Program Yourself Thin Live 6-12-26

Hey everyone, welcome to today's Program Yourself Thin podcast. Today we're talking about find the one thing that keeps you motivated. This is really the starting point of any successful weight management journey. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret right at the beginning that wanting to look better ain't enough. Wanting to look better ain't that thing. If it was, you'd already be at your goal weight. The problem is that you would like to look better, but you don't really put it above all else. So the goal is to find the thing that keeps you motivated even when you're down, even when you're tired, even when you're sick. Even when you're discouraged and wanting to look better is just not that thing. Because when you don't feel well, you don't really give a shit. And that's usually what triggers the unhelpful behaviors is when you say to yourself, I don't even care. So we need to find the thing that you never say that about. And there are things like that. And I will give you a hint as to what they may be. I would suggest instead of looking at how you want to look better, start looking at the relationships that are most important to you. Most people will do more for other people than they will for themselves. So when you start to look at the relationships that are most important to you in your life and you start to consider how not just your weight— because you have to understand that the weight is just a reflection of how you're eating and living. So it's not the weight that's affecting the relationships in your life. As much as it is how you feel physically, mentally, and emotionally from how you're eating, how you're living, and yes, what you weigh. But it's primarily based on how you're eating and how you're living. So again, we can look at the accumulated effect that it's going to make you heavier and you don't like how you look, perhaps. But I want you to zoom back a little bit and recognize that if you're consistently overeating unhealthy foods and living an unhealthy lifestyle, that your weight reflects. Here's the big problem. The eating, the overeating, the unhealthy lifestyle. This is the key thing to focus on because it is this that is making you less of the person that you want to be. And this is what's affecting your relationships. So when you look at the most important relationships in your life, how are they being impacted by you feeling tired? Feeling discouraged, feeling heavy? How are the relationships that are most important to you in your life being affected by your frustration, your annoyance, your anger at yourself, your feeling down because of how you eat and how you live? See, most people look at just the weight piece and say, I don't like how I look. But I want you to take a step back and notice how you feel day to day because of your habitual behaviors. See, a lot of people don't look at it like you are living in a perpetual hangover. Yes, you don't like how you look. Perhaps I will give you that. But I want you to zoom back a little bit and see that your day-to-day reality is basically living in a never-ending hangover because you're overeating the wrong foods consistently and you're not living the healthiest lifestyle that you can. And so that is causing you to show up in the relationships that are most important to you, for your kids, for your parents, for your partners, for your coworkers, for your friends, for your colleagues. You're not showing up as the person who you can truly be if you're not nourishing yourself, if you're not living a healthier lifestyle. And sometimes that can be something that's more painful. And becomes the motivation that really pushes you forward. Beyond that, we can start to look at your longevity. We can tap into your survival instinct because the way that you eat over your life is probably going to be the number one factor that's going to influence how long you're alive. Literally, how long you're going to be on this earth is primarily dictated outside of some outlier experience is primarily going to be dictated by how you eat and how you live. So how long do you want to live? And when you tie that together, is that more motivating than just wanting to wear skinny jeans? And then finally, we stop on your quality of life in general. How is your quality of life going to improve if you start to nourish yourself, if you start to live a healthier lifestyle, if you start to look at act and become the person who you truly want to be? How much more enjoyment can you soak out of life if you start to live a healthier lifestyle, eat more effectively? How much better can you feel? That's what I want you to think about. These are the levels of motivation that move you forward, even when you get discouraged, even when you get frustrated, even when you're tired. Just wanting to look better is not enough. Now, please understand that in addition to these motivations we just talked about, you can layer over wanting to look better too. There's nothing wrong with that. It's just a problem when that's the only thing, um, that we focus on. Okay. So start to go deeper into how you think about what you're doing here and give it more meaning by realizing that taking control of your eating your lifestyle and your weight is going to have a way bigger impact on you beyond just looking better. You're going to feel better and you're going to become a better version of yourself. And if you want to go deeper into this mindset and really embody this motivation, then click the link in my bio or go to programyourselfthin.com and go get the free hypnosis session that I made for you. It's there for you just waiting and it is, uh, completely free. Go check that out. Uh, and if you are in— if you're on TikTok, you just click my face and my picture. What the hell? What the hell? That's weird. Computers are weird. Anyways, yes, if you have any questions, feel free to ask them. Feel a little distracted there, sorry. But yes, here's the link if you're over in Face— Facebook or YouTube. Uh, and if you have any questions, feel free to ask them. I know A lot of people, a lot of people kind of summer mode, myself included. School's about to end. I got, uh, kind of my kiddies about done, so, uh, looking forward to that. But I hope you're all having a nice Friday, getting ready for the weekend. Uh, and yeah, usually that's not a time people want to think about weight, but, uh, I always feel like if you can think about weight even at times like on a Friday right in the beginning of summer that you're doing something right. Because I think the right way to think about weight is that it's inspiring. You know, it's exciting to feel as good as you can. And unfortunately, and I think this is a product of the diet industry and very intentional, most people, when they think about their weight, any aspect of it, what they weigh, what they want to weigh, how to get there, any time people kind of get within 50 yards of weight in general, they usually get this negative— it's almost like a, like a buzzer goes off in their nervous system because you, your whole life, you've conditioned when you think about weight, pain, failure, frustration, deprivation. And so now at this point, the diet industry is programmed into your nervous system, this negative stress response every time you think about your weight. And, you know, one of the reasons I get on here every day is to give you just a different way to kind of approach it. And one aspect of that is to kind of not take it so seriously, not get so I don't know, people take the weight thing so seriously and they're white-knuckling and struggling, and it's such a tense process for most people. And I don't think that's any way to really achieve the results you want. I think the best results in life kind of come from, uh, what's that song? Hang on Loosely, right? You need to be able to hang on loosely so that you can hang on longly, because if you hold on tight That's short term. You know, you can only, you can only hold on tight. You can only strain and stress for so long until you finally run out of steam. And so, you know, the biggest part of managing your weight is not the initial, you know, uh, the initial, uh, changing everything that you can do for a little bit. It's the long-term strategies, the long-term focus of how can I change my eating, my lifestyle, my weight long-term. And that's something most people never consider or think about because again, our whole lives we've been conditioned by the diet industry to think about weight loss, you know, in terms of days and weeks and months. We just think about weight loss in a timeframe that big. And that, that actually traps us. It's a prison. Well, prison. Prison for your mind. So, Lois, well, it says your message today is so on point. Thank you, thank you. I try, I try and give you all some messages that don't get normally to hear, because if you get these messages enough and you start thinking in terms of them, uh, they will have a huge impact on you. I promise, I promise you. I've been doing this a long time. I've been doing this over 20 years professionally, you know. Irish man says— Irish ma'am says keto has changed my life. Nice, great job. Um, how long you been doing it? How long has it changed your life for? That's great though. Amy says, hi, I already told you this, I'm so happy I found you. Peace at last. You are a gem. Thank you for all you do, uh, for us. Thank you, Amy, I appreciate that. Yeah, it's, uh Is that gonna work? That's weird. Uh, yeah, well, I appreciate you saying that. That's what I'm here for. I am here to help you. Yeah, that's kind of an interesting way to look at it. It's almost like how to manage your weight through peace instead of the fight. I think that's a big core of what I'm saying. So yeah, but yeah, Irishman, how long— how long you been doing keto for? How's it going? How's it going over there? If you don't know, I, I'm usually not a huge fan of keto, but some people, you know, I think this is a good— it's important to remember this when it comes to dieting. With any giant population of people, there's always going to be outliers. So in any big population of people, there's going to be some people that just thrive on keto, some people that thrive on Weight Watchers, some people that thrive on carnivores, some people that thrive on vegan, whatever. Pick your, pick your thing. In a big enough population, there's gonna be some people that thrive on it, and that's fine. But you need to be able to recognize the difference between an outlier who does well on a plan and the majority of people. And you can go test that plan out, but if it doesn't really work for you, don't feel like that's the only plan. Don't feel like that's the way you have to do it, um, because for most people, keto is silly. It's a silly thing to keep up Keto is not even, you know, keto, if you look at the history of it, was made for epileptics, you know. So, so being in ketosis your whole life is kind of an odd thing. There aren't a lot of populations that live in ketosis their whole life. Even the Inuit Eskimo that they always reference, it turns out they got a genetic mutation that keeps them from going into ketosis. So the idea of living your life in ketosis is kind of an odd thing to orient your whole reality around. You know. And so again, I tend to say when you're going to make a decision about your diet, which is probably the most important decision you'll make in your life, that you may want to make that decision based on some facts that are built on giant population studies. I think one of the best studies that I reference is the Blue Zones. And this was a study they did years ago where they wanted to find the populations, modern population with the highest number of people that got to be 100 years old. They picked the top 5 and went and studied them. And again, these are 100-year-olds that are living a high quality of life. These aren't 100-year-olds that are, you know, just laying there. These are people who still have a high quality of life. And without exception, every one of these populations consisted of a high-carb, low-protein diet, which is virtually what every society has lived off of. In the agricultural age. And so, and probably before that, again, there was more variance then. But so anyway, so, so again, this idea of really just living on protein and meat is really an odd one. And you really only see it happening in outlier situations where people have no access to healthy natural carbs. But given the opportunity and the access to healthy natural carbs, most humans are going to eat those a a lot of them. They are not your enemy. And, you know, I end up landing on this at least some point every single day. But we are in the times of protein maxing, and it's just another phase, folks. It's just another phase to sell you more bullshit. Maxing your protein is not going to make you lose weight. It may support it in some strange ways, but it's not the magic bullet that's going to make you lose weight. So if you go and buy a, you know, a latte with protein in it, that's really just a milkshake with a halo effect around it. It's still just a milkshake, you know. So again, we live in the times of trickery and misinformation. And right now, protein's the it girl. It's the main focus. I was joking yesterday, maybe peptides are coming up behind it. I don't know. But this is what the diet/food industry— because they're the same thing, diet/food/cigarette industry, actually, they're all— it's the exact same industry. It's one big industry anyways. But that's another story. But, um, again, this protein craze that we're in now is silly, and, um, I don't know what the science behind it is if you're looking at population studies. So there we go. And we never heard from Irishman about how long they were doing keto changing their life. So I'm going to assume that keto changed their life because they've been doing it for 2 weeks and they've lost 20 pounds. Uh, great. Let me know where you're at next month. Let me know where you're at next year. I bet you won't be doing keto, and if you are, you're an extreme outlier then. Uh, what's up, Lois? Lois says, one thing I've noticed since losing 38 pounds and getting my health and energy back is people that used to ignore me are coming over and talking. Interesting. Yeah, that can happen, and that can happen for a number of reasons. You know, it may not just be weight loss. It may be that you are exuding a completely different energy now. You know, when we get our health and energy back, you know, they say 93% of communication is nonverbal. So when all of a sudden you embody this, this healthier more vibrant lifestyle and body and energy, it precedes you, you know. It communicates in ways that you can't even understand. So that's very interesting to say though. I've heard that many times. I think that's a, a pretty typical experience, you know, and I think there's a lot of reasons for why that happens. Uh, King Smears says, this is a great focus group. Always look forward to listening to your approach on weight. I've always been so hyper-focused. Um, yeah, I get that. I appreciate you saying that. We're trained to be hyperfocused folks because the diet industry, they really— the main organizing principle they operate on is the one thing. So the diets know that they're communicating and selling to people that are overwhelmed, right? Most people that are overweight and out of control with their weight and just want to change it, they feel kind of overwhelmed. That's their typical state. So the plan they have to sell you has to seem really simple conceptually. This is why you see every single diet is built around one thing. Weight Watchers, just count your points. Uh, keto, just don't eat carbs. Uh, intermittent fasting, just only for 12 hours, 16 hours, whatever. Um, carnivore, just eat meat. Vegan, just don't eat meat. It's always one thing. And what that does psychologically is conceptually it's very simple. It's just one thing you have to think is, oh, I not eat carbs, that's easy. And so on one side of the coin we have don't eat carbs, but on the other side it's completely transformed the way that you eat. So conceptually, it seems really simple. In actuality, it's very, very difficult. And so a lot of times what the diet industry does is it trains us to focus on one thing and hyperfocus on it. So now you're going to drastically count your calories. Now you're going to count every point. You're going to restrict carbs 100%. And so dieting trains you to be hyperfocused. I think you're better off going the opposite direction. There's a time and a place to hyperfocus. Let me just make that point. But I think dieting has made us way unbalanced, where most dieters only know how to hyperfocus on one thing at a time. And I think you need to balance that out with being able to see the big picture, because in Program Yourself Thin, we won't— Program Yourself Thin is a holistic, comprehensive approach to mastering your weight. So it's big, it's big picture. There's absolutely opportunity in time to hyperfocus on specific things. But it's all within the context of the big picture. And the big picture, in a way, can kind of be summarized with this, uh, Gold Weight Pyramid. All right. And so again, where most— where the Gold Weight Pyramid is, we focus on changing our mindset, our lifestyle, and our eating. And most diets really just give you about this much of the pyramid, that tiny little tip up there that says, don't eat carbs, don't eat till noon, uh, count every point, right? It's just that little thing that's telling you what to do. But they never teach you all the other pieces that go along with it. Because any diet, I suppose— and you've all experienced this— you've counted your points, you've restricted, you've done what you're supposed to do in the diet for a little while. But then what happens? What happens? Why do you stop? Why does it stop? Do you not like losing weight? Hey, you like losing weight, you do it for a little while, then you stop. Why? Well, I'm going to assume a lot of it has to do with your mindset, your lifestyle, and your eating not supporting you. I don't know why this fucking camera doesn't focus better anymore. Um, so yeah, you'd have to admit these are certainly the mindset— you've never even focused on mindset, folks. Don't— I say this every day, I'm not going to go into it too deep today, but again, if you're serious about your weight— and I don't know if you are, you know, because here's another thing, you don't got to be serious about your weight. Your weight is one of the most personal decisions you get to make. You get to choose what you're gonna weigh. It's one of the most personal freedoms we have in life. You get to choose exactly how much you're gonna weigh. Your choice. And you can choose whatever you want. You don't have to lose weight. If you're happy being overweight, be happy being overweight and go live your life. Enjoy yourself. But if you want to lose weight Don't you think you're gonna have to deal with your mindset somewhat? I mean, don't you think the way you think about stuff, the way you think about food, the way you think about changing your behaviors, the way you think about you— don't you think that that is going to have some impact on your behaviors and your weight ultimately? This is the part I don't understand. I see very smart people talking about weight all the time, and, um, a lot of times I see them just skipping the mindset piece. I don't get it. I don't, I don't understand that. Do you think that just because willpower, I'm just going to fight against myself and force myself to do it, that that's the plan forward? That— I don't know. I, I don't understand. No one ever answers this question. It makes me crazy. Can one of you dieters just tell me like, yeah, I'm gonna fight against myself and I'm gonna win? Can you, can you just say it out loud? What is your plan? Can someone tell me their plan to lose weight? If you're a dieter, can you please share it with me? Is it some form of, I'm gonna wake up on a Monday and just start following my plan? Is that the plan forward? I don't know. I live in my own little fairy tale world of Program Yourself Then, so I, I don't, I don't know. What do you think though, if you're just a dieter? What is your plan, that you're gonna wake up one day and magically start following the plan perfectly? Well, it says, I didn't think about the nonverbal messages I do. When I weighed more, I tried to blend into the background, had no confidence. Now I'm happier, more confidence, I'm enjoying life again. Yeah, well, of course that matters, right? You know, yeah, of course. And again, what I'm trying to say, this is— see, this is what people miss, right? Because everyone's so fixated on what you look like, okay? But here's what I'm trying to say: when you have a good day of eating, you feel a lot better that day. Before you lose a pound, when you have a good day of eating, you feel better. You feel lighter, you feel more energized, you can think more clearly, your balance, your emotions are typically more stable, you know. And that is communicated when you feel better about yourself. Just carry yourself differently. It's like you could see it in people, you know. Yeah, Rebecca says, yeah, there usually is no plan. Thank you, Rebecca. I just appreciate you saying that. I'm not judging anything. I'm just, I'm pointing out to me what seems like a giant hole You know, it's like, it's kind of like imagine you get a flat tire and you want to change the tire, but you don't have a jack. Well, what are you going to do? It's like a key part. You need the, you need the spare tire, you need the tire iron, and you need the jack. Okay. And if you don't have the, if you don't have the jack, what are you going to do? And to me, the jack is like the mindset piece of this puzzle. So it's like, if you're serious about your weight, and I say that not to be a wiseass, I think most people aren't very serious about their weight, which is totally fine. You don't have to be serious about your weight. It's your choice. You get to do what you want to do. So own that. But if you do care about your weight, if you're, if you're going to tell me you're serious about your weight, then how are you going to just ignore the mindset piece? That's what I don't understand. That, that if someone has any insight into that, I would love to hear it. What is your plan for the mindset piece? You either think it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what my mindset is, Jim. I'm just going to do the right thing. Fine, then say that. But I just want you to take a second and reflect on that, because that's what I don't understand. I know most people just don't think about it. I get that. But once I kind of bring it up to you and I say, okay, Dieter, what is your plan to deal with your mindset, your moods? Your motivation, what you say to yourself, what you do when you screw up. What are you going to do? Rebecca says frustration will set in, you go back to old habits, right? I mean, I'm not saying anything that we don't already know. I'm just kind of highlighting it because I feel like somehow we let the most important piece kind of fade into the background. You know, I was talking this the other day, one of the guys I really respect him, I think he's so wonderful. I liked his old books a lot more than his new book., David Kessler, and he was the head of the FDA, and he wrote The End of Overeating, and I thought it was a brilliant book. And his newest book, though, is Diets, Drugs, and Dopamine, and that book just pissed me off. It's not because it was a lot about GLPs, which I have no problem with GLP-1s. What I have a frustration with is this guy, who I consider to be one of the foremost experts on weight on the planet— how can you write an entire fucking book in 2026 about weight and And not— I didn't even look in the back to see if mindset was ever even mentioned, but if it was, I didn't see it. And it's like, how are we going to have a discussion about weight without any discussion of mindset or what your psychology is about it? You know, and again, it brings me back just to put it in a different context. It's kind of like, to me, I always say like diets are like just say no to drugs in the '80s. Remember Nancy Reagan's thing with that? And so that's how we'll deal with drugs. Just say no. And it's like, well, no, you know what I mean? That's why there's no Just Say No centers, you know, to deal with that, because you know you need a more, a more robust approach to deal with that than just saying no. And so if you go to how do you deal with addiction, for example, it's a more holistic, comprehensive approach than just saying no. So again, I just, I don't understand the psychology of thinking that one day you're going to wake up and then you're just going to follow the plan perfectly. I don't get it, but I guess it's not my place to get it. But anyway, so I think there's, there's a better way to go about things. So again, if you want to find it though, again, go click the link in my bio and go to programyourselfthin.com. Uh, go get the free hypnosis session I give you. Uh, I am putting the finishing touches on a new training, uh, that I'm about to do. Uh, it's really exciting. I can't wait. And I will be sending this out. I don't think I'm gonna get it done today. I don't think I might, I don't know. Um, I did get the book recorded. The audiobook is officially finished, so that will be uploaded this weekend by the latest, I believe, unless any glitches come up. But it is all recorded, so that'll be uploaded for all the members of the program into the members area. And, um, it will be up on Audible, uh, I don't know, next week probably. I don't know what that process really entails, um, but that's all finished. That's exciting. And the next big thing coming is this training. It is called Reprogrammed How to live at your goal weight without the fight. It is quite a training, I gotta say. So I'm excited to share that with you, uh, probably next week, if I'm being honest. Probably next week. But, uh, that'll be there. So again, just go get that free hypnosis session in my world and I'll let you know about it. No one gives you more free things than me. Yeah, Digital Encore says magical thinking. Yes, dieting is magical thinking. Dieting's magical thinking, folks. That's why it hasn't worked for you. It's not because you're a bad person. It's not because you're weak-willed. It's not because you're a addicted, it's because it's magical thinking. It's— to put it a different way, dieting is an ineffective strategy. It's a strategy that doesn't work. Or better to say, it's a strategy that does work perfectly because dieting is not on your side, folks. All the diets you've been fed your whole life are all owned by the big food companies. The diet industry is not a health industry. It's a food industry. Weight Watchers was owned by Heinz. Jenny Craig was owned by Nestlé. Atkins Food Products is owned by the same company that owns Cinnabon and Auntie Anne's pretzels. SlimFast, owned by the same company that owns Ben Jerry's ice cream. These companies do not want you to lose weight and think like a thin, healthy person and eat whole natural foods. They want to keep you trapped, and they're very good at doing it. So the dieting strategy, it's not that it doesn't work. It's just that it's not meant to work for you to lose weight. It's meant to confuse you and keep you overweight. And it works very well.. And so the main thing missing from your weight loss approach up until now is that you have zero mindset piece to it. And so what that means is that you either think that mindset doesn't matter or you're just going to override your mindset with willpower. I don't know. But again, I would have to say that, yeah, it's probably magical thinking. Dieting is never going to work for you. It's never worked for you and it never will. Not because you're a bad person, because it is a bad strategy. And bad strategies can't be overcome. They get changed. That's the secret. So the answer to managing your weight is not to diet more, not to diet harder, not to diet in a new way. It's to stop fucking dieting. Stop dieting. Never diet again. That's the first step to actually living at your goal weight. Stop dieting. Dieting is keeping you trapped. Being overweight. Uh, what's up, Lynn? Lynn says, I do the best I can with what I have. Quit overthinking it and keep asking myself if I really need that bad choice and how I feel after I eat it. Uh, yeah, Lynn, I like it. That's the— that's the thing, right? And again, if you're— if you're like most of us here, we're all overthinkers. Not a bad thing. It's not a problem to be an overthinker. Uh, the secret is you have to learn how to utilize your overthinking. You're overthinking is a real gift. It's like having a supercomputer, but if you put bad programs into a supercomputer, you just run bad programs faster and more powerfully. So the secret, if you're an overthinker, is not to stop overthinking. It's to overthink things that make you your goal weight, you know? And that's what Program Yourself Then is built around. It's to give you the ideas, the strategies, the technique to live at your goal weight by thinking like a thin, healthy, happy person. And, uh, it's not rocket science. It's really not. It's all pretty self-evident and obvious once you hear about it. But that's the challenge of being a human, you know. Uh, what's up, Charles Thibault? Charles Thibault, I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right. Um, thoughts on EMDR when wanting to binge? Uh, I don't know. I don't know enough about EMDR. Uh, I've The way you're saying it, it almost sounds like you have an EMR, EMDR machine to use at the ready anytime you want to use it. That's almost how I'm kind of interpreting that. Um, because if you're talking about going to the therapist's office and doing some EMDR on cravings or binges, I don't know. I have not read anything on that. I, I know a bit about EMDR. Um, EMDR is, it's light, it's light therapy. You kind of watch a light and it It's kind of a hypnosis thing in a way. It's related, and I think in a sense, but the idea is it kind of goes right to your nervous system. It communicates with your subconscious mind is the theory. Um, I've never used it. Uh, I've had clients that have used it in different capacities. Um, but I, I wouldn't be able to answer that. Um, oh, YouTube has EMDR music. Okay. Well, yeah, but I mean, like, if you're doing EMDR music, see, my impression is that EMDR is really best used with the, the visuals, what's making it work. Um, and there's a therapist there kind of guiding you. So my impression has always been that those are the two main things of it. So listening to EMDR music— oh, wait a second, that might— you might be talking about something totally different than I'm talking about. EMDR music might be like a totally different thing. Yeah, okay, so it does it, it does it auditorily. So, so part of what makes EMDR work is, is the, it's the left, left and right side of your brain's activating at the same time, and you're activating that through visual. You're watching it kind of go back and forth and it activates different parts of your brain. So I guess the, the music piece of it, the theory is that audio-wise it goes left to right and it activates it. That's interesting. I don't know anything about that, just learned about it. So Um, couldn't speak to that. However, I can tell you, knowing, understanding hypnosis— and this is why I say EMDR to me is absolutely hypnosis adjacent— and so EMDR music used in that way, I like it because if you're wanting to binge, it to me, it's like almost like EFT. You know, if you all know about EFT at all, I think of EFT as a hypno— and I'm a hypnotist, so I see everything that way. But I think of, um, EFT as hypnosis as well, because I think a lot of times when people go into a binge state or a craving state, um, they don't know how to get out of it. And so if you're in a binging state and you go and listen to an EMDR audio that calms you down and relaxes you and, you know, does this stuff that activates both sides of the brain, it's going to change your state, and there's a great chance you could come out of the trance. Um, but you could do the same thing tapping because it changes your focus, changes your state. You can do the same thing doing— listen to a hypnosis session. I think all of those things would support you changing your state, um, and it could, could help you. So I give them all the thumbs up, uh, to test out and see how they work for you. Uh, Lynn says, I redirect my overthinking to thinking ahead with meal prepping. Lynn, that's what I do. That's what I do. I have used my overthinking to really obsessed on solutions. I am obsessed with solutions and I'm addicted to it. I love solutions so much. It drives me. I just, I absolutely love it. I'm, I'm insatiable. I just binge on solutions, solution thoughts, solution mindset, solution questions, uh, solution strategies, solution habits. I'm just obsessed with it. Solution programming. I'm obsessed with it because I say, how good can things get? How good can I make things? How easy can I make things? How comfortable can I make things? I, I'm just obsessed with those types of questions. So yes, that in a nutshell is Program Yourself Thin, is that we learn to use our overthinking to drive us in the direction we want to go. And again, you've got this super powerful sports car, but you just never learned to drive it. That's how most overthinkers are with their brain. You never learned how to run your mind to get what you want. And once you learn how to do it, it's. It's a game changer and it's very addicting. I, I'm, I'm addicted to it. That's why I'm able to live at my goal weight too for over 30 years. Because although I've been at the same weight for 30 years minus one blip I had, you know, uh, 15 years ago, that 30 years, I'm not at that goal weight just because I want to stay at that weight. I'm at that goal weight because I keep optimizing what I'm doing. And so I'm at the weight, but things keep improving beyond the weight. I want to point that out, that your weight is just one metric. It's just one data point. There's your energy levels, there's your stamina, there's your strength, there's your flexibility, there's your mobility, um, there's, you know, your ability to breathe well, there's your relaxation, there's your calm, there's your breathing, there's your gratitude, there's your quiet mind. I mean, there's just so many other things that it's just like a never-ending, like, how good can you feel? You know, that's kind of the idea, you know. Uh, Carolyn says you should write a solutions book. You're right. Well, I kind of did. It's called The Tao of Living at Your Goal Weight. That's a solutions book. This book is so awesome. I just read it because I did the audio for it, and, uh, man, this book's good. Go get this book. I'm telling you, it's like— it's not even $10. Over at Amazon, you could have it by Monday, right? This book's so good. So yeah, but, but that is a book on solutions, but I got more books on solutions coming too. That's why I'm so excited. I am closing up, um, a big, big project that's really been on my mind for literally years. Literally years. Um, so I almost don't— I can't even imagine what it's going to be like to not have this project over my head. I'm so excited. And, uh, the next focus is really kind of a pass-through, program yourself then to optimize it another time. Um, and then it's into the next book, and, uh, can't wait. Yeah, Lynn says, I love that book. Thank you. Yes, a lot of people love this book. I'm telling you, go— I'm not lying. You can go to Amazon and see we got over 90 reviews. Um, I was at 5 stars and some people sandbagged me, uh, with some shitty star reviews. That's okay though. They say people believe like reviews when there's a couple bad ones more than they believe just all good ones. So I guess I'll just believe that. But yeah, this book's awesome though. The reason this book's so awesome is it's really the embodiment of my 30 years of studying this, and it's written in a very specific way because it's not, um, what makes this book different. Most, most weight loss stuff is people telling you what to do. Right? Do this, eat this, work out this way, whatever. And this book here is more about installing ideas that stick with you, that make you want to do the things you already know you should. And that's why it makes things— it so makes it so rare. Um, this book is 40 chapters, but each chapter is a page or two. Each chapter is a hypnotic story designed to go into your subconscious to change the way that you think about food food, to change your mindset, your ideas about lifestyle, your ideas about eating. And on top of it, this book actually takes you right through the entire program itself, then system, in a very kind of simple, easy way. So yeah, book's something else. Yeah, Carolyn said, I found it, I need to order. Yeah, go check it out. Uh, people loving it, it's really good. I, I, again, I just read it and I'm like, I love it. Of course, I will say negativity bias, there's a couple things I would have changed But I guess that's the, that's the thing of writing a book. Of course, that's a good thing of printing your own book is I can— I mean, I don't print it myself, I put it through Amazon, but I could make changes and change it tomorrow, which I'm going to. That's, that's another— I'm going to re-go through that book because there's a couple things I would have changed, some different words. Anyways, anyways, Rebecca says people are mean. That's all right, I don't mind. The one I will say, the funniest like kind of bad review I got, she gave me 1 star, maybe 0 stars, I forget. But she goes, she goes, hey, this is just a book of poetry. I can see how it might look that way. But, um, this book is actually modeled after two other books. One is the Tao Te Ching, which is a book on Taoism, which is a Chinese philosophy. And, um, it was a very inspirational book for me in my life. So part of it's based on that. And the other part is based on the 101 books. These were books back in the day. It was kind of a personal development book. Oh yeah, it just restricted me on TikTok because I mentioned a book. Um, the other book is the 101 books. I don't know if you ever saw those, but they're just like one page. They're easy to read, and I wanted to make it that way because this is the type of book you can literally just open up to any page, read it, get something out of it, you know. And it was, it was literally written that way, um, to do that, you know. Yeah, Lynn says, I love it because I don't have to read it all in one day. Yeah, exactly. Um, you could read it all in one day and just come back to it. I have people that regularly just come back to it, see what's on it, um, what they open up to. And it's kind of cool because every time you open it up again, it almost feels like that was the chapter you were meant to open up to. You know, it's kind of weird like that, but, uh, very much like that. All right everyone, I'm gonna get out of here. Got a lot of stuff to do. Uh, again, if you're in the program, uh, the audio files will be up for the— for this book will be up in the, the members area, uh, soon. Keep an eye out for that. And, uh, yeah, and if you're not in my world, click the link in my bio or go to programyourselfthin.com. Go get the free hypnosis session I made for you. Uh, if you like this, I'm here live every Monday through Friday, usually around noon Eastern, uh, to answer any questions you have and talk to you about a better way to manage your weight. And if you can't make the live, you can listen to it anytime you want, uh, as a podcast. It's a podcast as well. Go to any podcast platform, search Program Yourself Thin, it pops up. You can listen anytime you want. And, uh, yeah, and then remember, this book is available, so, uh, go get it. Sorry, everyone, have a super duper weekend and we'll talk soon. Bye.