again helpful. This is where the rehearsal technique's really powerful because you can imagine yourself walking in there being calm, relaxed, motivated, eating slower, enjoying the food as much as you ever had in your life. Feeling in control, feeling yourself eating moderately, making healthy choices, and enjoying it, right? So rehearsing it and redoing it, you know, in whichever order you end up doing it in, I think is the crucial thing here, right? But again, the hacks are, you know, put less on your plate each time you go, right? I'll get this next time up, and then maybe you will, maybe you won't. Start with some of the healthier foods, start with the salad, or, you know, some of the fiber-rich stuff we just talked about. I think all those things can help you, right? But again, but but but again, let me just take a step back. Even if you're not in the program, I want you to look at it again as another skill. Going out to eat, going out to buffets is a skill that you want to develop. So you know, if you said to me, I want to develop my golf swing, how do I do it? Well, I don't think you just expect me to tell you some magical solution, and then you hear that and you're like, holy shit, I got it. You would need to hear whatever golf swing strategy I gave you, and then you'd have to go practice it. Right? Again, like a golf— I love the golf swing. You don't have to be a golfer either to understand this, but a golf swing is a great example because you could be a decent golfer and have a decent golf swing, but still there's variability in there, right? You could be a great golfer, but sometimes you hit the ball great. Maybe most of the time you hit the ball great, but there's always sometimes where you don't hit it great. So that's another reason why I think when we look at our eating behaviors kind of like that, We leave some space to understand that, you know, sometimes we perform better, sometimes we perform worse. It's not the end of the world. We just have good and bad days. There's so many factors— your energy levels, your mood, your— how your body's doing, what life's doing. You know, there's factors going on that are impacting your performance. And I think a lot of times, again, with dieting is an all-or-nothing mindset. And so the idea is that it's trained you to think you're either 100% on perfect or you're not doing any of it at all. And so, you know, when you go out to a buffet, you go out to eat socially, you want to look at that as one kind of pattern that you're working on. And you have to, just like if you did a golf swing, if you want to make a better golf swing, you know, you practice your swing. And then, you know, if you have someone there coaching you, they'll look and say, okay, that your shoulder's a little tight, but you gotta do it first so you can see the mistakes and then improve. And so even if you're just on your own, you know, you shank the ball left. Oh, what's going on? Oh, my shoulder was a little tight. I gotta loosen it up and Straighten myself out, whatever. But we learn through mistakes. You can't—you can't be perfect and learn at the same time, right? So when we make mistakes, when we go out, we go out to eat and we have a strategy. You know how well did we follow it? What worked? What didn't work? You know. So most of the learning honestly is done after we screwed up. But again, dieting when people screw up, they just throw in the towel. That's it. That's it. I'm done. Quit. Quit. Oh fuck! I mean, I was doing so good. Oh, and I blew it. You didn't blow shit. You know what I mean? Imagine like a professional athlete having a bad game. Ah, I blew it. I was doing so good. I got all the way to the NFL and now I blew it all. And oh my God, now I'm done for. You know what I mean? Like it's such a defeatist attitude and it's just, it exists in the wrong universe because again, this idea dieting really instills this idea in you that you're going to start Monday and you know what to do. So just be perfect. And so then if you make a mistake, you don't analyze why it happened. You don't try to understand it so you can Avoid it next time. You just say, you know, just either ignore it and say, "I'm never gonna do that again," you know, or you freak out and you beat yourself up about it and you know eventually quit. So you know again, we want to look at things as practice, and I think that's a very helpful mindset with this because I promise you, if you're overweight, the main issue you have is that you don't know how to think, live, and eat like a thin, healthy, happy person. That's that simple. If I sit you at a piano and you've never played piano before, you know, you're not gonna not know how to play a song because you're a bad person. It's gonna be because you've never practiced it. And it's the same thing with your weight, because your weight's a reflection of your behaviors. And your behaviors— the behaviors you've practiced are the behaviors that make you overweight. Does that make sense? Now, it doesn't feel like practice because it's felt like it's easy for you to do it, but you got to realize that all the things you struggle with are things that you have done Many, many, many times. You've gone to buffets and overeaten many times. You've gone out to eat socially and eaten over many times. That's another word for that is practicing, if that makes sense. But everything we do naturally is are things that we've repeatedly done. What's up, Pat? How's it going? And said, hey, Noel, I'm still thriving. Nice job, Pat. Good job. Way to work the program. Matt says one meal a day. Um, I you know I'm not a big fan of one meal a day for most people, but um the golden rule of program yourself then is there's no right or wrong; there's only what works for you. So if you do one meal a day and you're just like you know the the oceans part and the heavens open, it's like great. Um, do one meal a day. But the vast majority of people that do one meal a day, it's very stressful for them. And so I am a big believer if something is really stressful to do to lose weight, you shouldn't do it. You shouldn't do stressful things to lose weight because you're not going to do them for long. And what's the point? What's the point if we're not going to do it for long? Because I just want to lose weight. What for? For a couple weeks? For a couple months? I mean, any of you ever lost weight before and then put it all back on? How fun is that process? It's fucking miserable, right? So don't think your nervous system forgot that. Your nervous system remembers exactly how just how destroyed you felt when you put the weight back on that you worked so hard to lose. Do not think that your brain and nervous system have forgotten that. They have not. And there's a good chance if you have lost weight and put it on a couple times, that's a whole other issue, right? Because now your mind codes losing weight as ultimate failure. Because you know what's worse than not being able to lose weight is being able to get yourself to lose all the weight and then putting it all back on. And so, you know, if you've done that a couple times, you probably have a lot of apprehension about losing weight again. It's got to be dealt with, I, I would think, you know, unless you just fight through it. You're just gonna fight through it, Jim? Okay, fight through it. Let me know how it goes. Let me know how it goes. Let me know how the fight goes, folks. I'll be here. I've been here for, you know, almost 4 years now. I'll still be here. And I've been here for— professionally, I've been over 20 years. I promise you, I will still be here. This is— I will do this for the rest of my life. This is what I do. I've been doing this personally for over 30 years. This is a mission for me. So you keep fighting, but I'll be here when the day hopefully that comes when you realize the fighting against yourself, that doesn't work, didn't work, and it was never going to work. And once you realize that and decide that you do actually want to get control of your weight and your health and your happiness, And you're really serious about it, I'll be right here. I'll be right here to answer your questions and help you out. To start you out, go get the hypnosis session I give. I'm not trying to trick you. I give you a bunch of stuff. I know most people have never experienced hypnosis. You don't even know anything about it. You heard about it. I'm going to cluck like a chicken. I'm going to tell all my secrets. Nope and nope. You know, you're just going to relax. It just feels nice. Hypnosis really is the cousin of meditation. So if you ever meditated, you know what hypnosis— you already know what hypnosis feels like anyways. Everyone goes into hypnosis constantly every day. Every time you watch a movie you like or a TV show you like, you're in a state of hypnosis. Think about it. You ever think about what your body's doing when you're watching a show you like? Let me give you an example. You know, you know what people look like when they're in hypnosis? They look alike, right? It's the same thing. And so when you're watching a show, you're just imagining, right? You're, you have a thing called mirror neurons. So you're watching whatever's on TV and you're basically vicariously living the experience, you know? And so you get a little, you know, because your mind can't tell the difference between vivid imagination and reality, you experience a lot of things, right? You're watching a horror movie, you get nervous. You watch a drama, you feel sad. You watch a comedy, you're laughing. Watch sports, you're releasing adrenaline. So these are real experiences. That's the amazing part of hypnosis. That's why hypnosis is so incredible. Because what your mind imagined is literally real. Does that make sense to you? Think about it. The sports is my favorite example. You ever watch a sporting event you were kind of into? Right? Your lazy ass is on the sofa. You're sitting there and you're just like, right? All adrenaline going through. You ain't in the game. You're watching light on a screen and sound waves hitting your ear. It ain't even real in your environment in reality. But you're imagine— you're imagining you're there. You're imagining the situation. You feel like you're on the field participating, and you're literally— this is the amazing part— you're watching light on a screen and sound and a thing, and your body is releasing adrenaline. You're in your living room sitting on the sofa, and your body's releasing adrenaline. That's amazing. That's the power of the mind, you know. So that's what hypnosis goes at. It goes at your subconscious mind and shows you how to use it appropriately so that you get your subconscious mind on your side. Right now, your subconscious mind—if you're overweight, your subconscious mind—is not on your side in terms of weight. Your subconscious mind is programmed to be overweight, and to try and fight that is a losing battle, as you found. But there is an answer: it's to reprogram your subconscious mind so that it does the things that get you to your goal weight and keep you there. But what's up, Jackie? Jackie says, "Yeah, I get really absorbed into TVs and movies. Cry scared." Yeah, exactly. Right? How does that happen? How? Because you got to zoom out a little bit, right? So what's really happening is you're just, let's just say wherever you watch TV, right? Think about it. You're just sitting. Well, let's just say a theater. Let's just go with a movie in a theater, right? You're just in a theater. You're in a neutral seat sitting there in a dark room with a bunch of strangers. And what? You're going to feel sad and scared and and passion and hope and love. And you're going to feel all of these deep emotions. Think about the emotions. You you're just in this neutral place, right? Before the screen goes on, you're just sitting in this neutral room looking at a neutral screen. And then all of a sudden, light comes on, sound comes in, and you start imagining you're in some scenario. And whatever the scenario is, is going to cause you to actually feel lots of real emotions. The fake imaginary thing, you know, it's not real. You know, they're actors. You know, someone made up a story. It ain't real. It's imagination. And on top of that, it's not even in front of you. It's a 2D screen showing you an image, but your brain is turning it into something that's so real that you're literally feeling those feelings. Does anyone get how incredible that is? It's really incredible. So anyways, once you start to understand how to run your own mind, it's a very powerful way to start to understand how to run your own body. Would y'all like to be able to relax a little more? Anyone out there struggling with stress and tension and anxiety? Are you? If you are, wouldn't you like to be able to ease some of that down, feel some relief, be able to genuinely know how to calm yourself down, relax, ground yourself, step into the present moment? Would that not be An improvement in your quality of life if you could do that? Would it not be one of the most fundamental improvements in your quality of life? I, I don't know how it couldn't be. I mean, it was for me, and I went through— I went through my story. I'm no different than anyone else. I was stressed as shit. I was 50 pounds heavier. I was just overeating, eating like shit. I was binge drinking, watching 8 hours of TV a day. I, I've been there. I know what it's like, and I was stressed to the gills. And I felt like shit. I felt like shit. It's nice feeling better, I'll tell you that. All right, Calvin. Calvin says, "I never feel stressed." All right, I like that. I like that. I can't imagine that. I've been stressed my whole life. I got tweaked up nervous system. Hey, you know what I mean? I just got you know life experiences and whatever, but. I was very, very tense. I'm still tense. I'm just a lot less tense too, by the way. That's a whole nother piece. But, you know, again, because, you know, here's the thing too, and people forget this because, again, the diet industry is kind of fed into this idea that if you lose the weight, then everything's gonna be amazing. You know, dieting has really sold weight loss as a cure-all for everything. But I'm here to tell you that a lot of people lose the weight and they're as stressed as they've ever been, if not more so, because now they're just terrified. Every day they wake up, they're terrified that they're gonna put the weight back on. And so every mistake when you got into your goal weight, every mistake feels 10 times bigger now. And some of the most stressed people that I've ever talked to are people that have lost the weight and are absolutely panic-stricken. And that's the words that you'll hear me read it sometimes. People say, I'm terrified, you know, I'm absolutely, uh, you know, paranoid that I'm gonna gain the weight back. You know, you hear that all the time. So it's like, is that your goal? Is that your goal, to lose the weight and then be absolutely terrified you're gonna gain it back? You should consider that because that's probably what you're aiming at. That's probably been your experience. I bet it is. You tell me, when you've lost weight in the past, when you got to that goal weight, did everyone— smooth sailing and everything was great, or were you nervous as shit that you're gonna put the weight back on? You may not remember, but I have these conversations every day, so I'm telling you, I know, I know what I'm hearing. Yeah. Yeah, Susan says unconscious eating gets me all the time when I eat outside my home. Yeah, but that's great, Susan. Again, your awareness allows you— your awareness is the door you step through to fix the problem. Okay, so now you know when I go out to eat, that's a pattern that I want to work on. I'm doing pretty good at home. When I'm home and I'm in this situation, I do pretty good. As soon as I get out of the home, I don't know what's going on there exactly. Let me focus on— let me learn about it. Let me understand. Let me get better at it. See, let me get better at it. Yeah, and You know how important it is to frame this process that way? Let me get better at eating when I go out. Let me get better at it versus, okay, I'm on a diet now. Now I gotta eat— when I go out, I'm gonna eat perfect. I'm gonna eat— oh man, I started my diet. I'm keto. I could eat perfect, right? And then you don't eat perfect. Oh my God, what happened? Well, yeah, how are you gonna eat perfect again? It's like, oh, I just learned how to— I just took a golf, um, I just went to a workshop to learn how to do a better drive. You know how to do it. Swing the golf club so I can drive better. I just took the workshop, and then you go and you hit a drive and you shank it. Oh my God! What was the point of it? What was the point of it? Well, don't you think there you can learn something and you got to install it into your body and mind if you're going to golf or tennis swing or draw or play an instrument? So why would it be any different when you go out to eat? Why? Because I tell you, okay, you're on a diet now. No more, no more overeating when you go to a restaurant. Okay. Oh, well, what the fuck? You didn't know that already? Of course you did. Knowing what to do and being able to do it are 2 totally different things. And diet— dieting teaches them as if it's the same. Dieting makes believe that because you know what to do, you're just gonna do it because you're gonna force yourself to do it. But if you don't have the internal skills to do it naturally, I don't think you're gonna do it for very long. See, I live at my goal weight now because I do it on near autopilot. I have broken down all the things, and again, it's just this here: mindset, lifestyle, and eating. These pieces of thinking, these pieces of lifestyle, these pieces of eating— I've gone through them, and I now have strategies that I do pretty much automatically. And when you put them all together, it keeps me and keeps me at my goal weight. Comfortably though, that's the key thing. Yeah, Susan says I'm frightened to eat out. Yeah, we don't want to be frightened to eat out, you know what I mean? Like, like, that's not where we want to be, you know? So again, but I think if you, if you work on that, you can get a lot better at it. What's up, Kimberly? Kimberly says yes, after social media you worry even more about eating even fiber and right foods. Yeah, sure. Um, it's always You know the confusion piece of the the you know the the world right now where they try and confuse us about what to eat, and it's all very intentional too, by the way. But that's another story. Debbie says odd maybe maybe not. I do the hypnosis and picture myself thin and the size I want to be. Then when I pass a mirror, it actually shocks me because I'm not thin. Okay, Debbie, I'm glad you wrote that because you know when we listen to that session, we think about ourselves being thin the way we want to be. We're really doing that to connect to the feelings of being happy with our body, of being relaxed, of being calm, of being in control, of being able to eat moderately. We're not pretending that we've actually slimmed down so that when we see our reflection, we say, what the fuck? What? Who lied to me? You know what I mean? Like, we're, we're drawing a line there that we're stepping into the feelings of being the person we want to be, knowing that we're feeling those feelings and thinking this way and practicing stuff so we can turn into that person that we want to be. But we also maintain there's some thread there that says, "I know I'm not that yet," and that's okay. You know, so you picture yourself thin and the size you want to be, but you use that in order. What feelings do you get? What feelings do you get when you imagine yourself? Because here we go. Let me explain this. Actually, this is a perfect example. I was just talking about going to see a movie or TV show as hypnosis. Okay, so when you're watching the movie. You're watching the love story and you're getting all gooey and ooey inside. You don't in your mind at any point say, this is real. These 2 actors are actually in love. This is actually real. And that doesn't ruin it for you. You know it's not real. You know it's actors, right? You watch the horror movie. You know that you're safe. You're in a safe environment. You know that these are just actors pretending, and yet you still feel scared. Okay, so it's the same thing here when we imagine ourselves at the weight we want to be. We're doing it so we can have the experiences, so we can test drive being the person we want to be, get familiar with it, learn how to do it, practice it. We're not saying, oh, I'm thin now, I'm thin. Oh, it's a lie. It's not true. We're not doing that. You're not doing that in a movie. You know what I mean? You're not in a horror movie and all of a sudden, hey, this isn't even— this isn't even real. That's just lighting a screen, everyone. Hey, these are just actors. It's not real. Don't worry about it. Right? That's not what we're doing in a movie. That's how we're doing with a show. We're going along with it because it feels good. We enjoy it. It's entertaining to go along with the show or the movie we're watching. That's what we're doing here. We're doing— we're stepping into our body. We're stepping into the person we want to be as much as we can, not because we think that that's magically going to make our body change instantly, but we know that feeling that way feels good. It helps us motivate. It helps us practice it. And thinking and feeling that way every day, how could that not nudge us in the right direction? How could that not be helpful? And moving yourself in the right direction. It's no different than again an athlete visualizing how they want to perform. There's another piece of it. Yeah, Kimberly says practice makes perfect as they used to say. I'm still practicing. I'm still practicing. I'm gonna practice forever, but that's what I love. I really enjoy the practice, you know, and that's something I think you learn from some of the greatest champions. You know, Kobe Bryant, you know, if you ever study some of his stuff, which I value, I think you should, even if you think he's kind of a jerk. You're kind of a jerk. But, um, there's a lot of lessons to learn there. And I think one of them is that the championships were not his goal. The goal was to get better every day, and the championships were almost just like a side effect of that focus. And I feel exactly the same way, that my real focus day to day is just getting a little bit better each and every day. And I work on all my little things, and I just do them consistently. I just keep getting better and better, and it's just fun. You know, it's personal development. It's peak performance. It's improvement, and I'm addicted to it. The weight kind of is just a side benefit of that. You know, and I think that approach is it feels good to me, and it sets you up for long-term success as well. Pat says, "How do you feel about low-fat or fat-free, especially dairy products?" Um, oh, dairy, dairy products. I mean, if they want to take the fat out of it, I guess. I mean, I don't really eat a lot of dairy personally. Um, I'm not a baby cow. So again, I, I'm not, I'm not here to tell you what to eat, but, uh, me personally, I'm just not a huge fan of consuming a lot of cheese, um, or dairy. Uh, I consume a little bit, you know, so I'm not saying I'm not against it, but I wouldn't consume a lot of it. So whether it's low fat or You know, fat-free dairy products. I really just like to consume low dairy products. I don't think consuming a lot of dairy in any fat form is really great for you personally. Now that's my belief, okay? But if I did, if I did consume a lot of dairy, yeah, I would probably consume lower fat milks. It's not a great idea. You know, your body. Doesn't have a good ability to measure calories that you drink. If you think about, right, we've evolved in an environment where we ate all our calories. There was no— there was no lattes over the last million years. There are no lattes. There's no sodas. You had water. That's what you had, you know. And then you had milk, obviously, right? You had milk and stuff. But even milk, again, it's— milk is there for baby cows to, you know, triple in size size in a year. You ain't a cow. And I don't know how much dairy you should be eating. And if you want to lose weight, I don't know. I don't know where milk really fits in there. I mean, if you love drinking milk, you know, carve some space out for it for sure. We should always carve out space for things we love. But if you're on the fence with dairy, and I think you should be personally, but that's my opinion. But yeah, it's a lot of calories and you don't get a lot of benefit from it satiety-wise. I always look at food I'm eating in terms of the satiety I'm going to get out of it too. So I'll drink a glass of milk or I'll drink— I'll eat some dairy, whatever form it may be, and it's a— it's almost always going to be a more relatively dense calorie food. Even low, low-fat, no-fat is going to be relatively a lot more calorie dense than non-dairy foods. So, you know, right off the bat, that's a reason just weight-wise to, I think, You know, cut the dairy down. But I think there's other things as well that don't really help you with dairy with your weight. So those are my thoughts on it. But Kimberly says, "I just started your hypnosis at the beginning of yoga stretches in the a.m. You're right; it helps to relax." Yes, thank you, Kimberly. Yes, hypnosis. People don't really think that. You know, I would say it's really so funny to me because I'm a yoga teacher and I've taught meditation too, and I've done obviously I'm hypnotist. But it's like it's so funny because people don't think of hypnosis like meditation, but they're they're siblings. They're the same brain state. They're just used for different purposes. But the thing about hypnosis that I think people overlook is they think of it as just a mental thing. But I want you to understand the value of hypnosis is twofold, and I think it's physiological and psychological. And I think they're almost even because I think you have to understand. Certainly my sessions anyways. I every hypnosis session I do, I always use a relaxation induction because I want you to get good at relaxing. And so every single session I do is to relax your shoulders, your chest, your stomach, your face. Take a deep breath in, then slowly let it out. Just that it feels good. And so we use that as the starting off point for going into hypnosis. And so it's important to understand that yes, I'm giving you lots of really powerful beneficial suggestions. Okay, and that's really, really important and big piece of the puzzle. But the other piece of the puzzle is just as big is that every time you listen to a hypnosis session in my program, you're listening to them at least once a day, ideally twice a day or more. Every time you do that, you are relaxing. I know you're stressed. I know it. And it's a huge reason why you're struggling to influence your behavior effectively. So one of the biggest things, and it's so funny because I just did a survey of my clients. And literally every single one of them said their favorite thing was the hypnosis, you know. So it's, um, the hypnosis is so powerful because it's the easiest, most enjoyable way, in my opinion, to change your weight. Because you just sit there, close your eyes, and press play. You don't have to do anything else, you know. So it's just easy and it's comfortable, it's enjoyable, it feels good. You come out of it feeling even better. It's just those are the things that, that tend to lead to success, is when things are easy and enjoyable and comfortable. You're broken is beautiful. How do I stop eating? I eat for no reason, even when not hungry. Again, I mean, this is a perfect example that a lot of times I'll get questions that are so big and vague that there's nowhere to really answer it, right? How could I answer, how do I stop eating? Now, again, I could assume what you mean is, how do I stop eating unhealthy foods? How do I stop overeating is probably what you mean. How do I stop grazing and eating for no reason at all? But these questions are so big and vague that there's no answer to it. You know, it's again, it's like, how do I learn how to play piano? Just tell me. And I say, well, I don't know, you practice. Do you know what I mean? Like, when we ask big, vague questions, we're going to get big, vague answers that aren't helpful. And so what I would suggest is you start dialing down. I eat for no reason. Maybe start there. What are the times you typically eat for no reason? Because you don't just eat for no reason constantly. You know what I mean? Like, like you're not just— you're not just like eating for no reason. All of a sudden you wake up at 8 in the morning, you're just eating for no reason. Um, all of a sudden it's 10 o'clock in the morning, you're eating for no reason. All of a sudden some Tuesday at 1 in the afternoon, you're eating for no reason. It's not that spontaneous. There's a pattern to it. You're eating for no reason in the afternoons. You're eating for no reason at night after dinner. You know what I mean? Like, there's a, there's a bigger pattern to it. And when you say it that way, you're making each event feel like it's its own thing. It's not. All of our eating runs in patterns. Yeah. And so instead of looking at each thing as its own unique event, spontaneous event, we need to zoom out a little bit, look at the bigger picture, and recognize the patterns that fire off very consistently. And so if you get more consistent about your behavior and you come back and say, okay, why? How can I get a handle on my snacking and grazing in the afternoon? Okay, now we're gonna. Now we're starting to get somewhere, and we'll dig down deeper into that as well. But there's no general answer that could give you. Right now to say, how how can I stop eating? Because how do I stop eating? Oh, well just don't eat. You know what I mean? Like it's like big vague questions get big vague answers. How could I answer that specifically? Right? I don't know the details, and most likely you don't know the details either. And if you don't know the details of your behavior, again, you need to dig into the granular details so you can understand the behavior, the pattern, the routine, what's causing it. Before you can come up with a solution to it. Now again, we've never learned that because dieting tells us just use willpower for it. Willpower is the answer to everything. Why do you eat in the afternoons? Who gives a shit? Just don't anymore. Well, why do I keep snacking for no reason at night? Well, just don't anymore. You're on a diet now, just don't do it. And this idea that you're just gonna not do it is so silly, you know, it defies any reality, you know. Who's been able to do that? Who can just get their eating to just change because they started a diet? I mean, you can do it for a couple days maybe, but at some point— Jackie says, what about Greek yogurt with fruit? Um, yeah, I mean, Greek yogurt's great, and that's probably the best— the best, um, I think the 2 best dairies in my opinion are yogurt and like kind of artisanal cheeses. Like, I eat blue cheese like You know, kind of a fancier blue cheese because it's different. So it's just it's not as hard on my system as just like milk would be. You know, and yogurt the same thing. You know, it's fermented. So it's like it's just it's a different form. It's just easier to digest typically. So yeah, I think Greek yogurt is is one potential exception. You know, I'm just not a big dairy fan personally, but a lot of people like yogurt and succeed with it. So please understand that. I want to make that distinction that I have my own personal kind of food beliefs and ideas and whatevers, and I never want to push those on people. I'm a vegetarian, a pescatarian technically. I'm practically vegan, you know, in terms of cheese and dairy and things like that. So I have my own beliefs about that, and I don't want to push those on people because they're just my opinions and my beliefs. I've seen plenty of people thrive with yogurt. As a main part of their diet. Okay, um, but I don't know, beyond the— beyond yogurt and, you know, cheeses that, um, are easier to digest and good for your gut, I, I would, I would make it a point to reduce dairy. But that's me. You can eat lots of— you can do anything you want, really, pretty much, and control your weight. to some degree, right? I mean, it all comes down to calories, what you're consuming. But what I'm trying to say is that you can consume dairy and still manage your weight. You have to make other changes, okay? But, um, but I think it's an easy win. I think as you reduce dairy, I think it's just one of the easier wins because it's one of the more calorie-dense foods that you eat. So, you know, I think for that reason alone, if you care about your weight, uh, you should. I love all your hypnosis. Well, thank you. Yeah, lots of hypnosis sessions. Geez, there's so many hypnosis sessions in that, uh, program yourself then. Probably over 100 sessions. Crazy. Uh, Victoria says, I'm really enjoying your program. My favorite line is, I'll have it later. I've said it to myself many times. It works. Yes, I'll have it later is a huge, um, a huge mantra, and it's so effective. And that literally, that came from a study, so that, that's a scientifically backed mantra right there. And probably, well, that's what the science— that's what the study proved, is that I'll have it later was the number one response, um, when feeling tempted and dealing with cravings. And there's a lot of reasons why that makes sense. But, um, Debbie says, right, I get that part. I know I'm not thin and I know it's feelings, but still deep down I expect to be thin. Um, I know it's not gonna happen like magic. Yeah, okay, Debbie, well then tell yourself that though, you know what I mean? Like, don't let yourself— Debbie, don't let yourself get all worked up Like, like, you know, because what you just said though, you know what I mean? And I notice how we talk to ourselves, but, um, then when I pass a mirror, it shocks me because I'm not thin, you know what I mean? Like, that's intense. That was intense energy. So you can't let yourself be shocked, right? How can you be shocked if you didn't think you were? You know, because further down you said, I know I'm not magically— I know I'm not thin, and I know it's feelings, but still deep down I expect to be thin. Um, okay, well manage that. Don't— because I expect to be thin deep down means what? You just think because you listen to a hypnosis session you just lost 30 pounds during that time? Check that. Is that what you think? Because how are you getting shocked? Do you know what I mean? Like, like there must be some part of you that just for some irrational reason thinks because I listen to a hypnosis session or imagine myself thin that I should be thin now. You know what I mean? So check that because that's the type of thing that can sabotage your whole thing. Right? If there's some deep part that says you should be thin by now, I just, I just imagined myself completely. I was in the moment and everything, and I didn't lose any weight. Well, no shit. But if you believe that part, it has a sabotaging effect if you allow that to just go unchecked. Uh, Jane says, I'm surprised you don't love cheese. You love pizza, I think. I love cheese. Um, yeah, I do love pizza, but I use very little cheese on my pizzas. So, um, I just— yeah, cheese is one of the first things that I really began to— I was never a huge dairy person as well, so I want to make that clear. And we all have our, you know, here's the thing too, by the way, and this I think just gets to the point that we all need to figure out our own way to eat because we're all different. But dairy is just so interesting because dairy is one of those things Okay, let me back up. We're not all the same. Oh, we know we know that, right? But dairy really, really, really makes this lays this bare because to drink dairy, you need to be able to digest it, right? And whether or not you can digest it really depends on your ancestry. So if you are from Africa, you ain't—you're not gonna most likely be able to digest milk. If you're from China, it's almost guaranteed you're not gonna be able to digest milk. If you're from a Nordic land, you probably will be able to digest milk, right? So again, a lot of the world is lactose intolerant, and so I think that's so interesting, right? You can look at people and you may say, oh. We can all drink milk. No, some of us can drink milk comfortably and some of us can't. So you know again how I feel about milk probably is informed pretty heavily on my genetics to some degree as well. So maybe I'm more sensitive to it than someone else who just can digest the hell out of it. You know, so I just say that because ultimately there's a lot of subtle factors that impact our eating, and I think we should respect that. You know, but yeah, I personally again, I don't love cheese, so it wasn't the hardest thing for me to kind of. Dial dairy way down, but again, just strategically, it's one of the easier wins. It's one of the easier wins. Is dairy is one of the more calorie-dense foods that you eat, probably. So you could use those calories with other foods that will satisfy you a lot more. I would never drink a glass of milk unless I just enjoy the glass of milk, but there's a lot of calories in that glass of milk that you could eat those calories of whole natural food. And you'll feel a lot more satisfied. Your food noise will be a lot quieter from the whole natural foods rather than the glass of milk. So, okay, as Pat says, yep, I eat fat-free organic plain Greek yogurt for breakfast with 1 tablespoon of buckwheat honey. Yeah, it sounds good to me. And again, I know a lot of people that have yogurt every morning. So I think that's fine. Again, it's never about, you know, I, I eat peanut butter every morning and I feel, oh bro, that's where all the calories are. It's like, well, you need to eat calories, so what? You know what I mean? It's like I've got all my calories figured out so that eating peanut butter in the morning allows me to stay at my goal weight. So you know what I mean? Like, we can— it's not just about one meal, you know what I mean? We have to look at everything in context. You know, so yeah, if that's working for you, great. And I, I think that's great. I, you know, again, I have my own kind of dairy bias, I would say, but I think I've seen so many people succeed with, with yogurt-based breakfasts that clearly it's a great strategy for a lot of people. Um, ah yes, yep. Debbie says, I like most the hypnosis you have available except the ones where you start with as you listen to the CD. Oh man, old school. Old school. I have to upset— I'll have to update that, huh? As you listen to this CD, man, remember CDs? But used to use CDs back in the day. I used to print my, uh, used to print my sessions on CDs. That's so funny. I remember I had a burner, you know, I'd burn the CD and then I got the sticker. I remember this is so funny. I, I should find this. I, I gotta do— I gotta do like an archaeological dig. I'm gonna— maybe I'll do it during the holidays when I take a little bit of time. I'll just, um I want to show you a bunch of stuff from the early, early days of Program Yourself then. But one of them, I remember this, I've been doing this stuff for a long time, but, um, I used to burn— like, I get like the CDs, a blank CD, and I'd burn the program onto the audios onto it. And then I would print— I made this, this design for a printed like CD sticker. And so I printed out, had like a swirl on it, you know what I mean? Whatever. You take the sticker off, put it on the CD, you know, sending those out. Back in the day. Yeah, so I gotta update those. My voice sounded better though. I don't know, huh? If I— my voice has been struggling for like, God, it's been a couple weeks, and I'm noticing today it's just— thank God. It is one of those frustrating things as a hypnotist when your voice starts getting squawky. Uh, Debbie says some part of me feels thin, hence the mirror. Well, Debbie, that's great though. That party that feels thin, feel that, feel that, okay? That's the point of it. But also maintain the distinction between the part that feels that way now, because bring that part out more, but bring that part out knowing, okay, I'm not exactly where I want to be yet. That's okay. You know, you've got to manage both of those, or there's gonna be this weird cognitive dissonance. So it's like, you know, go into that feeling, that part of you, and notice how it feels. How does it think? How does it decide what to eat? What does it choose? What does it want to do? And tap in all that piece, and then know that you're Driving that you to the physical goal that you want to achieve, you know. Debbie says, "Yeah, your voice sounded so young." That's probably an old one. Yeah, CD. Holy cow! That it is funny. I I get that because it's funny. Like I I actually have an i I have an iPod. This iPod must be fifteen years old. It's a it's a click wheel one, right? And I actually I put it in my Jeep, so it's got like eighty eight thousand five hundred songs on it. And and I I've been listening. I'm gonna be so sad if this thing. If I say if it goes, right? It has to at some point. It's amazing how long it's gone, but it's got 85 songs. But I have actually a bunch of my sessions and trainings I've done. It's always so— if I sound— I feel like I'm 10 years old. It sounds like I'm 10 years old. Agreed. My voice has changed quite a bit. I've developed it though. You know what I mean? Just again, practicing. I have actively practiced for the last, you know, really 20 years especially speaking differently. And so yeah, that's funny that you say that. It sounds very much— oh, I should probably just get rid of those sessions. They're weird to listen to now at this point. The only time I would have milk was with cookies, but I've learned to have almond milk with them. Yeah, there you go. Um, yeah, I think, I think that's improvement, you know. But I'm not a big, big milk person. Uh, the cookies— couldn't ditch the cookies. That's fine, that's fine, Shereen, right? Again, we're not, we're not looking to be perfect, we're looking to be better. That's kind of a thing we're always, always aiming at. So Linlin says it gets better every day as I progress through the program. That's awesome to hear. That's what I love to hear. And that's how it is, because again, Program Yourself Thin is built to be— it's forward-moving. So you keep— each day we improve 1% better. So every day you're standing on the shoulders of yesterday, you know, and that's how you really get to higher levels, and that's how you do it in a way that's comfortable. Right. Um, all those iPods are valuable. Yeah, I know. I should sell it real quick. I can't replace it. I don't— they don't even make them anymore, and I don't even know. I'm sure there's gonna be some way I could put all those MP3s. I don't even have— like, I don't know, have iTunes anymore. I've even used that. You know, it's funny, I always like Spotify, but, um, that iPod— I love that iPod. It's got all my favorite songs. All right, I gotta get out of here. All right everyone, thank you so much for listening. Um, if you're not in my world, please click the link in my bio and go get the free hypnosis session that I made for you. Uh, it's called The New Thin Me. It's just waiting for you to go listen to it, completely free. Um, one of the highest paid hypnotists in the world. Go check it out, right? Go see what I'm up to, what I'm doing. Um, and, uh, then if you like this, I'm here every Monday through Friday at noon Eastern. So pop on here and ask your questions. I'm happy to help you as best I can. And if you can't make the live, it's also a podcast. So you can search Program Yourself Then on any podcast platform and listen whenever you want. And it's also— the replays are up over on Facebook page, um, the Program Yourself Then Facebook page. So go check that out. Um, Lynn, yeah, you'll get it, Lynn. Yeah, I'm working on putting the, the, like, in Facebook anyways, I'm looking to put the live in there as like an event, and then you can kind of click it, and then it might send you a reminder a little better. So still working on that. All right everyone, have a super duper day and we'll talk soon. Bye.