A short first-person YouTube monologue by Jim Katsoulis describing how he lost significant weight (over 50 pounds) by identifying and focusing on changing a single eating habit—eating at night—rather than changing all habits at once. He explains the change was gradual, took months of experimentation, and became a long-term cornerstone of his weight maintenance.
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The eating habit that made me lose over £50. So when I wanted to lose weight, I looked at all of my eating habits and I focused in on the one that was most responsible for the extra calories. I didn't try and change all of my eating at once. I put all of my energy into getting rid of this one habit that by my estimation, was responsible for close to 500 to 800 calories every single day. So what that habit was, was eating at night. Now, I want to make something very clear here. Just because I realized that was the habit I wanted to change, does not mean I just instantly changed it. This was a long term process. It took me many, many months of experimenting, trying different things, and getting used to being a person who did not eat at night. But all of those months of effort paid off dividends. Because now here I am, 30 years later, and I still do not eat at night. And that has been the cornerstone of my ability to master my weight. Now listen, you may not have that habit, but what you want to do is you want to find out your worst eating habit and focus all of your attention on fixing that one thing. Then once you get a handle on that, then you move on to the next one. This is how your way.