Program Yourself Thin Live 6-6-26

Hi everyone, welcome to today's Program Yourself Thin podcast. Today we're talking about stop telling your brain what you don't want. One of the biggest mistakes dieters make is everything that you're thinking about is really about what you don't want. Starting right with your initial goal is that you want to lose weight. It seems like you're getting, but it's what you don't want. You have extra weight and you want to get rid of it. I don't want to be overweight. I've got to stop eating fast food, junk food, processed food. I've got to stop eating so many calories. I don't want to look this way. I don't want to wear these clothes. I don't want to look this way in the pictures. Everything's about what you don't want. And so you're looking at what you have or the situation as it is, and you're saying, I don't want that. But there's a big problem with this, the way your mind works. Your subconscious mind can't process negatives. To prove the point, use all your willpower and don't think about what I'm about to tell you. Do not think about a banana. Don't think about a banana. Now, of course, it's impossible. You have to think about a banana to make sense of what I'm saying. So before you can even not think about it, you've already thought about it. This is why it's a problem to define your goals in terms of what you don't want, because in your mind you keep referencing your overweight self that you don't want to be, rather than imagining what you want to look like, who you want to be, what size clothes you want to wear, what number you want to see on the scale. Instead, everything is pinned against what you don't want. That's what you're imagining in your mind. When you imagine losing weight, you imagine yourself being overweight and then not being that way. And it's not as clear of a picture as describing what you want to look like, what you want to live like, what you want to feel like. So the more specific you get about what you want to feel, the easier time you're going to have because your subconscious mind has a much clearer defined picture of exactly what it is that you want. And right now what's going on is you are focusing on what you don't want from the top goal of I want to lose weight, I don't want to be overweight, to how you're going to do it. So if you look at how you've tried to lose weight in the past, the main way you do it is you focus on what foods you have to stop eating. So subconsciously you're fixated on the very foods that you want to stop eating. So if you're doing keto, you're obsessed with carbs. If you're doing intermittent fasting, you're obsessed with food until noon. And on and on. And so we don't want to talk about what we're not going to do, what we're not going to eat. We want to focus on what we're going to do, what we're going to eat, and ultimately who we're going to be. And maybe most important with this process is where you land emotionally. And I can imagine all the reasons why you want to lose weight. I don't want to be stressed. I don't want to be feeling bad. I don't want to lack confidence. I don't want to feel you know, out of control. Most of the things that you want to lose weight for are things you don't want to feel anymore. Negative emotions you don't want to feel anymore. Again, it reflects this trap that you're focusing on what you don't want and you're staying stuck in that cycle. So instead, you start to articulate what you want to feel at your goal weight. I want to feel more confident. I want to feel happier. I want to feel more energized. I want to feel more momentum. I want to feel more happiness. More success, whatever it is that you want to feel from this journey, begin to articulate it in terms of what you want to feel and let that be your goal so that ultimately your goal starts to sound like this. I want to be X amount of pounds because when I'm that weight, I can be the best version of myself possible. I want to look this way. I want to wear this size clothes. I want to be able to go to this place here, get my picture taken and feel good about it. I want to be able to look at my picture and be happy and satisfied with what I see. I want to eat whole natural foods that nourish my body and make me feel good. I want to live a lifestyle that supports me in feeling energized and boosting my metabolism. So managing my weight is a lot easier. So notice how I just spoke. Everything I just said is about what you want defined down to granular detail, physically, mentally, emotionally, all the things you want.. And the more you spend time in this space defining and articulating what you want as opposed to what you don't want, it sends your subconscious mind a clear signal, a clear message. And you're going to find that you tend to have a lot more motivation when you think this way because you're fixated on what you're going to get in granular detail. And that's very motivating to your subconscious mind. So give this some thought. Start articulating your goal in more positive terms. And if you want support making this happen, click the link in my bio and go get the free hypnosis session I made for you, or go to programyourselfthen.com. And if you are over in Facebook or YouTube land, I will put that link in the chat. If you are on Facebook or if you're on TikTok, you just click the picture of me on the link. So here it goes. And if you have any questions, feel free to ask them. Uh, any weight loss questions are welcome. Any diets are happy to talk about. They're all welcome here. Even keto, my least favorite diet. I would say keto is my least favorite diet, although, boy, we've just transcended even keto and paleo and Atkins at this point. And now it's just become like a religion to just consume as much protein as possible. It is weird. I had a conversation recently with someone about this and holy shit, you know, listen, I think the protein thing's overdone to begin with. But I think in my opinion, my point of view, this protein thing has a very dark side to it, especially for men. Well, especially for women too, is that a lot of times the protein is creating a halo effect over the saturated fat. I have seen people more concerned with carbs than they are about saturated fats in butter, cheese, these types of things. They just don't even consider those as being harmful because it's got protein. I'm gonna get more protein and there's no carbs in it. And it's just a crazy world we live in. Remember this, the healthiest diet on the planet proven is a high carb, low protein diet. So I don't know if this, you know, feels crazy to hear, but it's, it's not even debatable. It's not even, this is not a hot take. The healthiest diet on the planet is a high carb, low protein diet. So I just want to say that I've been thinking about this just because this conversation really triggered me a little bit because I hear this over and over again. People so blinded by protein that they don't even consider the saturated fat they're consuming to pump their protein up. Never mind the extra calories. But anyways, I digress. What's up, Jane? Jane says, thanks so much, Jim, for all your help yesterday. I had a much happier and more successful rest of the day. Nice job, Jane. And that's just a great example. Again, I'm always, always proud of you for having the courage to share your struggles and your challenges. It always helps other people to be able to hear those and to hear how to respond to them. And so again, the main thing I want to point out to you, in addition to everything we talked about yesterday, is to notice how quickly you can get back on track, how quickly you can kind of fall off track, and how quickly you can get right back on track that day, the next day. That's the key thing to remember. Okay. It's not about never getting off track. It's not about being perfect. It's about being able to screw up, get off track, and then having the ability to quickly get yourself back on track. And so that is a skill. Unfortunately, you're going to do it a lot, but that's going to allow you to master it. And once you master that, the entire process of weight loss and living at your goal weight changes. All right. I try and mention that every single time I can because it's so important that the number one skill, in my opinion, is the ability to get back on track quickly. And I think people— dieters never give this enough focus because dieters are really trying to be perfect. So dieters, their plan subconsciously is, I'm going to start my diet and I'm going to be perfect until I get to my goal weight. And so it's like you're setting yourself up to walk this tightrope and there's just zero margin for error. So any mistake feels catastrophic and just blows you off course. And blown off course for people can be months to years. We can't have that. You can't have that. You can't be getting off track for months and years and be able to manage your weight. So, um, that's why I think being able to get back on track quickly— that's why in Program Yourself Thin, the redo rehearsal technique is the core of the entire program. It's more important than the hypnosis. It's more important than the goal weight blueprint. Um, it's the most important thing because it's the most important technique to get you back on track right that day. You learn from the mistake, get right back on track tomorrow, today. And when you start to do that, it's mathematically, it's, it's a, it's transformative. Completely different. Uh, what's up, Yvette? Yvette says, your thoughts on how hormones or lack of affect weight loss regarding menopause? Um, yeah, I mean, clearly, um you know, shifting bodies can have an impact on weight. I think the menopause conventional wisdom— I don't know how true that is. I will tell you, first off, absolutely, menopause or not, or menopausal hormone fluctuations or not, you can lose weight. My entire career, which is over 20 years, is primarily working with women in some phase of menopause, and I've watched them all lose weight. You know, whichever phase they're in. Uh, another stat I'll share with you that I think really kind of makes your brain hurt a little bit is that women in Japan, who I assume go through menopause, maintain the same BMI their whole lives. So is it, is it the menopausal hormones that's the problem, or is it the eating and the lifestyle and the stress? I don't know, you know, but, but if you say it's the hormones, then how do we, how do we explain Japan? How do we explain that? They have different physiology? Do they not have menopause? So I think it's important not to rest on that. I believe it's a limiting belief. I, again, please understand, I'm not, I'm not arguing that, that menopause can absolutely have an impact on your, how, how easy it feels, how quick you're able to lose weight. Right? So it might feel slower now because it might actually be. It might feel harder for different reasons because it might actually be. I'm not, I'm not arguing that that can possibly be true. I have never seen an explanation for what menopause will do in terms of preventing weight loss. I've never seen that, and I've never, I've never read about that. I've never seen like a specific thing that happens in menopause that prevents weight loss, and I've never seen it when I've worked with women in different phases of menopause. So I don't buy that. You know, again, there can be impacts. I mean, there's a lot of women in the world, so there's a lot of, you know, women are going to experience menopause differently. People's bodies are different. So I don't like to make blanket statements other than I will again point you to the women in Japan who statistically remain at the same BMI their whole lives as a starting point that maybe It is possible to control your weight even when you hit menopause and beyond. And I would like to start with that belief and mindset at the beginning because I think a lot of women are conditioned and trained to kind of accept without really challenging the idea that when menopause hits, you're going to gain weight. And I just don't think that has to be the case. Will it be different? Can it be harder? Sure. I don't disagree with that, but you can still do it. So that's kind of my thought on, um, on that without getting into all the details, you know, of every hormone that shifts and changes. Um, that says definitely slower. Yeah, but again, definitely slower. But, but that to me, I think, just reinforces the point I'm making that you all have to stop thinking like dieters. When you think like a dieter, all you do is think about weight loss. Dieting is about losing weight, and they've trapped you because that's not your goal. You don't want to lose weight. You want to live at your goal weight. So if your goal— let's just say you're a 50-year-old woman and smack dab in the middle of menopause, let's say, and you got 50 pounds to lose on top of it. We'll keep it simple. And you're losing weight slower than you ever did. Okay. So if you're going to approach this process with the goal being that I want to get to my goal weight and live there the rest of my life, Who gives a shit if you lose weight slower because you're going to do it one more time? So if in the past you could have lost 50 pounds in a year and now it's going to take you 2 years, who gives a shit? Because if you get to a point where you know how to transform your mindset, lifestyle, and eating so that you can live at your goal weight, what difference is that going to make? So the slower thing, again, that gets to a broader point because I think a lot of people are so discouraged by how long it's going to take that they sabotage themselves and never get started because they feel like it's going to take too long. But the other side of that is, again, most people think like dieters. So subconsciously you're thinking, I'm going to lose the weight and I'm gonna put it back on. That's how you think about weight loss if you're a dieter. Subconsciously you assume you're going to put it back on, and that's how most of you are thinking. And this is because that's what dieting is all about. Dieting is about doing something extreme to lose some weight for a little while and then going back to what you always do ultimately. Putting weight back on. So in Program Yourself, then it's all about living at your goal weight. We start focusing on maintenance on day 1. The goal isn't to lose weight, folks. The goal is to live at your goal weight. They're two totally different processes, because when it comes to dieting, the basic plan is you're gonna do something really extreme so you can lose weight quickly and get to your goal weight. So your goal is to get to your goal weight. My goal is to help you live at your goal weight. They're two totally different goals. So I think that's even more reason to make the living at your goal weight the more valuable one. Uh, Peekaboo Dairy says, 63 years old, can't lose weight. Um, I do not accept that. I do not accept that you can't lose weight. I've never seen someone who can't lose weight. I've never seen it in my life. I see people that won't lose weight, I've seen that, but I've never seen someone that can't lose weight. So peekaboo dairy, if I said I'll give you $1 million at the end of the month if you lose some weight, would you be able to lose some weight, do you think? Yeah, right? Because you'd be motivated. So I don't think it's that you can't lose weight. I think it's that you won't lose weight because you're not really motivated enough. Let me think of that. But I think it's important to be clear about what's going on because I think if we use loose language like I can't, And I saw it. I don't know if Julie's here today. I saw at the very end that I get a chance to respond, but she said something. I can't stop eating sugar. That ain't true. Stop using squishy, wobbly, confusing language. Can't stop eating sugar? What if I whack your thumb with a hammer the next time I see you eat sugar? Would you be able to stop then? You know, what if I said I'll give you a million bucks if you don't eat sugar this month? Would you be able to stop then? Yeah. So again, I mean, I say this all the time. Dieters really use language like 'I can't' all the time when in reality it's that they don't want to. I can't stop eating sugar. Oh my God. Yes, you can. Of course you could. You're just not motivated. You don't give a shit. Is that not true? Is there anyone here that can't stop eating sugar? Again, I'm being— I'm nitpicky with the language and I get it, but we have to speak very specific. So subconscious mind's very literal. No, Georgie said, I started a Mediterranean diet and lost 4 stone pretty quickly. I don't miss the carbs at all. Well, if you're, if you're consuming a Mediterranean diet, you're eating lots of carbs, so you're probably referring to refined carbs, I suppose. But, um, this is a big confusion that's very intentional, is that, um, the keto thing and all that shit really conflates carbs, refined carbs, with healthy natural carbs. But if you're eating a Mediterranean diet, you're eating a lot of carbs. So I don't know what to tell you, but congrats, great job. And that's quite an accomplishment, 4 stone. Nice job. Um, what's up, Hillary? Hillary says, hi Jim, I have not bought ice cream in a long time because I used to finish the carton bowl after bowl, not a bowl a night. Can you suggest how I can one day buy a carton with a normal pattern? Um, oh yeah, sure. Uh, again, if you make that a focus of yours, Hillary, I bet you'd make quick work of it. You know, again, most people, they have a habit of like eating a carton of ice cream and now the whole goal becomes, I can't eat a carton of ice cream. Well, how much do you want to eat? And how motivated are you? You know, what do you want to eat? What would be the ideal amount? What amount would be the sweet spot where you could enjoy the ice cream and still feel good afterwards? Cause you didn't stuff yourself or, you know, binge on it. And if you make that a focus and work on it again and program yourself, then we do the redo rehearsal technique. So let's just say we want to eat ice cream more moderately. What most people are going to do is they're going to go into the evening and hope that they eat it more moderately. And then when they don't, they're going to say, oh my God, I'm never going to be able to do this. See, I have no control. I got no willpower. I'm a— I'm an ice cream aholic. I can't control my behavior. And that's it. So basically, most dieters will give themselves one chance to eat ice cream moderately. You overeat ice cream your whole life. One day you wake up, you say, you know what, I'm going to eat ice cream more moderately. And you go into the evening and then you overeat it and you say, what's wrong with me? Well, nothing's wrong with you. You got to practice. You've got to practice eating moderately. How do you get good at anything in life? And you dieters are so crazy because you think you don't need to practice. Dieters think they don't need to practice anything. Dieters think you just tell them what to do and they'll just do it. Oh, yeah. Well, if that's the case, why stop at dieting? Why not play the piano, start playing sports, pick up an art and You know, some kind of art, do it. Just read a book on it and do it. You don't need to practice. Dieters are amazing. They don't need to practice anything. Monday comes and Monday gives them magical abilities where they can just choose perfectly. They now, because it's Monday and they started their diet, they can now make perfect choices. They're no longer susceptible to their cravings or their moods or their hunger. They're just magically turned into a whole different person. That's a dieter for you. Dieters don't need to practice anything. Well, they quit quickly too, though, so that's not good. So I don't know what you're going to do, dieters, because I think it's kind of crazy to think that you can just one day wake up on a Monday and be a totally different version of yourself. I don't know what sense that makes. Where else in your life can you just wake up on a Monday and be a totally different version of yourself in that area? So again, I say this stuff, I'm not picking on you folks, I'm picking on the diets and the way that dieters think. And I don't know, I've been doing this for over 3 years. I, I was thinking this yesterday. It's crazy to me that the diet industry, last I saw, was a $65 billion a year industry. And I've been on here every day, Monday through Friday, for over 3 years. And every single day I talk about how stupid diets are and how ineffective they are. And I could count maybe 3, 4 times in all of those years someone ever wants to argue with me and tell me how great they are. And I just want to point that out, that you are following a plan that you don't even believe in enough to come back at me with. I say your diet's never going to work, you're never going to lose weight long term on a diet, and you just sit there and, yeah, I guess so. You guess so. Well, then what are you going to do? Either then you don't care about your weight, or what, you're just going to keep using a plan you don't believe in? Those seem like— again, if you don't care about your weight, that's fine. I don't— that's not my business. But if you do care about your weight at all, what's your plan? What's your plan? A diet? What are you going to do? Do you just think you're going to wake up one day, magically you're going to make better decisions? And you don't, because no one ever argues with me. No one ever, ever argues with me. Ever. So, so what are you doing? You know, I know your weight's serious to you. It should be. It's one of the number one things that's going to dictate how long you live, most likely. So it is serious, but your plan isn't serious. A diet's not serious. It's, it's a joke. A diet is a joke. I always say diet's like, it's the equivalent of Just Say No to drugs. It's just this, this, it's this throwaway idea. Now you could get into a diet and make it complex with meal planning and, you know, nutritional philosophy, whatever. But at the end of the day, every diet's exactly the same, where you were just going to wake up Monday and start living totally different, follow a plan perfectly. And that is the diet mindset in a nutshell, and it's a failure mindset. Uh, Cookie Jan says, do you believe calorie counting is a diet? Um, yeah, I do. I think calorie counting for most people is absolutely a diet because again, to me, on a more technical level, I think of dieting a conscious approach to managing something that's automatic. So let's just go beyond food and eating for a second into behavior. I equate dieting to if you woke up today and said, you know what, today I'm going to use my other hand. I'm going to use my other hand to brush my teeth. I'm going to use my other hand to use my phone all day. I'm going to use my other hand when I use the computer mouse. And see how long you can do that for. And I bet you can do it for about an hour, if that, if you're lucky. Why? Because all of a sudden, consciously, you're trying to micromanage. Consciously, you're trying because you're gonna have to. Because when you use your phone, when you brush your teeth, um, when you do all these things with your normal hand, you're not thinking about it. You just do it automatically. You just use your phone, next thing you know, you're scrolling. You brush your teeth, next thing you know, your teeth are just fresh. I mean, remember doing it? Because it's happening on autopilot. But all of a sudden, if I say use your other hand, now you've got to think about it every time. Go ahead, I dare you to brush your teeth with the other hand tonight. I bet you can't even get through a brushing of your teeth with your other hand. You'll feel it the second you switch over to your non-dominant hand. Your cognitive load goes way up, and now you've got to think about something that usually runs on autopilot, and it drains your energy. And so every time you go on a diet, this is what's happening because you're trying to consciously micromanage every food decision you're going to make all day. Well, it's estimated you make over 200 food decisions a day. It's estimated that almost half of your decisions and behaviors are decided subconsciously without your awareness. So now all of a sudden you're telling me that you've got such an abundance of cognitive energy that you can take on this extra cognitive load. Are you not just barely getting through each and every day? Okay, so how are you going to add on a whole bunch of other effort on top of that. And that's the problem with the dieting. And so counting calories is exactly that. What you're going to— now you're already up to here with life, but now you're going to add on this whole other responsibility of tracking, counting every little calorie forever. Well, see how long you can keep it up. The proof's in the pudding. How long can you count calories for before you opt out? Before you just— I can't do this anymore. I don't want to do this. So you tell me, you know what I mean? So yes, I absolutely think it's a diet. Now. I like calorie counting for a week or two just to use it as a calibration tool to get a sense of how much you eat and what the calorie load is for it. I think that's a good thing, kind of eye-open you to notice what's what. But to do that forever seems so crazy to me, so tedious. So I would put it in the diet range. Uh, what's up, Moira? Moira says, I'm in a Chinese buffet restaurant trying to stay strong. Yep, that's one of the biggest challenges, right? They call it the buffet effect, you know. Sensory-specific satiety. When all of a sudden you're in front of a bunch of different types of foods, it literally engages a thing in us called spontaneous voracity, which makes us way hungrier than we typically get. So if I put one type of food in you, you're going to get fuller a lot faster than when you're in front of a bunch of different types of foods, right? It's an evolutionary thing. But stay strong, more, you can do it. What's up, Jackie? Jackie said, guess that's true, sad face. That, I think that was to the, the sugar thing I was talking about. No one here can't— anyone here, anyone here think they can't stop eating sugar? That was, that was in reference to, uh, Hillary says, thank you so much, the reframe helps a lot to decide on the portion that works and then practice. Appreciate your insights, Jim. You're welcome, Hillary. Yeah, again, it makes so much more sense, right? Because again, when Hillary asked that question, it was steeped in what I have to stop doing. Again, she's, she's pinned to, I always eat a carton of ice cream, I have to stop doing that. And the way she stopped doing is not eating any of it. All or nothing. Classic diet move. Okay. So what we talk about is what do you want to do? That goes right back to the lesson I was talking right at the beginning. What do you want? And how about this? I've been doing this a long time, folks. I've done over 6,000 private weight loss sessions, and I work with very, very smart, successful people and ask them what they want. I said, okay, you told me what you don't want. What do you want? Um, I want to be healthy. I want to feel better. What else? That— I think you'll all find that if you start thinking about what you actually want, you're gonna find that you have a hard time thinking about it, because most of the time what you think about is what you don't want. Yeah, but yes, if you make the goal of eating a certain amount of ice cream a goal, you can, you can practice and get better at it. Uh, Cookie Jan says, so what does it say about me that calorie counting keeps me at my goal weight? I've done it for 9 months. Um, it means that it works for you, you know. So again, I mean, listen folks, there, there's a lot of people on the planet, right? So there's always going to be different things that work for different people. So if, uh, if you do intermittent fasting, you're like, oh man, this really is the answer, I love it, I'm not hungry at all until I eat at noon I feel great. I can't wait to do it tomorrow. I love it. Great. Then that's, that's your path. If for you, Cookie Jan, if counting calories for 9 months has really been an eye-opener, it really works for you and you're able to do it great. You said, well, Jim, you just said not to do it. Listen, there's always going to be outliers. So you, Cookie Jan, are an outlier. Congrats. Okay. To stick to any sort of new plan for 9 months is a huge success. That alone makes you an outlier. So congrats. Okay, so as long as counting calories really works for you, then great. Program yourself. Then the golden rule is that there's no right or wrong. There's only what works for you. So there's people doing keto that are succeeding. There's people that are doing severe calorie restriction that are succeeding. There's people doing intermittent fasting that are succeeding. So there are always outliers. There are always success stories in every system. But what I'm looking at is the statistical factors. And most people that try and count calories don't last very long because it increases cognitive load. So for you, it works for you, and I'm happy for you. And it works for you now because I don't know if you're at your goal weight. Okay, you're at your goal weight. So very good. So you are a double outlier. I don't know how long you— I've done it for 9 months. How long have you been at your goal weight? That's another question I want to know. And again, you know, there's no right or wrong. There's only what works for you. But I would want to know how long you've been at your goal weight too. That's one other piece of information. But again, you know, like, there's people that do relatively extreme things and it works for them, but it doesn't work for most people. Counting calories, keto, intermittent fasting, OMAD, one meal a day— these are extreme things. Okay, they're extreme things and they don't work for the majority of people, not even close. So that's just a fact, but I'm happy it works for you. But, but what I want to say to everyone else is, and I want you to be aware of this, is, um, is that people that want to lose weight hear stuff like that and then say, oh, that's what I got to do. And what I would hope is that you can listen to someone say, yeah, I counted calories for 9 months and it helped me get there, and And then you get inspired by that. Great, great. Get inspired. Test it out. Maybe you're an outlier too. Maybe it's going to work great for you, but maybe it's not. And if it doesn't, that's okay too. It doesn't mean you have to force yourself to do something that doesn't resonate with you. And this is another huge mistake I see dieters making, that you, you will try and kind of force yourself, kind of forcing a square peg into a round hole, trying to force yourself to follow a diet or a plan that doesn't really resonate for you. And I have seen so many dieters do this, almost just, that's the way it is. I, I hate this plan, I've tried it 50 times. How many times you try Weight Watchers? You know, if you've tried something 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 times and it hasn't worked for you, I don't think it's going to work for you the 101st time. So, so maybe try something different, you know. So that part's true too. Shelley says, yep, that's it for now. Slippery slide back when your mind's not on it. Um, yeah, agreed, agreed. And again, so I personally, I don't love diets, mostly because I don't— in Program Yourself Thin, let me just show you this real quick, um, because this is just one more piece. So again, this person over here, they started counting calories and they got to their goal weight, they're maintaining it. So a thumbs up to you. Okay, so Great. However, I think living at your goal weight long term requires more than that. Now, it may not for you. You might just be the type of person, very analytical, tracking just was the magic thing and made everything click into place. For the vast majority of people, you're going to need more than just one strategy, more than just one meal a day, more than just tracking your calories, more than just restricting, more than just avoiding all carbs. Okay. You're going to need a more holistic approach and in Program Yourself Thin, we build around the goal weight pyramid, which is mindset. Come on, focus up. Mindset, lifestyle, eating. So it's not just about eating and tracking calories. It's also about developing the lifestyle that supports it and the mindset that supports all of that. And so that way there, you're more solid because, again, tracking calories is relatively easy to do when you're fired up and motivated. But life sometimes has a way of kind of punching in the gut. And when stress comes and tension, all the rest of it, sometimes being able to track every calorie gets a lot harder. So again, for me personally, I prefer to build my goal weight around routine and ritual. I want to automate living at my goal weight as much as humanly possible. I want to live at my goal weight in the easiest, most enjoyable, most comfortable way that I possibly can. That's what I'm obsessed with. And so that's another piece, I think, to living at your goal weight. Okay. Because there's a huge difference between getting to your goal weight and staying there. They are— you should think of them as two completely different things. And I think a lot of dieters conflate them and just think it's the same thing. It's not. They're two totally different things for a lot of reasons. But all right, everyone, I'm going to get out of here. I appreciate every, every comment, everything you all say. I really, really I appreciate you sharing your strategies, what's working for you. Again, that's what I like to hear, and I like to hear everyone's story because what I've learned from studying people that successfully lose weight and keep it off is there's a lot of different ways to do it. So what I share with you are the commonalities. Okay? I've spoke with so many people that have lost weight and kept it off, and what I'm looking for is not the specifics of what they did, what they ate, or how they exercise, or the specifics of it so much as the patterns that I start to notice amongst all of them. And that's what I look to share, the mindset, lifestyle, eating strategies and patterns that those successful people have used. All right. Um, so yeah, if you, uh, are not in my world, please click the link in my bio or go to programyourselfthin.com, uh, and go get that free hypnosis session I give you. Um, I give you a bunch of free stuff, but it starts with the hypnosis session and that'll get you in there and I'll help you every, with every everything else. I give you a bunch of other stuff. Um, yeah, that says in the early '60s the average American woman weighed 140 pounds, the average man around 166. Yeah, that's gone way up. But you know what else has gone up is our calorie consumption. So it's a direct line, folks. We're just eating more calories. Um, and there's a bunch of reasons for why that is. Um, but it's a very simple explanation. You know, we can— and they know, by the way, you can track calories consumed because you can literally go into water treatment plants and literally measure it. So yeah, they know the calories have gone up statistically and it matches up right with the average weight gain. So we consume more calories in 2026 than we did in 1966. So that's the reason for the increase in weight. Yeah. Okay. And so this is also— I'm here every Monday through Friday. So if you want to hop on here and ask any questions, please hop on here and let me try and help you out. I'm here every day, Monday through Friday, usually around noon Eastern. And if you are looking for a great book to read about your weight, here you go. The Tao of Living at Your Goal Weight is my book, available on Amazon for a pretty good price. And yes, the audiobook is humming along. It should be ready in a day or two. And again, all of you in the program will get that, and the rest of you, I will let you know when that is available on Audible. All right, everyone, have a super duper day, and we'll talk soon. Bye.