Minimizing the Damage

All right. Hey, everyone, let's see we on here. Welcome to today's Program Yourself in podcast. Today we're talking about minimizing the damage, which is a phrase I like to use for people when they are in holiday mode, vacation mode, off track mode, and there's other modes you could probably apply it to as well. But basically it's when you're not 100%, when you're not being really great with your eating, your, your efforts, all the rest of it. And what it really speaks to is this concept of all or something, right? So most of the time with dieting, people are really in an all or nothing mode, right? They're either doing 100% perfect everything, right, or they're doing nothing. And there's very rarely anything in between going on, okay, so program yourself. Then we really build around the all or something philosophy. This is the concept. Yes, you can still be all right when the mood strikes, when the timing is right, when you're really focused and motivated. I do everything perfect, Knock yourself out, keep doing that. But the big difference is that you're never going to do nothing. Never again, never do nothing. Always be at least somewhat in the game. And so we talk about minimizing the damage. That's what we're talking about. It's those times when you're not being all, pretty much anything. That's not all. We want to minimize the damage. And again, holidays, vacations, cookouts, special occasions, you know, there's situations where you're not going to be perfect. All right? And so that is what we want to start practicing on, though, because we can not be perfect, but we can also not go completely off the reservation. There's a phrase that's really applicable to dieters here. They call it the what the hell effect. And it's basically this idea that dieters, especially when they make a little mistake on their diet, they tend to completely just blow it all off and go way overboard. The other direction. And they literally studied this. It's really interesting. It's a milkshake experiment they did. But long story short is dieters that screwed up their what they were going to eat that day tend to consume way more than. Than a person who wasn't going to die, who kind of screwed up they were eating. And so there is some force you're fighting against when you do this. You know, when you get on a plan and you're doing really well with it and then you do make a mistake, there really is this psychological feeling of what's the point? It doesn't even matter at this point. It, of course matters. It absolutely matters if you eat 2,000 calories versus 4,000 calories. Right. There's a huge difference there, and it makes a big difference which one you choose. The 2500 calories may not feel like you're doing great, but compared to 4,000 calories, it's a home run. All right, so again, the concept of minimizing the damage is a way to approach this where, yes, I know I'm not being perfect, but I'm going to minimize the damage. Okay, yeah, I'm drinking a little bit, but I'm not going to get drunk. I'm eating some cookies. I'm going to get all the cookies, having some ice cream. I get all the ice cream. And we start to get into this minimizing the damage mode. Because what it does is, is that is the way to go from nothing to something. Right. Instead of saying, oh, forget it, I don't care, we're saying, ah, this isn't how I wanted today to go. But I'm not going to let it go completely. I'm a little off track. I'm going have a couple cookies, forget it. I'll kind of start all tomorrow again. Fine. But I'm not going to let everything go today. Right. And that's the attitude. And what it's doing is it's a way to practice what I like to call this kind of this gray space mode. Right. We tend to think in black or white, all or nothing. We need to start practicing thinking in the middle. Right. Something mode is gray mode. Kind of how I think of it. It's somewhere in the middle here. And so we get off track. We recognize that, we're aware of it, but we're not going to just throw in the towel. Right? That's kind of the goal. And you can practice this in all kinds of situations. It certainly is obvious to practice it in, like a vacation mode, holiday mode, extended multiple days in a row, where, you know, you're probably going to be a bit off track, but you can start to apply it as well to specific dinners and situations. You might intend to have a, you know, a real clean, healthy day. And then all of a sudden, you know, a friend calls up and says, well, I'm having an emergency. Can we go out to lunch and talk about it? Right. Okay. I'm thrown off a little bit from what I planned on doing. However, I'm not going to go completely off track. I'm going to minimize the damage. I'm going to take A little bit of damage on, but I'm not going to take all the damage on. And I will tell you, you know, it's interesting, this just popped in my head, but I used to watch a lot of UFC fighting, and, you know, that is a strategy. You know, of course you want to go into the fight and knock the person out, but sometimes it's a. It's a war of attrition, you know what I mean? Like, who can take the most damage? So we need to stop looking at this black or white, all or nothing kind of way of thinking about things and start to realize that what's going to affect your weight way more over time, when you zoom out on a year, is not how you did that week, it's how you did over the whole year, consistently. And it's a lot easier to influence your reading by consistently improving it, by not making too many bad mistakes. Right. Than it is to try and be perfect. And so it's like, what I'm saying on paper is really obvious and logical. The real challenge is how you experience it in real life. You know, when you do make that mistake, it. It becomes illogical almost. You know what I mean? You could see someone else to make a mistake with their thing, and you very clearly said, oh, don't worry about it. It's not a big deal. It doesn't matter. All the rest of it, you do it and it feels like the world's ending. So that's the key part. You have to understand that when it comes to this. Yes, on paper, logically, you know, oh, well, if I make a mistake, just get right back on track. No big deal. That's logical right now. But when you actually do it in real life, you're going to get very emotional, and it's way easier to screw it, forget it. I don't care. Who gives a shit. This is never going to work. And we get into that mode, we can't get in that mode anymore. Okay, we need to again raise the bottom mode. We say, that's not how I wanted to eat. I'm frustrated. I shouldn't be. That's not what I wanted to. That's okay, though. I'm just gonna drink some water. I'm. Have an apple. I'm gonna go for a walk. I'm gonna. No more. I'm good. A couple more and then I'm done. Whatever. But again, it's staying in the game. That's the key thing. And I think that's going to support your weight more than anything else. Literally. I Think, more than anything else, the thing that's going to support your weight more than anything is the ability to stay engaged consistently. If you stay engaged 50% more than you did last year over this next year, you're going to lose weight. If you stay 100% perfect for the next three weeks and then quit, your weight's going to be the exact same next year. It's that simple. And so this is the big thing you have to keep reminding yourselves. Again, dieting is always getting you fixated on the days, the hours, the days and the weeks. Right. And how you're doing in those moments. And any mistake feels like catastrophic failure. You have to zoom back from that and realize that your weight's really dictated by what you do over the year. And there's a great quote. I say it every day, I think. But it's basically that most people overestimate how much weight they can lose in a month and underestimate how much weight they can lose in a year. So again, this minimize the damage concept is because, oh, if I allow mistakes, I'm going to make tons of mistakes. I'll never get the results. And that's not true. Ironically, the more perfect you expect yourself to be, the worse you're going to do. I know it sounds counterintuitive sometimes, but again, when you hold yourself to this level of perfection, and as soon as you don't reach it, it feels like failure. And even if you're doing 50% better, you still feel like a failure. So we need to zoom out and see the big picture and recognize that what we're chasing is not perfection. We're chasing improvement. Improvement. And improvement can come from minimizing the damage. If, when you used to get off track, you, you know, all of a sudden eat two ice, two pints of ice cream a night, and now you're only eating one pint of ice cream a night, that's an improvement. It's going to show up in your weight over time. So, again, keep this in mind. Again, this is something you've got to practice, because this is one of the easiest ways to come face to face with your subconscious mind and recognize the power of your emotions. Because as I said, logically, everything I'm saying is making sense. And you're agreeing with it now, but when the time actually comes and you are in the mode of being perfect and then you make a mistake, you're going to feel firsthand just how powerful your emotions can get. So, again, this is a process, a bigger process than me just telling you what to do. And you're just doing it. And it's more about me sharing this with you and you starting to realize it and seeing it in your own life and then starting to adjust it. Okay? Because for the rest of your life, you're going to make mistakes. You're going to have times where you kind of ease off the gas a little bit. You go on vacation, you go on holidays, or you just get off track for whatever reason. They're going to happen for the rest of your life. There's never going to be a time in your life where you're just perfect for years at a time. That's never going to happen. Okay? And so the more you can absorb those mistakes and realize they're not a big deal, let me just minimize the damage. Let me get back on track quickly. That's what's going to change everything. So if you want to go deeper into this concept or on some support with this way of thinking and approaching your weight, click the link in my bio or go to program yourself. Then get the free hypnosis session I made for you. There's a training there right now. Making a new training that should be up this week. And go check that out because I am here to help you out in this approach I think you'll find makes a lot more sense than dieting. So. So Band says lost my mindset was a thousand percent focused. Lost 20 pounds, went back to anything goes. I self sabotage help. I mean, I hate to say this to you guys, I, I get this argument with people all the time. I don't refer to that as self sabotage. Okay, so let me explain this because this explains everything I'm going to say here today. But I don't believe when you're doing really well and you lose £20 and all of a sudden you get it back. You what you always did. I don't think that's self sabotage. I think it's that you don't know what to do long term. Okay? So all of you, if you're like most dieters, what happens is you have your normal mode and you have your diet mode. Okay? And when you go into your diet Mode, yeah, you're 1000% focused, you're doing everything perfect. That's what diet mode is. That is the problem. The problem with the diets is not the nutritional philosophies. So again, I don't care if you're, if your plan is keto or yours is Weight Watchers or yours is Mediterranean, yours is intermittent fasting. I don't Give a shit. It doesn't matter what the specific nutritional philosophy of it is. It's the diet mindset you're approaching it with. That is the problem. And it doesn't matter which diets of those you pick, you start each one of those diets exactly the same way. That's your problem, that's Anne's problem. And the problem, and I know this is going to sound crazy, the problem with Ann is that she was 1000% focused. The problem with all of you is your diet mindset. Whether you do any of those diets, you're 1,000% focused. You're changing everything in one day. You start on a Monday perfectly. Doesn't matter if it's keto, low fat, low carb, vegan, carnivore, it doesn't matter what the plan is. That's not the problem. Primarily, the main problem is how you all are approaching it. And you've been trained to think like dieters, which is exactly what Ann's talking about. You jump into it 100% focused, 8,000% focused. Everything's about the plan, everything's about counting the calories, tracking the food, preparing food, not eating. It's all everything's about. It's obsessed, 1000%. The only thing that matters to me is the food diet. Losing weight, that's the problem, folks. You can't do that forever. So you didn't sabotage yourself when all of a sudden you got, you burnt out and went back to what you always do. It's the same path you all do every single time. It doesn't matter what diet you do. Isn't that the revelation, folks, that it doesn't matter if you do Weight Watchers, Keto, Low Fat, South Beach, Jenny Craig, Slim, Fast, it doesn't matter. You get the exact same pattern everything you do, which is that you start strong and end quietly. It's always the same process. So again, it's not the nutritional philosophy, it's the diet mindset you've been trained brainwashed to have when you approach this. So again, and you can't, you're going to live your life and are you telling me, and that the only thing in your life you got to think about is your weight? Are you telling me you don't have other things in your life that are requiring your attention and energy? I know you do. And so when all of a sudden those things come up in your life and you got to deal with them, you don't have a thousand percent, you don't have the energy to be a thousand percent focused anymore. And of course you have no ability to not be a thousand percent right? You're either a thousand % focused or 0% focused. It's not self sabotage, it's a lack of information. You all have learned how to be, you all know how to be overweight. That's your normal mindset. And you've been conditioned to be overweight. It's not that hard. But then you've been trained to be a dieter. Never along the way have you learned how to be a thin healthy person. A thin healthy person is not a thousand. I'm not a thousand percent focused on my eating and my weight. I'm not a thousand. I'm a parent, I'm a husband, I'm running a business. You know, I mean I got family friend, I got stuff I'm doing. I can't be a thousand percent focused all the time on my weight. And my plan doesn't require that. Again, my promise, my promise to my clients is that you're going to get to your goal weight and stay there for the rest of your life on near autopilot. That's what I want for you. Listen to that one more time. I don't want you to just lose weight and lost 20 pounds dieting and then put it all back on. Went back to anything goes. You didn't go back to anything goes, you went back to your normal. Let me put it this way, you all listen. If you're overweight right now and have been for any period of time, more than a couple years, you have an overweight mindset. Meaning that if you just live your life right, if you're not fixated on your eating or you're working out or your weight, if you're just living your life, you're overweight. The food decisions you make, the lifestyle decisions you make, the way you're living, the way you're reading, the decisions you're making are keeping you overweight, okay? And it feels normal and natural. It's just easy for you to do is what you do. It's routine. Now when you go into a diet mode, dieting is not a mindset, it's an anti mindset. It's not a mindset in of itself. No one's a dieter forever. You're a diet for a little while until you're going to get your weight down, right? So what happens is you dieting is an anti mindset in the sense that it's not a mindset because what it does is just says no to your regular mindset, right? So Your regular mindset. Let's have a donut. No. Let's have some ice cream. No. Let's have a piece of pizza. No. Let's have some fries. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Down to your goal weight. But now we got a big problem. You can't keep dieting and you don't want to go back to the overweight mindset. But what are you going to do? What did most dieters do? It's estimated 85 to 98% of dieters that lose weight on a diet put it back on. And I believe the core reason for this is because you have never learned how to think like a thin, healthy person. You diet yourself down. At best, you diet yourself down to your goal weight. And then what does everyone do? They put the weight back on because you don't know how to think, live, eat like a thin, healthy person for the rest of your life. You've never learned that. You, you all have never learned that. You, you're so far away from learning that you never even think. That's the problem. I don't know what you think the problem is, dieters. Do you think the problem is that you don't know the nutritional things of what you should eat? Again, we can always learn more nutrition. So I'm. That isn't a component to it, but I can. I would make a bet that almost all of you pretty much know what you should and shouldn't need to at least get the weight loss started. Let me bring it one step further. If you were a robot and you could just type in what you're going to eat all day and you would actually eat, that way you wouldn't have any problem losing weight. See, it's not a nutritional knowledge problem primarily, it's a behavioral problem. You don't know how to change your behaviors long term. And that's Ann's core problem, that you don't know how to change your behaviors long term. You. You know how to jump into something a thousand percent and make your entire life in reality about that thing for a little while. And then you can't keep that up because life comes calling and never did you learn. How can I achieve my weight loss and stay there on near autopilot? You've never even thought that. So how is it going to happen? Just spontaneously? No, but it's not that hard either. Again, this is. I'm a hypnotist, but I deal with the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind heals all your habitual thoughts, feelings and behaviors, and you're eating, folks. All of your eating is done on autopilot. You eat the same amount of food every day, and you do it on autopilot. It's like brushing your teeth. That's a behavior that you installed and now you just do pretty much on autopilot. Well, your eating's the same way. So it's not that you sabotaged yourself. The truth is, you never learned. You know, again, if you never played the piano, and I sit you at the piano and I say, okay, play me a song. And you can't. I'm not gonna say, well, you're sabotaging yourself. Come on. Because the sabotaging implies that you know how to do it and you don't. You dieters know how to do some crazy. Let me put it another way. You're gonna like this, Ann. I've been using this example a lot lately to make it crystal clear why you're never going to lose weight on a diet. And. And this describes Anne to a T exactly. What she said is that dieters are like people that signed up to run a marathon, right? So you just signed up to run the Boston Marathon. You're at the starting line, but in your mind, you got the hack. What's the hack? I'm gonna run it like a sprint. I'm gonna. I'm gonna get so far ahead of everyone in the beginning that I'm gonna win the race. And so you start the race, the gun goes off, and you go as fast as you possibly can to. To get ahead and for I don't know how long. Good. Quarter mile, eighth of a mile, half a mile. You're the first. You're in first place. You're smoking. Everyone look at you. First place. And then, though you can't keep it up, you run out of energy and you pass out on the ground. You don't even finish the race. Never mind winning the race. You can't even finish the race. You dieters are like sprinters in a marathon. And if you're going to sprint a marathon, you're never going to win it. It's not the right strategy for the goal you're looking to accomplish. And dieting is not this. It's not the strategy for what you truly want, because what you want is not to lose weight. Ann is not happy that she lost 20 pounds and then put it back on. None of you are. All of you listening to this. Have lost weight and put it back on. You're not happy. You lost weight and put it back on. You're upset. You Put the weight back on. So your goal is not to lose weight. It's to live at your goal weight for the rest of your life on near autopilot. That's the ultimate goal. And yet you never articulate that. You never, ever say that out loud. You never think that you've been literally brainwashed by the diet industry. Now, the diet industry is not your friend. The diet industry is a branch of the food processing industry. Watch him. What? Yes, Weight Watchers was owned by Heinz. Jenny Craig was owned by Nestle Atkins Food Products is owned by the same company, owns onions, pretzels, and Cinnabon. Slim Fast is only the same company owns Ben and Jerry's ice cream. These companies do not want you to lose weight and keep it off and eat healthy and not eat their food. They want to take your money when you want to lose weight, fill your head up with rocks while you're trusting them, and then ultimately just get you back to go and eating their food. And so you've never even thought. That's the key. I don't even. I know. You can't think like a thin, healthy person. I already know that. The point I'm trying to make is you never even consider that to be the core problem. And so if you're completely missing the core problem, how are you ever going to fix it? That's my message to you. Now, I know that might sound negative and discouraging, but here's comes the encouraging part. The good news is this, that if you buy into this concept, if you do believe that your mindset does impact your weight or has some. Some big part to play, if you do believe that, the good news is that you've never learned how to influence it. I know for a fact, because I've been doing this, I've been doing this over 30 years personally and over 20 years professionally. I see no, and I'm gonna say literally, I see literally no good mindset training to live at your goal weight. I see some okay stuff that gets in the near it, but I see nothing good. And I can ask you, who would you learn how to have a thin, healthy mindset from? Don't expect an answer to pop up in your head. And so my main point is this, that if you've never learned how to think like a thin, healthy person, and if you've struggled with your weight for a long time, please. My main message to you is stop blaming yourself because you're doing like what Ann did, where you say, oh, it's my fault, because I didn't Stick being a thousand percent to this. You can't be a thousand percent to it. It's not even an option. You can't sprint the whole marathon. I don't care how motivated you are, you just can't do it. You physically can't do it. Your brain's not built for that. You're not built to completely change how you eat in one day at all. It's overwhelming. And so every diet is exactly the same. Never mind the nutritional piece, let's look at the behavioral piece, folks. This is the secret. If you look at any single diet anyone's ever suggested, what unites them all together is the mindset the person approaches it with. Because every diet starts off the same. 100% perfect. On day one, I'm going to be 100% perfect until I lose the weight. No, you're not. No, you're not. It's not your fault. You're not built to do it. This is a dieting bullshit idea that's been implanted in your head by the food industry to sabotage you. That's the sabotage. So I would stop blaming myself if I. Bless. This is a message to all of you. Stop blaming yourself. You can only blame yourself if you knew what to do. I know what to do, Jim. I'll just be a thousand percent. No, you can't be a thousand percent. That's the point. You have to learn how to automate a lot of this stuff. Just like you train toothbrushing into your subconscious mind, and now you do it just naturally. You have to reprogram your subconscious mind to think, live and eat like a thin, healthy person. It's not rocket science. It's not the easiest thing in the world either, but it's certainly not the hardest thing. And good Lord, considering the amount of energy you all give to weight loss, why not dedicate a little bit of it to something that's really going to serve you instead of this temporary fix that you're, you know, dieters are just so obsessed with. It's a temporary fix, folks. Right? There's a better way. So again, if you want more support with this, though, click the link in my bio and go get the hypnosis session I give you. It'll really help you. But he says, this is so true. It's very emotional. When I mess up, it makes me feel like a failure. Yeah, again, that's very important. I think dieting, I think dieting is absolutely a psychological operation by the food industry. I, I, Dieting doesn't work, folks. We know it for A fact it doesn't work. That's the big excitement of GLP1 that for the first time in 100 years, we finally have a plan that works. So I mean, again, that's not true. There's other program myself that works, but whatever. But dieting doesn't work. It's official. Dieting doesn't work and it doesn't work. It's a concept that was put there by the food industry to sabotage you, to brainwash you, to make you unsuccessful. A diet industry is a, is a recurring business model. They get you every year, every couple years, and then the main business they're selling is all their shitty food. They don't want you stop eating it. There's no motivation, there's no incentive for these companies to teach you a real strategy to lose weight. And there's every incentive in the world to get you confused. So you keep failing. So you keep blaming yourself if you want to, because what, what are we saying? And I, I, I'm so, thank you Ann, so much for writing that. Because the key thing Ann wrote here. Let me just read what she wrote one more time. Lost my mindset was a thousand percent focused. Lost 20 pounds, went back to anything goes. I self sabotage help. I don't believe that. Because my question is how are you going to stay a thousand percent focused? For how long can you stay a thousand percent focused on your weight? Folks, think about your life, think about your responsibilities, think about your day to day reality and then ask yourself the question, honestly, how long can you stay 1000% focused on your weight? And what you quickly find out is not long because you got other things in your life you have to do. And this is such a beautiful way to encapsulate why dieting doesn't work. It's not sustainable. It's not built for the real world. It's built for you to do for a short period of time to lose some weight. And that's the result. All of you get the exact same. It's so obvious. You just have to look at it from a slightly different angle. Every diet's exactly the same because of the way you're approaching it. Hope that helps. Tracy says. Wow. I'm glad I came across your podcast last month. I wish I found you 30 years ago. This is incredible. I've started to apply your words and this is helping so much. Slow and steady. But I'm just in. Wow. After years of diets. Thank you so much. I listen to you every day to work. Thanks. From Kamloops, British Columbia. Thanks Tracy. Appreciate that. Yeah, I'm glad you found me, too. And that's why I'm here. Again, for me, you know, I say this every day. This is a mission for me. And my father died when he was 54 of a heart attack. I was nine years old. So, I mean, it's. You know, for me, weight is life and death. It's way more important than just, like, you know, again, looking good at the beach or wearing a bathing suit or skinny jeans. And those things are great, you know, but it's much more than that. It's really about living as long as you can and having the best quality of life while you're alive, you know, and looking great. You know what I mean? That stuff, too. Looking great, feeling great, you know, wearing the clothes you want to wear, being the person you want to be. Which brings it to the point you program yourself. Then we take the weight loss, we wrap it in personal development, which is another suggestion I give you. Just trying to lose weight is the main goal. Usually isn't enough. You know, Again, I. I beg you folks, please open your mind up that maybe you don't know everything about weight loss. The irony is people dieters are like, the most. It's like they're. They get the worst results, but they're the most convinced that what they're doing is perfect. It's the strangest thing. I mean, it's literally. I know you won't believe me, but again, just take it for what you want. But I'm a master hypnotist, okay? I've been doing. I've been a professional hypnotist for over 20 years, and I am telling you that dieters act like people in a trance. And this brings me back to my main point, that as a hypnotist, I thought I was going to hypnotize people to lose weight, but it's much more de. Hypnotized. It's waking them up from the trances that they're in. And most dieters are in a diet trance now. What's that mean? It means they're not being logical. They're. They're walking around almost like they're just hypnotized. Like the corny cliche stuff in movies and stage shows. You're not thinking straight because in what world does it make sense to keep trying the same plan that hasn't worked for 30 years? In what world would it make sense to try something that hasn't worked 50 times a 51st time with no adjustment? Like, I'm all for Resilience, too. You know what I mean? But. But what? Sense? What world does it make sense to try the same thing? 50. How many times y' all try Weight Watchers? How many times you try the Keto Plan? How many times you try Paleo Atkins? I mean, it's the same thing over and over, and you get the same results each time, if not worse results each time. And yet so committed to it. Now, I, I believe the reason you're committed to it is because you just have no alternative in your mind. In America, if you think about weight loss, you ask a thousand people that lose weight, you're going to hear diet. You're gonna hear diet, surgery, injections, that's it. You're gonna hear mindset. You're not gonna hear any mindset to the point that you literally, again, you couldn't even name a diet or a diet guru who's gonna show you how to train your mindset outside of me. I mean, you're gonna hear, you'll hear some vague ass talk about, I mean, you know, they all got a mindset component. Get me wrong, Weight Watchers has their little mindset thing, but it's. It's like kindergarten. I applaud them for trying. Great. But it's just. It's just not up to the task. So my point is that if you're struggling with your weight, instead of saying, oh, I know what to do, I just got to get myself to do it. I just gotta. I just got to approach this a th percent every single day. No matter what's going on in my life, I need to be 1000% focused on my weight. You know that. No, you're never going to do that unless your whole life, you become a weight monk, you know, a weight nun, dedicate your life to your weight, you know, that's all you do. Quit your job, you know, move out of your family, just go focus on your weight. You're not going to do that, okay? Because your weight is a means to an end. It's not even the main thing anyways. You know, your quality of life's the main thing. And most of you with your weight and your diet mindset are just chasing a number. And you're doing in a way that makes you miserable and overwhelmed, and that's why you stopped doing it. Why do you think you quit dieting, folks? Why do you think you stop. Why do you think Anne stopped? Do you think it's because she got tired of losing weight? You think she got tired of being 20 pounds lighter and wanted to put it back on. It has nothing to do with that. She got overwhelmed. She couldn't keep up a thousand percent focus. And she finally, again, just like the sprinter in the marathon, at some point your body gives up, your mind gives out, you got nothing left. And that's you dieters. And you're, you know, again, the idea that I should be a thousand percent every day is literally the equivalent of saying I should just sprint through the whole marathon. Oh, I got the hack. I know how I'll win the marathon. I'll just sprint the whole way. I'll run faster than everyone the entire time. I'll sprint it out. Sounds good on paper, but in reality, you can't do that. And that's where you're at with the diet. And it's harder for you with the diet because you've been trained literally your entire life, that that's what you should do. But again, it would be, you know, it's the equivalent of like, you know, imagine there was, there's a philosophy of marathons that says, let's sprint it out. And they, there's a group and they follow this philosophy and for 100 years they've never finished a race. But you keep trying that. Why? Because theoretically it just sounds perfect. That's the fastest way to run. Of course I'm going to win the race that way. You know what I mean? But it lacks perspective, it lacks the sense of where, where you're at, what you're looking to do, what the real goal is. And that's how most of you dieters are approaching your weight loss. Which is important to understand because don't take this as critical. This is not critical. I'm on your side here. But the, the first step you need, if you have any chance of getting influence over your weight, is you have got to. You, you've got to start approaching this differently. You cannot approach your weight like a dieter and succeed. Not gonna work. DJ Redco says I start panicking if I don't get my Coke when stressed. Yeah, sure, I mean, that's a whole nother piece. It's just that it's. Again, dieting is literally, folks, dieting is literally designed by the food companies. Dieting makes no sense. I'm a hypnotist. If I wanted to sabotage people with their weight, I would come up with a diet. It's, it's so elegant in its, it's awfulness. It really is. Because as a, as a, as a hypnotist, I know the easiest way to get you obsessed with Something is to tell you not to think about it. Okay? So again, if I tell you not to think about something, don't get your energy ready. I want you to not think about. I'm about to say, good, get yourself ready. Okay. Don't think about a yellow banana. Don't think about a banana. Don't think about a banana. Right. What are you thinking about? Okay, so now I'll go to a diet. Every diet. Don't think about carbs, don't think about eating for 16 hours. Don't think about sugar, don't think about dessert. Don't think about carbs, whatever. And so you get obsessed with the exact thing you're trying to reduce. So there's problem number one, problem number two is that you're completely changing your behavior 100% in one night. So you go to bed as a carb addict, you wake up never eating carbs. How's that work? You know, behaviorally, it doesn't work. And what it feels like, you know, again, the way to really understand your weight and why it doesn't work is to look at as a behavioral issue. And the easiest way to understand that is to imagine that you're going to wake up tomorrow and you're going to do everything with the other hand. You're gonna use your phone with your hand. You can brush your teeth with your hand. You use a computer mouse with your hand. Now, technically, you could do it, but every time you do it, it's gonna take a lot more energy because you can't do it on autopilot. You have to think about it and you're gonna feel your energy draining. And that's why dieting is so hard, because your eating is happening on autopilot. Your thinking's all this stuff's happening on autopilot, and now you're gonna micromanage it. And it takes a lot of energy to do that. And you can feel your energy just zapping the first couple days of your diet. And so what, what that means is you get overwhelmed. You get overwhelmed and depleted, and eventually you have to quit in order to get yourself back to normal. So, you know, and on top of that, then as well, you also take away all your main emotional management strategies, right? Because most of us, we've been trained since birth in this culture to use food and, and sodas and drinks and all sorts of stuff, but especially food and consumption things in our mouth. We've been used, we've been trained to use our main emotional management strategy. So we get stressed, run to the soda we get, you know, we get tired, run to the cookies, you know, we're celebrating, run to the pizza. So again, we condition these things. So all of a sudden you start your diet and you just 100%, black or white, like a switch, just turn yourself into another person. It just doesn't work that way. And it's not your fault. It's not a you problem. It's a strategy problem. Just like if I told you, you know, if I was world famous, you know, marathon sprinter, coach, and my, my students had never finished a race, I hope you would look at that and say, it's not because I haven't found the magical person that can sprint the whole thing. It's because it's a shitty strategy. It's not because the people I taught are weak willed. They don't have the foresight and the fortitude to do this. You know, it's just, it's crazy. And again, so I don't know. And you've been trained. That's, that's the thing. And again, my clients, they're all type A perfectionist, you know, overachievers and all the rest of it. So when you lay out this concept in this idea that you can just change everything all at once if you're really serious, if you're really motivated, well, they love that, you know, but it's torturous. It sets them up for literally. This is the saddest part. This is why I do this every single day. It sets people up for a life of feeling like a failure because in their mind, and this is, this is the phrase, you know, you know, this is you, if you say this phrase in some form or another that I know what I need to do. I just need to get myself to do it, you know, I know what I need to do. I need to sprint the whole marathon. I just need to get myself to do it. That's the hard part. Yeah, that's the impossible part. Okay. And so once you realize this and you stop with the dieting, then you can start to focus on strategically changing your reading for the long term. What's that look like? Well, I'll give you an example. So in diets, you start a diet, doesn't matter what diet, you start a diet on Monday, you changed everything a hundred percent in program yourself. Then we start. You start your morning with a five minute hypnosis session that you listen to, ideally within a half hour waking up. So each day you're practicing, relaxing, calming yourself down, connecting to your breath and having good ideas put in Your head five minutes, then you go about your day. And then on top of that, what you're going to do usually is you're going to pick your worst eating habit, your highest calorie habit. Maybe it's snacking after dinner, maybe it's overeating at dinner, maybe it's grazing in the afternoon. Whatever. You pick one habit that shows up daily or multiple times a week that's responsible for the extra weight, and we go to work on that, we go to work on resolving it. Not all or nothing. I'm never going to do it again. No, we're going to find strategies, we're going to find alternative ways of thinking, living and eating that allow you to resolve this issue comfortably, genuinely. And once you do that, then you can move on to the next one. But everything and program yourself then is focused and built for the long term. Again, it's not about losing weight, it's about living at your goal weight. So I don't care. I mean, you could water fast. Is the fasting weight loss possible other than dry fasting, but. But basically, that's the perfect example. What I mean, you can water fast for, let's say, a month. Let's say you don't eat any food for a month and you lose 30 pounds. Well, great for that month, the next month you got to start eating. At some point you got to start eating and the weight's gonna go up. And when that weight starts going up, how are you going to handle that? Well, most dieters are going to freak out. So again, dieting is a mindset. It's a mindset prison. You're trapped in being overweight because you think like a dieter. I can't make it any clearer. It's not. There's that, and that's why I say that to you, because there's no diet coming down the pike that's going to fix this problem. Do you understand? It's not a nutritional issue. They, they did a huge study where they compared low carb and low fat diets to each other. Guess what happened? The people that actually stuck to it got basically the exact same results. So there, there is no dominant nutritional thing. I mean, there's things that'll work better or worse for you for sure, but ultimately the main thing you can change to change your weight is your mindset, how you're thinking of approaching all this. And once you do that, everything changes. So. But yeah, if you got any questions, feel free to ask them. No diet is sustainable. Yes, absolutely. It's just true. It's true. I mean, that's why it has such a horrible rate. I mean, again, I, I do these, I do this. Oh my God, I'm going on three years now doing this every day practically. And no one ever defends diets. I mean, yeah, they might help you lose weight for a little bit, but then you put the weight back on. What's up, Joan? Joan says, I'm eating at home now. And realized when I went to a party yesterday, there's so much food out there. Yikes. No wonder I've been so crazy. Yeah, for sure. Of course. Right? It was the same way. Oh my God, I went to the party on Friday. It's like I've never seen a party with more types of chips. But. And that's a whole story too, you know, like, it's funny. I mean, it's the buffet effect. It's a real thing again, when you start to understand your own psychology, instead of fighting against yourself, which is what dieting really sets you up to do, you're not understanding yourself with diets. You're just giving yourself a strict rule, trying to force yourself to follow it, that that's what a diet is. And we'll program yourself then. We're seeking to understand ourselves, what's going on in here, you know, and the more you understand yourself, the more you can strategize. Even sometimes just understanding things is helpful. But the buffet effect, for example. So there's a thing called sensory specific satiety. And what that means is that if you eat one type of food, you tend to get fuller quicker than if there's five different types of foods. Right? So again, it's the difference between having a meal of like one food, even if it's got two different things with it. Right? You got a normal typical meal versus a buffet where there's all different types of stuff. You're going to eat more at the buffet because there's different types of food, different flavors, different textures, you know, all they're just different. And that triggers our brain and our body to be able to eat more. They call it spontaneous veracity. So there's this science in the background going on that you're never taught about. And so you never get to understand how your brain and body work so that you can strategize around that, so that you can strategize around yourself in a way that's really built long term and built for you to live at your, the weight you want to live at. Instead, you're taught this knee jerk overreaction of Dieting, where you're going to change everything instantly. And the only way you're able to change is through willpower, by again, being a thousand percent focused, being just fixated and obsessed with this thing and letting it become your entire reality. Well, again, if you've got kids, a family, work, responsibilities in your life, you can't make your entire life just about food, and nor would you want to. You're going to just sacrifice everything in your life so you can be a certain weight. It doesn't, it's not gonna. That's not gonna bring you happiness. We need to have a balance there. And the balance starts by realizing that again, that you don't just want to lose weight, you want to live at your goal weight. And that's what opens the door for you to be able to approach this in a much more comfortable way. You don't have to change everything all at once, which is what you keep trying to do. But it's only because you've been literally brainwashed since you were a kid that to lose weight, you gotta diet. You know, I mean, think about it. If you've grown up in America, you. If you're in your 30s or 40s, you've been exposed to literally a million or more ads, diet ads in your life. I mean, think about it constantly. And that doesn't include all the echo chamber ads you're exposed to from other people in your life. You know, so it's conditioned you since birth how to think about weight loss. Wrong. Incorrectly. And it's clearly wrong. I mean, we live in a country where 75% of the population is overweight or obese, so it's clearly not working. And yet there's this obsession with it. What's up, Deanna? Deanna likes the marathon race metaphor. I love that one. I. I don't know. That one came to me last week and it's my new favorite, without question. I just love it so much. I've never, I've never come up with a metaphor that explains the diet mindset so clearly in my life. And I think you all should embrace that, because when you. Next time you start your diet, it doesn't work. I want you to remember that, you know, realize it was pre, predestined. You're never gonna win with your diet. Dieting. Winning long term is estimated to be, I don't know, 2 to 10% of the numbers I've seen range. You know, and if you've dieted in a bunch of times and it hasn't worked, I imagine numbers Got to be even lower chances. But those are shitty numbers anyways, by the way, 2 to 10 chance of keeping the weight off on a diet, those are pretty bad numbers. Good son says, how can you lose weight when you have thyroid issues? I mean, the same way. I mean, all weight loss comes from the exact same philosophy that you need to reduce the average calorie consumption no matter what, you know. Now again, listen, there's absolutely real physical realities. Menopause is real. Insulin resistance is real. Thyroid issues are real. Hashimoto's pcos, these things are real, okay? I want to make that clear. However, they do not prevent you from losing weight. They may make it a little harder for different reasons, they may make it slower. But all those issues are not going to stop you from losing weight if you're able to reduce your average calorie consumption over time. And I say this, I've worked with all these issues and I've watched people consistently lose weight. Now, again, you may not lose as much weight as your cousin who just started keto, but it's not about how fast you lose the weight, folks. It's about how long you keep it off. And so even with thyroid issues, you can lose the weight. What's up, Sherry? Sherry says, wow, the buffet effect is so interesting. I hadn't considered that, but it makes so much sense. Thanks for that. Hey, you're welcome. Again, it's helpful to know these things, you know, so it's like for me, I went to a party on Friday and like I said, there was literally like six bowls of different types of chips. All good ones too. But again, I know the sensory specific satiety, so. And I've done this before too, right? So it's like, I know I can get into the, the rhythm of like, this chip, this chip, this chip, this chip, this chip, this chip. I'm gonna need probably three or four times more chips if I do that. So now, you know, I, I pick one main chip that's most appealing to me for which for that one was barbecue kettle cooked barbecue chips. Those are the ones I stuck with on Friday. Okay? Now right next to it, we're just regular old ruffles with a dip. Add a little bit of those. But I'm not gonna go on all the other ones intentionally. I'm gonna skip. I don't wanna go in all the different kinds because I know, oh my God, four different flavors and crunches and textures, that's just gonna trigger the overeating more. So I stick with one chip as a strategy because I'm eating one chip. I'm less likely to overeat as much as if I ate four chips. So I intentionally focus on one chip, you know, let myself have the other chip. A bit of that. Now that's a, again, that's a gray space strategy. That's an all or something strategy. But that's the stuff that really is going to make the difference long term. You know, you compare that approach, what I just told you, to someone who's dieting now. So you can never lose weight that way, Jim. You can't eat the chips. You can't eat the chips. Well, yes, you can. I've been the same way for 30 years. I, I know a little bit of what I'm talking about here. Yes, you can eat the chips. Because what a dieter is going to do, I'm not going to eat chips. I'm not getting any chips, okay? So best case scenario is they don't eat any chips. But now they get to the end of the party and they're irritated and miserable because they didn't enjoy themselves. All they did was deny themselves food the whole time. Now they're irritated. Now their chances of binging after that go way up. Okay? B, they go in there, I'm not gonna eat chips. They do eat some chips, and now the whole dam breaks loose. Now they eat a ton of chips. So you have to be careful. The diet mindset is strongest when it's not in the situation. That's why you do this to yourself and people do it to you, you know, because I was, oh, I'm gonna eat some chips. Are you gonna eat chips that you want to lose weight? Yeah, you can eat chips and lose weight. If I used to go to this party and I used to eat, you know, three bags worth of chips, and now I go to the party, one bag's worth of chips. Yeah, I'll lose weight. But most dieters can't, they can't internalize that concept. You can logically right now, but when it gets time to actually do it, you get all emotional in your diet mode. So superior and haughty. I, I find like the, the dieters, when they're in their mode, right? I mean, is anyone more smug than you when you're on a diet? Right. You're so judgmental and so smug and. Right. So perfect and just do everything perfect, right? Dieters are funny like this and, you know, but it doesn't last. And as soon as it doesn't last, I don't want to hear anything about it. You know, so again, you got to get comfortable in that mid space. But yeah, buffet effect is fascinating. And again, the more you understand your mind and the reality of what you're dealing with. Listen folks, here's the reality just on a deeper level. The situation we find ourselves in as human beings in 2025 with our weight is the way I see it is this, that we've evolved over millions of years in a food scarce environment, right? So our brains have evolved primarily, primarily to get food, right? Even more than the baby stuff, even more than shelter and baby, you know, right up in the ballpark of shelter, I suppose. But food is constantly, we have to eat multiple times a day. So we've developed with these brains and bodies in a food scarce environment and they are fixated and focused primarily on eating. And what that means is which, okay, so, so you end up with that brain. Fine. And there wouldn't be any weight issues if we all still lived in a natural environment, right? Imagine if you blew up every, you know, supermarket, convenience store, food processing company on the planet. They're all disappeared like that. We wouldn't have to worry about our weight anymore, we wouldn't have to diet. No problems, okay? The problem is our brains, these old evolved brains that evolved in a food scarce environment to eat as much food as possible when we could, are now in an alien environment. We now find ourselves in an alien environment where we're surrounded by hyper palatable, hyper addictive foods. So we have these old brains that just want to eat as much as we possibly can when we get calories because calories are so rare. And now we're in a calorie abundant environment and it's not even just calorie abundant, it's hyper palatable, hyper processed, hyper engineered foods to be as addictive and, you know, appealing as possible. And so my answer to this problem is not to just try and use willpower to fight against this. It's to understand your mind, it's to understand the environment and start to strategically work to improve your mindset, to optimize your lifestyle and to optimize your eating so that you can live at your weight in this environment. And it's just, it's a more nuanced, comprehensive approach than dieting. Dieting is again, dieting is get, you know, remember just say no to drugs back in the 80s. Dieting is just saying no to food. It's a very superficial, ineffective strategy to do something that's much more, is much more in depth. Again, just say no compared to the rehab solutions. They have now. You know what I mean? Like. Like there's no comparison. Just say no is just this superficial, you know, answer. And then obviously the rehab approach now is a much more comprehensive, you know, approach to it that deals a lot more stuff. And I think we got to do the same thing with the weight. The dieting is just not going to work. How are you going to be the person who's failed 50 times on a diet, but tomorrow you succeed again if you're not doing anything different again? I just want to be clear, be resilient, you know, do something a bunch and keep tweaking and optimizing, keep changing your approach. But dieters aren't doing that. Dieters are doing the exact same thing every single time. And it starts to feel like you're on a hamster wheel. And eventually you get tired and you get off the hamster wheel and just quit. Okay, but don't start to understand yourself more and you can get much better results. Nadia says thank you for all this. You're welcome, Nadia. I appreciate you listening. Yes, I do this every day, Monday through Friday, usually around noon Eastern. So feel free to pop on here, ask any questions you have, you know, hear this message over and over again because again, you can't hear this enough. Again, I'm trying to balance you out from the diet mindset so that you realize there are other ways to approach this whole thing. And I think you're going to find that once you really get that, the whole process changes. You know, dieting doesn't work. And it's not because you're broken. It's not because you don't have the control. It's because dieting is a shit strategy. A shit strategy for keeping the weight off long term. What's up, Vicky? Vicky says, doesn't matter how long we've been doing this, we need you to give us a whack. A whack. Whack. Yes, exactly right. We need reinforcement. And reminders are really important. Again, in hypnosis, repetition is one of the most powerful pieces of it. HG says, please give suggestions to avoid boredom. Eating. Great question. And this is a great example what I'm talking about. Again, if you're a dieter, how are you going to avoid. How are you going to deal with board of meetings? You're going to use your willpower and just not eat when you're bored, right? That's what you're going to do. You're going to get bored, you're going to want to eat something. Your willpower is going to come and say, don't do it. All right, I made it through the night. I didn't eat when I was bored. Okay, I don't like that. I don't like that answer. What I want to do is I want to first recognize that any emotional eating, in my opinion, is pretty much a symptom of a deeper problem. Okay, so let's take boredom eating for this situation. But you can apply anything you want here. So we look at boredom eating on the surface. Oh, I'm bored. And I get. I eat a lot. When I get bored, I don't know how to deal with it. Well, I go a little bit deeper and I say, okay, you're bored. There's the problem. And the eating is just a way to manage that. Okay, but the core problem. The core problem is not the eating. The core problem is that you're bored, and you don't know how to resolve that in ways that don't involve food. So how do I avoid boredom eating? I wouldn't. That would be our starting point. But very quickly, I would say to you, what are some things you enjoy doing? That would be. That's where we would start to get to the solution for the board meeting. I get this. I used to be a board of meter, too. And one of the easiest ways to resolve board of meeting is to start doing more interesting things that genuinely interest you. It could be a hobby. It could be, you know, you could learn dance, you could read a book, you could draw pictures. You could go for a walk. You could train your dog. You could, you know, practice basketball. You could literally do anything when you're bored. Being bored in 2025 is a crime. You've got way too many options and abilities to learn cool new things to be bored. So you're not gonna like this hd, but I have to say that, you know, boredom eaters are boring people usually. I know it hurts a little bit, but again, the solution is nodding. How do I get more willpower to fight against the board of meeting? That the real answer is, how can I have some more options other than just eating when I get bored? Hope that makes sense, because this applies to any emotion. I'm a stress eater. Okay, so what's the answer? I have to not eat when I'm stressed. Then you're just going to be a thin, stressed person. If you don't eat when you're a boredom eater, you're just going to be a thin, bored person. That's not the ultimate goal. Might be a little better, but not by much. And so what we're really looking for is to go to the source of it. So, okay, how can I, when I get bored? What are some things I could do that are genuinely interesting to me? Now, again, I can't answer that for you because you're you and I'm me. But I, I've gone through this process. I used to, you know, I used to watch. This is true story. When I was 50 pounds heavier, I used to watch on average six to eight hours of TV every night. I would pretty much put the TV on seven o' clock and watch it until two in the morning. Okay. And so it was kind of boring, you know what I mean? Like, when you really think about it. Because what do I do? When I was, I was sitting there, I'd eat, eat, watch tv, eat, eat, eat, watch tv, eat, you know. So, you know, again, it's no surprise that getting a handle on my nighttime snacking was my number one thing I worked on. And you know, months afterwards, after focusing on it, a lot of times my nights would look like. Well, I started playing guitar. I did yoga at night. Sometimes I'd read, sometimes I play video games. I still watch tv. Just. I cut the time way down. And I started doing other things during the key parts that were really genuinely interesting to me that I like doing. So that's my suggestion to deal with boredom eating or any other emotional eating. That's a starting point too. I'm not saying like that's just the, the only thing you do. But that's a starting point to it because again, emotional eating, it's always. Oh, thanks, Vicki. I saw that. Yeah, Veronica, I'm gonna email her today. I saw she got the program and I think she said it's working now, but I will check in with her too. Oops, sorry if I'm missing your questions on Tik Tok. It's just, it like jumps ahead weirdly. Okay, there we go. But I am answering these and I am live. Sometimes people think I'm not Lies. I could start talking too long but I am. Vicki says a circle now available non members to download an access. No, I. I saw that. Vicki too. Not yet. So this week I'll. I'll get it going for people. Circle's a community app that I'm starting to use. And if you're a client, you're already in there and go check it out. It's all been tweaked up. It's awesome and it's getting better every day. But even if you're not a Client, I'm going to make it available to you. And I got a bunch of cool stuff in there. Just got to fix a couple things in there. So I will let you know. Yeah, Vicki, he won't, he won't be able to get in there. So I'll get that fixed this week. So as long as on the email list, he should be fine. Estelle says hi. What's your philosophy on cheat days? Well, my philosophy on cheat day starts with the idea that I don't like the word cheat days at all. So I don't. You know, I always joke if you call them adultery days, you wouldn't like that, would you? I don't think cheating has any positive associations for us. I don't like that word at all. Now, in program yourself, then we structure our eating. That's the core of the eating blueprint. And we have clean and pleasure days. So instead of cheat days, call them pleasure days. And there's a lot more behind it than that. It's not just a name change. It's a philosophical. It's a much different thing. But I, I do believe that having pleasure days, if you want to call them cheat days, whatever. I don't like cheat days. I don't like the, the. I don't like the energy behind it at all. So that's why I hesitate to use that. But one part I will absolutely, I do agree on. I think people need variety. I think most people, they start their diet on day one and expect they're going to get to day 300 being perfect, it's just, it's too long. It's not going to do it. So I would much rather. And again, in programming self, then it's not about the losing weight. It's about living at your goal weight. So right from day one, we're focused on maintenance and we're focused on how can I live at this weight forever. And I think part of that is having the ability to say, well, yeah, I'm not gonna have a cookie now, but I can have a cookie this weekend. I mean, I kind of. That's. That's what I do. My clean days are basically Monday through Friday afternoon. And the weekend's more my pleasure days. And so I will. I don't really eat much sugar, you know, flour. I don't eat processed food, you know, I don't fat. I don't, I don't eat a lot of. On my clean days, Monday through Friday. Now, again, sometimes I do. Sometimes the stuff just gets in there. But most of the time, those Days my intention is to be cleaner. And then when the pleasure days come, I'm more likely to eat some sugar, flour, you know, just different shit. So I think that's really important because again, I think it's really important a, to be able to look forward to okay, you know, a couple days isn't that hard to know, like oh, okay, I'm going to say no the ice cream today, but I know I can have some on the weekend if I really want it. I feel like that's really helpful. But then almost more importantly is that after the pleasure day comes back to clean days. So every single week I practice getting back on track, you know. So for example, this, this weekend matched up perfect for me. So every Monday I practice getting back on track. And so this week here, you know, again, I kind of overdid with the food a little bit this weekend, but here's Monday, I'm right back on track, you know, but because I practice that every single week. So in my opinion, the most important skill of living at your goalway is the ability to get back on track quickly. And I think practicing of having clean and pleasure days, having these two types of days I think is really important to help do that. So again, I, I'm not going into cheat days and all the. There's a lot of stuff done pack with cheat days that I think is really unhelpful. So again I just kind of restart and I in the program we talk about pleasure days and what it means and it's redefinition. But hopefully that helps answer that question. Well, Nadia says what about drinking alcohol casually, socially, but how that leads to overeating? What's the strategy? Yeah, true for some people when they drink alcohol, they're going to overeat, you know, not for everyone. Again, everyone's different. So we got to figure out for each person if for you. Now again, this is why I like to say I think it's important that we understand our own situation, you know, because one person might drink some alcohol and not overeat. Another person might drink alcohol and that becomes triggers them to overeat a lot. Right? And so for that person, it's going to be important to get a handle on this. If they want to lose weight, does that mean you have to stop drinking alcohol? Not necessarily. You know, you could work on drinking alcohol and not eating. Right. So how can I do that? Listen folks, if you practice behaviors, you get better at them. But the first thing is dieting has not really taught you to think about your, your weight as a behavioral issue, which is, I think, very intentional because then they keep you off the track. But once you start looking at your eating and your weight are really about. They're really behavioral issues. How do you deal with behavioral issues? Well, you practice doing what you want to do, and you say, well, I practice stop doing things too. Yeah, but that's. Technically, that's doing something new, too. Anyways. But the point being that, yeah, if drinking is an issue, then you work on resolving it. Now, what's that mean? We're looking at improving. It doesn't mean you can't drink ever again unless that's your goal. It could be. You know, I did this, you know, because I used to drink a lot and then I would eat a lot, and I said, well, I. I did cut the drinking down quite a bit, but I still drank consistently, you know, through. Through my weight loss. So. Because I would drink, but I wouldn't let myself go crazy with eating. So, again, we can do a lot of stuff when we get specific and clear on what we're doing, how we can change our behaviors on the results that follow is really pretty epic, you know, but anyways, all right, when we get out of here, I got a lot of stuff I got to get done. If you're not my world, please click the link in my bio. Go get the free hypnosis session. Watch the training I made for you. Read the emails I send you again. 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