Hunger and Weight Loss

Hey everyone, welcome to today's program Yourself Thin Podcast. Today we're talking about hunger and weight loss. I had a great conversation with a client of mine today about hunger and it's someone I've been working with for a while, so they're pretty sensitive to it. And it made me think. I wanted to talk about hunger with you all because the way we think about hunger intuitively is a lot of times not how it actually works. And it can really sabotage a lot of your results because you may be thinking about your hunger incorrectly. So the first thing you want to understand with hunger is that a lot of times we think that like if I feel hungry now, that hunger is just going to keep increasing. And before I explain that, let me talk about sleep real quick because they're related in this way that when you sleep, when you wake up in the morning, you have two kind of sleep cycles you go through. So when you wake up in the morning, your initial sleep cycle starts as soon as you wake up and you start building up sleep pressure all day long. And so you'll be able, the average person's going to be up for whatever 12, 14 hours and that pressure is going to get stronger and stronger and stronger until they fall asleep at night, wake up the next morning. The other sleep cycle that's going on simultaneously right next to that is every 90 minutes you will be tired and then you'll 90 minutes later you'll kind of have a burst of energy, then you'll be tired. And so that that's running too. So in addition to that sleep pressure going up, you're also going through these 90 minute cycles of energy tired. Energy tired as well. Okay, so with that idea, that is almost a better way to think about your hunger. It's not exactly the same, but it's this way that you don't want to be thinking that if I'm hungry now, it's just a straight line to being hungry now. While that's true, if you stop eating now, you are going to keep getting hungrier in general. But there are sub cycles within that, meaning if I get hungry now, and I'm not saying they're exactly 90 minutes either, but it's very common for me to feel like I'm hungry now, get distracted, do something, and 30 minutes later I'm not hungry or thinking about food at all. So you said, I mean, like there's two hunger cycles kind of going as well. They're not as neatly packed as the sleep cycles, but it's important to recognize them because once you understand this, you're not internalizing that. As soon as you're hungry, you're just always going to be hungry. Now, because once you realize that, a lot of times when you feel hungry, what's really going on is it's not real, genuine hunger. It might be a commercial that played, and now you're thinking about a food and you're feeling hunger and craving for that. It might be a situation or environment you walk into which triggers thoughts and cravings, and you feel hungry. It might be all of a sudden you're tired or stressed or emotional, and you're feeling like you're hungry. So a lot of times, hunger really is not a genuine physical hunger, but it's triggered by other things. And sometimes even when it feels like a genuine hunger, it may just be a cycle. And if you wait 10, 20, 30 minutes, you may find that it just goes away. And so once you understand this, this starts to help you distinguish between real hunger and, I'm just going to say, not real hunger, that can encompass all those different things. And when you start paying attention to this, you're going to find that a percentage of your hunger, it's not real. It's just kind of there in the moment. And if you just wait it out 10, 20, 30 minutes, um, it's going to go away for a couple hours. And if you can start to appreciate this, this can fundamentally, statistically change the way that you eat in a way that's relatively comfortable. And so one of the specific times this can happen, it can happen all over the place. But one of the most common times this will happen is after dinner, you might finish dinner, and for the next half hour, you might feel like you're still hungry, right? So this is one of the classic places this shows up where you've eaten breakfast, lunch, dinner, and now your body has gone into, you know, eating mode, digestion mode. And sometimes there can be a lag time there between when you finish eating and when you feel full. So that's one of the biggest ones, right? Because you finish a whole meal, you know it's enough calories, but as soon as you finish it, you still feel hungry for a little while. Okay? But if you give yourself some time, a lot of times that hunger is going to dissipate and fade away. Now, for how long? You just never know, right? It gets different in different situations, different contexts. But I can tell you this is exactly what I go through after dinner. And so a lot of times now, specifically for about a half hour after dinner, for me, I Am typically thinking of dessert. I'm thinking about something sweet that I'd like to eat. Now. I have noticed that most of the time, if I go do something after dinner, about 20 minutes, a half hour, that craving in desire really starts to fade. It kind of builds up like a you and. And then it starts to go down quickly. And so this is what I want you to play around with, is to start interacting with your hunger. Don't be scared of it, right? I could talk about hunger all day long, but I'm going to kind of keep it simple here. But don't be scared of your hunger, right? If you're truly, genuinely hungry, eat, okay? But once you know that you've had enough food, start playing and interacting with your hunger. When you start to feel hungry, relax, refocus yourself, do something else. Distract yourself for a little while and then wait a little bit of time and see what happens. Okay? I'm not asking you to trick yourself. I'm asking to delay yourself and then see what happens. Because when this works, it's transformative. It really is. It fundamentally changes the way that you interact with hunger and that impacts your eating. Okay? But again, a lot of times people have this idea that the second they're hungry, until they feed themselves, the hunger is not going to go away. And that's just not true. Okay? It's just not true. A lot of times that hunger is going to cycle back down again, disappear for hours. And if you can start to recognize that and ride those waves out again, fundamentally that can bring you a far way towards your goal weight just from doing that. So hope this helps you out. And if you want more support doing this and understanding this process, click the link in my bio or go to program yourself. Then.com go get the free hypnosis session I made for. It's called the New Thin Me. And yeah, there's also a training there. I got a bunch of free stuff coming your way, so go check that out. And if you have any questions, feel free to ask them. Any weight loss questions are welcome. It doesn't just have to be about mindset or.

Hypnosis. It could be about anything. No new friends as well. I'm thin now thanks to a glp. Now what do I do? Yeah, that's a good, good question. I think that's a fair question.

What do you do? You know, I am curious to see this because I say this all the time. One of the biggest things people do not know about the GLP1s is that in pretty much all of the studies that have been done on GLP1s, on average, there's about 16 months of weight loss. So you start taking it, and there's about 16 months where you're going to lose weight and then it plateaus forever. Then you have to keep taking it, but you're going to plateau. And so.

GLPs have been in pretty wide circulation for, you know, about a year and a half or so. So we are right about to approach that. We're kind of like the majority of people are going to hit that, and so they've lost weight and we're gonna see what happens, you know, and two things, you know, one is, what do I do now? You know, because I think the reality then, you know, listen, when people are losing weight, they'll pretty much do anything. As I always say this, that the big issue everyone has to deal with is this, that most dieters will trade the excitement and the pleasure of food for the excitement and pleasure of losing weight. And so while the weight loss is happening, it's really exciting. And that excitement of the weight going down usually, you know, can distract us from the excitement and pleasure of the food. We trade one for the other. Now, GLP1s, it just, you know, takes the pleasure out of it. But what happens with GLP1s is it does take food out of your life a bit, right? It does take that food noise out, the pleasure of food, the focus of food. Food starts to fade a little bit. And I think people are fine with that because they're losing weight. Fine. I'm very interested to see what happens when people get to their goal weight, and now they're there for two, three, four, five months. They don't have the food, they don't have the weight loss, and they're just sitting. Now I'm curious to see what happens. Me, personally, I think a lot of people are using food for emotional reasons. And I'm curious to see how people deal with this issue. And I don't think we'll have the answers until starting pretty much January next year. That's when we'll start to get a lot of people that have been on these for a while now. They will be at their goal weight or they will have stopped losing weight. And then they're going to have to wrestle with the real fact, okay, I'm going to have to be on this injection for the rest of my life if I want to maintain this weight. Because every study with GLP1 has shown that the second it stops, the weight goes back up because of Course, nothing fundamentally in this person changed, you know, I mean, they just added the GLP one, which again reduced the, the, the hunger and the, the enjoyment of the food to some degree. And so I don't know what you're gonna do. I, I'm looking forward to it. Again, I have people in my program that are on GLP1s and while they're on the GLP1s, they are learning to influence their mind again. And program yourself then, if you are new here.

The basic formula we follow for program yourself then now again, program yourself then has really got three pillars. Knowing what to do, being able to get yourself to do it, and the support system to encourage you the whole way. Knowing what to do though, is obviously fundamental. And we follow the goal weight pyramid mindset, lifestyle and eating. And so this goal weight blueprint here, just so you have a sense of what I'm talking about this here in the program, you know, it's 144 page book where we go through this pyramid, right? So you, you basically answer all these. We break it down, each section down with questions. You create your own blueprint. How do I think like a thin healthy person? How do I live like a thin healthy person? How do I eat like a thin healthy person? How do I do that? Right? And so you're learning, you're learning how to do this and there's a lot obviously in that, but you're learning the skills to be the person you want to be. So it's bigger than the GLP ones. And I think it's necessary ultimately to live at your goal weight. And if you ever have any chance of stopping the GLP1s, you know, so again, whether you're overweight now or whether you have lost all the weight with a GLP1, you're still in the same boat. You're still in the same boat that neither you know how to be thin and healthy on your own. So, you know, again, I hear you. No new friends. I, I don't know what you do. Let me know. Yeah, no new friends says, I don't mind the plateau because I'm at a goal. I get that. But we'll see. We'll see. There's a thing called hedonic adaptation. All humans experience this. This is the feeling you get when you get a brand new car, you know, for, for a few months, it's your brand new car and eventually just turns in your car, you got your new house, it's exciting and it just turns in your house. So humans habituate to their Reality. And yes, when you first get to your goal, it's exciting for a while, no question about it. But eventually life habituates around that. And now you don't have the food. You don't have the food in your life. See, and program yourself then when you go through that. I can still go out and celebrate and eat food and enjoy it. I still go out every Friday and Saturday night and enjoy some of my favorite foods. I still celebrate, you know, with the food. I eat cake, I enjoy it. I'm communal, part of it. Feel normal. The GLP ones you're not, let's be honest, you know what I mean? Like, you're not getting the enjoyment out of food. Like, no new friend says, yes, I get full with like five bites. One, two meals a day. Fine. I know that feels fine when you're losing weight because the losing weight becomes exciting. But food serves a purpose in our lives now. It's gone overboard, obviously, in the modern world with what it means, I'll give you that. But I still think food fundamentally, I want to interact it in the most natural way I can, which is partly being able to enjoy the out of it. In GLP1 you're not going to enjoy the food as much. Don't tell me. Will you tell me? No. New friends, do you enjoy eating as much as you used to?

You know what I mean? So again, I. And please understand, I am not. I'm not trying to be negative or pessimistic. I want you to please understand it. I am here to help literally everyone live at their goal weight GLP1 not. I don't give a. I've worked with everyone GLP1s, gastric bypasses, lap bands, all of it. All of it. Okay, so I'm here to help absolutely everyone go. But GLP1s again, they're put out there as this miracle. And they are a miracle. I would say, like it's a miracle medicine, okay, for getting your weight down as long as you're willing to take a medicine forever and whatever the things are going to be. But it's not to me, the holistic solution to program yourself then is because program yourself then is literally a different goal where GLP1 is just about getting your weight to that weight, just about dialing that hunger down so you can live at a weight program yourself then takes the weight, wraps it in personal development, which makes it a program that's really not about weight. It's about being the best version of you possible. It's about living as your best self. And the weight is just one piece of that. And it's not just about weight. Again, it's about having the mindset, the lifestyle, the eating plans that are customized to you that give you the best quality of life. So it's a bigger goal we're chasing with program yourself then I will not, I'm not going to hide that, okay? But it's just, it's a bigger thing we're aiming at. And to me, I, listen, if I could make it smaller, I would. If I could just give you, listen, if I could just give you the eating plan and you could succeed, I would do that. I would make it as simple as I possibly could. I've been doing this professionally for over 20 years. I have never seen just an eating plan by itself work.

So I, I, I, I just have not seen. I've not seen one diet plan work. I've not seen one workout plan work. The GLP1s work. As long as you're taking them and they work on one band of this, they just affect your eating in an unnatural way so you eat less and that's that. Then you're not dealing with your lifestyle with the GLP1s. You're not dealing with your mindset on the GLP. That's not mindset. That's biological, okay? That's just affecting your hormones. So you say food noise. That's not mindset, okay? That's hormonal signaling in your brain. It's a different thing, okay? So mindset's just. It's a whole different thing. And I would say ultimately, the thing about program yourself then and again, it's success story against success story, because GLP ones don't work for everyone. I'm not going to say program yourself then works great for everyone, but for the people it works for, I will every day of the week put my program yourself then success stories against GLP1 success stories and the program yourself, then success stories are going to leave those in the dust. Why? Well, you both got your goal weight, okay? So that's the starting point. We were both at your goal weight. The difference being the program yourself then you've got a customized strategy that you know exactly how to run your mind, your lifestyle and your eating to live at your goal for the rest of your life. And it's customized around you so you love it. And I live in my goal weight for over 30 years. I love it. I have not dieted once. I don't work out once. I love how I think, live and eat. Okay? So there's no worry. There's no anxiety. There's no paying money every month for it. And you learn how to run your own mind. So very quickly. Not only does it help you with your weight, but it helps you with your life. It helps you improve in areas of your life so you can live the life you want to live. That's the point of it. So, you know, again, I go a little bit tirade. I hope that helps out. And again, I wish you the best. I see you're saying, yeah, I need to look into long term success with your program. I'm going to look into your program for long term success. Yeah. Again, just check it out. New friends. You should go again. Get my.

Get the hypnosis session. Go check it out. You'll feel it right away. The hypnosis session is fun just to experience. You'll relax, you'll calm down, you'll get these good ideas put in your mind and then watch the training video. It's like 20 minutes, but it'll kind of lay out the entire thing I'm talking about. And I think it'll highlight a lot of things that the GLP1s don't ever address. And then you can kind of make your decision, you know what I mean? Of what you think's best for you. But, you know, yeah, Again, I'm happy you got the, the weight results. And now let's keep going. Right? You're not even finished. Don't. Don't think of it as a finish line. Think of it as a starting line. And you're on this journey now, so good job. What's up, Margaret? Margaret says I just started watching your channel. I started eating whole fresh foods. You know what? Watch this, everyone. Well, anyone on? Let's see. Look at that. Oh, it didn't show up on Instagram, but on Facebook and YouTube. You might see the comments now. It's pretty cool. I might start restreaming to Tik Tok through this too. I don't know if it show up, though. Anyways, okay, so Margaret says, I just started watching your channel when I started eating whole fresh foods. I feel not hungry. I feel like I'm not eating enough. But I was used to eating processed foods. I ate healthy now. Yeah, listen, anytime you change what you're eating, See, most dieters really are focused on, on changing the quantity of what they're eating, Right? So they can eat the same stuff, basically, but they're going to reduce the quantity. But I think you should really do both. And I think the more important one is changing the quality. I think transforming your eating from processed foods to whole natural foods is probably one of the most important things you can do dietarily.

Now, that being said, it is a journey. You know, there's an adjustment period for sure, and it's a while. It takes a little while for your body to adjust and get used to whole natural foods, you know, but once you do it, oh, my goodness, you know, it supports better hunger signaling, you know, satiety signaling. Oh, it just goes on and on. You start to generally nourish yourself. You know, there's more fiber in it, so you feel fuller, more protein, more micronutrients. You know, it just. It's better for your microbiome. It just goes on and on and on. Why whole natural foods are better. But understand that. I'll give you an example. Years ago, I don't know, is it six, seven years ago now? I can't remember. Let's just say six years ago, I started eating salads for lunch. Now, I'd been a vegetarian for like, 20 years, right? Pretty clean diet. But I added these giant salads into my lunch. That's what I started eating. And.

I think that.

I saw the message came in, so. But anyway, so. And I started eating more beans. Okay. And so what I noticed is for the first month of doing that, my gut felt like. I felt kind of. Kind of gross, like someone poured cement in my gut a little bit. But then I normalized to it. Right now it feels normal. I feel amazing. I don't feel that way. But what I'm saying is that when you do change your eating, I think a lot of times I'm gonna eat healthier. And we start eating healthier and we just don't feel that great for some reason, or I'm not eating enough, or I'm full, I'm hungry, I'm gassy, whatever. And I think you have to, like, build into when you're transforming things a little bit of time and, you know, to adjust to things, you know, normalize to it. But good job, Margaret. You know, again, keep that up. Foreign.

Let's see here. Jennifer said GLP1 meds either caused or exacerbated vision loss of one of my eyes. Not a fun side effect. Yeah, I mean, you know, there's going to be side effects in different ways. And that's another piece of the thing, too. And so, you know, again, GLP1s were studied pretty extensively for 20 years with diabetics because that's what it was originally for. And it has not Been studied as long for people that do not have diabetes. So there is a little bit of a guinea pig effect going on, you know, for the next couple decades with this medicine too. Now you most likely it's probably relatively safe. You know, I don't want to scare anyone here, but at the same time it's a powerful medicine that we'll see what happens. So sorry to deal with it. Jennifer. Mari says receive my blueprint. Thank you. Oh, you got your already, Mari. All right, Mari. Yeah, you like that, right? Yes. So that's awesome. Wow, that's pretty quick. All right, Britain. All right. I didn't know. I know. Sometimes I think it's Australia is like really takes a while to get stuff there. So that's cool. Nice job. I'm glad you like it. So, yeah. Enjoying it.

There's Margaret that. Thank you. Watching on YouTube. All right. Yeah. So got. Got some comments showing up on the screen. That's kind of cool, right? I keep thinking making this all better. Tick tock. I'm here. So this is not a recording. So if you have questions, ask them. I got caught up in some Facebook questions there. Hendra says, sir, is it okay if I drink 2 liters 0 coke and 0 sugar gum while on weight loss?

I don't know if you were on there the other day asking the same question or if that. Is that a thing now.

Tell me it's a thing in. In weight loss influencers to drink 2 liter 0 Cokes. Right? Because that's the second time I've heard that in a couple days.

You know, listen, my first thing is that there's no right or wrong when it comes to weight loss. It's whatever works for you. So if. If drinking 2 liters of zero Coke works for you and you like it and you feel great and you're losing weight, who am I to tell you not to do it? You know what I mean? So there you go. That being said, rules of thumb, General, the. I don't. I wouldn't want to drink 2 liters of Coke Zero. I would not want to put that in my body. Two liters of that. I wouldn't want to put that much real sugar in my body. I wouldn't want to put that much artificial sugar in my body. I would not want to put that many chemicals in my body every day. All right? Because I think all of them are going to make it way more difficult for me to manage my weight long term. So is it okay? You know, that's for you to decide. You know, it depends on what your goals are. My goals are always deeper than just losing weight. So again, to lose weight, you know, in an unhealthy way. And I would consider that to be relatively unhealthy. Two liters of. Because zero sugar. Listen, folks, zero sugar is 100%.

Artificial sweetener. Pretty much. You don't even let you eat natural stuff. You know what I mean? But listen, zero sugar most of the time means 100% zero sugar, 100% artificial sweetener.

So, you know, I could talk about sugar all day long and I don't want to, but.

I don't know. You know what I mean? Like, again, okay, what's the advantage? Well, okay, well, you know, artificial sweeteners don't have calories in them, okay? It's still, it's, it's calibrating your taste buds to have a really sweet flavor point. Right? So you understand like, like artificial sweeteners are very sweet. Sugar is very sweet. It's unnaturally sweet. Do you understand that? You do know that fruit's sweet, but it's different than candy and sodas. So sugar and artificial sugars are sweeter than fruit. They're the sweetest thing that we can eat. And especially artificial sweeteners, they're, they're super scientifically engineered. So is the sugar, by the way. The sugar comes from a natural source and then it's so refined. Like just for example, I, I can't, I don't have the details of this on the sugar, but just for example, like salt. They have food companies now that will have patents on the shape of salt, okay? Because they will have their. One of them is a salt. It's a hexagon. And the reason they make it a hexagon is, has more surface area and that means it's absorbed quicker into your tongue. It bursts in your tongue more, has more of a flavor hit. Okay? So there's just, there's so much going on with sugar and artificial sweeteners that I don't want to be involved with. Now, don't get me wrong, I'll eat sugar occasionally. I have it. I, I moder. I still eat sugar. I won't eat artificial sugar because I don't want to put artificial things in my body because as soon as I do, I'm just blasting off into alien territory. And so I like to keep things as natural as possible. That being said, so I'll eat sugar occasionally, moderately, But I don't want to eat a lot of sugar because I don't want my taste buds to be calibrated. To expect and desire sweet, sweet things. Because then when I go and eat my salad, my fruits, my vegetables, they taste bland and boring and I don't like them. Flavor and taste is relative. And so the more processed, hyper palatable foods you eat, the less you're going to like whole natural foods. It's that simple. It is that simple. And this is going to become, this is going to come out more and more. They're doing all sorts of stuff. I'm talking about real vague generalities, but I promise you in the next 20 years they're going to start coming out just like they did with the cigarettes. Because of course the food companies, the cigarette comes, the same companies by the way, the best. I'm saying this now before they sell Tick tock. I just saw that they're getting ready to sell tick tock. So I feel like I've got about, you know, until then, then until they ban this kind of talk. But Nabisco and RJR Reynolds are literally merged together. They're the same company. The parent company of Kraft and General Foods is Philip Morris. So the cigarette companies went in the finish to do the exact same. Made the most addicted product possible, use the most aggressive marketing possible and sat on the science to keep it out of the public eye as much as possible. They are going to come out here, you've heard it here first. They are going to come out in the next 20 years and they're going to find all the things these food companies have done to make their foods hyper addictive. Just like they did with cigarettes. Like remember the Insider? Have you ever saw that great movie? If you haven't watched it, you really should because it's basically the same metaphorical story of what the food companies are doing to the food. But in that movie, the food scientist, he blows the whistle and he talks about how they were manipulating the cigarettes to make them extra addictive. One of the things they did, they put ammonia in the cigarettes because that helped the body absorb the tobacco and the nicotine faster, making it more addictive. So these things are happening in the background with the foods. Okay, Now I'm not saying it says nefarious as putting ammonia in it, but I'm saying it's things like making salt crystals that are six sided so it, you know, it becomes more addictive to your brain and body. That's the type of stuff I'm talking about. I wouldn't doubt the nefarious stuff too. I'm sure there's some of that as well. But my point Being this, the more processed foods you eat, the harder it's going to be to eat more whole natural foods. You just will not enjoy them as much. You won't get the same flavor hit, you know, dopamine hits, all the rest of it that the processed foods get you. So, yes, the more you start to eat natural whole foods and doesn't have to happen all at once, but the more you start nudging and, you know, driving yourself in that direction, the easier it becomes to eat those foods. Okay? So always remember that.

So, yeah, Margaret says try to eat real honey. Yes, real honey is very good. And if you're going to eat something sweetener. Yeah, I would absolutely. Every day of the week, I would be choosing real honey over artificial sweeteners or even sugar. And you say, well, Jim, it's the same thing chemically, it's the same thing. I don't believe that. I don't believe honey is the same thing as processed sugar.

So I think they're a little different. Is coffee okay? Yeah, I think so. I think coffee is fine. I think that you gotta make sure your coffee. When you say coffee, you don't actually mean a milkshake. Okay, so what are we talking here? I think people confuse coffees with milkshakes a lot these days. If it's. If it's got cream and sugar in it, that's what we call a milkshake. It might be a warm milkshake, right. It might be an iced milkshake, but it's a milkshake. Okay? And don't get it, don't get it twisted. It's funny. It's like pancakes. Like pancakes really got all the cakes. You know what I mean? It's all the same stuff in the cake pretty much. Not exactly, but. So be careful what you're talking about. But, but black coffee, no, you'll be fine. You know what I mean? Again, everything's relative. You can't overdo it. And everyone's got their own unique experience of different things. But for most people, black coffee is not going to be a problem. I think that that is a good thing. I think what you got to watch out for again are sugar, creams, flavorings, you know, all those things. Watch out for those because there's tons of tons of calories in them. Right?

But yeah, I think this is. Makes you crave more sugar. I mean, sugar crate makes you crave more sugar. You know, it's that simple. I mean, you need to think of sugar as the white powdery substance that it is.

Y2K, 4K, 2Y. Like that. How do I stop eating junk food? I can't stop. Well, I think the, the problem starts with your goal, I think right now. How do I stop eating junk food? What, you're just going to completely stop eating it? Is that your plan? You're gonna go from eating it all the time to not eating it ever again? You know, I just think that dieting.

You know, obsession, dieting so obsessed with fast results. So it's goofy procedures, right? You're gonna eat processed food. You've been eating junk food for the last 20 years, regularly, every day. And tomorrow's Monday, so you're never gonna eat junk food again. And then Monday afternoon comes and you wonder why you can't stop eating junk food for the next three weeks.

You know, so again, I can't stop eating junk food? Well, you, you technically mean I can't completely stop eating junk food. Is that what you mean? You know, and then if that's the case, then join the club. And it's very difficult to just completely 100 stop what you're doing. I find that to be very difficult in most areas of life. So what I would do is I would start to look at my junk food consumption. On average, I would look at a typical week, typical week, typical month, typical week. Let's go to a week. I would look at a typical week and I'd say, okay, what's my junk food consumption? I'd pay attention to it and then I would notice it and I would say, okay, out of all the junk food I eat, what is the least enjoyable junk food? Now, you have to understand that figuring that out is going to be a combination of a couple things. It's not just how much you enjoy the food, like the actual food. It's also the context in which you eat it in. Okay, so you might find that like, well, oh, okay, on Tuesdays, I stop at the, the convenience store and I get, you know, some shitty packaged coffee bun. And it's not even that good. I get it and I just feel gross. So maybe, right, all the junk food you eat, maybe that's like, you're like, ah, that one's not even that good. And I eat it on the way. I don't ever feel good, whatever. So I'd start with that one. So, okay, let me work on getting rid of that one, you know, and so I would look at all the junk food consumption you typically do over a week. Pick the one that you think would be the easiest to get rid of. And I Get rid of it. Then guess what I would do next? I move on the next one, right? And that's how I'd approach it, you know. Now you can do this a little quicker if you want to. You can look for the habits, the junk food habits you have, right? So what I just said is the junk food experiences you have so separately. But now I say, okay, what's the habits? If you want to upgrade it, right? So now maybe you stop off at the grocery store or the convenience store every morning five days a week. Maybe you, you know, go and get a.

Bag, M&M's. Every day after lunch maybe, and on the way home, you stop the convenience store, get some candy. Maybe after dinner you go walk down to the ice cream store and get some ice cream, snacks, whatever. Okay? So that another way, if you want chunk it up is you can look at a habit, a junk food habit. You have that, that typically over a week, and you can focus on that one. But what I'm saying is, is break it down. Because this idea, it's not you, Y2K. It's not like there's something broken in you. Listen, any of you, if you've ever tried to completely change your reading in one day and it hasn't worked, and you wonder why, it has nothing to do with you. It has to do with your shitty strategy of thinking that you can just change something 100% in one day. There's the problem there, in my opinion. So I think having a more strategic approach to it is really the answer and to shift your expectations of what's possible. I know it sounds great to just completely change everything in one day. I mean, who wouldn't love to do that? But I dare you to show me a time that that works consistently. Well, I just have never seen that, you know? So that's my answer to that. Samford says, is adding milk to coffee okay? I mean, what's okay mean? You know what I mean? Like, I don't know. Is it okay? Sure. Depends on what, what you're trying to do, you know, if you're looking to support dairy farmers, I think it's great.

If.

You know what I mean. I don't know. It depends on what your goals are.

So I can't give you like, a simple answer because it depends on the context and the question you're asking now. Okay, I'm being a little bit of a wise guy, but maybe not, because what if. What if you're. What if you're saying, well, is. Is adding milk to my coffee okay? If I want to lose weight? Well, it depends even there, you know, because if that. If putting milk in that coffee satisfies you longer and it prevents you from consuming more calories, then great. If it just adds to your calorie load and doesn't really help satiety much, then not great. And honestly, that's probably more the direction it is. Your body is not good at measuring liquid calories, just so you know. You know, you evolved in an environment where there were no liquid calories, right? You didn't drink mother's milk your whole life. You drank it for a couple years and then you ate real food. There was no liquid calories in nature. So your body's not good at measuring liquid calories. It's not. It's not a normal thing. We didn't evolve. Drinking other animals milk forever, that's not a normal thing, that your body and brain have the ability to really recognize the calories from it as well as eating your calories.

So it depends on what your goals are. So, you know, for me, I mean, the more I researched milk, the less I wanted to drink it. And if I was really serious about my weight loss now, again, if you have one mil, one coffee a day, and you put, you know, a tiny little bit of milk in it, then it probably isn't a big deal. If you're drinking six coffees a day with, you know, three quarters of a cup of milk in it, that's a lot of calories. So, you know what I mean? Like, everything's relative and contextual, but so. So I would look at it that way.

Margaret says, I never realized. I never realized sauces had so much sugar, like ketchup, barbecue sauce. Until my brother moved here, was on diabetes medication. Helped him out by watching videos and cooking healthy meals. Dropped £40. Yeah, there you go. Exactly. I think a lot of people don't realize ketchup is just sugar sauce. You know, I'm not here to bum everyone out, but, yeah, there's tons of sugar. If there's a sauce you like, by the way.

If there's a sauce you like, barbecue honey, mustard, ketchup, you know, there's a good chance there's a lot of sugar in it. It's kind of that simple. I'm not saying always, but most of the time, if there's some sauce you like, it's probably got a good amount of sugar in it or fat one or the other. But, yeah, that's what happens, right?

Yeah. Margot says he's off his medication. Thank you to People like you giving us this information. Well, you're welcome. You're welcome. Yeah, I think a lot of people, I, I certainly didn't know, again, I mean, like, you know, this journey in some ways is similar for all of us. And one way to kind of think of this journey for all of us is we're stepping out of the darkness. We have lived in a mass mediated reality our whole lives and we're the first generation to do it. You know, it's funny, I'm reading this book, Nexus. It is so good. I love this guy. I can't camera remember his name. He's from Israel and I just, I keep forgetting his name. He's got three names. But I such a fan of his books. I really like him and I think he's a very smart person. But it's very fascinating to think like if you are in your 40s, 50s, 60s, we really were the first ish generation to exist under such mass media our entire lives. And a lot of that mass media was built around food and dieting and teaching us how to think about food and dieting, which is to say that there's a great chance right now that unless you have taken it on as a personal cause to learn a lot about food on your own, that you probably think about food in really wrong ways. I certainly did. A huge part of my journey to living at my goal weight was illuminating the ignorance, I thought, because my favorite quote, it's Mark Twain quote, he goes, it's not the things you don't know that get into trouble. It's the thing you, it's the things you think are so, that just aren't so right. So it's not what you don't know, it's what you think you know that isn't true. And so this was so much of my reality. Oh, I thought that was good for you. Oh, it's not good for you. Oh, I thought that was healthy. Oh, that's not healthy. Completely clueless. I had no idea. And I think a lot of people are in this position and it's very confusing. And you hear this because if you're a person who says, I don't know if I can do one week they tell me this, next week tell me this one, we tell me this. If you feel like that that is direct evidence that you are just lost in the sauce, you really, you don't have a clear path forward for you. You don't have a clear mindset of what you're doing and you're at the whimsy and the mercy of all these companies and all this information, which is exactly where they want you. So you need to ground yourself in a real truth of food to be able to look. I look at food now, especially processed food. I look right through it to the ingredients. Like I look at a big beautiful box of processed food with all this fancy work on it and trying to trigger me to get me obsessed with the product. And I look right through that to the ingredients and I think about what's in this thing. And if you start doing that, what you start to notice is it's sugar, it's corn, it's wheat. All low quality, by the way. On top of that, the ingredients are very low quality in processed foods because processed food companies are there to make a profit. And guess what? The less you spend on the product and the more you charge, the more money you make. That's what they're in the business of. And so a lot of processed food is sneaking by you and tricking you because they've gotten so good at tricking your senses. Flavoring foods that have nothing to do with that flavor, creating flavor textures that have nothing to do with that food. And it overwhelms our brain and we can't think straight, you know. So I believe having like good food knowledge is really fundamental. Fundamental.

To get that.

Yeah. Shereen said this. I think this is so true. This is my experience. Totally took a while for the gassiness from beans and high fiber foods to subside. Stay with it and be patient. I agree with that so much because I think really what's happening, and I'm going to simplify it, but your body's transforming. When you start eating more whole natural food, you start nourishing your cells more effectively. But most importantly, the way I think about it is you're really transforming your microbiome, which is to say you're transforming your gastrointestinal tract. And that changes everything moving forward. And so yeah, there's a little bit of, it's like remodeling, you know, I mean, there's a little bit of inconvenience in the short term for the benefits of the long term, you know. But I think you need to recognize that because I think, and I fell into this too, but it's like you start to think you do something healthy and you say, okay, I should feel great now. And you get like a cramp or you're gassy, like, oh, I don't feel that good. You say, what the hell, I thought I was supposed to feel great. Well, you will, but sometimes there's a little bit of discomfort during the transformation, during the change, you know? So I think it's helpful to recognize that.

2K says, I've lost 5kg, but have another 10kg to lose. How do I keep motivation? I just feel like binging and giving up.

Yeah, well.

There'S a lot of ways to go at this, but the first thing I'll say is, like, your language, Y2K. So it's like you're like, I've lost 5kg, but I have another 10kg to lose.

Why?

How do I keep motivation? Right. So the way you're phrasing that doesn't motivate me at all. Right. And I see this a lot with people that lost weight, too. And so I don't know my motivation to say, well, I've lost 30 pounds. I still need to lose 30 more. You don't need to lose. You don't have to lose anything.

I've lost 5 kg, but I have another 10 kg to lose. I have another 10 to lose. Why?

I'm not being. I'm not being sarcastic. I really want you to answer that. Why do you want. Because you never need to lose weight, folks. You could be a thousand pounds overweight. You don't need to lose weight.

You could get diagnosed with diabetes that's directly related to your weight, and you still don't need to lose weight. You can keep eating and being diabetic. We. What do we not know that there's no need to lose weight ever? Literally? I can't think of one need. Do you never need to lose weight?

You can choose to lose weight because you want to lose weight, because it'll be better when you lose weight for some reason.

So that's what I'd start to say. So I'd like to hear you Y2K say something like, I've lost 5kg and it's been pretty good, and I want to lose another 10kg because I want to. What? I don't know. I can tell you. I can answer my reason why I want to be at my goal weight. I don't know why you want to be at your goal weight. Do you? Do you know why you want to be at Your goal weight? Y2K? If you're wondering why you're not motivated, which I. I bet you don't. I'm gonna bet you don't, because I hear people doing this all the time. I need to lose £30. I need to weigh this, my goal weights. This. They'll tell me It. But there's no real connection to it. Well, why? Because you read that on a chart. Because someone told you that's what you should weigh, because that's what your friend weighs. Why. Why do you want to lose another 10 kg? And it's. Why do you want to. So if you're wondering why you can't find the motivation, it's because you don't know why you even want to lose the weight, most likely. I know it's weird to say it that way, because I think weight loss, like, we just presuppose and assume, of course I want to lose weight. And I think people confuse thinking about weight loss 24 hours a day with actually being motivated. You know what I mean? Like, I think you have to recognize there's a big difference there, that thinking about weight loss all the time is different than actually being motivated to do things that make you lose weight. There's a huge difference there. And I think a lot of dieters think they're really motivated, and they're not. You know, that's why. Two cases. So I look and feel better. Okay. That's the most Vegas ever. Just so you know. Okay. Because what. What is your chat? I'm gonna compare. We can all play this game, okay? Let's put. Let's put on. On two sides. We're gonna compare two things. You tell me which one's stronger. Okay? On one hand, we have. You want to look and feel better. Okay. Notice how that feels. I want to look and feel better. Notice your motivation and desire for wanting to look and feel better. Okay. On the other side, I want you to imagine your favorite dessert or food. And now I'm talking with Y2K. I think that for Y2K, they were just saying, well, junk food. So Y2K, I want you to think your favorite junk food. You can all play this game. Think of your favorite junk food. I want you to think about what the package looks like. I want you to think about where you typically eat it. I want you to imagine being in that place, sitting down, eating that food, doing what you do while you eat it, how it feels to open the package, to bring it up to your face, to look at it, to put it into your mouth, to chew it, to eat it, to feel that, to swallow it, to know that you have more.

Now notice how that makes you feel. And now let's go back to how you feel when you say you want to look and feel better.

You're bringing a banana to a bazooka fight. There's no way, you know what I mean? Like, one's got infinite detail and association and connection and all this. It. I can feel my mouth salivating as I step deeper and deeper into that imagination of what I want to eat. Powerful. And then the other. I want to be healthy. I want to wear my jeans. There is almost no motivational power in that. And this is a core problem for you all. Listen, this is why with the goal weight blueprint, okay, we always start with mindset. The first thing we start with mindset and we're gonna believe it.

Your motivation.

Your motivation. Listen, folks, you all ain't motivated. Y2K is wondering why they're not motivated because you don't even know what you want to come look and feel better. I'm not picking on you. I have to understand. I'm not picking on you. What I'm trying to illuminate is that your goal is so vague and meaningless that there's no motivation there. I want to. I want to. I want to feel better. Okay, so how do you go deeper with it? Right? So why would it matter if you look? What's looking, feel better mean? I'll be a size this, I'll wear this outfit. I will go into now, again, I don't know what your situation is, so you have to make it contextual. This is how you start to make them equal. I will. If you're in school. I'm going to go into class looking at feeling confident. I'm going to walk tall. I'm going to be in control of my eating. I'm going to be free of the food and be free of the extra weight. I'm going to feel good about myself. I'm going to be energized. I'm going to be impassioned. I'm going to be confident. I'm going to feel successful. I'm going to feel sexy. I'm going to feel beautiful. I'm going to feel amazing. I'm going to kill it in life. I'm going to do better with my relationships and I'm improving my work. I'm going to do this better. I'm going to do that better.

Does that feel a little more motivating than I want to look and feel better? There's no juice to that because there's no imagination to that. There's no granular details to that goal. There's no vision there. And you wonder why you're not motivated right now. This goes for everyone because almost none of you have really created a clear vision of what you want to accomplish. It's just a number, usually a number described with some vague terms of I want to get to X pounds so I can feel and look better and be healthier.

To be healthy. And I see, Mary, I see you say that to be healthy, healthy is the same thing. Put think about your favorite food on one hand and think about how you normally eat it, how you look forward to it, how you think about eating it, and then put to be healthy next to it. And what you're all going to find is that healthy has no juice. There's no juice to being healthy. It's a vague, practically meaningless word at this point.

You gotta juice up your motivation. You gotta build it up. I. In, in the, in the program, motivation, we refer to as the engine of the car. You know, it's the engine that's gonna drive this whole thing. And most people have a very, very small, weak engine in their car. I want to look better, I want to feel better.

I want to be healthier.

It's just. It's just not there. Tell me I'm wrong. Because if it was there, if there was juice to that, you'd be way more motivated, you know, so again, this is ground zero of the problem, is that most of you just aren't really motivated. And once you're properly motivated, you're gonna be shocked how much easier everything else is. And you still gotta do other work. But it's like, really, I think it's really important that you realize that it's about.

I just lost train of thought. Anyways, let's see. Melanie says.

For me, peace and freedom with food is my why it does not consume me any longer. It starts in the mind, brain. I love that. Melanie, again, I think peace and freedom. I think it's always good to start aiming at feelings. I think that's always kind of a cheat code with motivation. If you aim at the feelings you want to experience regularly. Because that's what's driving the food cravings, by the way. It's the feeling you get when you eat it. Okay, So I think one way to kind of balance that out is the feelings you get when you.

Are at your goal weight, when you're eating in a way that's congruent with that. Peace, freedom, centered, grounded, calm, healthy, happy, energized. You know, I'm sure Melly could probably just keep going on with it, you know, with the words. It does start in the mind of the brain, though. I agree with that.

See, Margaret says you have to be in the mindset. Just go to the grocery store, buy fresh food. Once you eat fresh food, you no longer crave unhealthy foods. Just give it one week of doing that. Agree, Agree, mostly. But it's going to take certainly a lot more than a week of that. I, I promise you that. I think that's another piece of the diet mindset that really needs to be fixed, is that it's so. It's so short term, you know what I mean? Because with dieting, everything's about.

Rapid results. And people say, oh, how long does it take to install habit? 28 days. No, you know, it's way more than 28 days. And it'll take you a lot longer than a week, most likely, of eating healthy food to start crowding out the unhealthy cravings. But it will happen. You know, if it happens in a week, great. If it happens in a year, who gives a shit? You know what I mean? Either way, you're going to end up in this place where you feel so much more common, at peace and grounded and centered in your. Your goal weight and your ideal body, and that's the direction we want to aim at.

Yeah, yeah, agreed. Melanie said, yeah, Most don't realize the food is an addiction. I. I couldn't agree with that more. It's literally an addiction. It's a chemical addiction. You're not eating if you're eating a lot of processed food. You're not eating whole natural food. You're eating things that are created in labs to get you addicted to them. Literally. I mean, you're just to prove the point, okay? Modern food, processed food, is really all about dopamine release. Just like, Just like the apps on the phones, right? Everything's about dopamine. And so when they create new ice cream flavors at Ben and Jerry's now, you know, it's not two hippies up in a cabin in Vermont messing around with flavors. It is putting someone into an FMRI machine, scanning their brain in real time, and they drip ice cream solutions onto their tongue to see which ones elicit the greatest response in their pleasure regions of their brain. So, yeah, things have changed. You know what I mean? So, yes, absolutely. Absolutely. Modern food is addicting, and that is absolutely an aspect of this process that you're. I'm not saying I don't want to. It's not exactly like substance addiction. Not exactly. It doesn't show up the same way. It doesn't have the same psychological effects as intensely. But it's in the ballpark. And I think referencing addiction during this journey it can only be helpful. You know, I think using some of the. The tools from addiction to support yourself on this journey, I think is a smart move, you know, because there's absolutely overlap, you know? No question about it.

Yeah.

My two cases. I'm addicted to Caramello koalas. What the hell is that? What's a caramel koala?

Caramellos. I. That's like the little.

Let me see what this thing is. It's a caramel koala. What's going on? Why is this coming up? What's going on?

Is this thing on? What's going on here? There it is. Oh, I see. Oh, Australian. Australian chocolate bar. Yep. It's so cute. It's the cutest little koala. This is what I mean. Oh, these dastardly people who make this stuff, you know?

Yeah, okay. Chocolate cartoon koala with a caramel center. Yeah, for sure. Oh, man. They got a giant size, too. Yeah, I get it. I get it. But you know, again, what I like to do, Y2K is. Is even just to that point, right? So it's like I. I really want to watch my words, right? That's a part of the program as well, is watching the words you use. I don't want to say I'm addicted to things, you know? I know I just talked about addiction science, too. Right? But it's like, I don't really want to use that language coming out. I might say, like, I really like Cadbury koalas. And by the way. Okay, so you love Cadbury koalas. There you go. I wouldn't start with those. You see what I'm saying? Y2K? I wouldn't start with your favorite thing to get rid of completely. Okay. Keep the. Keep the Cadbury koalas and get rid of something else. You know what I mean? Start there and build up your ability to, you know, shift your eating with something that's a little more easier and comfortable for you, you know?

That's funny, though. I've never had one of those. Is eating keto healthy? I don't think so. I don't think, you know, eating keto. Keto is healthy. How. How could it be? And how would, you know.

Get so mad at you, Mary? That's a good question. I'm sorry. I get so triggered by keto. I think it's the silliest. I think it's the silly, silliest diet out of all of them. I truly do. Keto. Really? Talk about a, you know, man with no country. I. I don't know what people are referencing with keto when they talk about the health things. Oh, wait a second. Yes, I do. You know what people are referencing with the health benefits of keto is they're taking someone who's.

Out of shape, overweight, bad health numbers, and then they start eating keto and now their health numbers improve. Okay, but that's just in that first phase. So if you're overweight and it's affecting your health, there's a good chance that dropping a significant amount of weight is going to improve your health markers. Right. For most people, that's what's going to happen. So the process of weight loss for most people is going to improve their health in the short term. Okay. Now there's continuing with it. And you let me know about the long term keto studies they've done. Please let me know the studies of long term keto. I would love to know what a long term keto study is that's legitimate.

Now for me, what I'm doing is I'm referencing entire cultures, countries, health numbers and what you're going to quickly notice. And yes, the blue zones is partly what I'm referencing. But virtually every healthy society on earth in history has been a high carb, low fat diet.

So you have just, I feel like overwhelming, unlimited evidence that high carb, low fat diets are really healthy for you.

And zero, literally zero evidence of healthy, high protein, high fat, low carb diets that are healthy. Now I know you can reference the Inuit, you can reference tribes in Africa.

Are they really healthy though, by the way? And is it the ketosis? Did you know the Inuits have genetic mutations where they don't even go into ketosis? Did you know keto was a diet that was created for epileptics?

So when people start doing keto or carnivore this crazy, I don't know what giant population of people they are referencing that they are modeling and following. Whereas I can absolutely point you to all the blue zones countries. Right? What's the blue zones? If you're not familiar with that, they did a study where the highest percentage of octa of people living to 100 lived. Okay. And they went and studied them. I can't remember them all now, but Okinawa, Japan, there's some place in Italy, town in Italy, a town out in, I think it was Utah's. A Mormon community, I believe. Mormon, I think so, um, so they studied all these different communities and all of them, without question, none of them were high protein, high fat diets. They were all plant based diets a little bit of protein, a little bit of meat here and there. So, you know.

It'S just. I don't, I don't know. I don't. When people talk about keto Paleo, I, I don't know what they're referencing. What are you referencing? Someone who's drastically overweight, who loses weight. Because you could do anything to lose weight. But let's just, just take it to an extreme, okay? Let's take dry fasting. The fastest way to lose weight. Just shut down. Okay? So for the first two months, you take someone who's obese and has a lot of unhealthy blood work numbers. We put them on the. Note, we can't even do two months, can we? Let's do a month. We put them on that. There's a great chance that over that month nothing's going in here. They've lost a dramatic amount of weight and there's a good chance their health numbers are going to improve.

Now. Okay, so does that make it a healthy diet? Because what happens the next, if they stay on that diet, what happens the next month? The next month after that? Is that the healthiest diet? Do you see what I mean? So we have to be careful. The trickery of dieting, and that's one of my main messages here for you, is to help you see through the bullshit of dieting. No diets work.

Just so you know, we've had a hundred years of diets, never been more diets in the history of humans. And after that hundred years, there's not one diet, there's not a single diet that rises to the top of the list of being effective long term. Not a single one. Weight Watchers is the closest thing, and it's because it's got a social component that has nothing to do with dieting really. Not really. Because do not think that Weight Watchers, counting points, which is really just counting calories with some colors. It's not, it's not. That's not going to help you lose weight long term. The social aspect could. That. That part is legitimate. But back to my main point, that there's not a single diet over the last hundred years that rises to be effective. That's why the GLP1s are such a miracle. Because up until now there's been nothing that helps people lose weight. But that's because you've been inundated with diets, surgery and now injection.

So, no, I don't think eating keto is healthy, personally.

What do you think of Carnivore? Yeah, I Mean, I think carnivore is the most goofy that, that has ever come down the pike so far, which I know they're gonna come up with goofier. Though I have ceased to be amazed at goofier, so I won't even be surprised next year what they come up with. Cannibal diet. I don't even know. I, I, dude, I'm out of that business. They, they just always, every time I said, oh, wow, okay, carnivore, we're just gonna eat meat. What the that based on who decided that? Did they look down at their intestinal track and say, you know what? That's the intestinal track of a carnivore. I'm gonna start just eating meat. I don't know what a person did to decide that, once again, you're drastically overweight and unhealthy. You start eating carnivores, so you reduce calories and you lose weight and your health markers improve initially.

Where do you end up just eating meat for the rest of your life? How could that be appealing to you? You're not a carnivore. Look at your hands, look at your teeth. Look at your intestinal tract. Where, Where? Please explain to me how you're a carnivore. Am I asking hard questions? I'm not, I'm not trying to be a jerk here. How are we a carnivore again? What happens is we are so, we are so off base with our eating and we're so desperate to lose weight that now these dumb ideas start to seem like good ideas. You know, now, now listen, where do we come. How is keto even get traction then? Okay, because we live in a country, America, the number one source of calories is baked goods. That's the number one source of calories. So why not make a diet that's going to eliminate that? Now, listen, refined carbs is a problem. There's no question. I absolutely manage my refined carbs to manage my weight. Do I completely give up carbs, though? No, you know, it's silly. It's silly. And this is part of this. The dieting is just trying to keep you off balance constantly so you never get a firm foundation to build on. And it's depressing as shit because once you have a firm foundation, things seem a lot clearer, a lot more obvious. I'm not. When, when I see a new study come out about carbs or, or wine or chocolate or whatever, sugar, whatever, I don't give a. I am rock solid, grounded in what I eat, and there's Nothing's going to convince me that I'm never going to read a study that's going to make me question my eating, because my eating is built on millions of years of evolution. My primary source of calories is whole natural foods.

Where am I going to go wrong there? How am I going to go wrong there? So instead of, like, looking at things through macro eyes, protein, fat, carbs, start looking at things through the simple lens of processed food, whole natural food. That's a much better paradigm to evaluate your food with.

Anyways.

Christy, like that. The cannibal diet, right? Who knows? I. I don't even know. I literally. I'm joking now. I'm gonna. I should mark this. I know Jody will hear this. She'll remember it. Jodi is. She's a master. She knows the podcast things better than I do. It's so funny. But remember this, Jody, if they. If they come out with a cannibal diet, please reference backers, because I don't even know. I don't even know. It just seems like the wheels are off the bus. Nothing's out of limits now that. That's where it feels like we're at. You know.

Helen says, let's see. Actually, we'll put this right on the screen. Sometimes when I overeat, I don't even realize it while I'm doing it. But when I'm done, I hate myself. Yes, I get it, Helen. And that's the normal process, that most of our behavior is done on autopilot, especially eating, and that's the nature of eating. So first off, we recognize and understand that. Second of all, we stop hating ourselves for doing something that's natural. A lot of our behaviors on autopilot. Program yourself, then, is all about changing your autopilot behaviors. So instead of making a mistake and then hating yourself, we make a mistake and we learn from it, and then we redo it, which trains us to handle it better the next time. So instead of wasting our energy hating ourselves and replaying the mistake we made over and over, we use that energy to love ourselves, to grow and evolve and come up with a solution that if we go back in time in that same situation, what could we have done differently? How could we have handled it better? How could we have prepared better?

We use the redo rehearsal technique to learn from our mistakes and to use that energy that we would have put into hate to move ourselves forward. I think that's so fundamental because you're always going to make mistakes. I still overeat. I still make bad food. Choices, I make less of them. I overeat less of the time. But it still happens. And when it happens, I do not hate myself. That's one of the very first things I changed. I learned. I understood myself. I said, oh, what happened there? I don't want to. That's not how I want to eat. What happened? No, you're autopilot, Jim. That's just what you do. Listen, folks, you're all on autopilot. There's no such thing as mindful eating. It's impossible if you're a human. No, you're not going to mindful eat. You know how you mindful eat? If you go and become a Zen monk and you go live in. In a. You ever seen how Zen monks live?

You've got to like, completely wipe everything out of your life to keep a clear mind present on the f by the moment. That's not your path, folks. Most of you are not. You're not gonna be able to completely. You make over 200 food decisions a day. You're gonna make all of those intentionally in a focused way. No, you're not. You're gonna opt into auto mode. We all do. So don't hate yourself, Helen, because that just reinforces the behavior. Because to hate yourself, what do you do? You eat a box of donuts and then what do you do? How do you hate yourself? God, why'd I do that? What a Jerry. And you're mean, mean, mean to yourself. And you say mean stuff to yourself. You keep thinking about how you ate the box of donuts and it just reinforces the behavior. You think you're going to solve it by hating yourself. You're going to beat yourself up so you don't do it again. Is that what's happened? No, it doesn't happen for anyone. Hating yourself is the fastest way to bring yourself right back to the food. Loving yourself and learning and growing from your mistakes is the only path I've seen work moving forward. So.

Yeah, yeah, Mark says we just cut out processed foods and drinks. You drop weight. That's pretty true across the board. I will say for the vast majority of people just cutting out processed foods and drinks, now, that's not as easy as just okay. But if you did magically cut out processed foods in the drinks, you'd almost guarantee you to lose weight. Just that. That is. I found that to be very true.

JB's pet rescue. I want to hear what you have to say about the GLP1 injection. I mean, I talk about this all the time. I'm not against it. I think it's the best thing other than program yourself then. I think it's one of the best solutions to your weight. I think it's an imperfect solution. It's not a solution I would want to do, but I think it's better than dieting in terms of effectiveness. It's better than surgery in terms of not the side effects and intensity of the procedure. But again, to me it's not a final solution. I don't think injecting yourself for the rest of your life is really the solution I would want again, I want to genuinely transform my mindset, lifestyle and eating so that I can be the person I want to be. So, you know, again. But my goals are different. You know, for someone who doesn't give a about this stuff and personal development and getting control of your mindset, lifestyle and eating and people that don't care about that, a lot of people just, I don't care about that gym, I'm busy, I just want to lose weight. Then I think the injection is the right thing for you. A program yourself then is not for most people. It's for overthinking, action oriented, usually.

Perfectionistic type people. I have a very certain specific type of person that gets the program and thrives with it and you know, kind of lazy ish people. I'm not, I'm not saying GLP1 people are lazy. Please understand. I do not mean to say that, but what I am going to say is that a lot of people don't want to put the time and effort into filling this out, for example, and I'm not judging it, Please understand. Right? So it's like this is the blueprint in the program that you fill out, right? This kind of your road map. You follow. Ultimately, mindset, lifestyle, eating, we're talking 144 pages. I mean, you got to be committed and you got to go through it and answer it to illuminate the path for yourself to come up with it and have it. And a lot of people just don't want to do that. Don't have the time, don't have the desire. And I respect that. Again, no judgment. But I think if you're willing, if you're willing to put the time and energy into this and you're willing to, you know, figure out your goal weight pyramid and you learn how to run your mind so you can influence your behaviors, how could that not, how could that not be better than a GLP1 injection? Again, I always say I will put my success stories against a GLP1 success story. And I will win every time. Because what do you think's better? Do you think it's better to have to inject yourself forever with a thing that in the. And the only result you get is you get to get to your goal weight and you're not hungry, so you don't really eat anymore and you don't really enjoy food as much anymore. Or would you like to be at your goal weight and feel like you're thriving, be able to enjoy food as much as you ever had, if not more, to know that you did it genuinely, to never have to inject yourself and I have to spend any money on injections. To know that you did this right to your core, to know that you're helping become the person you want to be in addition to weighing what you want. I mean, there's no comparison, so. But again, I understand that everyone wants that and that's fair, too. So I think the GLP1s are wonderful for the people that want to use them, and I am thrilled to have the GLP ones, to be honest. For people that are. Have struggled and don't want to do this type of work, they're better off. You're almost, almost better off. I mean, certainly if you're obese, not everyone, but, but usually obesity in that category is going to be associated with health issues, metabolic dysfunction, you know, and so that's going to affect your quality of life. So it's, you know, again, it just all depends on what your goals are, though, you know.

My2k says, what about counting calories? Counting calories is a nightmare, let's be honest. You know what I mean? Again, again, I don't know. So I'm assuming Y2K you're in Australia.

But I, I work with people in Australia, so it's not too much different than America. But if you're like most Americans, most Americans are kind of up to here with life. I don't see a lot of, like, calm, relaxed Americans with lots of time and extra space to just do stuff, right? Like count calories, right? When you all of a sudden say, I'm going to count every calorie I eat, that is a huge undertaking. Don't think it's not. And it gets boring, it gets tedious. And what, you're going to do that forever. Now, that being said, I think counting calories for a week or so to kind of calibrate what you thought you were eating versus what you're actually eating, I think that's valuable. But I Like to build everything around my behaviors. So in program yourself, then a big part of the eating blueprint, for example, is that we structure your eating. So if you look at the eating blueprint, there's three phases to it. There's awareness optimization. No, awareness structure optimization. So the first step is awareness, and that's where counting calories can be great. Do it for a week or two. Track your calories. Get a sense of where your calories are coming from, where the most calories are coming from. That's the awareness phase. Then what we're going to do is we're going to look at the structure of your eating. You've already all got a structure to your eating. No one just eats differently every day. Every day. Okay. You don't. There's a pattern to your eating. You eat the same times in the same places, the same quantities. That. That's how you eat. That's why your weight stays relatively stable. You're not drastically eating different amounts in different places at different times and different quantities and different types of foods every day of the week. You're not doing that. You're. There is a pattern to your eating already. So we become aware of it and we start to manipulate that structure strategically. We don't change it all at once. We're not going to take all of your eating and just completely change it tomorrow. You know how overwhelming that is to keep up. It's almost impossible. So we want to do is. We want strategic. Look what you traditionally, what you do kind of pretty much on autopilot. And let's start strategically changing the things where the most calories are coming out of to keep it simple. Where are you bringing. What's your highest calorie habit? Snacking at night, eating too much at dinner, grazing in the afternoon, whatever it may be. Let's go to work on that, you know, so again, we want to work with our subconscious mind. We want to work with our routines and our patterns that are part of our lives and change them strategically and systematically. Is this book for sale? This book is really. This book right now is only for my people that are in program yourself then. And I got a first run of them sold out if I was a little surprised. So I got a whole bunch coming. They'll be here Friday. So if you're in the program, I'm gonna put a new link up where you'll be able to get the new and get one. I'll be sending it out this week. But no, it's not. It's not for sale to the general public yet. And so, again, I'm not trying to tease you all here. I just. I like using this as a reference point for what the program is, because it's just a visual thing, but this is for people in the program, and if they want to get one, they can get one.

But no, if you're not in the program, it's not for sale. I do have a book getting ready to come out here. I'm working on it. I would say I'm at the 90 stage of it. So that book will be coming out, and it's really good, and I can't wait. And I will let you know about that. I'll sell it through Amazon. Y' all be able to get it? What's up, Santina? Is the program an app? No, the program is delivered. I. You get the program in two ways. Okay. So you get a members area, which you have lifetime access to. Okay. So you'll always be able to access the entire program in there. Okay. But I also use a circle. It's called the Circle app, and it's a community app. And so I also deliver the program through that. So it's the same material. You can access it in both places, but in the Circle app, it's more of a community, and you get reminders in there. And so that's where I kind of deliver the program through. And there's gonna be a lot of improvements coming that way. So is it an app? It's not an app, but you use an app on your phone to kind of go through it now. And if you don't like the app, you can just go to the. The website, the members area, and you can just go through it that way as well. Okay. But I think it's way better to go through the Circle app, and that's going to improve tremendously. That's one of the things that's on the docket to get improved, you know, in the next couple weeks here. So that's gonna be really exciting. They super size Ben and Jerry's ice cream. I didn't even notice that. I shrink a size Ben and Jerry's ice cream. That's one of my strategies I use. I don't get pints of Ben and Jerry's ice cream anymore. If I'm gonna get Ben and Jerry's ice cream, I get them little cups they got. You know, I enjoy it, I eat it, and I'm done with it. Okay. I don't want to go and get a pint of ice cream because I'll eat some of it, and then I'll be thinking about it until it's gone. So I avoid that. Right. But, yeah, those sneaky, sneaky snakes. I'm sure they would do that. I would love to buy that book. Yeah, no, it's a great book. I mean, this book is this, is this. And again, I, I just had the first, the first printing on this. The second one, I, I spent. Listen, in essence, I've been working on this book for over 20 years because I have been. I keep meaning to. You know what, Give me one second. I'm gonna see if. I keep thinking about this. And then it's like, I think about it now and then I end the podcast and it goes completely out of my head. I want to see if I can find this real quick. I'll give you two seconds to look if I can find my first ad for programming something. Give me one second.

All right. No time. I've got to find this thing. I couldn't find it, but I got to show you this thing because I think it's, it's funny and it's, it's, it's, it sends a mess. I, I have literally, I've been teaching program yourself then for. It's over 20 years at this point. And I have, like, the first flyer I made for it. Maybe it's good. I don't know. You might not like it. I gotta find it. I had it recently too, and I got. But I gotta look for it. Oh, my freaking post it notes Struggles. That's my struggle in life right now is these post it notes. This is a good example, though. You know, life is so funny because sometimes it's the dumbest stuff that gives you the hardest time. And for me, it's these freaking post it notes. I keep buying them and then I lose them like instant. I don't know where they go.

So you know what I do? I write on the back of envelopes and then I rest it up against my monitor. That's what I got to do because I can't find these post it notes. I just got a bunch of them. Okay, first.

PYT ad. This is a long winded explanation, but we're kind of getting to the end here anyway, so. No, no rush. All right, first pyt. Let me put that up there. Oh, yeah, I'll never miss that, but that thing's good.

Okay, this is my point. 20 years I've been doing Program yourself then. So in essence, I've been working on this thing for 20 years. But this year here, I really dedicated six, seven months to really tweaking it up. So yes, it's awesome, but I'm not selling it on its own. I thought about that, but it's like I'm not selling on its own because. And I did this last year because I have a hypnote program yourself then really there's three components to it. There's the goal weight blueprint, right? You need to know what to do specifically for you. There's the program yourself, then rehearsal technique, right? That's how to get yourself to do it. You need to know what to do and you need to be able to get yourself to do it. So this teaches you how to run your mind. I show you the program yourself. Thin rehearsal technique takes 60 seconds. It's how you program your subconscious mind. And then you need a support system. And one of the primary support systems in the program is the goal weight hypnosis program. So again, this hypnosis program on its own is the number one hypnosis program in the world. There is no hypnosis program for weight loss like this on the planet. Believe me, I know. I'm one of the highest paid hypnosis on the planet. And there's nothing like this. It is an eight week hypnosis program where each day, each morning you get a message with a link to a five minute hypnosis session. So every day for eight weeks, each morning you get a five minute hypnosis session. Each one's different. And so each morning you start your day relaxed and calm. Each one's got a mantra in it and it reinforces your mindset. So all you do is close your eyes, relax, breathe, listen to these words, then go about your day. And the way that it works is it changes the way you're thinking, it changes the way you feel throughout the day just doing that. And then at night you listen to a 10 minute hypnosis session. Each week you get a core weight loss mantra session. And there's eight of them total over the eight weeks. And so for that week you listen to that same session each night. And what that does is it bookends your day. So each day you start with a new session that's different and each night you end with that same session for that week. And it reinforces this feeling, these thoughts, these ideas, this mindset. And that's the number one hypnosis program on the planet. There's nothing like this. In addition, I have a whole hypnosis Library with like 30 sessions in it as well. There's nothing like this. And last Year I sold it alone, just that. But I don't want to sell half assed solutions, you know. And so that's why I don't sell the hypnosis program by itself. I don't sell the blueprint by itself. I'm going to sell the program self dentechni by itself. Because I don't want to give you half assed solutions. I want to give you a full whole solution that if you get program yourself then this is, this is it. This, if you put your time and energy into this, this is your answer, this is how you live at your goal weight. And so I don't want to start breaking because yeah, I can make people lose weight with the hypnosis. I could be a kabillionaire with the hypnosis program, but I don't, I don't want to just help people lose weight. I sold it last year on its own, I got lots of good feedback on it, but I don't want, it's. You can't just listen to hypnosis magically you're a different person. You can for a while. Don't get me wrong, it's very powerful. But is it going to create long term change? Well, how can it? If you don't go through this blueprint, if you don't figure out specifically how you personally are going to deal with your mindset, your lifestyle, your reading patterns, if you don't have a plan customized to you, I don't know how you're going to succeed. So again, you can listen to hypnosis and be real fired up for a while from listening to it and make better decision to do stuff. But I just don't see how that's going to last if you don't know exactly what to do and you yourself don't know how to run your own mind.

So again, I take the no oath every time I get on here and to be completely honest, I just don't. I've never seen. Listen, if I saw some simple thing that worked to help people lose weight, I would do it. If hypnosis, I got the best hypnosis program on the planet for weight loss loss. If that program would make you thin and healthy for the rest of your life just listening to it, believe me, I would sell it to you. I have not seen that though. What I've seen is you'll get results for a while. But if you don't know, have a clear plan of what to do and you don't know how to run your own mind, your own self, I I've not seen the results sustain. There's always outliers, always people. But. But it's like I want everyone. If you're going to put the work and you're going to get the results, and that's what I believe. Program yourself then is I believe if you put the work and you're going to get the results, it covers everything. It covers everything. Diets, don't you know. Oh, Y2K. Oh, you're in the program. All right. Very good. Yes. So, yeah, so why 2K? You're in the program. All right. Yeah, you in the Circle app. You got to get in there.

It's a book with a lot of knowledge. Yes, for sure. Yeah. Okay. So, yeah, well, whatever then. Yeah. So if you. Are you in the Circle app? You got to be in the Circle app. It doesn't matter because last time I got these books I only put in the Circle app. Sold out just from that. But this time, here, I'll put in the Circle app and I'll email anyways. And if you want to get a book, you can get one.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Y2K, shoot me a message. Shoot me a message at Jim at program yourself then.com and I will get you the link to get you into the Circle app. I think you're gonna love it. I think it's really good. And again, it's. It's really good now. I mean, it's set up well, but there's a lot of cool things I'm going to be doing to it pretty quickly here. And it's just. It's going to become much more robust and active very quickly here. But, yeah, Y2K, you're going to get re. Engaged right in the program. First of all, we got. We got live Tuesday Q and A classes every Tuesday. Again, I don't want to overwhelm you with all the stuff that you're in the program. Okay. But I don't want to overwhelm people. But there's. There's a lot of support in the program and you get lifetime access to the Tuesday Q and A calls. Again, I'm here for you folks. I'm really here to help you. But. But anyways, yeah, get in that app. Okay. Y2K. And yeah, we got to get you in there. So. All right, when we get out of here again, if you're not in my world, please click the link in my bio. Go get the hypnosis session. Watch the training I give you. They're all free. They'll all help you out. If you like this. I'm here live every Monday through Friday, usually around noon Eastern, and you can ask any questions you want. I'm happy to help you out if you're in the program, happy to coach you through it, you know what I mean? Like, again, I'm here for you all. And if you like listening to this and you can't get to the Live, it's also a podcast where you can listen to anytime you want to go to any podcast platform, search program yourself then and there it is. All right, so have a super day and we'll talk soon.