Program Yourself Thin Live 7-23-26

Everyone, welcome to today's program, Yourself Thin podcast. Today we're talking about how to lose weight illogically. Illogically, not logically, because your entire life you've tried to lose weight logically. And while there's a place for logic, don't get me wrong, we're not going completely illogic. The main thing that you've been discounting is how illogical you are. And you have really been pinning your weight loss success on the day when you wake up and you start really acting logically, where you wake up and you start making all the right decisions from that point forward. Every diet revolves around this— is you're going to wake up on Monday and not eat any carbs. You're not going to eat till noon. You're not going to, you know, eat any more than your points are allowed that day. Real obvious, right? Real simple. You've got it all mapped out. You see how many points you're allotted. You see how many points you're going to use. It's simple. It's logical. It's mathematical. And yet it's never worked for you. Not long term, right? It might work for a little while, but it has not helped you to live at your goal weight. And this is because you're not a logical person primarily. Yes, you can be logical, obviously, but you as a human being are not primarily logical. You're associative. Now, it doesn't mean you're illogical, I will say, but a lot of times it presents that way. So let's take a— give you an example of what I mean here. You could start your keto plan and you can say, I'm not getting any carbs today. And that's a pretty easy concept to understand, right? I'm not gonna eat carbs. Okay, I won't eat carbs today. Simple, logically. But then what happens is you get through the morning, you get through the afternoon, and now you finish dinner, and now you're thinking about the cookies that you love to eat after dinner, and you start thinking about them, thinking about them, thinking about them, thinking about them, and all of a sudden you're eating cookies. Now wait a second, you said you're gonna I don't eat carbs today. What happened? How could this happen? The logical thing is that you wouldn't eat any carbs. So how'd this happen? Because you're not a logical person. What ended up happening is you're associative. And so everything was kind of going fine when you had the focus and the willpower earlier in the day. But that depletes as the day goes on and you start running more and more on autopilot as the day goes on. And by the time you get to the evening, your autopilot mind starts taking over. The autopilot part of your mind that links 8 o'clock sitting on the sofa watching TV with cookies. And so now all of a sudden you have your logical mind that says, no, I'm not gonna eat any cookies tonight. And your associative mind says, it's 8 o'clock, where's the cookies? Something feels wrong. This isn't right. It starts freaking you out. You start getting upset and you can't ease that feeling until you go and eat the cookies. And usually it's that feeling of discomfort and deprivation and loss That tends to make you do the thing that you told yourself you weren't going to do. And once you start to understand this, you can see what's really driving your behavior most of the time are these subconscious associations that you've created. Your behaviors run on environmental cues that you're not even aware of. This is why your behaviors run in patterns. You don't tend to eat dinner food at breakfast. You don't tend to eat cookies and ice cream, um, after breakfast. Right. You tend to eat them at certain times, in certain situations, because the way your mind works, it links things together. And so once you start to understand this, this gives you a whole nother layer and level to understand your behaviors with, because you're not just a logical person. If you were, weight loss would be one of the easiest things in the world. If you were just pure logic, you would be like a robot and you could type in, I'm only going to eat 1,000 calories today, and you would start losing weight because you would only eat 1,000 calories a day. But you're not a robot. You're a human. And yes, you can be logical sometimes. And then sometimes you start becoming— well, we can say it shows up in different ways. We could say illogical. We can say associative. We could say emotional. You know, we could say all sorts of words for it, but it's something. And you got to start paying attention to it because being able to manage that part of you in my opinion, is more important than the logic. The logic's the easy part. We all know this. This is what diets sell themselves on— simple concepts. Oh, just stop eating carbs. Oh, just lower your calories. Oh, don't eat for 16 hours. These ideas are so simple to understand but so difficult to live. And so we need to understand this other enormous layer of your weight, which is really your automatic behaviors, your associative mind, your emotional mind, if you want to call it that. It's a combination of all of these things. But it ain't logical. Well, it's not logical in the way we tend to think. It has its own particular logic to it, but it's not logical like a diet is. Just do this and this, this will happen. That's not how you operate as a human being, and you never will. This is the— the diets hold that out, that someday you are going to wake up on a Monday and just follow the plan perfectly like an automaton, like a robot. But that day is never going to appear. And if you keep waiting for it, you're going to be really disappointed. So we need to take a step back and realize, okay, sometimes I do these things and I'm not sure why. Great. Let's think about it. You don't have to explain why. You just need to start putting the associations together, start to understand your patterns. And basically the patterns run around time. Okay, so you've got certain behaviors that are triggered around time, time of day, time of week, time of month, time of year. Okay, so time's a big associative anchor. Another one is your mood. So if you get in a bad mood, that's associated to certain behaviors, isn't it? When you're in a really good, happy, healthy mood, you tend to make better food choices than when you're in a really depressed, angry mood. Okay, so mood's a big one. Um, people, people that are there, people that aren't there. So all of a sudden you can be around certain people, that triggers unhealthy behaviors. All of a sudden you could be alone, everyone's gone, that might trigger unhealthy behaviors. Right. So we want to start to notice the patterns that are running under our logical surface. And once you start to notice those, you start to notice the patterns, and that gives you the ability to influence yourself on a deeper level, which allows you to influence yourself more. And this, I believe, is one of the missing pieces of most people's weight loss, is they're only looking at the logical, factual approach to it. You know everything you need to know to lose weight. Okay, please understand that. What I believe is really the linchpin for actually getting those results is starting to understand your patterns, your associations that are truly running your behaviors. And once you understand those, then you can see the bigger picture and you can influence yourself on a higher level to get the results you want. So if you want to experience this firsthand, click the link in my bio and go get the free hypnosis session I made for you. Uh, it will help you to relax, calm down, put good ideas in, and that will support you in starting to see some of these associative behaviors you have, some of these associations that are impacting you so dramatically. All right. And you can click the link in my bio or go to programyourselfthin.com to go get that. If you are over on Facebook, I will put the link in the chat or YouTube and you'll go check that out. I got a cool thing coming. Not yet. Not yet. So don't do this. But Facebook, you're going to be able to just write a word in and you'll be able to get this. So you won't have to go to a link— well, you will, it's me— go to a link, but it'll send it to you. So anyways, yes, hope you're having a wonderful day. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them. Usually here every Monday through Friday around noon talking about weight. I know it's the middle of summer and a lot of people don't want to think about weight right now, but that's the best time to think about it because we're going to think about it differently. You know, no one wants to think about their weight as a dieter, you know. So that's the secret— we're not talking about dieting, we're talking about how to create changes in your mind, in your style and in your eating that allow you to live at the weight you want to live at. And we want to make it as comfortable as we possibly can. Again, most diets are going to make weight loss as difficult as it can possibly be. So we want to go the opposite direction, and it's a direction most people have never really gone in. Most people never really explored the idea that weight loss could be comfortable and relatively easy. May sound silly, but I promise you. Torrence says, question: I, I have a plan and I sabotage. How do I explore that behavior? Yeah, great question. And that goes right along with what I just said. Your plan most likely is really hard. It's probably really hard from where you're starting from. Dieters do this all the time. Dieters start from the beginner level to the expert level in one day. So, so the first reason, I don't think it's sabotaging. I think people use the word sabotaging incorrectly. I think, Torin, most likely you don't know how to really live at your goal weight. You don't know how to, when you say, "I have a plan," I bet it's extremely different than how you normally live. Again, this is— dieting in a nutshell is so crazy because it doesn't matter what diet you do, what unites them all is the mindset. 'Cause it doesn't matter if you can do Weight Watchers, keto, vegan, carnivore, it literally doesn't matter what diet you pick, Mediterranean, um, South Beach, any of them, you're gonna jump into it on Monday doing it perfectly. And you're gonna do it perfectly until you can't do it anymore, then you're not gonna do any of it. And so a lot of people go from their normal to some huge jump. Another way to put it is dieters are all or nothing. Usually they're doing nothing, and then all of a sudden, that's it, you see a picture of yourself, you're all upset, and that's it, I'm gonna, I'm gonna change this, I'm gonna do it. And so if you jump from doing not much to doing everything perfectly, is that sabotage, or are you wearing yourself out? Let me put it in a different context. If you've never played the piano before and you say, I really— I want to learn to play the piano, and you decide I'm going to play 8 hours a day, and you play the first day, you muscle through it. The next day you wake up, your back's killing you, your hands are killing you, and you're like, oh, I can't do this, I can't do it. Is that sabotage or is that a bad strategy? Let's say you're going to run a marathon and I say, I gotta— I got a strategy for you, just sprint the whole thing. These dumb-dumbs are pacing themselves. Sprint, just sprint the whole thing, run as fast as you can the whole way, you'll win. So that sounds great, and the gun goes off and you start running as fast as you can for 200 feet and then you collapse. Did you sabotage yourself or was that a bad strategy? You see, so that's the first step that almost every Dyer is making, that big mistake of trying to change everything all at once, and this idea that you're going to be able to do that. It makes no sense to me. It's never worked. I don't know why it ever would. So that would be the first thing I would look at is that it may not be sabotage as much as it is overwhelm. But you're the one to know that, you know, you're the one that knows what you're doing when you start your plan. You know, is your plan a gentle step-by-step increase as your abilities and skills improve? Are you right? Again, you go to the gym, you've never lifted weights before. Do you start with the 5 and then the 10, the 15 and the 20 and 25 and the 30 and 35? Are you going straight to the hundreds, right? And most dieters go straight to the hundreds, get overwhelmed, exhausted, and can't go anymore. And then they blame themselves. That's like the marathoner blaming themselves for not just sprinting the whole way. Well, you're not built to sprint the whole way, but dieting has convinced us that that's the way you do it. And so when something is obviously is not going to work, and then we blame ourselves— that to me is a big problem of the diet industry, is that they have conditioned us to think that if we can't do that crazy plan out the gate, then there's something wrong with us. And there's not. There's something wrong with that strategy. 74% of American adults are overweight or obese at this point. With numbers that bad, it's not you all, it's the diet strategy, is my thought. So that's the first thing I would do to explore that behavior. Yeah, yes it is. Yep, it's the mindset. Yeah, yeah. Torin says, great analogy, train like a marathoner. I used to run a marathon, great thought. There you go, right? So, you know, um, you know, when you think about— so when you think about your plan to lose weight, does it feel like you're approaching it like a marathon, intelligently, logically, for the long haul? Or are you approaching it as a sprinter, just thinking about the first eighth of the race, you know? Who gives a shit if you're way out in front the first eighth of the race if you can't go on the rest of it? You know what I mean? And that to me is what dieting does. And so it's not sabotage. Sabotage again puts it on you. You blame yourself. Oh my God, I can't, I can't completely change my eating and my entire lifestyle and everything in one day. What's wrong with me? I must be sabotaging myself. Well, yeah, you can keep it up for a couple days, a couple weeks, because you got a reserve of willpower and you're really fired up and really motivated. But that's not a strategy built for the long term, and it ain't your fault either. You've never been given a real strategy. Again, let me just show you just as an alternative. Program Yourself Thin, we follow the goal weight pyramid. And so just to give you an example of what a more comprehensive, holistic strategy to managing your weight would look like, this is it right here, right? So we got mindset, lifestyle, and eating. And so we're following these 3 things, but there's more than just a meal plan. Because again, folks, how do you possibly think that your mindset isn't a core problem of your weight problem if you really think you're just one meal plan away from living at your goal weight, huh? Like, you're not— you're not looking at this accurately. How can you just discount your mindset completely from this process? I, I don't understand that, you know. What's up, Joan? Joan says, one huge pattern I'm seeing more and more is attachment to the clean the plate club, especially if I'm out to eat. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, the food isn't what's fattening, the behavior is what's fattening. Yeah, true story. Um, again, clean your plate club for sure, and especially when you're out. But you know, I mean, one simple workaround, or one of the simpler workarounds I should say, because simple's relative, but, um, is just taking it home, doggy bags, being able to enjoy it twice. You know, that's a strategy that can work. Very rarely you're going to go out, get food specially made for you, then just not finish it. I wouldn't— that, that is not a strategy I want to build around. So if you bring it home, that tends to be better. Um, so, but I get it, you know. But that's the idea though, you, you figure out which, which things are kind of impact you the most. And maybe the Clean and Play Club might be— I don't know, there's a million kind of little ideas we, we've acquired along the way, and a lot of them are not supporting us, right? So it's our job to become aware of them and then counter-program them, basically, right? So we're not gonna fight against the Clean Your Plate Club. We're gonna come up with a new club to be part of— the Eat Till I'm Satisfied Club, and then Bring the Rest Home Club, the Order Just the Right Amount Club so I Don't Have Any Extra Club, you know. But we got to create a new club. But again, the first step is becoming aware of it, you know, because you can certainly reprogram yourself. Clean Your Plate Club, though, is a very good example of a program um, that a lot of us got, got installed into us. So it says whatever's on your plate, you finish all of it. Why? Because if you don't eat that food, then someone else is going to suffer, right? I mean, that's the basic, the basic plan. That's a basic idea behind it. And so we want to overwrite that with a better program. Now again, I can't sit here and tell you what the better program is because it depends on the person. Everyone's got— everyone's a different collection of values, beliefs, you know, ideas and identities and all this other stuff. So I can't just tell you what it is, but if you start to realize, oh yeah, clean your plate club, I was born, I was raised with that, did 20 years, it's in there still. Okay, so we pull it out and say, wait a second, what do I want to believe instead? When I have leftovers, what do I want to believe instead? See, because most people never even really recognize that, and they just have this, again, this association, the subconscious association to eat everything on the plate. And they don't even think about, oh yeah, right, because I was raised that way growing up, you know. So once you gain awareness of it, great. Now we pull it, we say, wait a second, okay, I don't want to believe that anymore. That was an old belief. I mean, I've gotten the— I've got, I've got multiple. I'll give you— I'll share some of mine with you. Um, if I have extra food there and I'm satisfied, first of all, the first thing I do is, is that me not finishing this food has absolutely zero effect on anyone else. No one's going to eat more or less because of what I do with this food here on my plate. That's the first thing. It has, it has no connection. There's zero connection between me finishing all the food on my plate and anyone else on the planet. That's the first thing. Okay. Number 2 is I, to me, it's not wasted. So, so this is a little harder, I think, because again, food waste is really like biologically into our body. I, I've worked on this for a while, but I, if I throw that food in the trash or the toilet, I'm wasting it. I, I don't— if I'm good, I'm good, I'm done, and that's that, you know. And no one's gonna eat that food. No one would have eaten that food if I didn't get it. If I'd only ordered 3/4 of it, no one would have eaten that food. I don't— I have no connection to that food going anywhere after I'm done with it. It's on my plate, and whatever I do with it, that, that's the end of the story in terms of other people. Not with my weight. If I finish all of it when I'm full 75% through, there's just 25% more extra weight on me. I don't want to do that. I like eating just the right amount so I can weigh just the right amount. That's what I want. And I'm very comfortable letting the food go. Now I work on it still because what I find more is not my belief system with that, but more I'm just enjoying it, right? I'm enjoying it and it's like a special thing. I want to, I want to finish it. And so more often than not, I've figured out the perfect amounts to order. So most of the time when I'm going to go order some food that I want, I'm getting the perfect amount of that I want so there's not leftovers. But if all of a sudden there was a leftover, I could take it home and enjoy it again, um, you know, and/or I'll just leave it. So those are just things I've run through, and I'm very satisfied with that. Those work for me, you know. But again, we can't leave it alone until we resolve it. And the resolving it is less about what I just said and more about kind of questioning it consistently until you come up with something better. What's up, Lois? Lois says, not being a dieter is so freeing. I hit a new low weight, 90% to my goal weight. Nice job, Lois. Goal weight range, 125 plus 3 pounds. I read the Dorito Effect book, eye-opening. Great job, Lois. Nice job. Yeah, again, that's what we're talking about. It's a, it's a slow, steady progress to get to our goal weight but then stay there. Again, the goal for me and my clients is not just to lose weight, it's to get to your goal weight and then live there the rest of your life on your autopilot. It. It's not enough just to lose weight. You've all lost weight at some point, most likely, struggling to do it. And if you struggle to do it, you got to struggle to maintain it. And very few people are going to struggle long-term in their life. No one likes to struggle. It's swimming upstream, you know, it's just— it's tiring. So we want to approach our weight with the goal that is going to become automatic. We want to manage our weight. We want to lose the weight in the most comfortable, enjoyable, easiest way possible. You all have never thought about these things. You're not, because dieting is literally the opposite. Dieting has conditioned you. It's trained you to associate the harder you do, the better. It's so funny. I was doing a call last week with a client, and this was so great. And it's like such an obvious thing, but it's so profound to me. But we were talking about exercising and what her goal was. And she goes, well, I want to do it long enough so that I can feel it tomorrow. So what's that mean, right? What's that really mean? It means I want to feel it enough tomorrow so I'm sore, you know. I'm not saying there's not a place for that. Certain goals require that, okay? But for most of us, what if we made the goal that I just want to move my body so it feels activated and alive? I just want to feel good. I want to feel looser. I want to feel a little stronger. I want to feel some movement. I feel a blood flow. I just want to get things, get things feeling better. I want to feel good. What if we made that the goal? Oh, that's not enough. That's not enough. What do you need to do? You need to wake up tomorrow really sore so you hate the exercise you just did yesterday so that you feel like shit today. You're tired, you're grumpy, you're exhausted. That, that's the goal. We've been just fed such a line of bullshit with the diet industry and the weight industry. It's, it's God, it's, it's, that's why I'm here every day for free. You know, I, they're literally my number one enemy. And to me, this is life and death. My dad died at 54 of a heart attack. So weight to me is life and death. And, um, that's why I'm here every day, you know. But yeah, we've just been conditioned by the diet industry, which is really just the food industry, and they've filled our head with bad ideas. And so I try to share some better ideas because your weight doesn't have to be this. What's up, Kent? Kent said, I found that if I have the server bring me a box up front with the food, it's easier for me to stop. See, there we go. That's brilliant. That's brilliant. It's always a combination of mindset and strategy. So the things I was talking about were mostly mindset, how you're thinking about this thing. Right. But it's always mindset and strategy. We want to have the right mindset and we want to have the right strategies. That's the secret to living at your goal weight, is to have the right mindset and the right strategies to know how to think, live, and eat like a thin, healthy, happy person. That's what we do with this Goal Weight Blueprint. We're systematically breaking down how to think, live, and eat like a thin, healthy, happy person. And the difference between that and losing weight is that losing weight is only about changing your behavior until you lose the weight. So that once, if you're even lucky enough to get to your goal weight, you still have no plan to live there. And this is why it's estimated that 85 to 95% of dieters that lose the weight put it back on, because there was never a plan to live at that weight. The dieting is really only focused on that first phase of losing it. And when you only focus on the first phase of losing it, that's when you start saying, well, fuck it, I'll just I'll cut way down. I'll cut all that out. I'll never eat a carb again. You get dramatic, you get over— you overwhelm yourself because you think, I could do that for a little while. And every time you think about weight loss at this point, it's for a little while. And that's why even if you've gotten some success with your weight, it goes away. You don't maintain it. You can't maintain it. You don't know how to maintain it. You've never learned how to maintain it. This one, trying to say, because most people will take it on as a personality character flaw, a defect in yourself. It's not a defect in my willpower, a defect in my mind where I keep sabotaging myself. How can you sabotage yourself from something you don't know how to do? You sit on the piano, I've never played the piano before, and you say, I don't know, let's go, I don't know how to play it. So, you know, you know, you— that's a weird excuse. You're just sabotaging yourself. Play me a song. Well, you're not sabotaging yourself. You don't know how to play the piano, and you don't know how to live at your goal weight, folks. I mean, I hope that's clear. What? What? Oh no, I know, Jim. I know how to live my goal. I just gotta just no carbs. I just gotta eat 1,000 calories a day. That's all. Yeah, well, it's easy to say that. It's easy to say all the diet ideas. It's the living of it that's kind of where things go wrong for people. And no one ever focuses on that part. It's like, oh, the new diet. Well, what's this diet say? Oh, you eat, you know, eat these foods on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and then this one here, you eat these foods on Tuesdays. It's like people just love these complex diet plans. They love them, but none of them get you any closer because none of them are dealing with your mindset. Carolyn says, took your wording from the other day and was so cool to see from unconscious incompetence. Don't realize, I don't know. To conscious incompetence, need to learn, to conscious competence, to unconscious competence. Yep. Healthy choice is second nature. Wow, needed to see that for myself. Yeah, yeah. Conscious incompetence. Yes, yes. All that stuff's so interesting. I could do a lesson on that. I don't know, I'm kind of finalizing the lesson I'm going to do today in one of my classes. I got so many ideas for lessons, that's my problem. And I'm so excited. If you all know, if you're not in my world yet, um, I, I sent out a link for the Reprogrammed workshop I just, uh, created. So I hope you get a chance to watch that. If you're on my email list already, uh, you should have got an email for it this week. I'll be sending a bunch more out. Um, but yeah, and then if you're not in my world, click the link in my bio or go to programyourselfthin.com and go get that free hypnosis session. Because again, not only do I give you the free hypnosis session, but I give you this training, uh, Reprogrammed: How to Live at Your Goal Weight Without the Fight. I give you a bunch of other free stuff too, so go check that out. Um, But yeah, nice job, Carolyn. Yeah, unconscious competence, that's what we're looking for. Lisa says, I just need to lose 10 pounds, but it's so hard. Um, yeah, you don't just need to lose 10 pounds, you know. Again, you're minimizing it, right? I just need to lose 10 pounds. Um, no, you need to learn how to think differently, how to live differently, how to eat differently so that you live at a 10-pound lighter weight. And there's no just involved. It's a big undertaking. And if you take it on as such and really focus on it and make it a focus until you figure out how to do it, your chances of success will go way, way higher, you know. But I just need to lose 10 pounds, you know, when I hear that, I know you're just trying to restrict calories or just trying to skip carbs, or I know you've got like a one-note strategy you're trying to follow to make that happen. And I'm not blaming them, please understand, it's not a judgment thing. It's a, it's really, it's a judgment on the diet industry. Because the diet industry, everyone's trying to change one thing, right? Every diet is one thing, right? You're not gonna stop eating carbs, you're gonna count your points, you're not gonna eat till noon, you're, uh, you know, gonna restrict, uh, I don't know, you're gonna max protein. Fucking protein. Oh my God, protein. Anyways, by the way, I just— I, I've been talking about this for so long, so it's like, it's just so funny when the new thing comes up because, you know, it's been what, gluten-free, low carb, low fat, no sugar. Uh, protein's the big thing now. And this is what the food industry does. They give you— keep you so confused because every year it's something new that we're focused on. Yeah, protein's gonna make you lose weight. Yeah, protein's the magic bullet to losing weight. It's not, by the way. Your protein levels are fine. You know, there's a lot of money being sold off of selling protein right now. Oh, peptides, that's the next one coming down the pike. But peptides is more niche, you know what I mean? But They always cycle through the macros every 5 years, I guess. But my God, the protein stuff is so silly to me anyways. But it's just that it's a symptom of a deeper problem that people don't really have a congruent idea of how to manage their weight. And I think it's because they're starting from the wrong goal anyways, because folks, you don't want to lose weight. You don't want to lose weight. You've lost weight and put it back on. Did you achieve your goal? Is your goal to lose weight or is your goal to live at your goal weight? Which one is it? Because they're not the same. They're not the same. And so if your goal's wrong from the get-go, what are your chances of success? And your goals are wrong because you're just focused on losing the weight. And when you just focus on the lose— losing the weight, you think of it as a short-term temporary thing. And now you're wide open to be sold an extreme plan to make that happen. And at this point, I guarantee— I know this for a fact, tell me if I'm not right. That every time you think about losing weight, the big hurdle is you have to get yourself really fired up and motivated to start on a Monday because it's a big undertaking. There's no half doing it. There's no step, step, step by step to do it. There's jumping right into your plan, and it's very difficult. It's very overwhelming. It's very stressful, and you wonder why you avoid it. Hmm. It's not because you're a weak-willed person. It's not because you're a character-flawed a person, it's because your strategy is shitty. Dieting is a shitty strategy. This is why it doesn't work for fucking anyone. Like, statistically, no one. I mean that. When it— when 85 to 95% of dieters that lose the weight put it back on, that statistically is basically— it's a failure. It does not work. So, you know, I don't know. I would say that's not a good strategy when one fails that much. Donna says, what the fuck, last Friday I was absolutely going to do OMAD, one meal a day, and it lasted one day. Donna, right? That's what I mean, is it's not— but Donna, you're not, you're not a bad person because of that. OMAD's goofy. OMAD is goofy for most people. OMAD's one meal a day, right? So It's like, it's goofy times, folks. You're gonna eat one meal a day unless you love living a life of stress. And don't even get me started on stress, by the way, because every diet is stressful to you. And guess what? I got bad news for you about stress. Stress is one of the main causes of your body telling you to not drop weight. Stress— your cortisol levels go up, it makes you hungrier, okay? It makes your body hold on to the weight because it thinks it's in a traumatic situation, so it's trying to hold on to weight. It's giving you those signals. So it's like if you're stressing yourself out to lose weight, I would say that is not a very good strategy. And so, Donna, I guess the beauty is— and good for you, last Friday you're going to start your diet on Friday. God bless you, Donna, you're an outlier, and I like that. Again, a lot of the people here are overthinkers and perfectionists, and I, I gotta say, you— quite, quite a mindset you have to start OMAD on a Friday. But it doesn't matter because that's what happens to most people, right? That's what happens to most diets. So it's not just you. But I mean, the OMAD is, is a good one for kind of really fleshing that out. I mean, how many of you tried intermittent fasting and it's like, you know, it's just miserable, you know, and you hate it? Like, I don't hate what I do. I love, I love, love, love, love how I eat. Like, I look forward— I look forward to my breakfast, I look forward to my lunch, I look forward to my dinner, I look forward to any snacks or anything in between. I look forward to how we do my clean days, I look forward to my pleasure days. I just love it all. I love it all. It's not stressful, it's not hard, it's not difficult. Am I gloating? And no, I'm just saying that it's a— there's another path available. Dieting industry is not a health industry. The diet industry is the food industry. Weight Watchers was owned by Heinz. Jenny Craig was owned by Nestlé. Uh, Atkins Food Products was owned by the same company owns Ben— uh, no, Auntie Anne's Pretzels and Cinnabon. SlimFast was owned by the same company owns Ben Jerry's ice cream. These companies, come on, man, they don't want you to stop eating their bullshit food. You can't listen to them. They're wolves in sheep's clothing, sorry to say, but happy to say, because I'd love to get you off the diet merry-go-round. That's my goal more than anything else. I want you to stop dieting. Yeah, Meg says OMAD is so stressful. I did it for a month and it was awful. I know, I know. It's miserable. And to be honest, intermittent fasting isn't much better for a lot of people. There's nothing wrong with you if intermittent fasting is super stressful. It is for me. I do a form of fasting, I call it nighttime fasting. I stop eating usually 6, 7 at night and start eating 7, 8 o'clock the next morning. But I worked up to that over like 6, 7 months. I used to eat right until I went to bed, and I like an hour earlier, okay, an hour earlier, an hour early, because this was, this was 30 years ago I did this. It was before intermittent fasting, so I got to do it my own time frame.. And then I got good at it. So now it's very easy for me to stop eating 6, 7, and then eat the next day at 7 or 8. But if I tried not to eat till noon, that makes everything fall apart for me because I get so hungry. I'm obsessed with food. I'm stressed out. I'm thinking about food. I find intermittent fasting for most people ends up being a binge eating, um, exercise, you know, because they get so hungry and they're trying— no, no, no, no. I would say like, it's again, if you ever watch like a rodeo, that's how they get the bulls all ramped up. They put in this little pen and they just fuck with them, you know. And they open the gate. That's how dieters are. Don't you notice that first part? See, you blame yourself for the binge, but do you see the first part of what you're doing to lead to that? Well, you're not going to eat. You're going to do one meal a day. You're not going to eat any carbs. You're going to eat 1,000 calories. You're not going to eat till noon. It's a— see, you're like the bull in the pen. So the— find out, you know, noon comes, right? Noon is the gate swinging open. People intermittent fasting. I don't know why I'm not losing weight. Well, what are you doing the 8 hours you're eating? I'm eating a lot. Yeah, I'm really hungry and I can't control myself during the 8 hours. Yeah. Okay. You can easily stay overweight in 8 hours of eating a day, by the way. So again, there's other ways to manage this. And I would suggest that you start— you want to know if you're on the right path or not? Do you feel relaxed and calm? That's my question to you. If you feel relaxed and calm with what you're doing, your chances of success go through the roof. If you feel stressed and, and, you know, on edge, your chances of success go way down. It's that simple. That's that simple. Then you say, well, you're looking so— well, shit, Weight Watchers stressed me out, intermittent fasting stressed me out, keto stressed me out, South Beach stressed me out, Mediterranean stressed me out. They all stress me out, Jim. What do I do then? Well, you can take the principles from some of those things and slowly start to add them into your life in a way that's more comfortable. You want to do keto? Okay, well, how about we start slowly dialing the carbs down, the most egregious ones first? You want to do intermittent fasting? Fine. Why don't we start with an extra an hour, you know, a day until it's comfortable and you're at the level you want to be at? You want to do South Beach? Whatever, you know, like, that's a little different. But you want to do the Mediterranean? You slowly add— you do it, do a day of Mediterranean, get used to it, and then start adding in more. Yeah, but I don't get results fast enough, Jim. Well, have you gotten results fast now? You know, that's the other thing, this idea of fast versus slow. You know, again, the diet industry's got you all twisted up. Yeah. What's up, Jane? Jane says, I completely agree with you. I am forever trying to find a new way to lose weight even though I know better after listening to you for so long. That's okay, Jane. I mean, sometimes it just takes a lot of exposure. You know, I say that to people, and I've really— I've been doing this personally for over 30 years, professionally for over 20 years, And it is in that time, I will say, that things take longer than you think they're going to. I'm not going to bullshit you, you know, because the whole weight loss diet industry is always selling you these quick fixes. And I think that's the core problem. It's kind of like, you know, it's like if someone was teaching you or selling you an option to get a college degree in 2 months, it's too good to be true, you know? And so some things just take a certain amount of time.. And I think this is one of those, you know, it's a very robust thing. Change your weight. See, a lot of people think about weight— the diet industry again has got us to think about weight so simplistically. We think like a bank account, credits and debits, calories, right? I'm gonna lower the calories and burn more calories, I'm gonna lose a lot of weight. Okay, that's like the— that, that's about this much of the pyramid, the goal weight pyramid. What I just said is like about that much. Everything you've been told about weight loss is about from my finger up. That's about that much of the pyramid— what to eat, right? You never focus on the eating strategies and routines you have in your life. You never focus on the lifestyle, and you never focus on the mindset piece. And without having those pieces, again, it's like trying to build a house from the roof down. It just, it just doesn't work, you know? Yeah, Anne says, I feel like I'm getting confused with all the info coming from all directions. Agreed. And that's very intentional. That's very intentional. Confused mind is a stuck mind. A confused mind doesn't change. So all this information they're constantly bombarding you with is part of the— part of the, um, their strategy. As someone put it, I thought this was a great— greatest metaphor I've ever heard for this. It's kind of like if you have a puzzle, right? Say you got a 1,000-piece puzzle and someone dumps another 500 pieces of pieces that kind of look like that puzzle but don't go to it. That, that's what— that's what the weight— the food industry is trying to do. The weight loss industry, the diet industry is doing to you. You know, because they don't want you— they do not want you to be healthy and happy and at your goal weight forever. It's the last thing in the world they want because they're a business model that built— that sold, A, primarily on selling food. And then, you know, another part of their business model is, is the diets, you know, the recurring nature of it, you know. Because have you not noticed that you and all your friends, it's like you— and by the way, the shots are gonna be the same thing, let it be known. But they're going to find out, I think. I think what— because I'm starting to notice this now, and I've been talking about this, by the way. I'm on the record. So I don't know who's been saying this because I don't listen to other people really. But my big thing with the shots has always been once the weight loss stops and the weight loss stops after 16 months, just so you all know, you get 16 months of weight loss and that's that. I mean, you know, there's a little bit of leeway each way that people are different, but pretty much 16 months no matter which shot so far. So they haven't invented anything yet. 16 months, weight loss stops, and now that's your weight. Okay, but here's the thing. You're talking about living a life where you don't care about food anymore, really. You don't really look forward to your favorite restaurant. You don't have a favorite meal, really. You don't look forward to Grandma's famous lasagna at Christmas time. Your favorite place to go and eat for a special occasion, it loses its shine. Again, to me, it's very much like Prozac back in the day. You say, oh my God, I feel less depressed. And they say, wait a second, I feel less everything. And so yeah, when you're losing weight, people don't give a shit because when people are losing weight, all they care about is the weight loss. But I've said this, I've been saying this for years. My big question is what's going to happen when people get to their goal weight and the weight loss stops? And I'm saying they get to their goal weight because you don't guarantee to get to your goal weight, right? Because there's a lot of people, if you're starting at a really high weight, the 16 months and you still might be obese. Okay, but let's just say the weight loss stops. The excitement of the weight loss is gone. Now you're at your goal weight. Let's just say that we'll take the best case scenario. You're at your goal weight. And people say, well, if I'm at my goal weight, then everything's amazing. I don't give a shit about anything else. Food. I don't care anymore. Food noise is gone. It's amazing, Jim. Okay. And so now you're at your goal weight, but how long is that exciting for when you can never really look forward to a meal again? That's my big question, because I love food. I've learned how to moderate it. I've learned how to deal with my emotions genuinely, so emotional eating is not an issue. But I love food, and some of the best pleasures in my life I find are going to really good restaurants, making really good meals, and eating them and enjoying the shit out of them. And so I don't know if people are going to be satisfied with a life where food is not a big part of it. I know people don't care when they're losing weight, and we're starting to get to this point now because we're starting to get to this point where there have been people that are there and they've been at their goal weight now for a year or so, and now they're starting to sink in and dawn on them what their life's going to be. Now, some people don't care and they're just happy to be thin, granted, but I noticed a lot of people are starting to really question this because there are effects from this medicine. It is not magical in the sense that Program Yourself Thin is Program yourself, then you're really transforming your mindset, your lifestyle, and your eating so that you get all of these things under control so that you can still look forward to the special meal. You still can go to your favorite restaurant and love the food as much as you ever have, if not more, because now you're eating it more moderately at your goal weight. And that's not what's happening with the GLP-1s, you know. But yeah, there's a lot of information out there. What I'd suggest, Dan, is click the link in my bio and, um, go get the hypnosis session I made for you. And watch the training. I mean, I think it's my best training. I got a bunch of feedback this week and people are really loving it. Reprogrammed. I just made it. I think it's my best training by a mile. And at the very least, it'll give you a different perspective on things. Take it or leave it. I don't care. You don't have to agree with it, but I promise you it'll be different than you typically hear. It's not me telling you what to eat. It's me explaining to you how your mind impacts your food choices and how dieting has been set up for you to fail from the very beginning and how it's really not your fault. If you're trying to lose weight through dieting, um, and it hasn't worked, it really genuinely is not your fault. Dieting is a bad strategy. You know, it's like running east looking for a sunset. It's just, it's fundamentally flawed. I promise you folks, I, I've been doing this for over 3 and a half years at this point that this pod, I do this every day, get on the live every Monday through Friday. And I never had— I've never had anyone argue with me that a diet's a great idea for a long, a long-term plan. So I'm not, I'm not being hyperbolic here. I genuinely mean dieting is a shitty strategy to manage your weight, and no one ever argues me about it. I think you all know that. Um, Margie says intermittent fasting is not stressful or miserable for me. Then that's great, you know, like, and I want to make that point too, that we're all unique human beings. And so what's easy for me is probably may or may not be easy for you. And that's another problem I have with dieting, is that dieting is put out there as, let's say, just one-size-fits-all solution, like keto, that everyone should do keto. Everyone should intermittent fasting. Again, test it out, do it. If you just love it, if you're like Margie over here and you just love intermittent fasting, it just like— it just fits like a glove, then great, you found your path. Again, programming yourself in is about figuring out the path for you that's most enjoyable, most comfortable. So if Margie's intermittent fasting, she's at her goal weight and she's just loving it, then keep doing that. I'm not telling you to do something different. But if you're trying to do intermittent fasting, it's making you miserable and it's stressing you out, then please, what I'm saying to you is you've got options. I think so often when it comes to dieting that we're conditioned to kind of imagine putting a square peg into a round hole. We're trying to force ourselves to do something that's not a good fit for us. So for Margie, intermittent fasting is wonderful. Great, do that. But if you don't like it, you don't have to do it, you know. I think that's the important piece. Yeah, Donna said that's the only thing I can do thanks to you. I stopped eating at 5:30, baby steps. Oh, great job, Donna. Yeah, that's a wonderful— that's a wonderful step. I would say that's really not a baby step. This is another thing that I work so often with my clients on, is that they'll do something little and then they undervalue it. You know, again, the diet industry has conditioned us to only value overextending ourselves. So anything that feels relatively comfortable and sustainable feels like it's not enough, you know? And you got to watch out for that because that leads you to walk a path where the only thing you value is when you're overwhelmed and stressed out and you know, white-knuckling everything. And that's what most dieters— how they think, right? So we've got to change our thinking. You know, that's one of the core reasons why. That's a great job, Donna. What's up, Shell? Marty says, I like the Unicity protocol. It's not a diet, it's for life. Unicity. What's that? Let's look that up real quick. Unicity Protocol. The term Unicity, the Feel Great System by Unicity International Health and Metabolic Program. Quick Start to Feel Great. Um, it says it's supplements, but whatever. Again, if it works for you, great. That's what I'll say there. Uh, Carolyn says cortisol, stress, abdominal fat stays. Yep, true story, true story. You really do want to manage your cortisol, your stress. I mean, I think that's Common sense. There's just so many negative things about, um, stress, you know, especially when it comes to weight loss. Uh, Judy says, did you do pleasure days when you were trying to lose 50 pounds, or did you lose the 50 pounds first and then do pleasure days? Um, I did pleasure days first. Um, and as a matter of fact, I really did— I started doing clean days first because all of my days were pleasure at first. And so I made some general improvements. My big thing was I started focusing on nighttime eating. And that was the first thing I focused on. So before I got into cleaner pleasure days, I really focused on my number one habit that was causing the most calories to come in my body, and that was nighttime snacking. So I focused on nighttime snacking for many months primarily, and that started to help me to lose some weight. And then once I got a handle on that, then I started thinking about having— I was definitely, I was improving my breakfast as well. And then I started with the idea of having one clean day and I would do one clean day on Mondays, and I'd make Monday my cleanest, healthiest day from, from start to finish. And then I started getting good at that, and then I started spreading the number of clean days to 2, then 3, then 4, then 5. So that was kind of the path I took. Uh, Carolyn says, that's what I have to try, the 1 hour earlier at night, keep getting earlier. Yeah, that's a great strategy. Again, you, you— because I think the thing about I think personally the best benefit of fasting— and I think fasting is great, please let me understand, let me, let me stress that, that I, when I started, I used to literally, I would wake up and eat and I would eat until basically I went to bed. So there was the 8 hours I was sleeping was the only time I wasn't eating and my sleep was terrible. And so I am a huge believer that if you can give yourself a bigger window of not eating before you go to bed, you get a lot of benefit out of it beyond just lower in calories. More importantly, I think you improve your sleep typically, because again, digestion is a huge use of energy. So if you eat a bunch of food and then go to sleep, your body is, is using a lot of energy. I'm running a marathon metaphorically, right? It's doing a lot of stuff while you're trying to rest. So it's a kind of a combination. It's a conflict, you know. So, um, I think that, uh, giving yourself that— focusing on it that way. Stop eating earlier and earlier, and I think that's an easier way. What's up, Connie? Connie says, you challenged us to do one thing differently. I chose to monitor my breathing throughout the day. It makes such a difference to monitor when I'm holding my breath. Yeah, absolutely. I've done that too. I've done that. I've done so many of those. That's the thing though, again, we want to be in this for the long run because how long do you want to live at your goal weight for? Right. And most of you are going to say forever. So again, there's no rush with this. Let's build up the skills that really allow you to shine. And so, yeah, I've spent so much time focusing on my breath. I mean, my water, my relaxation, my movement, my nourishment, my meditation, my gratitude. We just consistently keep focusing on the things that make us better. And I think that's wonderful, Connie. Yeah, because when you focus on your breath, your breath is just so fundamental. So you make that better, everything improves. For sure. So I appreciate you sharing that. Uh, what's up, Elaine? Elaine says, on those shots you also lose protein. Yeah, and you also lose a lot of muscle because, you know, the weight loss happens very, very quickly. Um, and I'm always curious to see again, like, when people go off them and then— because people gain weight really fast once they go off it. And so I'm, I am nervous for people to find out what long-term effects it has on your metabolism because I think what we're going to find is A lot of people are not going to want to stay on this long term. And I think after their first round, they're going to realize that. And I'm really scared for them what this does to your metabolism long term when you want to stop. I feel very nervous for that, for people. And that's why I wish that they had done more studies on this, because they study this for over 20 years with diabetics in the context of diabetics. They studied this, but they've never done big studies on these GLP-1s with a population that didn't have diabetic concerns. Well, diabetes, of officially and, um, are just using it primarily for weight loss. And so, you know, to some degree, this is the trial that's happening now. And I'm, I'm concerned because this is all relatively new stuff to some degree, you know. And I don't know, so we'll see. We'll just see, you know. Uh, it's crazy times out there, but that's why I would say Um, again, what I'm saying I think is, is extra important because it's an alternative. It's an alternative you never hear, you know. Again, the, the shots are going to make it sound like that's the only possible way to lose weight. It's not true. It's not true. Yeah, Donna says small wins for the win. I appreciate that perspective. Yeah, I think that's the most important perspective there is personally. I think, you know, if you look at your life, anything you've done that you've gotten good at, you've improved small amounts at a time. I mean, you have little leaps where there's always leaps somewhere along the way. But primarily it's just small improvements. Program Yourself Thin is built around the 1% better a day philosophy. We're not trying to start 100% better. And, um, we're not trying to start 100% better like a diet, like on day one, that's overwhelming. So instead we're looking to consistently and forever just keep improving each and every day. And that is always the approach that works. I guess it seems like it's not as good because it's going to be slower, but My question to you all is how long you've been trying to lose weight for. If you've been overweight and trying to lose weight for 5, 10, 20 years, what's, what's fast and slow mean anymore? I really don't know. Do you ever wonder that maybe trying to chase fast results is part of the problem? You know, at what point do you realize chasing fast results might be the core problem bigger than anything else? Because chasing fast results is what causes you to have to do extreme things, and doing extreme things is the reason you don't want to get started and you keep avoiding it. I think that's how I look at it. What do you all think? Y'all just think you're lazy? I mean, it just doesn't hold up. I work with— I work with overachievers and perfectionists, like virtually everyone, and at all, all levels. It's $25 grand to work with me privately, so imagine someone who can pay that kind of money. You don't think they're ambitious? You don't think they have willpower? You don't think they're smart? And then everyone from there— I mean, look, look at your lives, folks, right? Most of you, um, that are even listening here, you, you've done big things, right? It's like you're an overachiever just in a lot of areas of your life. So this area, it's not like you don't have these skills. You just have never activated them when it comes to your weight. You're not using your— you're not using your best resources. You're not using your fullest resources when it comes to weight loss. Because dieting prevents that. It just gives you a plan you try and force yourself to follow, and it's miserable, and it feels miserable the entire time. Uh, Jane says, do you set an alarm to remind yourself not to stop eating? Because I am trying to do that, but sometimes I realize I've gone past that time. Um, um, no, Jane, I don't really do that. Um, I don't really set alarms. So I mean, I do rely on alarms, so I don't— I want to be clear, I use alarms sometimes. But when I stopped eating at certain times at night, I didn't set alarms. I just became more and more more conscious and aware of it. But again, Jane, I did that through the redo rehearsal. I would do the redo rehearsal every night. So I would, I would, if I wanted to stop eating at 10 o'clock and I ate at 11 o'clock, I would redo that in my mind and kind of replay how I would have done if I go back in time. And then I'll rehearse tomorrow and I'll imagine kind of playing that out so I'm done eating at 10 o'clock. And by consistently doing the redo rehearsal on it, that really solidifies it in my mind. So I don't need an alarm. It becomes a focus. So that's what I did. Lois says, what are your feelings on acupuncture and chiropractic care? Um, you know, listen, I'm a hypnotist, okay? So, you know, what am I gonna say, first of all? Okay, so I think I'm a hypnotist, and I think hypnosis in a lot of ways is kind of goofy and ineffective. I think the way I use it is great. So I would imagine every acupuncturist and chiropractor thinks a similar way. I can't say that the science of chiropracterness really holds a lot of water, in my opinion. Same with acupuncture. I just— this energy field, you know, I don't know about the proof for all that on one hand, but I'm a hypnotist, so I believe in the power of the mind. And so I believe if you believe it's helping you, then what's the harm, I guess? You know, I don't have a lot of faith in it for myself. But I also seen a lot of people that swear by it. And if they believe it, then to some degree it's true. You know, the placebo effect's a real thing. And as a hypnotist, I'm actively— I'm obsessed with the placebo effect. So I, even though I may not believe necessarily acupuncture and chiropractic, the science behind it, I think that if people get benefit out of it because they believe it, then I— who am I to say, you know? But, but I don't, I don't have a lot of scientific faith in either of those things. I think there's other explanations. I think with acupuncture, I think the relaxation that people experience while they're experiencing it is probably more important than your energy, your energy fields being cleared by needles. But I don't know what I'm talking about either. But, and then chiropractor, you know, I don't know how— I think they got a good lobbying department. I think compared to hypnosis, chiropractors went a different path and it was more successful. But I don't know if scientifically, you know, but, but I don't really know chiropractor either. So I try to say what I know, you know, but I'm also sharing my biases with you, you know. So again, I got biases, obviously. I, I label them as such, okay? So there's things I know and I will share those with you, and there's things I don't really know what I'm talking about, and I'm gonna put an asterisk around those, and that's my thing. But I'll share my biases and my thoughts on it because why not, right? Um, Jane says, how much water do you drink a day? Um, I drink 1 to 2 of these a day. I drink at least 1 every single day, and I'm usually closer to 2 every day. And how much is this? I don't know. It's, uh, 1,200 mL, 40 ounces. Now, if you're just starting to drink water, the general rule of thumb to start from is half your body weight in ounces. If you drink water though So if you drink no water, please don't go straight to, um, please don't go straight to half your body weight in ounces. Classic Dieter move. Um, you can use that as a reference point, you know. So maybe that's the goal, you want to get to half your body weight in ounces just so you can see how you feel. I did that. I got to half my body weight in ounces, and, um, well, I guess I kind of let— to me it's a little much, you know. So, um You know, it's not a hard and fast rule, but again, depends where your typical water amounts are. So if you don't drink any water, anything above zero is gonna be great. And then you can slowly move up to half your body weight ounces if you want, just to kind of see where you end up and what feels best. Um, Connie says Charles Barkley looked fantastic when he started the shots last year. Now he doesn't look good in his face, sallow and sunken around his eyes. Yeah, I mean, we will see, you know, we will see. That's all I'm going to say. This is a safe place for GLP-1 users, please understand that. I have people in the program that are on it. Um, again, they're working on their mindset and everything, so when they come off it, you know, they're ready to, to deal with it. But, um, I, I welcome anyone. I don't care what diet you're on. I don't care if you're on GLP-1s. At the end of the day, I think understanding this goal weight pyramid is going to support you no matter what path you're on, because I think ultimately your weight's going to come down to these things, you know. But, um, yeah, but I think there are GLP-1 things. Again, I, I think GLP-1, you have to understand, in my opinion We've gone through the honeymoon phase, and the honeymoon phase is when you don't know anything negative about it, you know. So it just seems like this magical, amazing thing, and there is a lot of magical, amazing things about it, I gotta say. But there are also questions, and I don't think we've really had enough time, um, or perspective to really ask those questions and understand them yet either, you know. But again, everything I'm saying I think will support you even if you're on GLP-1s, you know. The things I'm saying will probably help you anyways. Miss Moss says everything is in the mind. People should not discount it. If it works, it doesn't matter why. Yeah, I agree with that. I, I definitely— that's kind of my highest belief. I know I believe in shit that I couldn't defend scientifically. You know, when I'm here, if it's not scientific, I will say that, okay? But, um, there's absolutely things that I believe that I don't think there's much logical scientific backing behind it, and I don't give a shit. You know, it works for me, so I agree with that. Donna just said, I just bought your book. I'm excited to get it and read The Tao of Living at Your Goal Weight. All right, nice. Yes, this is the book. This is the book, folks. This is out and available, so go get this if you're looking for a great book on living at your goal weight. Um, one of the few, and that is available, and the audio version is available too. That's out in Audible, um, ready to go as well. So yeah, go check that out. And remember, Reprogram's out, just a training I just made. It's completely free. Go check it out. All you need to do is sign in Um, go get the hypnosis session I'm giving you if you click the link in my bio or go to programyourselfthin.com or click this link I'm going to put in the chat window over in Facebook and YouTube. Go get that and, um, go check it out. I give you lots of free stuff. I'll be working on that this week. I can't wait. Um, but yeah, go check it out. People loving the reprogram training and I don't blame them. It's really good. I had not to, not to, uh you know, be bragging over here, but it's really good. I spent a lot of time working on it. It's really a culmination of, of over 20 years of professional work, you know. Let's go check that out. Uh, Caroline says the book's fantastic. Well, thank you, Caroline. Yeah, people love the book, and if you like it, write a nice review because it's crazy, it's crazy that you can have so many positive reviews and like 3 negative reviews really pull that ranking down. It's so crazy. And of course, negativity bias, those are the ones I think about and notice. But anyways, uh, all right everyone, I'm gonna get out of here. Again, if you're not in my world, please click the link in my bio, go to Program Yourself Then, go get the free hypnosis session I give you. Uh, it'll help you out, get you started. It's a kickstart session. Uh, if you like this, I'm here every Monday through Friday, usually around noon Eastern. So, uh, pop in here and ask whatever question you have. I'm happy to help you out. If you can't make the live, it's also a podcast. Uh, go to any podcast platform, search Program Yourself Then, it'll pop up. You can listen anytime you want. And, uh, yeah, this book is available. In written and audiobook form. So go check that out and go watch the reprogram training I did. Okay. It's— if you're on my email list, I sent you a couple of links over the weekend. I'll send some more this week. And if you're not on my email list, go get on it. I'll be sending a link out to it soon enough. All right. Yeah. Becky says, I've been listening for a while and it's been so helpful. I'm hoping to purchase your program. All right. Thank you, Becky. I appreciate that. Yes. I'd love to get you in the program again. It's a lifetime program. Once you're in, you're in. You can restart as many times as you want. It's really set up for your success. But again, go watch that reprogrammed— reprogrammed training I did for you. It summarizes everything I'm saying in about 20 minutes, I think, in a very compelling way that potentially could change the way you think about your weight forever. And it's completely free. Let's go check that out. Have a super day and we'll talk soon. Bye, everyone.