Turn Your Weight Loss Experience Into Wisdom

Turn your weight loss experience into weight loss wisdom. Think about what I just said here, right? You have been trying to lose weight for decades at this point. You have tried lots of diets, lots of meal plans, lots of exercise programs, probably. You've done a lot of stuff. And when you think about it, you probably say it hasn't worked or I haven't been able to do it. But there's a lot of experience there that you can learn from. And turn into wisdom, you see, because when we experience something the first time, if it doesn't work the way we want, we kind of have one of two ways to look at it. One way we can say, I screwed up, I wasn't able to do it. What's wrong with me? How come I can never do the thing I want to do? Why do I keep failing? And we get caught in that loop of really trying to figure out all the reasons why we can't succeed and stick to something and get the results we want. The other path is to say, huh, I attempted something and it didn't work the way I wanted it to. What could I do next time to improve on that? What could I do better? What could I cut out? What could I, you know, drop in the beginning to make it easier for myself? How could I get better results? How could I stick to it? How could I make it easier? How could I make it more enjoyable? These are 2 completely different ways to think about the experiences that you've had. One of them causes you to stay stuck because you have been focusing and trying to figure out what's wrong with you for decades, right? What is wrong with me? How come I can't stick to this? What happened to you? Am I a sugar addict? Am I an overeater? Am I a food addict? Am I emotional eater? Whatever it is, you've defined yourself as something and you're trying to figure out why you're that way. And what's caused— what that's led to happen is you stay stuck trying to figure out what exactly is wrong with you for decades, and you don't really progress or move forward in any way. The other way, you're constantly improving. You see, you try to do Weight Watchers and you do it for 2 weeks and then you fall off track. Well, what happened? When was it kind of easy for me and what kind of overwhelmed me with it? How could I do it better? Could I cut it down a little bit? Could I show up a little better in a way to get better results? And we start looking at it that way. And what happens is when you approach it to turn your experience into wisdom, you keep learning about yourself. You keep learning about strategies and techniques and tactics you can use to move forward. And that changes everything. It may not change it instantly, but it changes it over time. Because if you look back over all the years and decades you've been trying to lose weight, if all of that time you kept improving and understanding yourself and figuring out what worked best for you, what really kind of fit you like a glove, what allowed you to get the results you wanted to, think about what a different position you'd be in today. But instead, you're probably in a very similar position you've been in the exact— you've been in the entire time, and right from the beginning. You know, again, most people don't know much more about how to lose weight 20 years into it than they did before they started their first diet. And if you find you're in that category, then it's up to you to start learning from your experiences, not judging yourself, not beating yourself up, not trying to figure out some magical explanation for why you are the way you are, but just bit by bit, how can I make this easier for me? Right. Again, with all that experience, you've probably figured out what things are easier for you and what things are just overwhelming and cause you to quit. You'll probably start to notice patterns of what kind of works for you, but certainly what doesn't work for you at all. And so if you've got years and years and years and decades of experience of knowing that this approach has never worked for me, well, then learn from that, turn it into wisdom and stop fucking doing that thing. It's not going to work. But again, as humans, we tend to get caught up in doing the same thing that we did, whether it works or not. So it's up to you to kind of spur yourself to learn from your experiences so that you can move forward in a more effective way. So you keep understanding yourself and the strategies that don't work for you and the ones that do work for you. And as you focus more on the ones that do work for you and cut more of the ones that don't work for you out, You start to evolve your system. You start to evolve your approach for not only losing weight but living there. Because when you create a system to live at your goal weight, to get there, let's just say that when you evolve a system to get to your goal weight that's custom made for you, built around what's easier for you to do and cuts out what's hard for you to do, not only does it increase your chances of getting to your goal weight, but it makes it way more likely you're going to be able to live there. To stay there. And you've never really learned to look at it this way, because what ends up happening with dieting is that each time is another attempt and either pass or fail, right? Every dieting attempt is kind of a pass-fail scenario, and we either pass and we go on to the next day, and eventually we fail, and then we stop, and then some time goes by, and then we start again, and we just repeat the same thing over and over. You have decades of this. Of starting a plan, doing it 100%, then stopping the plan, restarting a plan, doing it 100%, then stopping the plan. Right. And you're not evolving. You're not growing. You're not figuring out what works best for you. You're not utilizing all your experience in the best way possible. And once you start doing that, that is how you start to progress so quickly. This is how so many of my clients succeed so fast, because most of my clients are over 45. Most of them are over 55, 65. And what's happening is in Program Yourself Thin, you're allowed to learn from your experience. You're allowed to say, that does not work for me because I don't like it. Yes, I've lost weight when I've done it, but I don't like living that way, so I'm not going to do that. Hey, congratulations. Wonderful. Let's start walking another path that does feel good for you, that you do want to keep up. Right. And that's the whole difference. So again, start to honor your journey that you have been on and start to learn from it. That's the most important piece. You learn from it and take those learnings into the future so that you're using better and better and better strategies each and every week. You just keep improving, you keep optimizing, you keep getting better. And if you approach it this way, where you end up 6 months from now, 6 years from now, decades from now, is fundamentally different and better. All right. Now, if you want some support in making that process happen, click the link in my bio. If you're on TikTok, if you're on Facebook, you can just type Mind, M-I-N-D, and it'll shoot you the link directly. And if you're someplace where you can't do either of those things, you can just go to programyourselfthin.com and go get the free hypnosis session that I made for you. It's called The New Thin Me. It's completely free and ready to go for you. On top of that, I also give you a free training, Reprogrammed: How to Live at Your Goal Weight Without the Fight. So go check that out. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them. Hope you're all having a wonderful Friday. Hello Debbie, how's it going down there in Florida? Um, all right, nice. Thank you, Lynn. Lynn said, I invited a bunch of peeps to your lives and FB page. Thank you. Um, yeah, feel free to spread the word, folks. I'm here every day, been here for almost going on— I'd say it's probably about 3 and 3/4 years, I guess, because I think I started— I don't even remember when I started. When did I start? I think I started in January-ish of about 4 years ago, so Social media-wise, been doing program yourself then for over 21 years. Sounds exciting. But yeah, yeah, spread the word. Let people know because again, I'm not saying this approach works for everyone. I'm never ever going to say that. But for the people it works for, holy shit, life-changing, absolutely life-changing. So yeah, I appreciate you spreading the word. And yeah, it's always fun to have more people here, hear more questions, see where people are coming from. Because regardless of what your history is, regardless of what plan you think you need to follow to get results. There's always a mindset component to it. Okay, and that is probably the most neglected piece of the weight loss puzzle in terms of dieting. When it comes to dieting, I would say the most neglected piece is the mindset piece. You certainly have been told everything to eat and how to work out and all this, but very rarely have you learned any really valuable information for how to actually change your mindset so that you can. Get the results you're looking for. Because again, knowing what to do and being able to do it are 2 totally different things. And so with dieting, it's been a lifetime of being given plans, being told what to do, and then being left to try and force yourself to do it. And that's where, you know, the wheels fall off the bus, is that when you try and force yourself to do it, you can do that for a little while and then you can't do it anymore. And there's the main problem for most people's weight loss. Uh, that's it. Debbie. Debbie says FB was on a loop. Thankfully, I know how to get rid of that. FB was on a loop? I don't know what that means. Um, but technology is pretty weird sometimes anyway, so whatever that means. Yeah, do the old start, stop, restart. That's my fix is 90% of stuff, you know. But yeah, if you have any questions, feel free to ask them. Any weight loss questions are welcome. Then, um, yeah, Debbie says, so true, I know what to do 100%. I think my wheels fell off the bus and disappeared. Uh, they didn't, they didn't disappear. You just got to put them back on, you know, got to find them and put them back on. What are the wheels though? You know, to me, the wheels, the 4 wheels really, you know, kind of comes down to the Goalway Pyramid plus one. So we got, again, program yourself, then we got the Goalway Pyramid, we've got mindset, lifestyle, eating, right? So those are 3 of the wheels. And the other wheel is programming, programming your mind. Okay, but you— those are the 4 wheels you're developing. So, you know, truthfully, at this day and age, yeah, you never even got those wheels. You know, the wheels we get, um, in this culture drive us right towards being overweight and obese. It's an obesogenic environment we live in, and, um, that's why 74% of the population of adult Americans are overweight or obese. Okay, because the wheels we've been given drive us straight towards overweight and obese. And so with Program Yourself Thin, we develop new wheels: the mindset wheel, lifestyle wheel, eating wheel, and the programming wheel— how to program ourselves to do it. So those 4 things together put you well on the path to mastering your weight, no question about it. Very difficult. It's very difficult to have the skills of being able to think like a thin, healthy person Live like a thin, healthy person, eat like a thin, healthy person, and be able to run your mind like a thin, healthy, happy person and not be thin, healthy, and happy, right? It's very, very difficult if you had those skills. But if you don't have those skills, you know, it's very difficult not to be overweight. Uh, what's up, Patricia? Patricia says, thought yesterday's podcast was the most informative ever, took all of it on board. Well, thank you, Patricia. Yeah, yesterday was a good one, right? I was, um, I was literally— I was— I just reposted a clip from it. I thought, I thought it was a good one. Um, and I, uh, I suggest y'all check it out. Yeah, I loved yesterday's. Yesterday's was about feeling good to lose weight, by the way. What a concept, huh? Can you imagine? Because again, if you think about it now, let's just go down conspiracy, you know, the conspiracy highway for a second. But let's assume that dieting existed to not help you lose weight, but to actually keep you stuck being overweight. And what if dieting gave you a way of approaching your weight that almost guaranteed your failure? Right, let's let's imagine. I know I know you can't imagine that's possible, but let's just imagine this for one second. Wouldn't it? Let's just let's take one step further. Let's imagine that the diets that you all know about and the dieting approach that we've been taught our whole lives. Was actually created by the food companies to sabotage us, and that really dieting was a way to keep us stuck in the food, stuck with the weight. And what if their masterstroke of dieting was to ultimately condition into as many people as possible the neuro association, the association Pavlovian association that weight loss. Equals sucks. It's hard. It's difficult. It's miserable. Stressful. What if? What if? Because how do you feel about weight loss? When you think about losing weight, do you think instantly like, oh, I can't wait. I'm gonna feel better. I'm feel good. Get on track. I'm more relaxed. I'm gonna feel more nourished. Is that how you think when you think about weight loss? Do you think about it positively? Do you think about it? Something good coming your way, or do you think, shit, oh God, I don't want to do it, it's hard, I'm already stressed, that's gonna make me more stressed, I'm already tired, that's gonna make me more tired, it's gonna make it harder, more difficult? Do you associate pain or pleasure to weight loss? Let's keep it real simple. Do you associate pain or pleasure to weight loss? Which one? Be honest with yourself. When you think about losing weight, do you associate Pain to it or pleasure to it? I'm gonna guess you associate pain to it. Most people do. This is not some accident. This is literal intentional conditioning. All the diets, by the way, all the big diets are all owned by food companies. So it's not as conspiratorial as I was making it sound. It's more conspiratorial. Weight Watchers was owned by Heinz. Jenny Craig was owned by Nestlé. SlimFast is owned by the same company that owns Ben& Jerry's ice cream. These companies don't give a shit about you losing weight, and they certainly don't want you to not eat their products. So they've given you this method of weight loss that does not work. It's official, dieting doesn't work for long. We all know you can lose weight for a little while with a diet. No one would dispute that. I'm talking long term, and there's no diet— over 100 years of diets, there's not one diet that rises to the top of being statistically significant in terms of long-term weight loss. So I would say by and far it's a failure strategy, and unfortunately that's the one that's been given to you, you know. And so yeah, yesterday we're talking about feeling good to lose weight. What if instead of making yourself miserable lose weight— because think about every first day of your diet, isn't it always stressful and painful? Yeah, Debbie says both pain and pleasure. But Debbie, when you think about the first day of a diet, do you think any pleasure involved in the first day of a diet? I know there's pleasure thinking about weight loss and being thinner. I know there's pleasure there, but I mean the process. The very first day, the first week of weight loss. Does anyone here associate pleasure to that? Honestly, I think most people don't because what's going to happen? Because of course, any diet you jump into, literally pick any diet, doesn't matter. Vegan, carnivore, South Beach, keto, paleo, low fat, low carb, any of them. Pick any diet you can think of. What ties them all together is okay. Here comes Monday. I'm going to jump into it 100%, and anything you jump into 100%, you are going to um you are going to find that you cannot um keep it up. You know, it's too much. Yeah, Debbie says yes. First day is the pleasure. The I can do it day. Sure, sure. So is the the excitement? I'll give you that. I'll give you the excitement that goes on the initial day of I can do this and all fired up. You know, but again, if we take a step back, you need all that excitement to what? To overcome all the difficulty, right? It's hard. Okay, at the very least, we could say it's really hard. You're gonna jump into your plan, it's gonna be difficult. You could be fired up and excited to do it, but you're expecting it to be hard. It's gonna take a lot of effort, a lot of focus, a lot of motivation to make this happen, right? And Very rarely does someone think about losing weight in the first day being relaxing, calming, ending the day with more energy than you started, looking forward tomorrow to tomorrow, right? Very rarely, you know, does this really help. And so, you know, there's just other ways. There's other ways to go about it, right? Um, oh, I see. Debbie said the loop was me just saying the same thing over. Yeah, that's weird. I know, I'm like streaming in here sometimes, a little weird glitchy things definitely happen. I noticed last evening while at my volunteering I had a lot of food noise. There's a canteen there and always seemed to be triggered with wanting to purchase extra stuff. I managed to stay away, but the struggle was definitely real. Um, okay, Lynn, well, great job. So again, what I would suggest, you know, you're in the program, so do the redo technique on that. You can do the redo technique even when you perform the way you want to, but didn't— it wasn't as easy as you wanted it to be. So now we almost call that a slight different version. We call that the replay technique. Okay. And the replay technique is more about when you did things the way you wanted to, but you could do them a little bit better. Perhaps if you did it exactly what you want to, you can replay that too. But I would go back and say, if I go back in time knowing what I know now, how could I have gotten through that even more comfortably? And this gives you an opportunity to articulate exactly what you want, right? So right now you ended that by saying, I managed to stay away, but the struggle was definitely real. So in your mind, again, you were really using a willpower-based approach to not go there. Okay, better than, than going there, I suppose. But ideally where we want to be is we want to feel indifferent, um, to the canteen, right? We just want to be indifferent to it, perhaps. Okay, or maybe you want to go there and get one snack. I don't know. So again, we want to get really specific. Do you want to go there and get one snack? Do you want to go there and just not even— the canteen doesn't even exist in your awareness? You want to feel completely indifferent to it? So you pick which direction forward feels the best for you, and then we practice it. You know, so again, now in your mind you have a clear movie of how last night went, and you didn't eat or go to the canteen, so good job. But now we want to optimize it some more by imagining it. What would it be like if I went there and the canteen was there, but it was just real easy and natural for me not to? I just didn't even notice. I didn't care. It was outside of my awareness. Now at first you say, well, I don't know how to do that. Well, I know that's why we practice it. But it's a it's a process where we keep kind of iterating. You know, we keep getting better and better and better. So I would say great job not going to the canteen, but we can still shoot even higher, right? We can shoot higher because we say I'll not go to the canteen, but it'll be really easy. It'll be natural. Be automatically for me to act the way I did last night, and then you practice that, and that starts to put those ideas in your mind. But great job. Kimberly says starting yoga and meditating for five minutes has helped my mindset. I started listening to your hypnosis clips during this time. I need all help I can get. Love it. Thank you. Well, thank you, Kimberly. Yeah, great job. Yeah, yoga meditation for 5 minutes is miracle cure, right? Again, we don't have to do things for huge chunks of time. You know what I always say is like we want to have a plan A, B, C, and D, E, F, G if we need it. But we don't want to just have like I'm going to start doing yoga. Okay, well, what does that mean? I go to an hour class, an hour yoga class. Okay, well, that's a great plan A for when you got time, energy, focus, motivation to do it. But what if it's shitty out and you're not feeling great? You don't want to go anywhere. Do you have a plan B, C, and D for yoga? Maybe you have a home practice that you do for half hour. Maybe when you don't have much time, you do have a 10-minute practice you do. And maybe when you really just have no time at all, you got a 2-minute practice you do. I do. I have a 2-minute practice. I do a 10-minute practice, an hour practice. I can go out sometimes and do full-on classes. I have different options that I can choose from depending on the situation because we've been taught that one, one, we just need one thing, the hour-long yoga class. I'm getting myself to do it all the time. So great job, Kimberly. The 5 minutes, um, I think is wonderful because now that frees you up to do it more. And I'm a big believer that consistency is more important than intensity in the long run. Every time. So Jane, Jane says, just listening to your podcast is awesome, but is not the complete answer. It's important to follow your program to hit all the levels of the pyramid. Just watching this and not doing anything else is another quick fix. Well, there you go, Jane. Yes, you're right, Jane. I feel like you're reaching new levels here. I'm proud of you. And that's how I look at it, Jane. So I don't know if you heard the beginning of this. Today's lesson was Turning your weight loss experience into weight loss wisdom. Jane, that's especially important message for you. I want you to look back at your experiences instead of seeing them as a string of failures. You see them as a string of learning and teaching opportunities that light the way forward. And so as you are in the middle of your GLP-1 kind of experiment and you're noticing that it's not working as well anymore, You can use that and internalize it as more motivation and clarity that the only path forward, seemingly the best path forward, is really this integrated mindset lifestyle eating approach and doing the work the right way. And you know, it's not it's not abnormal for someone to have to expose themselves to program yourself then for a while before that kind of sinks in. I can't tell you the number of people I've had that have been in a program for months or even like a year before they start really getting the weight loss results. They're always getting other results, typically, whether it's, you know, more relaxation mindset, feeling-based before the weight. But if you keep moving forward, I say this with everything I just— with guitar, I play guitar really for 30 years now, but I thought I sucked really bad for about 20 years. I just thought I just wasn't a musical person. And it really wasn't until I read a book called Peak that I realized, no, it's because I haven't practiced as much as I need to. But I had this belief that I just wasn't musical. So a lot of you all have this belief that you can't lose weight, but I'm here to tell you it all just comes down to practicing. Same with my guitar. My, my ability to play guitar is much less about my intrinsic natural ability and way more about how I practice and how much I practice. And if I keep practicing the right way consistently, my skills are going to keep improving. And that's what I want you to understand with your weight is that with dieting, you're always given kind of like one thing to do that you have to force yourself to stick with. And it's one answer that's supposed to fix everything. Like getting rid of carbs is going to fix everything with your weight and health. It's not, you know, not eating for 16 hours is going to fix everything. No, it's not. GLP-1 is going to fix everything. Absolutely. No, it's not. It might help you lose some weight. But again, when you look at a more holistic, comprehensive approach that involves mindset, lifestyle, and eating, there's just more there. But there's also a lot more benefit. Come on, focus. There it is. And again, we have the subcategories. But if you focus on these subcategories, which I consider to be skills, and you develop those skills, I don't see any possible way that you wouldn't get better at managing your weight. Just like if you practice the piano every day for 15 minutes, You don't think you'll be a better piano player next year? And then if you continue to practice 15 minutes a day, you don't think you'll be a better piano player the year after that? The year after that? The year after that? You know, so again, with dieting, a lot of you are kind of just conditional. You do it. Let me see if this works. Let me— okay, here, here I go. Wish me luck. I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try again. You know, and you go all in on your plan. You stick with it for a couple days, a couple weeks. You can't keep it up. You can't keep it up, and so you stop doing anything. That's not consistency. You know, consistency is always required to improve at anything. Look in your life. I mean, what could you just— what have you just been able to learn? Like, think about things you've done for a long time, whatever it may be. Maybe you've drawn for a long time, or maybe you've played a sport for a long time, or a musical instrument, or practiced a language, whatever. Just think of something in your life you've done for a lot, a lot of years, and now ask yourself the question: could you have learned all that in the first week. You know, again, there's— with dieting, there's no natural timeline that accompanies every other thing you take on in life that you improve at. You can't just become a great piano player in a week, you know, and you can't just become a master of your weight in a week or a month because what, because you were told to stop eating carbs? Do you think that's it? Again, oh, I'm just gonna stop eating carbs. Okay, well, you don't think that your mindset that you have, your lifestyle And really, your eating strategies beyond just, I'm not gonna eat carbs— you don't think there's more to your weight and managing it than just knowing not to eat carbs? Which is bullshit anyways, by the way. That's just bullshit, the idea that you shouldn't eat carbs. The healthiest societies on the earth are high-carb, low-protein diets, just so you know. Do you believe that? Do you believe that? Is protein the healthiest thing in the world or what? Yeah, and protein's important. I'm not saying it's not, it's not healthy and important. I'm saying carbs are a better path forward. I mean, protein's important. It's not an either-or, let me put it that way. But most people treat protein and carbs as an either-or now, right? You guys, you're sitting in a foundation of Atkins and paleo diets, and now you're being pushed into the protein thing and And what's happened in your diets for a lot of people is they've squeezed out healthy, whole, natural carbs and replaced it with just gobs of shitty protein. Yeah, shitty protein. I'm not— because I'm not— I know you're not all eating grass-fed beef, and even if you were, I don't know if that's a good idea either. It's kind of weird, kind of weird way to live, just eating steaks all day. Kind of unnatural. But anyways, you know, that's another story. Story for another day. Yeah, nice background picture. Thank you. Yeah, I love this picture. Uh, being said that they should sell SlimFast ice cream. I'm sure they do. They don't sell SlimFast ice cream? I can't believe it. Alan says hell no to the positive diet feelings. Of course, no one has— no one has positive feelings about starting a diet. You know, again, I get what I get what you're saying, Debbie, too. I know there's the initial excitement and stuff, but no one wants to start it. If you wanted to start a diet, folks, you'd be doing it already. We do what we want to do. All right. So if you found a diet to be pleasurable, you do it. I find the things I do to live at my goal, I find to be pleasurable. I do them every day and I love doing them. I love doing every one of them. I love them. I love everything I eat. I love my meditation routine. I love my yoga routine. I love my water hydration routine. Love my sleep routine. Love my stretching routine, love my relaxation routine, love my gratitude routines. I love all of it. I love it. I'm obsessed with it. I'm addicted to it. I love doing all these things every day. And it helps me live at my goal weight. So I absolutely have pleasure associated to managing my weight. I love living this way. I love eating this way. Love thinking this way. I love it. So it's easy for me to do, as you can imagine. I'm not just some weirdo. Well, I'm probably a little weird, but, um, This is not just me, you know, at this point again, because everything I've learned, I've learned from other people, and I've been able to teach it to a lot of other people at this point as well too. So it's no longer this weird unusual thing for people to love what they're doing to manage their weight. It's not some crazy idea as you may think it is, you know, at first, at first hearing it. Yeah, Kimberly says, yeah, agree. Big money is keeping us miserable. I mean, it's absolutely true, and I was talking about the big food companies owning the diets, but then you start to understand that the cigarette companies own the food. companies. So what do you know, right? So it's like, I don't remember the Scooby-Doo meme where they pull the mask off, right? And it's like, oh, diets. Oh, you're the food companies. Oh, food companies. Oh shit, you're the diet— you're the cigarette companies. And I mean this literally, you know. Philip Morris— no, um, R.J.R. Reynolds and, uh, Kraft— no, sorry, sorry. Uh, R.J.R. Reynolds and Nabisco are merged together. They're the same company. The parent company of General Foods and Kraft is Philip Morris. So literally, the foods that you love so much and have all these warm fuzzy feelings for are owned by the cigarette companies. And, you know, they're basically food cigarettes to some degree, I think, is a kind of an easy way to think about them, you know. But when we see it that way, we think differently about them because no one wants to be duped, you know. That was one of the most effective psychological campaigns ever, was the truth campaign they did, um, with cigarettes, really, like I said, the '90s, you know, and they really educated people about cigarettes, how addictive they were, and the people behind them and how shitty they were. And where we're at now is most people have pretty low opinions of cigarette companies, right? No one's got warm fuzzies for cigarette companies, right? But compare the feeling, just the implicit feeling you have to cigarette companies— boo! And now Compare that to the feeling you have for the fast food companies. Oh, right. They're totally different. Right. But why exactly? Well, because you think about through the food, right? You think about the thing you like. But if we put that to the side for a second, it's the same shitty actors pulling the strings and manipulating us. And it's gross. I mean, even these at Coca-Cola, they refer to their customers as users, literally making it blatant that they think of them basically as drug addicts. You know, it's the same language. And they think about their product and how to get it out there as, you know, as such. You know, they think of it as a drug and they want to get as many people hooked as possible from cradle to grave. Gross sayings they have. It's fucking disgusting. I'm telling you, you read this stuff about these companies and it's infuriating. And I think people would be well served by studying where their food's coming from and the companies behind it. I think you would be horrified and that would go a far way towards changing your eating. I promise you, never mind the calories in the food. Look at the companies making the food. When you realize there's a 40,000-acre campus down in Texas that Frito-Lay uses to create the most addictive snacks possible, you start to realize that your foods are not created in kitchens by chefs slaving over different recipes. They're created in labs by chemists creating the best structure of addictive substance. You know, it's not even food in any sort of general sense that we've known it for millions of years on Earth. And you wonder why we have an obesity epidemic. Well, I think we all know why to some degree, but we need to clarify that because when you really see who's pulling the strings, you know, make your stomach hurt, make you Fucking mad. It makes me mad. I don't know. Maybe I'm alone in that, but I get pissed off. I don't want to be manipulated. I mean, how do you feel about cigarettes? How do you feel about cigarettes and compare how you feel about cigarettes to how you feel about junk food? You know, I'm not. It's not a judgment either. It's just a. It's an experiment to pay attention. Notice your own biases. You most likely have a real negative bias towards the cigarettes and the cigarette companies, and you have a neutral to positive bias to the food and the food companies. Well, that's bullshit. It's because you're seeing things not accurately. You're, you're seeing the food through the marketing and your experiences more than you are through the information that's real and right there in front of you. Yeah, Debbie says, I never start on a Monday. All right, nice. People like that. Definitely not relaxing, calming. Just the pleasure of knowing I'm starting now. Day 2. Yeah, well, counting the days down too is just a recipe for disaster. I hate to tell you. I know a lot of people, they just love the countdowns and the tracking, but that almost guarantees you're in a mindset that's not the right one. You know, when your main motivation is, oh, day 3, day 4. And take it from me, I've done more challenges than the average person. Um, I've gone through so many challenges, you know, not cross that day 30 off or whatever day I'm going to, I'd never do it again, you know. So again, when we're counting days, that is almost— you are almost guaranteed that that's a sign you're in the wrong mindset. I can almost guarantee you, you know. Uh, yes, Lynn. All right, I definitely did the redo technique when I got home. Nice job, Lynn. Wonderful. Yes, yes, that's so great, Lynn. And that's the point, we just keep getting a little better. Again, doing the redo technique when you did well But want to do better is the greatest. I love that version of the redo technique because again, you did good, but we want to do just a little bit better. And we just always look into a little bit better. In Programming Yourself, then we follow the 1% better philosophy that every day we're looking to get 1% better. Because mathematically, getting 1% better every day is not 365% better at the end of the year. It's 3,650% better at the end of the year because it each compounds on its previous improvement. You know, so 1% better a day is really the sweet spot because it's not overwhelming and it's comfortable. It feels doable and it just starts to build up on itself. It's like compounding interest. It's one of those things you really— when you look at it, you really can't appreciate how powerful it's going to be over time. You have to zoom out and really think of the big picture. But that's wonderful. Nice job. Yeah. Lynn says the food noise was definitely less than before I started the program for sure. That's great, Lynn. Yeah. And it's just— this is just the start. You're just going to keep getting better. And you know, you might sometimes go in there, then you go hit the canteen and have a worse time. You know, again, success is not just a straight line of success forward. Success is not like just always getting better, improving. Sometimes it's jiggity-jaggity. So sometimes we're like, we did good, we didn't go to the canteen. The next time we went, we went to the canteen and pigged out. Next 2 times we go, we didn't even go to the canteen. Next time we went, we ate a little bit of canteen. You know what I mean? So again, we have to also recognize that improvement is not just a straight line of success. Success. It is jiggity-jaggity, step forward, step back, two steps forward, one step back. You know, it's it's this sort of movement, and I think it's important that we internalize that because when it shows up, we don't be disappointed. Dieting sells you this bullshit that you're going to start on day one and just going to be a straight escalator down to your goal. That's not true. I I don't track weights anymore, but I used to track weights with my clients for years. And they all, all the paths look the same over a long period of time. And it was jiggity-jaggity. Now the trend line was always similar. It was always going down. But when you zoomed in, it was jiggity-jaggity. Some ups, some downs, ups, downs, ups, down, ups, down. And that's just the nature of improvement. It's not just a consistent rate of improvement. It's variable. And yeah. Patricia says, have been listening to my free recording. Was having problems visualizing myself dressing in an outfit I'd be happy in if I was at goal. Well, 10 days in and for the first time in 20 years, I started to think about making myself a new outfit. Always thought the styles I like do not suit overweight people, so haven't made myself anything in years. Now that's what I call a breakthrough. Thank you. Finally believe I'm going to reach your goal. That is so awesome, Patricia. I'm going to screenshot that because that is such a great specific benefit. I love that because it's really— it reflects something that I regularly tell my clients, and it's this. And it goes with along yesterday's yesterday. I said make yourself feel good to lose weight. Well, one way to do that as well is to go out and get yourself a new outfit because I know a lot of people are waiting once I lose the weight then I'll go get a new outfit. Well, you know again now I understand financial realities, but go and get yourself a new outfit that fits that looks nice on you today. You will feel better. I have run this with so many women and almost without exception. They come back feeling better that they went and did that. Because you can live in the future and say, oh yeah, once I— because this is, again, this is delaying gratification in a way that's not helpful. Because I say delayed gratification in this sense is more like holding your good emotions hostage. And this goes back to the very common diet mindset that once I lose the weight, then I can feel happy, then I can feel attractive, then I can feel good about myself. Well, so what do I get to feel now? None of those things. You're not allowed to feel good about yourself now. You're overweight. That's the most fucked up mindset I can think of. And that's the mindset most dieters have, right? Because you're holding that over your head. That's the weapon. That's the tool you're using on yourself to get yourself to do the thing you don't want to do. Is that not dieting in a nutshell? Right. And so again, program yourself thin is the complete exact opposite of that, where we're looking to do anything we can right now to feel good. We want to feel good right now without losing a pound. We want to feel good. We want to feel better. We want to have more stamina. We want to feel happier with ourselves right fucking now. Then we're going to use those good emotions to move us towards our goal weight. We are not going to hold all the good emotions in our lives hostage until we lose the weight. Fuck that. I want to feel good right now. And then I want to use feeling good to bring me in the direction of feeling even better when I do get my weight where I want it to go. Does that make sense? Or is it better to withhold anything good? No, no. You know what I mean? That's always— think of it just as mean fucking bully. That's the diet voice in my mind. That's the diet voice probably in your mind. No, you don't. You better not feel good about yours. You're not getting any new clothes. You haven't even lost any weight. You ate that fucking brownie last night. You're not getting any new clothes. Who do you think you are? Right. How's that voice in your head? Is that helping? That shitty fucking mean voice that was put in there by the diet industry? Not your mom. Your mom got the voice put in her head by the diet industry. Not her fault. Your friend's fault. We've all been subject to this and it's fucking brutal. It's mean. It's bullshit. Do you not have the proof? How much longer can you withhold feeling good from yourself to force yourself to lose weight and realize it's not working? If it's working and you're really happy about it, then you keep doing it, okay? But if you've been trying to beat yourself up to lose weight for 20, 30, 40 years and it hasn't worked, maybe you should again go back to what we're talking about— use that as evidence that it doesn't fucking work, not use it as evidence that I need to beat myself up more to make it happen. Does that make sense? I hope so. The Delancourt likes that. Yeah, she liked the analogies. Yeah, right. That's what I mean though. And I get on here every day and I talk about this stuff because again, I don't want you to feel miserable. I want you to have a great quality of life. And guess what? You can improve your quality of life so fast and so quick. You don't have to lose a pound to improve your quality of life. You don't. You can improve your quality of life right this second by relaxing your shoulders, your chest, and your stomach. Relax your face. Take a deep breath in and slowly let it out. Now, if you did that, do you not feel a little bit better? And if you didn't do it, isn't that interesting? Isn't it interesting that you wouldn't take that 1 second and breathe a bit more intentionally? I mean, you're breathing anyways. Is it really so hard to relax your shoulders, your chest, and your stomach? Take a deep intentional breath and slowly let it out. Is that is that so hard? Are you gonna resist it now? You're just not gonna do it. Why? Why wouldn't you do it? Isn't that interesting? This is always a weird part of our brain. No, fuck him. I'm not gonna do that. I don't have time for that. I'm not gonna do that. Stupid. Shit's stupid. Is it? Is it stupid to take a deeper intentional breath and to relax your body and feel good for a second? Nah, it doesn't even— okay, it feels a little better. So what? What? You know what I mean? When you start paying attention to that voice in your head, holy shit, is any wonder why you're struggling to manage your weight? The biggest dickhead ever in your head. Excuse my language, but it's just, it's like that, you know. This is what I do, you know. When you say, okay, well, Jim, you're a hypnotist, how does that work? You just program my mind? Okay, here's how it works. You want to know how it works? I become another voice in your mind. Because if you start paying attention to the voices in your mind that you have now that you've had as long as you can remember that you rely on to help you lose weight, I bet they are mean, punitive, angry, make you feel bad, harsh, cruel. I could keep going on, but, but I'm gonna say that you do not have a warm, encouraging, supportive voice in your mind that helps you manage your weight. And I'll leave that up for you to, to evaluate. But that's what I become. I am that positive, supportive, encouraging voice in your mind that says, it's all right, you made a mistake. It's fine. We always make mistakes. What can you learn from it and how can you do better next time? What can you do next to make yourself feel better? How can you make this happen more enjoyably, more easier? What are the things that work for you? How can you feel better right now? And when you start thinking differently, when you have all of a sudden a nice, warm, supportive, encouraging voice in your head that's guiding you along the weight loss plan, it instantly feels different. Do you not think the voice that you have walking you along this path— do you not think you have a voice? It's called an internal dialogue, right? Are you not talking to yourself day in and day out? When you want to lose weight, what is that voice saying to you? What does it sound like? Does it sound warm and supportive, or does it sound harsh and critical? Well, it's harsh and critical, Jim, but that's what you need in order to get results in life. Okay, that, that's fine that you believe that, and I'm not going to argue with that, but I'm going to say take a step back and genuinely grade yourself. Has that voice actually helped you move in the direction you want to. And if it has, keep using it. But if that mean critical voice has not helped you to manage your weight the way you want to, well, then you got a decision to make. You're either gonna double down on that voice and just believe in it even more, as shitty as it makes you feel, as much as it has not helped you achieve what you want, or You're going to find a way to create a more supportive, encouraging, nicer voice in your head. You're going to speak to yourself in a more encouraging, supportive way and see what happens then. And that's the choice you'll have to make. What's up, Vicki? You said you helped me become a lifelong learner. All right, Vicki, you seem like a lifelong learner already, but I'm glad that I've been able to support that for sure. All right, Jane. Jane said, I just pulled out my Goal Weight Blueprint to read again. All right, Jane. Yes. Fill it out. Fill it out. You're going to get more out of it this time. It's just like anything else, right? If we want to learn, you know, you want to learn something in school, you don't just read the book once, right? You read it multiple times. That's learning. Learning is about exposing yourself to something repeatedly. It goes in different each time. That's how you create mastery. Repetition. Debbie says, I won't do GLP-1, but that's my personal preference. What if someone does the GLP-1 to start the weight loss process, then uses PYT with it? Would it be possible to keep the weight they've lost off stopping GLP-1? Yeah, absolutely. And a lot of people are doing that. I have a good number of people in the program that are on GLP-1 doing it exactly in that way. And, you know, it's not my first choice for people because I would like them to just be in the original situation they're going to be in and deal with that. I think it's actually like— it's going to sound strange. You're going to like this, folks. I think personally, if I had a person on GLP-1 versus a person who is not starting the program, I think the person not on GLP-1 is going to get faster results. Now, what's that mean? It may not mean right out the gate, right? Right out the gate, the GLP-1 person may get faster initial weight loss results. Okay. But the person not on GLP-1 is learning how to manage their hunger, their mindset, their lifestyle, their behaviors. In their normal, natural physical environment, right? And so while in the first phase the GLP-1 may lose weight faster, the person with not on GLP-1 is is actually in the real environment, if that makes sense. I'll give you I'll give you example. I'll use that. I have a client. She's lost 100 pounds, and I've been working with her for a number of years. And she took the scenic route to lose 100 pounds. What do I mean by that? I mean that she has gone on average— and I shit you not, this is real— she has gone on average, I would say, 6 to 10 cruises a year since I've started working with her. So imagine going on 6 to 10 cruises a year and losing 100 pounds, right? So the reason I said it's the scenic path is because that reality is extra hard. And so originally she'd go on cruises and she'd put 15 pounds on sometimes. Now she goes on cruises and she puts 0 to 2 pounds on, right? So what I appreciate about her is that she stayed in her normal environment, right? So metaphorically, if she stopped going on cruises to lose weight, she would have lost weight quicker, but then she would have started going on cruises and then she would have had that part that she would have to re-manage. Meaning she would have— I'm gonna— I'm not— I wanna— all I care about is losing weight. I'm going to stop going on cruises that I love going on and I always go on, and I'm just going to focus on weight loss. Okay, you're going to lose weight quicker. Okay, but now you're going to start going on cruises. Now you're going to gain your 10 to 15 pounds each cruise, and you're still going to manage it, but it's going to psychologically be a different approach than if you just do the cruise thing right from the beginning because that's how you live. And the entire time you get better and better and better at cruises. So again, if we look at that person who doesn't go on the cruises, they're going to get faster initial weight loss. But then once they start going on cruises, now they're going to put weight on. Their weight's going to become much more variable. And it's no different than GLP. It's just a different form of what the GLP is going to represent. Because yeah, you go on the GLP, okay, the food noise is lower. It's easier to manage this stuff, quicker weight loss. But then you come off of this. Now the food noise starts up. The body starts readjusting. Now again, you've got to program yourself, then techniques and strategy and all the rest of it. And helping you manage it, but still you're adding something new into the system, which is increased hunger, increased food noise, all the rest of it. And then you got to learn to manage it. So as soon as you come off the GLP-1, your weight's going to have fluctuation to it, and you can't see that as a failure. Okay, um, you have to see it as you're learning to manage that. So it's no different than the person who gave up cruises to lose weight and now is going to go on a cruise. That person, most likely, we have evidence they're going to put 10 to 15 pounds on, probably. Yeah. Because now they're right back in that scenario and they've got to learn how to manage the cruising. They still have to manage the cruising, going on a cruise and putting 10 to 15 pounds, getting that down to 0 to 2 pounds. They're still gonna have to go through that process, and during that process, their weight's gonna have more variation to it. Hope that makes sense. Okay, um, Carrie says it is a mindset and it does take time. Thank you. Yes, it does, and there's nothing wrong with that, okay? Because again, time is an illusion when it comes to weight. Because you want to live at your goal weight, folks. How long do you want to stay at your goal weight for? What'd you say? How long you want to be at your goal weight for? Say it out loud. Did you say forever, or until you're 60, till you're 70, till you're 80? Which did you say? So if you said forever, then time doesn't exist when it comes to weight. Does that make sense? How long you want to breathe for? You consider that? How long do you want to brush your teeth for? Are you going to consider that? No, you've just internalized it's something I'm gonna do for the rest of my life. How long are you gonna watch TV for? You stop watching when you're 70? When do you want to stop walking? Right? So there are things in your life that you've internalized as forever things. Your weight's not one of them. Your weight, you think of as a temporary thing. Okay, I'm gonna do this diet until I lose the weight, you know. So yeah, the, the idea that managing your weight— see, because you think losing weight takes time, but who gives a shit? Because losing weight is just one phase of the ultimate goal. The real goal is living at your goal weight, and the losing weight phase of it is just a phase of it. So why do we just want to get so obsessed with that part? You know, because once you lose the weight, don't you want to stay there? So why do you even think in time frames? Okay, I'll give myself— I'll get— I'll see how much weight I lose this week. Okay, I'm gonna give myself a month, see what happens. A month? I'm gonna give myself a year. Why would you give yourself a year? What happens after the year? Okay, I lost some weight, so I'm gonna keep on going. Well, what if you didn't lose weight yet? Is it not important enough to keep going with that anyways? Time's a funny thing. Yeah, there's Vicki. Yeah, it's a lifetime process which I have finally come to appreciate and propel me to living at my goal weight. Yeah, and again, Vicki is a great example of that because she was in the Weight Watchers Lifetime program. You get to a certain weight for a certain amount of time, you're free lifetime to it. But the problem with that is that there's— Weight Watchers is all about watching your weight, and the problem when you just make it about your weight is it gets fucking boring. If all that matters is your weight, at some point, folks, the goal is to get to your goal weight and then just stay there for the rest of your life. I've been at my goal weight for 30 years. I'm not gonna get— oh, okay, I'm same weight. Can't wait till we step on the scale tomorrow, see if it's the same. Oh, can't wait to see next week if it's the same weight. It's not that interesting, okay? So we need more than just weight to keep ourselves going with it, because even though my weight's the same and it's not that exciting to really check into it, I'm obsessed. I'm as motivated to stay at my goal weight and do the things that keep me there as I've ever been. But that's because in Program Yourself Thin, we take the weight loss rapid and personal development. So for me, the weight stops and I just stay there. But the improvements that are happening in my mindset, my lifestyle, my eating, my health, my energy, my emotions, my, you know, clarity of thought— all of these things are always improving and growing. And I'm— I love it. I'm obsessed with it. It's fun. Gives my life meaning way beyond the weight. I like being the weight I'm at, sure, but there's so much more that I love getting out of it that I keep getting things out of it. Jane says one of the most addictive foods is Oreo cookies. They are difficult to stop when you start to eat them. Uh, yeah, I agree, I agree. And foods like that really should be worked on not eating them, you know. Eat them sometimes, but, but really work to, you know, again We have different strategies for different foods because different foods affect us differently, right? We don't need the same strategy for the food we kind of like, you know, compared to the food that we're just— once we start, we can't stop, you know? We need different strategies for different things. But yeah, for you, Oreo is really addictive, okay? And, um, again, everyone's got their foods that are really addictive for them. So yeah, we come up with strategies with it. And sometimes the strategy, right, is the chips. I can't eat just one. Okay, you win that. Great. Congratulations. You know, we'll let them have it, but it's true. What's up, Carolyn? What's up, Pamela? How's it going, Pamela? Uh, yeah, Debbie says, I have a new dress that I bought for a wedding, wore it once. That's my goal, to fit into it. And I think that's a great goal, but I think a better goal as well— or, you know, again, because it's not neither or So again, you can have a goal of wanting to fit into a dress that you wore one time when you were at your lowest weight. If that's a goal you want to have, have it. Okay. But why not add to that the goal of feeling better about your body today? How can I feel better about myself today? How can I love my body today? Now you're going to struggle with that, but I will tell you a way you can love your body is by focusing on its functional attributes. Right. We, you know, we take for granted what we got. But if your if your arms work, if you've got arms, if you've got hands and fingers that work, you've got eyes that work, a mouth that works, ears that work. Maybe you could love that for a minute. Maybe because I love you eyes. Thank you for seeing. I really appreciate it. I love having my hands and being able to garden or cook or do whatever I like to do. I'm not going to take for granted. Some people don't have hands, so I'm gonna appreciate what I got. Functional functional love for your body is kind of the back door to loving your body because. It's not going to work. I should just love how I look. I should just love my body and love how I look. That's never going to work for you. You've got literally a lifetime of conditioning of hating your body for how it looks. You're not going to get around that one. I don't think that's a— that's a big lift. But loving your body for what it does for you and how it's working is a much easier path to getting to loving your body. And I think, again, it just— it always comes back to this. How do you want to fuel Your weight loss journey. Do you want to fuel it with hate? I hate my fucking body. I hate my fucking arms, my arms and my legs, and I fucking hate my you know. I hate. I hate it. I hate it. And so you're gonna fuel your journey with the hate because what? You're gonna get to some magical point where your body looks perfect. You're like, ah, now I love myself. Yes, I did it. I love everything about my body now. Oh. Feels so good. I really, I love it. Is it— how is that gonna work? Is that the— is that the path forward? Or do we start with love now? Loving our body for what it does, wanting it to do more, wanting to feel better, wanting to feel happier, wanting to appreciate ourselves, wanting to love ourselves, wanting to feel grateful for the body we have and want it to be better as well. You know, why can't we do both? And wouldn't that be more beneficial? I don't know. Oops. Says, I agree, so glad I figured it out with your help. You're welcome, nice job. Digital says, earlier walking towards glass door, saw reflection. I said, hello, you sexy beast. Nice job. Yes, practicing. Yes, yes, yes. Because the body will never overcome the mindset. And I say this story a lot, but it proves it in the most dramatic way I know how. That I remember certifying, um, a coach and program yourself then. She had been a competitive bodybuilder. And I said, what's it like the second you're about to step out there? I'm like, you've been practicing, you've been— this moment, I'm like, you're 0% body fat and not but single, you know, time. She goes, I just found other flaws. There was never a moment when I was just Totally thrilled with what I saw, and I think there's a big lesson there. Unfortunately, you know. Yeah, when you appreciate that I don't how I don't mince words. Well, good, good. Yeah, sometimes I try and keep the language. I try and I I wouldn't say I try too hard not to swear, but I I have attempted to speak as. Effectively without swearing, and I don't know; they just sneak out. Sometimes swears are just what you gotta do. Yes, Pamela. Yes, when I do the workbook, I find that the next time I return to it, I have different answers. Yes, exactly. Depending on your mood and mindset and situation in life, you're going to answer those questions in the blueprint differently. And that's normal, but that's okay because as you go through them a couple times and answer them differently, you're also going to answer some of them the same. And what that's doing is it's giving you a deeper repertoire, deeper archive of answers to that, which is good. Those are all neural connections of reasons, of strategies, of motivations that, that bring you forward. So that's completely normal. Don't think that's unusual because it's not. Yes, yes, Carolyn. Carolyn says, wow, all those buffets on the cruise, that's incredible how she learned how to manage with her lifestyle. Uh, yeah, yeah, it is incredible because the last 5 or 6 cruises she's gone, she's literally put 0 to 2 pounds on. She's a superstar. I— she, she— who knows what she may do. She, she could someday— I don't know, I don't know where I'll go with the old, uh, program yourself then, but she could literally be kind of ambassador. She's a very inspiring character. I might— maybe I'll interview her someday. She is You all would love her and her story. I am so proud of her. She is just one of my favorites. She has internalized this approach, and she is just such a representation of the best of this program, in my opinion. She's just super duper, and I love her journey because I used to say, "Jesus, you really are taking the tough path with all these cruises." I get a call, and she goes, "I just booked another cruise." I said, "Oh." Okay. I said, that's great, do it. And I'm like, again, you're taking the way where you're figuring out in real time. I'm like, but you know, because, you know, over 3 years or something, we were figuring out how much weight she put on the cruises. It was like 70 pounds or something, you know, one year. I said, that's 70 pounds that you've dropped as well because you stayed the same weight overall. But you know, she put the weight on and then she'd take it off or whatever. And now she's getting the weight low on the cruises, her weight's going down, you know, overall. But, um, Yeah, it's very impressive. Uh, Patricia says, what does getting to goal weight mean to me? Well, the clothes in my wardrobe will all be one size. No more hanging on to clothes that are bigger in case I regain the weight. Yeah, and I think that's good, but that cannot be the only meaning that weight loss has to you. Please don't let your goal weight's main meaning be just the scale or just your clothes. And again, let it be those things primarily. If those are the most important things to you, then let them be the most important things. But do not let them be the only things. What does getting to my goal weight mean to me? It better have some meaning in terms of how you move, what your emotional state is day to day, how you feel about yourself, how you identify as the person you want to be, your ability to have the relationships in your life that you want. The energy you're going to experience day in and day out, the mental clarity, the emotional balance— these things have got to factor into Patricia. Uh, Jane says, when we have that negative voice about our bodies and then lose the weight, it is like painting a room and then something else seems to need fixing. Dieting is the same. When we lose the weight, we just find other things to dislike about our bodies. Yes, Jane. Exactly. Exactly. And that's why I always say, in order to master your weight, you need 2 things: action and acceptance. And that's a big part of what we work on here, is that we need to take action to get our weight down to where we— the direction we want to go in. But then whether you get all the way to your goal weight or not, regardless, you're also going to have to do some work on acceptance because we have lived in a culture, women especially, You have lived in a culture your entire life where you have been taught to hate your body, to find things about it that aren't perfect, and to hate those things. And it's been a nonstop lifetime of having perfection put in front of you and you measuring how you're not that and then feeling bad about it. So that in and of itself is a pillar of work. To living at your goal weight, and not just because living at your goal weight is not the only answer, folks. 85 to 95% of dieters that get to their goal weight put it back on. So just losing the weight in and of itself is not the only answer. It's not the only thing that matters. It can't be. Let me put it a slightly different way. If 85 to 95% of dieters that get to their goal weight put the weight back on, then that has to mean in my mind that getting to their goal weight did not make their quality of life way better. So just losing weight is not enough, is what I think. Uh, that's a biggie. Loves the language. Yes, the language is specific, I will say that. Patricia says, oh, I already feel great, much happier and more relaxed, just fine. Thinking about clothes is a new concept to me. Oh, great, great. But Patricia, if you're saying I already feel great That kind of implies that you don't think you're gonna feel greater at your goal weight. Now, I don't know where you're at. I don't know how much weight you want to lose, um, but feeling greater at your goal weight— okay, so imagine just being at your goal weight, happy with your weight, happy with yourself. Imagine that reality for a moment. And now think of the peace of mind. Imagine the freedom, the peace of mind of never having to worry about your weight, never having to feel bad about how you look. Never worrying and beating yourself up for how you ate. So when you say, "I already feel great," do you think you won't feel greater at your goal weight? That's very important question. I'm not, and there's not a right or wrong answer, by the way. I'm gonna be clear about that because again, at some point, that's really part of the path we go down to figure out what our goal weight is anyways. The goal weight, in my opinion, your goal weight should be the weight that gives you the best quality of life. That's how I think you should define and decide on your goal weight. What gives you the best quality of life? So when you get to a point where you feel like you're maxing out how good you feel and how great you feel the rest of it, boom, you're there. You're there. You know, but if you're not there and you're saying I feel great already, then you're not leaving much motivation to push you up to that next level. And we can feel great. Please understand, I can feel great now and anticipate feeling even greater, but we need to have some— we need to create some kind of gap in order to kind of energize ourselves to get up there mentally. Hope that makes sense. All right, I gotta get out of here. Again, if you're not in my world, please click the link in my bio or go to programyourselfthin.com. If you are on Facebook, you can just type Mind M-I-N-D into the comments, and it'll automatically send you a link to go get the hypnosis session and to watch the training I give you, which is called Reprogrammed: How to Live at Your Goal Weight Without the Fight. Go check that out. And if you like this, I'm here every Monday through Friday at noon Eastern. Pop on here, ask your questions, let me help you if I can. 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