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stop thinking like a dieter

12 Jul 2025

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This is a YouTube video titled "stop thinking like a dieter" featuring Charles D. Ellis discussing the mindset shift needed for sustainable weight loss, emphasizing the importance of long-term lifestyle changes rather than temporary dieting. The content was created in July 2025.

You have to stop thinking like a dieter if you want to lose weight for good. The dieting mindset is built around the idea that you're going to diet until you lose the weight. It's a temporary mindset. The real goal you want to achieve, though, is that you want to get to your goal weight and live the rest of your life there on near autopilot. So make sure that you're crystal clear on that goal, because that goal is going to lead you in a different direction and to use different strategies to achieve it, which is what you want. You have to let go of the idea of losing weight as quick as possible and start focusing on losing weight for as long as possible.