Program Yourself Thin Live 7-16-26

Hey everyone, welcome to today's program, Yourself Thin Podcast. Today we're talking about How much better can you feel in 15 seconds? This is the important question to answer because the answer is you could feel amazing. 15 seconds is all you need. Let me prove it to you. I want you to take a moment and relax your shoulders, relax your chest, relax your stomach, relax your face. Take a deep breath in and slowly let it out. Now, when you do that, don't tell me you don't feel a lot better. And that might not even been 15 seconds. And when you don't even have 15 seconds, you can feel better in 5 seconds. All you need to do is do all that, relax, take a deep breath in and slowly let it out. You're grounding yourself, you're relaxing, you're oxygenating yourself, you're stepping into the present moment. All of these things feel better. You can feel so much better, so much more connected to who you want to be, to your best, to your potential. It's that quick. It's that easy. That's all it takes. So do it more because the more you start to feel that way, you start to ground yourself to a deeper, calmer way of being. And the more you do that, the more your choices reflect that. And the more your choices come from that place of being calm and grounded, the more your results— your weight, your health, your energy, your happiness— all start to reflect that. The more you stop to start to operate out of this grounded, calm place, the easier it is to naturally make the right choices. Does that make sense? Think about your life. How often when you've done well with whatever it is you're trying to do, how much easier is it when you are rested, when you're relaxed, when you're calm, right? Think about it. You want to look at the times in your life when you were just kind of flowing, flowing with the right decisions, naturally making better choices. The more you focus on that and the more you recognize when you're calm and relaxed, when you're grounded, when your mind is quieter You make better choices. You see things more clearly. This is the secret. Dieting ramps you up even more, and then you're supposed to use your willpower to fight against all that. But really, all it takes is a few moments, a few seconds literally, where you can feel like the person you want to be and then operate out of that place. So this is an inside-out approach to change. Instead of trying to force our behaviors to be different, We go inside and change what we're operating out of so that we come from this place where we're more calm and grounded, centered, aware, connected to our goals, connected to our potential. And we naturally come out of that place making better choices, typically. And even when we make mistakes, when we reground ourselves, we're able to deal with those mistakes more effectively. It's not the end of the world. We're not frazzled. We're not panicking. We're not overreacting. We're calm, we're grounded, we handle it in stride, we accept it, acknowledge it, internalize it, and come back better. Now you can do this in a moment, in an instant. It's the biggest shift you have access to. You can imagine your mind like this big switch— stress to relax— and feeling more relaxed and calm and grounded. Good things just flow from that. I mean, you have to do other work too, right? You have to learn about things and make other changes as well, but this fundamentally changes everything. That before you even learn another thing about food or eating or any of that other stuff, if you can ground and calm yourself, you're going to activate all the good stuff you already know. You're going to activate at a higher level your ability to make better choices and decisions naturally, because when you're calm and grounded, you think differently, you feel different, and you choose differently, which leads to different behaviors. But it flows. It's not the fight that dieting is, where you're trying to fight against yourself and restrict and repress. You're flowing with it. You're flowing out of this state of calm and relaxed groundedness. And you can go back into it again, 15 seconds, right? Relax your face, your shoulders, your stomach. Take a deep breath in and slowly let it out. It works every time. That's the craziest part of it. You could do this 50 times an hour, and every time you do it, it feels wonderful. And the more you do it, the more grounded you become in it. And the more you start to naturally operate out of it. So this is my message to you. I hope you practice this because it's the easiest hack there is. It's the easiest way forward without the fight and without the struggle. And if you want to go deeper into using this approach and go even deeper into that calm relaxation, click the link in my bio or go to programyourselfthin.com and go get the free hypnosis session that I made for you. It is there, ready to go. If you're in Facebook or YouTube, I just put the link in the chat. And if you're on TikTok, just click the picture of me on the top left and I'll bring you to my bio. Click the link there, it'll take you 2 seconds, and you'll have a brand new hypnosis session that I made special for you. And if you have any questions, feel free to ask them. I hope you're having a wonderful day. A little bit late here today, but sometimes life happens. I've been doing pretty good, very good, getting here at noon, but not so much today. Uh, Tina says, yes, out of fight and flight definitely helps weight loss. Yes, exactly. I didn't even get into the nervous system aspect of it, but yes, a lot of people are walking around with their stress response constantly triggered in a chronic state of stress. And if you're in that state, it's very difficult to lose weight. It's very difficult. So again, learning how to manage your physicality, your emotions, your mindset, by grounding and calming yourself down. I think it's one of the most important things there is to your weight. Uh, what's up, Carolyn? Carolyn says, what, 15 seconds? Yes, 15 seconds. But how do we try to make our side feel like the potential the way we want it to be? Is it all mindset? Um, how do we try to make our inside feel like the potential the way we want it to be? Um, is it all mindset? No, not every— I don't think it's all mindset. I don't think this work here is all mindset, uh, in programming yourself. Then let me just flip this real quick. Where is you at? No, that ain't it. Hold on one second. TikTok changed their little things. Oh my goodness. Oh, flip camera. They switched it again for me. Oh no, that's, that's the wrong flip. Uh, so funny. There it is. Oh my goodness. TikTok, you crazy. These companies, they change their interface so often I can't even track it anyways. Okay, we're flipped over. So Program Yourself, then we follow the goal weight pyramid. Okay, so notice it's not just mindset, right? It's not just a pyramid with a mindset in there. It's mindset, lifestyle on top of that, then eating on top of that. That's how I believe you control your goal weight. And so there's kind of these three phases. And on top of this, then you need to know how to run your mind, which is a little different than mindset. But so, no, just having a mindset is not enough though. Okay. For me, if you— I have a great mindset. I've been my goal weight for over 30 years. But if all of a sudden you shift up my lifestyle completely on me, you make me tired, you make me dehydrated, you make me undernourished, you make me not move anymore. Well, that's going to override my mindset. Okay. So mindset's one piece of it, but it's not the whole thing, in my opinion. So, no, we want to work on our mindset, but simultaneously we will work on our lifestyle so our body starts feeling better. We want to start working on, you know, our eating, obviously, so that that's supporting the whole system as well. And so they all work together to get us the results we're looking for. And I think the only way forward with our weight, the only way to really live at your goal weight and master it and take control of it is to be able to have a holistic, comprehensive approach. I don't think— I think dieting is always a kind of boiled weight down into like calories. And while, yes, calories are the main thing impacting your weight on a level. So I look at it like this, right? So it's like if you go to the very point, the tip here might be calories, right? And so, yeah, technically the calories are the main thing affecting your weight, but then there's all this affecting your calories, you know? And so I think that we need to take— we need to zoom out a little bit from just calories because you all know what you should and shouldn't eat. You all know about calories. That knowledge is not enough. If you were a robot and you could just say, you know, eat 1,200 calories every day and then you just did it, well, then none of us would be here. The problem is you can know you want to eat a certain amount of calories and then be unable to eat that many calories. That's the problem. And so I think the solution to being able to eat the amount of calories that bring you to your goal weight and keep you there is to have a robust, holistic approach to making that happen., and it's going to include your mindset, your lifestyle, and your eating, which is ultimately going to lead to the calories you consume on average, and that's going to lead to your weight. That's kind of how I think about it. But again, dieting— dieting just tells you, you know, just cut your calories down, as if it were that easy. I mean, it's that easy if you were a robot, but you're not a robot, so it's not that easy. So stop saying that. Uh, yeah, as Lena says, the kind of calories matter so much as well. Agreed. I think the idea that a calorie is a calorie That's so reductionist, it's meaningless. You know what I mean? Like, okay, maybe at a very, very technical level, a calorie is a calorie. But how are you going to argue to me that a calorie of a Snickers bar is the same as a calorie of an apple? You know, they— what those calories are wrapped in and how they're packaged is going to send a completely different message to your body. It's going to affect how many calories you ultimately consume. So yeah, I think calories matter a whole lot. This idea that a calorie is a calorie. Again, I just think it's so simplistic that it causes us to miss the big picture. And honestly, I think dieting is there for that reason. I don't think dieting is your friend, folks. I think dieting is a, uh, you know, the diet industry is just a branch of the food industry, and it's not there to help you. All the big diets were owned by food companies. Weight Watchers was owned by Heinz. Jenny Craig was owned by Nestlé. SlimFast, owned by the same company owns Ben Jerry's ice cream. So I can't imagine that these companies really want to give you the secret to eating less of their food. What sense would that make? So yeah, so I don't think, you know, that's why I'm here every day. I get here every day because again, the diet industry has done so much damage and destruction, uh, and it's left so many people just feeling apathetic, confused, and, you know, unsure what to do. So I get out here just to talk about a different approach to it. And I think that approach really does begin by zooming out a bit and seeing the bigger picture of your weight instead of zooming in. Diets zoom you in so that you're just looking at calories typically, or you're looking at macronutrients, or you're looking at how often you're eating. But it all comes down to calories and basically macros. You know, that, that's 90% of diets. And so I think we need to zoom out. Those things matter too. I'm not saying ignore those things, right? Calories absolutely are an important piece of the puzzle. Macros are important piece of the puzzle. I'm not arguing that, but they're not the only pieces of the puzzle. You know, again, I think there's just more to it. I think that the puzzle has more pieces to it. We got to zoom out on it, you know, and that's when you start to understand that you can approach this differently. And I think personally, that's the beginning of real transformation is when your mind genuinely opens up to the possibility possibility that you could manage your weight in a more effective way. Because I think most dieters at this point, you've been dieting for decades at this point, and deep down you don't believe anything's going to work. You don't believe you can change it, most likely. I mean, and that's a rational belief. I mean, how could you not think that if you've been trying to lose weight on diets for 30 years and it hasn't worked? How could you possibly believe that it could work in the 31st year? What would be different? So again, the idea of only relying on a diet to manage your weight naturally, right? Again, obviously you can go get injections or surgery or something, but I'm talking about you just on your own managing your weight. To rely on a diet to do that is, is kind of crazy. There is no evidence that it works long-term at all. I say this all the time. I mean, we've had— we've lived in a diet culture for literally 50 years. Diet culture really began 50 years ago, and it was really the intersection between mass media and the cigarette companies buying all the food companies. It's an interesting story. But, you know, here we are 50 years later and we've just been steeped in diet culture. So for most of us, but most of our lives, if not all of it, and it's caused us to think about weight loss in this very, very limited way. And not only is it a limited way, it's a limited, ineffective way. It doesn't work. 50 years of diets, there's not one single diet that rises to the top of being successful or helpful. There's not a single one. Isn't that crazy? There's not one diet. There's been thousands of diets at this point. There's not one single diet that rises to the top of any of them that's any more effective for long-term weight loss. That's crazy. That's crazy statistics, isn't it? So it's not you and your weak willpower and your, you know, your, your food addiction and your, all the things you say about yourself. That is the problem, right? You're always blaming yourself for not being able to follow the diet. Right. But that's the trick of the diet. That's what it's built to do is to deceive you, to make you think that you're the problem. Well, listen, when you look around and every single person's having the same problem with the diets, it's not you. It's not a you problem. It's a programming problem. And the diets never deal with that. It's not a you problem when everyone's suffering the same way. No one succeeds with a diet. Statistically, it's estimated that 85 to 95% of dieters that get to their goal weight put the weight back on. That's, that's basically everyone fails is what those numbers are saying. When something fails 85 to 95% of the time, you're gonna blame yourself when it doesn't work for you? That doesn't make any sense. And unfortunately, that's what most dieters get in this trap of, is just beating themselves up for it not working, when in reality it's not designed to work. Dieting is not designed for you to live at your goal weight forever. That's not what it's about. It's about doing drastic shit to try and get to your goal weight as fast as humanly possible. That's what a diet is. As Lena says, I find telling someone to eat the good things first helps so much. Oh yeah, absolutely. That's a great strategy too. I love that. I think that's a great strategy. I love that so much. As Lena, in the beginning they want less cookies, eventually they want the cookies less and less. I agree with that so much. And I think what goes along with that suggestion is having a mindset of being all or something. As opposed to being all or nothing. Now, most dieters are all or nothing, right? They're either 100% in their crazy plan, following it perfectly to the letter, or they're not doing anything. It's, it's a very binary one or the other. Okay. But you need to start thinking about this like it's a dimmer switch, not like it's a light switch, but like it's a dimmer switch. And you can crank up to 100 if you want to, right? Life's working for you. Work's going well. Relationship's going well. Things going well. Let me focus on this 100%. I'm going to do everything perfectly. Great. You still have that option. But if all of a sudden life starts popping off and you know, you're fighting with your partner and job's going like shit, you're not feeling that good. You got to have the opportunity, the option of being able to dial it down from 100% to 50%, you know, and maybe that is again, maybe you're still eating cookies, but you're also making sure that you have an apple in the afternoon. And again, dieters don't think that way. You haven't been trained to think that way. You've been trained to think all or nothing. And what that ends up looking like when you look back, when you look back over the last 20 years, what that all-or-nothing mindset really looks like is nothing or all. Let's be honest, over 20 years, let's be honest, you have not done much with your weight most of the time. Most of the time, it's kind of out of your mind. You're not— it's not— it's not out of your mind. You're thinking about weight loss all the time. But actually doing the things that cause you to lose weight, most of the time you're not doing them. You're just living your life and it's punctuated by a few moments of intense focus and, you know, control and change of your eating. But it doesn't last. And therein lies the problem that you've never learned how to think about your weight in a long-term way that's built to last. You've never learned how to think about your weight in a long-term way. And once you do, again, it changes everything because it's a completely different approach. And this is the problem everyone has, you know, with their weight. Again, I mean, losing, it's hard enough, right? But it's like the thing everyone really always focuses on is, I can't keep it off. Well, yeah, but have you ever learned how to keep it off? Has your focus ever been on how to live at your goal weight, or has your focus always been, how do I get to my goal weight? And we all know the answer to that question. You're, you're obsessed. And again, I don't blame you for this. It's— we're all at the mercy of the diet industry because, I mean, shit, we've all seen literally millions of diet ads in our lives. That starts to affect us. It starts to affect how we think. And so we start to think like dieters, and it's a trap. It's a mental trap. Tina agrees, a moderate approach. Yes, moderate, moderate approach is really, I think, the secret. And again, that's why I say all or something though, but never nothing. Again, we're always doing something because if you're always doing something, you're always getting better. So we always want to get better, at least 1% better every day. That's the goal. It's not that hard, to be honest. But if you get 1% better every single day, at the end of the year it's not 365% better, it's 3,600% better because it keeps stacking on top of itself. So it's really important that you start to approach it this way as opposed to the giant the giant, you know, uh, okay, that's it, here we go, here comes Monday, let's see what happens. Holy shit, you're so tired of that now you probably can't get yourself to do it. If you're someone who thinks about your weight loss constantly but you can't get yourself to do anything to actually make it happen, then you're probably in this trap. You're in the apathy trap where you want to lose weight more than anything in the world, you think about it constantly, but you can't get yourself to do it. Why can't you get yourself to do it? Well, there's two reasons. And they're both related to the same thing. You don't— you can't get yourself to do it, A, because it's too hard. You don't want to do it. It's depriving. It's hard. It's difficult. It sucks. And then beyond that, you don't believe you can keep it up because it's so hard and it's so difficult. And so if you're sitting there and deep down you don't believe it's going to work anyways, then how are you going to get yourself motivated to do something really hard? Why? What's the point? That's what we say to ourselves. And if that's your foundation, if that's the foundation you're trying to build your weight success on, I don't think it's going to work anyways. And it's so hard. I don't want to do it. How does the success come with that as a foundation? You'd have to explain to me. Well, you just got to want it, Jim. You just got to push through it. You just got to fight against yourself. Okay. How's that working for you? How's that working for you? I already know the answer. It's working like shit. So I think the alternative is to stop overwhelming yourself. Bring what you think you have to do down to a level where it doesn't feel terrifying to you. And what's that mean? Well, it means maybe you start a little slower. Is that the end of the world? At the end of the world to start a little bit slower? Well, it feels like it to you, and that's evidence of your diet programming. You've been programmed to think like a dieter, and so the idea of starting slow is like almost repulsive to you. You can't even imagine starting slow your weight loss. Does anything feel worse than that? You know, uh, Ames, what's up, Ames? Ames says, what are your thoughts on artificial sweeteners? Uh, I don't like them. I don't like artificial sweeteners, not one bit. I don't like artificial foods in my body. I don't want to eat artificial things. Because as soon as I eat artificial things, I'm eating fake things. I don't know what that's gonna do to my body. So what I think about artificial sweeteners is that, okay, here I'm consuming this super sweet thing that has no calories in it. That's pretty weird. So, hey, I don't want to eat a lot of super sweet things because it calibrates my tongue to want super sweet things, hyperpalatable things, so that when I go and eat some artificial sweetener and have this super sweet taste on my tongue, and then I go and eat a piece of fruit, That piece of fruit now in comparison seems really bland and boring and I don't really like it. So taste is a relative thing. So I'm not eating artificial sweeteners because I don't want to have a lot of sweetness on my tongue, cuz I don't want to throw off my tongue's calibrations and only appreciate hyperpalatable flavors. And so in that sense, that's a big part of why I moderate sugar as well. I don't want to eat a lot of artificially sweet foods, and I say artificial for both natural and artificial sugar, because when we're adding sugar, we're now into artificial land, or we're in a processed land. And so whether it's artificial or, or natural, I really look to moderate and limit sugar, because the more natural I keep my taste buds, my tongue calibrated to, the easier it is to eat natural whole foods, because I enjoy them more. And so that's the big thing. And then the second thing specific to artificial sweeteners is I don't want to eat something sweet because when I eat something sweet, my body interprets that as, okay, here comes some calories, let's crank up the insulin, let's get ready for it. And now no calories show up. So in my mind, I think that that's going to crank up my hunger because my body's okay, here comes the calories. Hey, where are the calories? I don't want to live in that space. They did a study with, um, regular soda drinkers and diet soda drinkers, and the diet soda drinkers put more weight on. I, I don't believe artificial sweeteners, even though again we look at just— we zoom in and say, well, there's less calories, it's got to be better. I zoom out, look at the bigger picture, and it makes a lot of sense to me why studies would show artificial sweeteners leading to higher weights. It makes sense to me. So yeah, I avoid them. I, I, I get a— I avoid artificial sweeteners. I, I have a distaste for it as well. I don't like it. Um, and so I moderate my sugar and I'll eat regular sugar Um, but yeah, I've no— no, um, I never eat artificial sweeteners. Not interested in it at all. So don't see any benefit from them. Yeah, yeah. Zelina says weight loss— I think this approach is chasing the wrong thing. Think in terms of gaining health. Yeah, sure, I could see that. Yeah, I agree with that too, because I think the idea of a goal being something we're not going to have is never going to be as motivating as having a goal of something we're going to get. So, so I do agree with that as well, that weight loss is all about what you're not going to have. And I agree with that. And in my opinion, that's why I always say, um, the way I always frame things is living at your goal weight. There we go. Living at your goal weight, living at your goal weight, at your goal weight, at your goal weight. It's a thing you're going to live at, right? So let me put it a different way. Instead of saying I want to lose X amount of pounds, you say I want to weigh X amount of pounds. Even that is a shift, right? Because I want to lose X amount of pounds is about what you're not going to have anymore. And I want to live at X amount of pounds is about what you're going to have. So agreed. Agreed. Yeah. Gaining health. Yep. I like gaining health too, but I'll tell you, I mean, I agree, like the gaining part, the getting thing. I agree. People, there's something weird about focusing on health. I can't explain it. I'm just telling you, I've been doing this for over 20 years professionally. And for some reason, when you talk to people about health and becoming healthier and what that means, it just does not seem very motivating. It sounds like it should, right? Because health should be the most important thing to us, right? We all can agree with that. But when it actually comes to behavior and actual motivation, I find health is just impotent. It just does not have the juice to really make things happen a lot of times. So health. I think is too general and vague, I guess. And so I guess if you, if you drill down and get to more specifics, right, having more energy, having more stamina, having more strength, having more balance, more mobility, um, having more, um, better sleep, better hydration, uh, being stronger, uh, being more flexible. I'm probably repeating myself now, but again, I think if you start drilling down to those things, those I've seen to be more effective. But I have found people chasing health more often than not, it just doesn't do much to people. I don't know why you're going to disagree, but you know, if you're not living that way. So, but again, and obviously some things will work for, for some people and some things won't work for others. Uh, Ames says, would it be better to reduce it or cut it completely? I definitely use too much. Um, yeah, okay. The artificial sweeteners, um, in Program Yourself Thin, we, we do the 3 Rs, okay? Reduce, replace, remove. So you have 3 options, Ames. And again, this is the idea of all or something. Okay. And so now you got 3 options. It's not an either or, it's an and. So I would suggest reduce it and cut it out completely. Right? You say, well, how do you do that? Well, I look at artificial— I look at everything pretty much as behavioral patterns. So I would look at your artificial sweetener consumption as patterns. And I would notice that they happen at certain times of day, certain days of the week, certain mood you get in. Certain, certain people you're around perhaps, but there's a routine to your artificial sweetener consumption. I would map that out a bit. Okay. Then I would look at that and I would say, what is the easiest out of all of this? What's the easiest one to cut out? What's the one out of all of these that I think I would miss the least? That one I would cut out completely. That's what I would work on. And then I would probably pick the next one and I would say, where do I consume the most? Right. What pattern is the pattern that I consume the most with? Maybe, you know, every night you drink 2 cans of artificial sodas, sweeteners. Okay. There. Right. And maybe in that one I would do the reduce. Okay. So I'd say, okay, I drink 2 cans here. I'm going to work on drinking 1 can. How can I make that happen? You see? So I would, I would use both of those and then maybe I'd do a replacement. So it's like one, and they could both work together in a sense, right? So you can drink 2 cans in the afternoon. Now you say, oh, you know, I'm going to work on cutting that down. I'll have first off a sparkling soda water. Those are really a good option, right? Because it's a can, it's a drink, all the rest of it's very similar. I'll drink that first and then I can have the, the soda, the artificial soda sweetener. And so now you've cut your soda consumption down by half with that plan. See? So again, we have options. Isn't it nice to have options? Doesn't that feel nice, right? Imagine I'm either gonna reduce it or I'm gonna cut it completely. Well, okay, cut it completely. I dare you. Let's see how that goes, right? Because if you cut it completely, you instantly crank up the stress. You've tried this. And if you try and reduce it, it's like you're not good at reducing it. So you're going to forget and just go back in your normal behaviors. That's most likely what would happen if you tried either of those. But again, to me, honestly, I just think, I think this approach, Program Yourself Thin, I think it's a more evolved approach. I mean, this whole program, Program Yourself Thin, was originally really modeled after people that successfully lost weight and kept it off for at least 2 years. So everything I'm sharing with you originally came from people that successfully lost weight and kept it off. I started studying them. I became one of them. I dropped over 50 pounds and I've kept it off for over 30 years now. And in that time, I've talked to more people and learned more strategies. But most importantly, I dove into this subject. I'm obsessed with it. And so I, you know, I've studied coaching, neuro-linguistic programming, hypnosis, nutrition, behavioral change. I've studied this shit obsessively. I've done over 6,000 private weight loss sessions, and I started to notice patterns that work consistently, you know. And so again, the idea of giving ourselves the all-or-nothing, you know, you know, I've got to cut it out completely, or I'm going to just keep doing the same. Because reducing is not really— you— and the reason I say it's not a real option for you, most likely, is reducing your, let's just say, artificial sweetener, cutting your artificial sweetener consumption in half You need to have a strategy for that. How are you going to do that? You have to understand your habits. You have to understand how your mind operates, right? There's a thing— you have a part of your brain, it's called procedural memory. Most of your artificial sweetener consumption is happening on autopilot. It's a program that's in your subconscious mind run from a procedural memory that just does it automatically. You're not planning out and strategizing and thinking about when you're going to have the artificial sweetener. It's just part of a routine. So the idea that you're just going to reduce it is crazy because you're going to forget all about it and you're just going to go and consume what you normally do. That's why most people don't really even consider that an option. It's— that's why they go, I have to cut it out completely. I need to go cold turkey. Because if you don't go cold turkey, you don't have a strategy for dialing it down systematically. And that's why most people get so stuck, because they literally have one option and it's a willpower-based option of cutting it out completely. Yeah, this is very informative. Thank you. You're welcome. You're welcome. Uh, says we are a shallow culture. Uh, culture— weight is, is the most visual. I agree with that 1,000% too. I think that, um, you know, literally 50 years of dieting conditioning, what it's done— every diet ad is a before and after picture. What that starts to do to your subconscious mind, it conditions you to think of weight loss as a visual thing. As an aesthetic thing. So I agree with that 1,000%. And wanting to lose weight to look better, as motivating as you think that should be to you, it's the least powerful form of motivation. It's called extrinsic motivation, and it's the weakest form of motivation. So if you really want to look better, you really want to lose weight because you want to look better, but you haven't been losing weight, I'm here to tell you directly that it's because you're not really motivated. You weigh what you want to weigh. Your weight is probably the most accurate reflection of how motivated you actually are that exists. And I mean that. You weigh what you want to weigh subconsciously. So don't tell me how much you want to lose weight because I don't believe you. Let me put it this way. It's not that I know you want to lose weight. I know you want to lose weight, but I know you want— if you're not losing weight. Okay, so if you're overweight and you're not losing weight, you can want to lose weight a lot. But I know what you want, just at least a little bit more is to keep eating and living the way you're living more. So that's where you're at. If you're not actively losing weight, I'm going to suggest that it's because you're not really motivated for it. And one of the big reasons you're not really motivated for it is because you only think of the weight loss as a visual thing. You want to look better. And while you think that should be motivating enough, it's not. And how you going to argue with me? How could you possibly argue with me? Yeah, Tina says we've been lied to about what's healthy and what's not healthy. This is true, this is very true. We are constantly being, you know, we are constantly, constantly being tricked by the food industry. And, and more than that, but yeah, we're constantly being tricked. So it's very confusing to figure out what even is healthy or not. That's a challenge in and of itself, for sure, for sure. Yeah, Ames says completely doable. Nice, good. I'm happy for you, Ames, and I, I hope, um, yeah, got the artificial sweetener in forms of soda, etc., reduced in the coffee. Yeah, one thing I'll say, you know, is, um, you know, again, even with the reducing it, so let's just say you put, uh, you put it in your coffee. What I like to do is just kind of experiment, you know, say like, okay, let me cut it down by 20%. So maybe I use 2 packs usually. Let me use a pack and a half. Let me see if I even notice it. It's still sweet. Next time, you know, a couple of times after that, let me try just a pack. Let me see if I— oh, that's not even that bad. You know, a lot of times cutting something down by 50%, you won't even notice it. It really kind of goes under the radar. And if you're able to do that, that's a significant cut, you know. So, yeah, but, but, but the main thing is make it comfortable for you. You don't have to stress yourself out to make positive changes. And I think that's what dieting has kind of conditioned us to do, is to think that we need to really stress ourselves out to make positive changes. And the bigger the stress, the better. And I think that's bullshit, personally. Um, Ames says, I can do without the fizzy drinks, but I can't do without a sweet coffee. Yeah, okay, great then. There you go, Ames. So there you go. So start removing— remove the fizzy drinks if that's not a big deal for you. Start removing those, okay? And then focusing on the coffee. And the coffee thing doesn't have to change today. The coffee thing can be, you know, something you're going to start working on. And just like I said, start a little bit less each time. A little bit less, a little bit less, a little bit less. Don't, don't make your coffee miserable by completely removing it. Cut it down by 20%, 20%, 20%, you know, just keep cutting it down. And I think that's a way more comfortable way to cut it, and it feels better, you know. Yeah, he says thank you, I love this approach. Good, good, I'm glad, I'm glad. And again, if you're not— if for any of you, if you're not in my world, please click the link in my bio and go get the free hypnosis session I made for you. Um, the big news there is I am this close to releasing my new training, Reprogrammed: How to Live at Your Goal Weight Without the Fight. I think it's super good. It— I think it's so good. I teach you the redo rehearsal technique. I think it's so good. It's the best training I've ever made, without question. Um, I'm putting the finishing touches on it, so I expect it should be ready this weekend, um, next week at the latest. So again, if you go get that hypnosis session on my email list I'll let you know about that. And I got a bunch of free stuff to give you too, by the way, so it's not even just that. So I'm here to help you. Um, and again, a lot of these strategies I'm sharing, these ideas, they're just kind of common sense, but it's common sense you never get to hear for whatever reason. Uh, it's Francis. I want to feel better. Fudge looks— oh, I want to feel better than fudge looks. Ken says, when is the diet buzzword going to change from protein to fiber? Increasing my fiber was— has brought great success to my eating. Yeah, agreed, Kent, right? I don't know, probably never, because I don't think there's a ton of money being made off of fiberful foods. You know, that's why most people, when I say fiber, they'll say Metamucil. That's how, that's how, you know, kind of far away from reality we've gotten. The best forms of fiber come from whole natural foods. And so, yeah, I don't think it'll ever— they'll never change to fiber because they don't want to give you the real solution. You know, they want to give you— they want to treat the symptom, not give you the real solution. That's my opinion. I'm kind of, uh, you know, a conspiracy theorist when it comes to the weight and the food industry and all the rest of it. Uh, all right, it's Francis says, I want to feel better, fuck looks. That's what it wasn't, fudge. Yeah, I want to feel better, fuck looks. I don't believe that though too either. I'm going to say, Francis, I don't think— listen, this isn't an either or. That's another piece too, right? You can want to feel amazing and you can want to look amazing. I want to, I want to grab both of those. There's, it's not an either or. Managing your weight in this culture is a fucking war. It really is. It's a war. Don't think it's anything less. And so I want to take every single piece of motivation that I can get. I want to feel good. I want to look good. I want to live long. I want to be more common ground. I'll be more energized. I want all of it. I want all of it. Okay, never, never give away any motivation. Keep it all. But most of you need to add to your motivation of wanting to look good. Great, keep it, but add to it. Add to it. Add to it. You know, Miss Nobody, I'm down 40 pounds today. Congrats, that's awesome. Congrats, what an accomplishment. 40 pounds, nice job, nice job. Yes, Tina, we'll take all the benefits. Yes, yes, yes, we'll take all the benefits. And that's the mindset, right? Because honestly, I don't think there's anything you could do in your life that can increase the quality of your life more than really taking control of your weight and your health and your happiness. I, I can't think of anything that, that's going to give you better benefit in your life directly than getting control of your weight. Because it's not the weight piece and how you look, it's how you're eating and living in order to achieve the weight you want to live at. That's what I'm talking about. So when you do it in the way that I'm talking about here, you start nourishing yourself at a higher level. You start living a healthier lifestyle. You start feeling better and more like your best self, and you start living out of that space that affects everything in your life positively. So yeah, looking better, it's great. It's fine. But I'm talking at a way more significant thing here than just how you look is literally the engine that drives your entire life is improved and tuned up. It's— Francis says, yeah, but I'm 58, not worried about my looks anymore, just hate hurting. Yeah, that's fair, it's fair. And again, I mean, I'm not saying, yeah, you don't have to— I don't give a shit, right? You care about your looks, don't care about them. Um, but yeah, if you, if you want to look better, if you want to look like a kick-ass 58-year-old, if that matters at all to you, then bring it in. If it doesn't, forget it, right? Focus on, you know, again— but here's what I would say too, Um, yeah, I hate hurting, right? So that's the pain of it. Great. Use that, but then also start to articulate what you want to get out of having the body you want, right? Maybe that's better mobility, better, better strength, uh, more flexibility, more independence, um, a more easier, comfortable time moving through the day comfortably. Okay. Get specific about what you want though. That, that's what really drives our mind and really cranks up the motivation. Oh, though, Miss Nobody, 3 months. Uh-oh, 40 pounds in 3 months. That's, that's pretty fast weight loss, Miss Nobody. I strongly suggest you go get that hypnosis session, start watching my stuff. That, that's really fast weight loss. So I don't know what you did, you must have done something pretty dramatic. I only say that because sometimes the most dramatic, fastest weight loss is some of the hardest to maintain. I'm not trying to be negative, I'm I want you to live at that 40-pound weight loss more than anyone on this planet, okay? But I also understand patterns, and if you lost it that quick, you must have done something pretty extreme. So just be aware of if you'll be able to keep that up forever or not. Um, Carolyn says, that's great about the sweetener. Yes, I add to coffee. We'll try to cut back too and cut out eventually. Yeah, that's a great plan. I think that's a great plan. I don't think anyone here, anyone on the planet should be actively okay with their artificial sweetener consumption. I just think the goal should be zero. And I, I say this very rarely, I just see zero benefit out of the artificial sweetener. I would literally— I think I just don't like artificial things. We live in these, these evolved bodies, these bodies that evolved in a natural world. And again, sometimes I talk about the food matrix, the concept of a food matrix, that if I eat an apple, I'm not just eating an apple, I'm eating a package of information. That may sound a little weird for you, but, um, I believe that. So when we start consuming shit like artificial sweeteners, which the first artificial sweetener was a byproduct of oil, oil. And so it's this shit that's not meant to be eaten. Are these bodies have never consumed this shit? I'm not interested in that. I'm not interested in that. I don't, I don't know what it's going to do my body. I don't think anyone does, and I'm not looking to find out. So honestly, the one thing I do feel very strongly about, I think there's just no there's no benefit. Um, and I see no need for anyone to have any artificial sweetener in their body at all. Now, that being said, if you're consuming— I'm not saying you should stop it either. I'm saying though, it should be a primary focus of you to start dialing it down, dialing it down, dialing down until you get to zero, and/or just start using regular sugar even. I would rather have regular sugar in my body and at least be in a natural space, more natural space, than, than the artificial stuff. But Take it or leave it. You miss nobody. Yeah, fasting, no GLP-1, and running. Yeah, fasting and running. Again, I, I'm proud of you for all the work you've put in, and that, that's a lot of weight loss in a short period of time. But it's also— I'm just gonna— I'm just gonna be blunt, and you can take this or don't, and, and do what you want, but I'm here. I take the no bullshit oath. I really do. And a lot of times what happens is we get really motivated and we do extreme things— fasting and running, right? So I bet you have been absolutely fixated on your weight for the last 3 months. You've been losing a lot quickly. Here you are. My point is this, that getting to your goal weight and staying there are two different things. And so I want you to recognize this. Now, maybe you'll feel this, maybe you won't. And if you don't, then you can just forget about it. Okay. But if you start to feel some of this, I want you to know that there is a solution to it. That this is something I think about all the time, because when you're losing weight, what most people do is they trade the pleasure and the excitement of the food for the pleasure and excitement of the weight loss. And so they just shift, they just shift their focus. And so as long as they're losing weight, they can keep going. But eventually you get to your goal weight, and now you got to ask, where's the motivation coming from? Now, I know what people that are overweight always say. They say, well, when I get to my goal, I'm gonna be so motivated. I'm just gonna be— I'm gonna love it so much, that's gonna be my motivation. But then how do you explain that 85 to 95% of people that get to their goal weight put it back on? You've been at your goal weight before. Was it so— if it was so great, everyone's been at their goal weight before. So if you, if you've been at your goal weight before, how come you didn't just stay there if it was so amazing? So again, not to be that Debbie Downer here, but, but we've got to look at the, the core challenge of weight for most people, which is how do I stay there? How do I stay there? Because again, we can do extreme fasting and running when we're looking forward to some amazing reality, because we can put a lot of fairy-tale-ness into getting to our goal weight. But there's a thing called hedonic adaptation. We adapt to whatever our reality is. You've experienced this with your car. Well, the first time you got your car, it's your new car, but after a number of months, it just becomes your car. And it's similar to the weight in the body. And so a lot of times the motivation we had when we were looking forward, we were excited about that weight loss. It was exciting, exciting, exciting, exciting. Now we get there. You may find that the motivation isn't as readily available. Maybe you won't find that, and I hope that for you. But if you do find that, that's what we're talking about here, is how do you actually maintain living at your goal weight. And so again, I don't know how challenging you found fasting and running. You may say, well, I didn't find it hard at all. Okay, but that was in the context of weight loss. And so at some point when the weight loss stops, the motivation may shift a little bit. If it does, we're here to talk about it. Mary Stark says, just started listening, uh, this man is on target with his knowledge minus hypnosis. Well, thank you. I haven't even been talking about hypnosis though. Thank you. Uh, Aim says, how does one manage insulin? What do you think about fasting? Um, I mean, I think the best way to manage insulin is to manage your eating, and so don't Eat foods, moderate the foods that spike your blood sugar. So I think that's the number one phase of managing your insulin is to manage your glucose levels. And so, you know, again, you have to understand within context that evolutionarily, if I took you and I dropped you off in the woods, go, go spike your glucose. Go ahead, I dare you. How are you going to spike your glucose if I drop you off in the woods? Short of finding a beehive. So, you know, again, you have to understand that we live in this unnatural world now where we can spike our glucose 5 times before lunch. Okay, so, so the secret is to start eating more whole natural foods that have a slower absorption and that manage your glucose levels. That's how I think about managing my insulin first and foremost, and that's what I actually do. So, you know, you may know as the glycemic index, you know, and I think that's a good starting point for managing your insulin. Start eating foods that don't spike your, your glucose levels. And, um, then from there, the idea of fasting, I'm not a huge faster, although I do what I call, I call it nighttime fasting. It's my own version of fasting where I'll fast for, I suppose, what I'll stop eating like 6, 7 o'clock and I'll eat the next day, 7 or 8. So 13, 14 hours, 12, 13, 14 hours, somewhere in that range. That's very comfortable for me. So I do that, but I think. I have personally, and I've played with all different fastings. I don't like longer fasts. I find them very stressful and detrimental personally. So again, you know, everyone's in a different situation. I'll give you a blanket, you know, answer how to deal with insulin, obviously. But the first step I would focus on, and what I do focus on really, is what I'm eating. So I really aim to not spike my glucose levels is really phase number one. Miss Nobody says, I've been obese my whole life. I just want to at least get under 200, then take it slow. I'm 245 now. Okay, Miss Nobody, I totally get that. I totally get that. Um, please, please, please, Miss Nobody, go make sure you go to my— here on TikTok here, click the picture of me in the top corner there and go click the link on my bio. Go get the hypnosis session, okay? Because once you get on my email list I'm going to send you this within the next week. I just— I'm putting up the finishing touches on my new training, Reprogrammed: How to Live at Your Goal Weight Without the Fight. This— you, you are the person I want to watch this more than anyone here right now, because I know that you're willing to do the work. That's why I'm so proud. I really am. I'm proud of all the work you've done. To do that is really, I think, noteworthy. And I think you deserve to feel proud of everything you've done. Where I'm coming from, though, you have to understand, is I've done You know, 20 years professionally of working with people have put all this effort in and put the weight back on. I don't want that for you. And in Program Yourself Thin, you know, we, we follow the goal weight pyramid, and you see mindset here, right? But you'll notice the last phase of mindset that we cover in this section is maintenance. In Program Yourself Thin, we start day one thinking about our maintenance, because the goal in Program Yourself Thin is not to get to the goal weight, it's to live there. And I know for you, you're saying, well, I want to get there first, and then the then I'll think about living there. I want you to start thinking about that now because I want you to practice maintenance now so that by the time you get to your goal weight, it just feels like second nature. And so it doesn't feel like some big accomplishment just you got there. It feels like an accomplishment that you know how to live there now when you get there. And that's what I show you how to do. So make sure you get that, okay? Because you've done so much good work, and I wanna— I think a lot of what I'm talking about is going to be directly relevant to you right now. And, and over the next couple years as well. All right, so check that out. Christina says, so don't eat 630 calories in a cookie cake for breakfast. Got it. Yeah, not a good idea. Wouldn't, wouldn't suggest that. Uh, it says more things to focus our life around besides food. Oh yeah, absolutely true, absolutely true. Okay, Miss Nobody's— okay, I'm already down 2 of your hypnosis videos. I'm ahead of you. All right, but very good. But make sure you get on my email list. That's the main thing because I've got a whole bunch of cool stuff coming. This training is just the beginning of it. Just so you all know, um, I know I talk about a lot of the free stuff I give away. I'm kind of packaging it all better. So over the next month, um, that's one of the main things I'll be working on. But the start of that kind of revamped free stuff I give you is this training, which I think is the best training I've ever done. I give you the hypnosis session as well, but then I also have a free program. I just give— if you want it, you can sign up for it. I don't give this one to you automatically because What it does is it emails you every morning and it's a coaching email. It's literally just— it's pure content. It's actually from a program I used to charge for and I just give it to you if you want. Again, that's— I don't just give you this one because I'm not going to email you every day, the spam laws and all that shit. So you got to click a link if you want it. But that's just another free thing I give you. I give the goal weight quiz, I give you random trainings, I give you a bunch of free stuff. Again, my mission in life is to help as many people as possible with their goal weight. And, um, with someone who's willing to do the work like you are and is ahead of the curve. Yeah, make sure you get on that list. All right, so once you get those things, um, Renee says, any tips on reducing nighttime snacking? This seems to be my biggest issue. Uh, yeah, I mean, I think the biggest thing to understand is that nighttime snacking is not just its own thing. Okay, so I think that, um, don't just look where a lot of times where the problem shows up is not where the problem was created. And I think a lot of times when it comes to nighttime snacking We get really, um, we get really fixated on the nighttime snacking part, but a lot of times the nighttime snacking is directly happening based on what we did earlier in the day. So a lot of times dieters will try and not eat anything all day, and then the nighttime comes and they can't overwhelm, they can't fight anymore and they give up and they eat everything. So, um, one of the first things I would say, my biggest tip I think to getting control of nighttime snacking is to nourish yourself at a higher level during the day. Hydrate yourself, get better sleep, rest, de-stress. These things a lot of times are going to do a lot of the heavy lifting to get you to be able to manage the nighttime snacking and binging. Okay, so test that out and then see how that works. Lori says, I ate like crap the other day, fast food that was totally not worth it, and spent time in the car mulling over why I did it. I felt sick for hours. Today I looked at candy and instantly worked out why it wasn't the thing to eat right now. Ate a breakfast sandwich instead. Yeah, I've not— I would not have done that a year ago. Nice job, Laurianne. I'm super proud of you. That's what we're talking about. That's exactly it. And I love that so much because that is a perfect example what I'm talking about, that we're all going to make mistakes. See, dieting demonizes mistakes. But here at Program Yourself Thin, we celebrate them and we learn from them most importantly. And so that's the perfect example of it. Laurianne kind of made— had a behavior she wasn't happy with. But she utilized it. She learned from it. She internalized it, and she used that experience to make a better choice the next time. And that's what we're doing here, because the more we do that, the more we keep making better choices and learning from our mistakes and making better choices and making better choices and learning from our mistakes. We just keep getting better. And after 3 months, 6 months, a year, 5 years, the accumulation of all those improvements and learnings is profound, profoundly different. But it's a different rhythm and approach than the diet approach, so it feels weird, you know, even though it's so much more effective. Um, Dreamwalker says what you're talking about, food is nourishment is information, is called sun-cycled nutrition, coined by Adam Bergstrom. Sun-synced nutrition. Yeah, that's cool. I never knew that. I will— I'm gonna go search that right now because I know I'll forget it. I'm really curious about that then. That's something I, I really want to dive too. I will tell you, I, I have not really read now. Oh my God, it is really going on 9 months because— almost 12 months. I had a little blip there, but I, I usually for years I just read every day. And I've noticed because I've been writing a lot— sun-synced nutrition, that is cool. I can't wait to look that up. That's cool. Yeah, I'm gonna check that out. Um, yep, yep. So appreciate you sharing that with me. Um, yes, I've not been reading. Oh my goodness, I was, I was thinking this yesterday. I'm like, I feel it, feel to my brain, it feels like a muscle that hasn't been worked out. I'm not gonna lie, like, like, I need to read more. I need to get that going. Will I do it before September? I don't know, we'll see. Um, Renee says, thank you very much, I will definitely work on those things more. Great, great. Uh, Dream says, get morning sunlight to set up hunger hormones and eat with the windows of the sun. That will help with late night snacking. Agreed, agreed. I think that's great advice too. Yeah, he wrote the book on it. It's about the sun programs the food in your location for you. Oh, that's cool. I like that. I love stuff like that. I think, you know, it really comes down to the '60s is really when we started thinking about food in terms of macronutrients and calories. We start breaking it down. And again, we do this a lot of times in our society right now, especially science does this. It kind of drills down and it's specialized, specialized, specialized, but separate a lot of times. And I think a lot of times we're benefited by zooming out and kind of look at the bigger picture of it. And I think that— I love that framing that the sun, right, the sun is what runs all the food, right? So again, in my world, it's, it's photo, photo nutrients. Phytonutrients, right? It's nutrients from the sun. And so that's a huge part of my paradigm of what I want to put in my body. I want to put a lot of phytonutrients into my body. That's, that's how to get the sun nutrients into my body, basically. And I think if you have that paradigm and you start to have more of that in your life, you just, you feel fundamentally different, fundamentally better. So thank you for sharing that. I can't wait to read it. I can't believe I've never heard of that. Um, and so I'm really excited because that sounds right up my alley. And I love, I love things that kind of look at nutrition. So I love things in general that kind of look at things in the big picture in a kind of a slightly different way than we normally think of it. So that sounds really cool. Um, what's up, Chelle? Chelle says, I love your daily emails. They are really important to helping me stay focused, stress-free, and all or something mindset. Yeah, yeah, those emails are really good, I think. I mean, they're really good. I'm probably biased, but I get feedback on them all the time. I think they're really good. And every day they're just free. You know, you get one in the morning, read it or don't, but it's short, you know, but it's just something to kind of keep you in this headspace, which you need, right? We need support, we need conditioning. It's very difficult to do this on your own. It's kind of like trying to learn a language on your own. It's very difficult. Impossible, I guess not, but, but almost impossible, you know, if we're being honest. So I'm glad— thank you, Chell, for mentioning that. Um, Aim says you mentioned emails. Yeah, the PYT Daily ones. I send something out pretty much every week. If you're on my list, you're going to get an email at least once or twice a week. And they always have like a link at the bottom. It's a click it if you want to get these every day. So if you, if you don't find that, you could— if you're on my email list, you can go in your email thing and search, you know, Jim Katsoulis program yourself, then it'll come up. And, um, click it and you'll see it there, and then you'll start getting them every day. Okay, it says, appreciate you being so gracious and addressing comments. Yeah, well, you're welcome. This is what I do. I've been doing this for over 3 years at this point. Holy shit, 3 and a half years. Um, and I love it. I really love it. I've been doing this professionally over 20 years Personally, for over 30 years, I'm, I'm obsessed with this stuff. I, I am obsessed with it. So I love being able to talk to you all every day and just kind of go back and forth. Um, it's kind of my mission in the world, you know. That's why I do it every day for free and, you know, attempt to help you all out. Um, Janine says, I'm eating isolated rinsed canned beans and lentils for my snacks, eating protein and fats until 3 PM. All right, isolated rinsed canned beans and lentils. All right, for snacks. I've never done that. That's interesting. Um, Miss Nobody says the more you fast, the more you train your body to be okay with cravings and hunger. Fasting is awesome. Um, uh, if it works for you, that's great. I wouldn't say fasting is awesome. I, I, I, I want to just point this out, and Miss Nobody might want to turn the volume down for this. I— because now I'm going to speak to everyone else who's not 40 pounds down. Because this is what always happens. This is the biggest trap for dieters, is they hear someone who's getting really amazing results. 40 pounds in 3 months is amazing results. Okay? And so you hear that and you just go into this trance and you say, well, tell— just tell me what you did. And now you're, you're at the mercy of whatever this person is going to say. And they're going to say whatever they're going to say. They're going to say, oh, I just stopped eating carbs. I don't eat carbs. I'm just in ketosis and it's amazing. I just stopped eating. I fast. I fast all day. I eat 2 hours. I eat 1 meal a day. It's amazing. It's amazing. I run— I walk 20,000 steps a day. It's amazing, right? You're always going to hear that. Now, again, that's why I say no, and you're not misleading, Miss Nobody. But again, this is the part you might want to just turn the volume down. The worst person on the planet to listen to about weight loss is someone who's right in the middle of losing a lot of weight because they're so fired up and excited that they're losing weight that they're almost in an altered state. You know, again, when you're losing 40 pounds, you're— holy shit, it's amazing! It's just— it's like a— it's— it's— you're something like a high. And so they're not— they're not in a normal reality where they're able to judge what the fasting's really like yet. This is why most people don't stick with the fasting. Again, that's why you can come back, Miss Nobody, and you might fast forever, so prove me wrong. It's fine. There's always outliers, and there's always people go But again, watch out for that trap, dieters, that you hear someone doing something really extreme and you see their amazing results, and then you say, that's what I got to do. And then you try and do the extreme thing, it doesn't work, and you feel like a failure again. Okay, so just be careful. Again, in Program Yourself Thin, we don't do anything that we don't believe we'll be able to do forever. So we never do extreme things because if we can't do it forever, what's the point? And so when you build your entire process around things that are relatively comfortable, that in your mind you can imagine doing forever. It's, it's so fundamentally different that you almost can't even recognize it as weight loss as you've come to learn, you know, what weight loss is. So anyways, Judy says some canned black beans come seasoned. I don't rinse them. I add rinsed chickpeas and northern beans. That's pretty good. All right, man, eating the beans like that, that's pretty good. That's a notch above where I'm at. That's pretty good. Yeah, I'm sure you're feeling full. Beans will do that, right? Uh, yeah, yeah. Miss Nobody says, yeah, fasting has me in a chokehold. I get it, I get it. It's, it's— and again, you might be a person who fasting just works and just, it just fits like a key in a lock, you know what I mean? But for most people, fasting is stressful and it's not some, like, the way they want to live, you know? And so I say this to you because I think a lot of dieters don't listen to themselves. They don't trust themselves. And so they hear someone who got some amazing results. They say, that's what I have to do. And then they try and do something they already know doesn't work because you've all tried fasting at this point. You've all tried keto at this point. You've all tried restricting calories dramatically at this point. You've tried it so many times. Please trust yourself. It don't work for you. And if it does work, it's probably gonna work for a little bit. Why? Because you got a wedding coming up or you're just super fired this time. So again, we're looking for ways to manage our weight that are sustainable, you know. And you got to listen to yourself to figure out what that is, okay? Because what's sustainable for one person may not be for another. All right, um, yeah, if someone told me to do keto, I'd fight them. Good, I think that's the right response. You got to really trust yourself and listen to yourself. That's the path. And again, even for me, I don't really go into like all the specific details of what I did because who gives a shit? I'm me. You're you, right? And so this is the other piece, is that, you know, again, you can be inspired by what someone says and you can explore it. That's what you should do. But if you go to do it and you find that, oh, this— oh, you know, if you're thinking about tomorrow and doing that thing, oh, that's a message your body and mind are sending you, a very important message. Listen to it, right? That's the other piece. Um, Yeah, all right. Sun sings, very esoteric. All right, so right up my alley. Can't wait, can't wait. 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