Show notes
In this episode, John takes the oncoming new year as opportunity to discuss how eventual failure is often woven into a diet or exercise plan in its inception and what you can do to prevent that.
Points of interest:
- Some thoughts on protein and hunger management
- Announcing the weight loss freedom framework
- Not letting shame dictate your approach to your weight loss goals in the new year
- What's gonna keep you making changes after the new year
- Shame causes extreme choices
- How shame blinds us
- Don't lose weight quickly, lose it once
- Think long term for sustainable weight loss
- How to make better decisions that set up success
- Why your past holds blueprints for success
- Why we innately know how to lose weight
- How we devalue our progress
- How we can increase the value of our progress when our focus is sustainability
- How we imbue the scale with harmful meaning and how we can let excess meaning go
- The mistake of "turning your life around" without doing an audit of how you think and treat yourself
- How taking progress one change at a time makes it easier and more likely to eventually see wholesale changes
- Which foods to remove from your diet first
- What "Taking ground for free" means
- What exercise to do for weight loss. Where to start
- The hack to starting weight loss successfully and free of shame
- Why losing weight doesn't have to be restrictive
- The power of allowing small changes in your life
- Why we resist big changes
- Why you're an athlete wherever you're starting from
- Why there is no such thing as starting small
- Why baby steps are giant leaps
- How to create significant change from zero effort
- Why you've never lost weight like this before
- Why successful weight loss needs to feel new. If it's not an exploration, its a recreation. If this time feels the same as before, stop
- How we recreate the things we most fear of encountering
- The A/B fork in the road and what it tells you about recreating failure
- Why starting Jan 1st is part of a failed pattern
- The power of actually doing what we want all the time
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