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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another
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episode of the Activation Podcast. It's me, your
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host, Dr. Naziv, back again with another amazing
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guest. And today we have with us Stanley Bronstein.
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So Stanley is an attorney, CPA, life coach and
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author. But what really has astonished me and
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what actually led me to ask or request Stanley
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to kindly join this podcast is to go through
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his journey of transformation. So I'm sure we'll...
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listen to that journey but thank you so much
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stanley for joining the podcast today how are
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you doing this morning sir fine sir thank you
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for having me doctor that's wonderful stanley
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can you share a bit about yourself with our audiences
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and this wonderful journey of transformation
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that you have embarked on okay i'll give you
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the quick version and we can fill in details
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along the way if we choose to the quick version
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is my mother died when i was eight years old
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and impacted my life obviously and i was living
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with my massively obese father who did not understand
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proper nutrition did not understand healthy habits
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and we both literally just ate ourselves to oblivion
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From the time eight years old on, I started getting
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bigger and bigger and bigger, more and more obese.
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By the time I was 13, I weighed more than I weigh
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today. So yeah, you have a lot of men that they're
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proud that they weigh the same that they did
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when they got married. Well, I weigh less than
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I did when I was 13 years old. I don't know whether
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that's funny, good, sad, sick, whatever, but
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that is the truth. And so I got bigger and bigger
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and bigger. Along the way. I maxed out at 367
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pounds, which is what you can see in the picture
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on the left. The picture on the right is what
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I look like now, around 145 pounds, big difference.
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And I did it with no drugs or surgeries. Now,
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what happened to me, I had had times along the
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way where I would lose some weight, and I would
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go right back to my old habits. The weight would
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come back on, plus more. But as I was approaching
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the age of 50, I'm 66 now. All this happened
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17 years ago, February 1st, 2009. I call that
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day my rebirth day. I just celebrated my 17th
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rebirth day six days, seven days ago. Anyway,
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I was four months away from turning 50. I was
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320 pounds at the time. I wasn't at my full max,
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but I was still pretty big. I was 320 pounds.
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I hadn't had a heart attack yet. I had not had
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a stroke yet. I was not on diabetes medication
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or high blood pressure medication, but I probably
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should have been. However, I didn't go to the
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doctor, so I don't know. I avoided the doctor.
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All these things were coming. I mean, I have
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no doubt in my mind that I was in for a rough
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ride if I kept going on the way that I was going.
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I asked myself, as a lot of people do when you're
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approaching a milestone age, both men do that
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and women. I said, where am I going to be in
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five years if I keep doing what I'm doing? Would
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you care to guess what the answer was? No. Dead.
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Dead. I said that if I keep going this way, I'm
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going to be dead in five years and I don't want
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to be dead. So I said, I woke up and I said.
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I need to make changes right now, not tomorrow,
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not next week, not next month, not next year,
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right now. And the changes I need to make are
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I need to learn to start eating better right
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now. Again, not tomorrow, not next week, not
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next month, not next year, right now. And I need
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to start getting some form of exercise. I need
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to get off my rear end and I need to get some
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form of exercise. And I decided on walking. Because
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I figured walking, you did not need a lot of
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special equipment. You could do it almost any
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time, almost anywhere. And I figured it would
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beat my body up less than most other forms of
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exercise. So I said, I'm going to start walking.
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And little did I realize how prophetic my words
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were, because that's exactly what I started doing.
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So the important thing is, that was not the first
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time in my life that I told myself I needed to
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do something. But it was the first time in my
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life where I said I need to do something, and
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I actually took permanent action on it. Not temporary
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action, permanent action. Because when you make
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temporary changes, you're going to get temporary
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results. When you make permanent changes, then
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you'll get permanent results. So we're going
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to talk about permanent changes as we're going
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here. So I said, I need to make some permanent
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changes. Well, here's what I started with. First
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thing I did was I was drinking scotch every day.
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I don't know if I was an alcoholic or not, but
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I do know that I was drinking too much. And I
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do know that I was serving the alcohol. It was
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not serving me. So I said, no more, no more scotch.
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I took my last bottle of scotch. I poured it
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down the toilet. I hit flush. I believe in symbolism.
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So I got rid of it. I have not had a drink in
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17 years and I don't miss it. And it makes it
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much more interesting when you go to parties
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and everyone else is drinking and you're not.
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You watch everybody else's behavior and you go,
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boy, that's what I used to be like. So then the
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second thing I did was those two liter bottles
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of soda pop. I was drinking three of those a
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day. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, wow. That's right. And I
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was drinking, but I was drinking diet caffeine
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free. So surely that was healthy, right? Oh,
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not really. No, no. But the marketing people
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want you to think it's healthy. The soda companies
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want you to think, oh, it's diet, caffeine -free,
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it's healthy for you. No, it's not. So those,
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I said, I need to stop drinking those. Same thing.
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I took my last bottle, poured it down the toilet,
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hit flush. Then the other thing was I said, okay,
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I need to start eating better. So what came into
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my mind at the time was that I'm going to quit
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eating red meat. So I quit eating beef and pork.
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I did all of those immediately. That was very
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interesting for me to do that because my father
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was a butcher and I grew up in a home with unlimited
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free meat. And for me to say no more beef and
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pork, that's an interesting thing to do because
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I had a lot of it when I was a child. And so
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I did those things and I started walking. By
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the time I turned 50, four months later, I had
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lost almost 50 pounds and I was starting to feel
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better and I was getting a little bit healthier.
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And I kept going. After about five years of that,
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my walking activities started picking up and
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my weight kept getting a little lower, but it
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kind of stalled. I couldn't get lower than I
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wanted to be. So I said, I'm going to make some
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more dietary changes. I'm a big believer in nutrition.
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And when I say nutrition, dietary, I don't think
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dietary is just the food you put in your mouth.
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I think it's the thoughts you put in your head.
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It's the environment you create for yourself.
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It's the people you surround yourself with. It's
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the activities you do. It's all those things.
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So I said, I'm going to make some more changes.
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I gave up chicken and turkey. And essentially
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I went vegetarian is what I did. And I felt much
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better. I got stronger. And since that day, I
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turned vegetarian over 12 years ago. I've only
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been sick one time in the last 12 years. And
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that includes COVID. That includes COVID. And
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I got exposed to COVID. My wife came home from
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a trip and she caught COVID in the airport. And
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she brought it home. And I had two days where
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my body felt off. I felt I was 75 % there. But
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I continued my activities. I stayed on my program.
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And my body flew off COVID. Because I have a
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strong immune system. And I maintain physical
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activities. But the point is, from the moment
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I turned vegetarian, I saw major health improvements.
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But it gets even better than that. After about
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five years of being vegetarian, I was at a point
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where I was walking 10 to 15 miles every day.
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I would say that's 15 to 20 kilometers every
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day. Yet, I could not get my weight below 180
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pounds. And it would fluctuate. 180, 190, 200,
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190, 180. It wasn't stable. And I couldn't get
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it below 180. So once again, I said, I'm doing
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something wrong here. If I'm walking that much
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and getting that much physical activity, there
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must be something wrong with my diet. So lesson
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to learn from that. You cannot exercise your
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way out of a poor diet. Okay. Can you please
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explain that a little bit better? Okay. I saw
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an article the other day. It said, how much walking
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should a person do if they want to lose 20 pounds?
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And I think that article was... was totally off
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base because if you eat nothing but garbage and
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you eat way too much garbage i don't care how
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much walking you do you're not going to lose
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20 pounds you see what i mean does that make
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sense right let me to restate that again if okay
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think about this if you eat a poor diet if you
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eat donuts cookies ice cream lots of butter things
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like that Yet you do a lot of walking. You're
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still not going to lose weight because you're
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eating all that garbage food. Does that make
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sense now? Yes, yes, it does. So that's what
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I mean when I say you cannot exercise your way
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out of a poor diet. That's something I learned.
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So I said, what do I need to change in my diet?
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Well, I gave up butter, cheese, and ice cream.
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In other words, I gave up dairy. I went full
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vegan is what I did. And does that include milk
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as well? Yeah, milk as well. Yes, milk as well.
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And I'll elaborate on this. And also, just so
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you know, anyone listening, I'm not telling you
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this is what you have to do. I'm telling you
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this is what I did. This is what I did gradually
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over time. I didn't do it immediately. And it's
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what has worked for me. Your experience may be
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different. But listen to what I'm saying. And
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then we'll bring this back to you, the listener.
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Would you care to guess what happened when I
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gave up bread, butter, cheese, ice cream, and
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all dairy products? Would you care to guess what
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happened? Like that plateau weight started to
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come down. Lost 50 pounds in five minutes. Oh,
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wow. I melted because of all the walking I was
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doing. I was walking 15 to 20 kilometers a day.
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And when I made that dietary adjustment, the
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weight just came off. Boom. So that's what my
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roadblock was. It was not working. That was the
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dietary change that was needed. And since that
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day, okay, I am 66 now. I just had my annual
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physical three or four weeks ago. My blood work
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numbers, I'll put them up against any 30 year
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old you want to put them up against. My blood
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work numbers are excellent. I feel excellent.
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I feel I'm 30, 35 years old, except I was not
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in this, I was not in anywhere near this kind
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of shape when I was 30 to 35 years old. I was,
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I mean, when I, when I was, when I was 30 years
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old, this is what I looked like. So it made a
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big difference. So as a result of all this experience,
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this experience of taking this weight off, becoming
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a person who does a lot of walking, a person
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who is capable of doing a lot of walking. I mean,
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and when I say a lot of walking, this is how
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much walking I do. And once again, you do not
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have to do what I do, but I'm going to tell you
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what I recommend for people in just one minute.
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But I'm going to tell you what I do just to show
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you the power that is within people. Because,
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Dr., this experience taught me two things. It
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taught me I am more powerful than I ever imagined.
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And it also taught me that if I am more powerful
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than I ever imagined, so is everyone else. If
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you are listening, you are more powerful than
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you ever imagined. Know it. Feel it. believe
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it. And when I teach you that knowledge, when
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I give you that knowledge, the question becomes,
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what are you going to do with that knowledge?
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And for me, what that knowledge has taught me
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is that if I'm more powerful than I ever imagined,
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and I'm capable of losing 220 pounds and keeping
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it off, if I'm capable of walking as much as
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I do, and when I say walking, this is how much
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I walked last year. Wow. Imagine I started in
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Los Angeles. I came within 300 miles of London.
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I ended up in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
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So it's a good thing I know how to swim. But
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that's how much walking I do. And I do that all
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the time. And I do it because I can. I have not
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found my limits yet. That's how powerful we are
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as individuals. So that's what I'm showing you
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that essentially what I did was I took some unhealthy
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addictions and I replaced them with healthy addictions.
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is what I essentially did. Because to be quite
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frank with you, I have an addictive personality.
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I do. When I do something, I'm all in. That's
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the way I am. But that's how powerful we are
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as people. Now let me tell you what I advocate
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to someone that they do. If you want to get started,
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first of all, I'm going to talk about weight
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loss, and then we're going to talk about personal
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development. I think of weight loss as a subset
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of personal development. A lot of, there are,
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you know, probably half the people need to lose
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some weight, but the other half don't need to
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lose any weight, but they can all use personal
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development. If you want to get started on a
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healthy weight loss program, I advocate three
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things, and they're all easy things that anyone,
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that almost anyone can do if you're able -bodied.
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First thing is, eat less processed food. Less.
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I'm not saying never eat processed food. I'm
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not saying never eat fast food. I mean, I don't
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eat those things anymore, but I'm saying eat
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less of it. That's a goal anybody can do. Less
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junk food, less packaged food, less boxed food,
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less of that. I'm not saying totally eliminate
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it. I'm saying less of it. Now, stop eating five
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hours before you go to sleep. So in other words,
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don't take your food to bed with you. Give your
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body some time to... to just the food you've
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eaten, some time to process the food you're eating.
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So if you go to bed at 11 o 'clock at night,
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eat your dinner at 6 o 'clock. And don't eat
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any snacks after you do eat your dinner. Give
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your body some time. And then the last thing
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I advocate is if you can, walk 20 minutes a day.
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The American College of Sports Medicine advocates
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150 minutes of cardio exercise a week. So if
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you walk 20 minutes a day. seven days a week,
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that's 140 minutes. That's close enough. Oh,
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but if you do that, let me ask you, if you could
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get people, I know you're in Canada where I,
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my, my assumption is Canadians are generally
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a little bit healthier than Americans are. I
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just, I think that's a safe assumption. But if
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Americans and Canadians would eat less processed
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food, quit eating five hours before they go to
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sleep and walk 20 minutes a day. Do you think
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we will be healthier? Yeah. And those are all
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doable things. Can I ask you a question? Sure.
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When you say processed food, what do you mean
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by processed foods? And I have another question
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because I can relate this to like my scenario
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as well. Because if someone is like a very busy
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individual and they doesn't get the time to do
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those cooking to accommodate like some of the
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other things. within their work or household
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chores or something like that. What advice would
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you kind of give them to? Okay. The first thing
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first, I'll tell you what processed food means
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to me. Okay. It came out of a plant, a construction
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plant. Now, I'm not talking about the kind of
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plant you eat. I'm talking about, you know, it
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was made in a plant. You know, you have a factory
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where a factory puts it together, puts it in
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a box for you. And you get a product with a big
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long list of ingredients, half of which you can't
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pronounce because you don't know what they are.
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That type of food generally contains lots of
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added sugars and lots of added sodium, both of
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which as a general rule are very bad for you.
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The only types of people who should be, almost
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no one should be adding sodium to their diet.
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The only ones who should be adding sodium to
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their diet are, if you're a construction worker,
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someone who works outside, where you're sweating
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all the time, you're having fluid loss, yes,
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then you probably need to supplement your diet
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with some sodium. But if you're just a general
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person who sits at a desk like me, you probably
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have no business adding sodium to your diet.
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You get plenty of it in the foods that you're
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eating. Now, added sugars, those are almost always
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bad for you. Plus, I want to define sugar. And
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define carbohydrates while we're at it. Everyone
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says carbohydrates are bad. That's not true.
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Bad carbohydrates are bad. Good carbohydrates
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are good. And what I mean by that is a piece
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of fruit. A piece of fruit is loaded with carbohydrates.
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It's loaded with sugars, but it's natural sugars.
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And there is lots of fiber in that piece of fruit.
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Eat the piece of fruit, the fiber in the fruit.
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slows down your body's processing of the sugars
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in the fruit. And so it does not cause your blood
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sugar to spike. It does not cause you to get
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diabetes. I mean, I eat a ton of fruit every
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day, and my A1c at my last physical was 5 .7,
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which is, just for anyone who knows, 5 .7 is
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where they start saying you have prediabetes.
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Right, yeah, yeah. And mine was 5 .2, which I
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think is good. I eat tons of fruit. But now if
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I were eating donuts or eating those little packages
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of sugar that you get at the restaurants or eating
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foods that have added sugars in them, that's
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refined sugar. That refined sugar, the fiber
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has been taken out of it. And because the fiber
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has been taken out of it, you eat that stuff.
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your blood sugar immediately spikes and it ultimately
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causes you to get diabetes. Right. Which is not
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good. So that's one thing right there. And in
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refined foods, you're going to tend to get way,
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sorry, in processed foods, you're going to tend
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to get way too much sodium and way too much sugar.
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And they put those things in the products just
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to make them taste better. And the reason they
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try to make them taste better is so that you,
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the consumer, will buy more of those products.
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They, the vendor, will make more money because
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they want your money. This is all about the money.
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Well, here's what I'm going to say about that.
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Everything I'm telling you right now, I'm not
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asking you for your money. Right. Now, don't
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get me wrong. I love money. Money's great. And
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if someone wants to hire me privately to work
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with me. I will work with them privately. But
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I take all of my materials, all of my books,
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all of my information is on my websites and it
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is available for free. I give it away for free
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because I want people to have this information.
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To me, the mission is more important than the
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money. And I am fortunate that I am a phase in
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my life where I can say that. Not everyone can
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do that. Not everyone can do that. So that's
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what I mean by refined foods. Now, processed
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foods. Now, you asked me a second part of the
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question. You said, what can people do if they
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don't have the time? First of all, that's one
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of the reasons I say reduce the amount of processed
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food, not totally eliminate it. Because I realize
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not everyone has the time or not everyone is
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going to take the time. But there are simple
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things you can do. You can start, you can take,
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you need to take a little bit of time. You can
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make. your own lunch. If you work, I work with
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a lot of outdoor workers, you know, landscape
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workers, that type of thing. And he says, I don't
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have time. I go to Burger King, McDonald's, and
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I get whatever food there is. And I say, you
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need to make yourself a bag or take a little
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cooler. And then that cooler, put some fruit,
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make yourself a sandwich if you want. You know,
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something that's healthy on there. Maybe eliminate
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the cheese from it. Get rid of the dairy. Put
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that in there. Take yourself some nuts. And when
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I tell people to eat nuts, I tell them raw is
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better and unsalted. And the reason why I say
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that is when you go to, when most nuts you buy
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that are roasted, they roast them in peanut oil.
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So when they do that, it adds more calories to
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the nuts and more fat to the nuts. If you take
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raw ones, it doesn't have that added fat, doesn't
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have the added oil, and it does not have the
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added sodium. Right. Put that in your bag and
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you take that with you. I tell my wife, she's
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outdoors all the time. She says, I didn't have
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time to eat. I keep in the house, I keep a container
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full of nuts, raw nuts. I have an air fryer.
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I throw them in the air fryer for eight minutes.
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And when you do that, it brings out the oil.
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They taste roasted. It brings out the oils that
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are in the nuts, but it doesn't add any oil to
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it. Oh, right. And it makes them taste delicious.
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That's a very good thing. Everything I'm telling
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you, all of this is on my websites. So anybody
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can go there and get that. But anyway, and I
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tell her, take a baggie with you, put that stuff
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in there, and you have that. Did that sort of
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make sense? It takes a little bit of work, but
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it's changing your habits. No, wonderfully, that
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really, really does make sense. Okay. What would
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you, do you have any questions? What would you
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like to talk about? This is my website. That's
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wonderful. Thank you so much, Stanley, for sharing
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those really, really helpful tips. And I think
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because I myself, I'm currently on a weight loss
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journey. My experience was pretty, pretty much
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similar to you back in 2021. I actually, because
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I measure weights in kilograms. Yes. So I actually.
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was able to lose around 38 kilograms at that
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time good but what happened is that After a series
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of excuses that I can say, I gained all those
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weight back and more. I've done that many times,
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so don't feel bad. And more. So currently, I
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know it's a very, very unhealthy lifestyle. So
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currently, I'm again embarking on that journey
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of losing weight. So I have lost around four
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kilograms of weight in the past one month. But
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I'm trying to drive through it. The way that
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I'm following that is through tracking my macros,
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the calories that I eat, trying to do it within
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1500 calorie diet. So, yeah. Do you have any
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advice on that? Yes, I do have advice. First
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of all. That website that you directed people
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to is my, that's where my resume is. And that
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will link you to all my other websites. But I
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have two main websites. And the second one is
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what's important. Millionpoundweightlosschallenge
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.com. Can you see this on the screen? Yes, we
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can. Okay. Now, and both of these two sites link
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to each other. Okay. But I have tons of weight
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loss information on there and it's healthy weight
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loss information. Now that site, you have to
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create an account, but it's a free account, but
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you have to create an account. I did that on
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purpose because I wanted to control who goes
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on that site and what they do, because I did
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not, I wanted to create a safe space for people
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who want to lose weight. I didn't want to create
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a place where trolls go to make fun of me. trying
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to lose weight. Right. Okay. That's wonderful.
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Now let's respond to what you were saying. First
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of all, my weight loss philosophy has become
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different. It has been years since I counted
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calories. Again, that doesn't mean calories are
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unimportant. They are. But my philosophy is that
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if you make a commitment that you're only going
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to put healthy food in your mouth and you're
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going to quit eating when you're full, you can
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pretty much eat whatever you want, whenever you
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want, and you're going to get in shape. That's
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true. You are. And first of all, I'm going to
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give you an invitation right now. I like you,
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doctor. You seem like a very kind, generous man.
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I want to trade personal information with you.
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And afterwards, if you want to do a private Zoom
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and we sit down and talk, I would love to help
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you in any way I can. And you can report back
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to your listeners as they watch and as they gradually
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see less and less and less of you. Yeah, they
00:25:44.579 --> 00:25:48.660
do like, do interact and connect with me. And
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I have shared my journey like with them that
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I'm embarking on that. So I would really, really
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take on that opportunity and that would be really
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helpful. And also that's a way for them to understand
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that it actually works. It does. This actually
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works. You can do it. That's a magic. They don't
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believe that weight loss is a magic that just
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appears. Do we have five more minutes? Yeah,
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sure, sure. Okay, here. Sure. I've identified
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four things that determine whether or not you're
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going to be successful. And these four things
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are part of my whole system. This is my whole
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system. You see it on the big chart behind me
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as well. But this is my whole system and this
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is on my website. Okay. And these are the four
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things. The first one is willingness. Okay. If
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you want to succeed, you have to be willing to.
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permanently do what it takes for the rest of
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your hopefully very long, hopefully very healthy,
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hopefully very happy life. You have to be willing
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to do what it takes, but I'm going to make it
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easier for you. You don't have to do that. You
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get to do that. It is your privilege to do that.
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You are still alive. You are still breathing.
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You can do those things. It's your privilege
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to do it. If you're dead, it's too late. It's
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no longer your force. You can't do it. You're
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still alive. You're still breathing. So it's
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not too late. But you have to be willing to do
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what it takes for the rest of your life. Now,
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the second one, you mentioned it. Belief, okay?
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Belief. I've already told you. I learned that
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I am more powerful than I ever imagined. And
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I suggested to your listeners that so are you.
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Well, here you go. You are more powerful than
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you ever imagined. Remember that. Believe it.
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Act upon that belief. You have it within you.
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Look, I failed many times. I mean, I had times
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where I lost 100 and put weight back on. That's
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what? 50, 60 kilos. I lost that much weight and
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put it back on. But ultimately, I lost 102 kilos
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and kept it off. Yeah. That's amazing. That's
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the difference between these two pictures is
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102 kilos. Pretty crazy, isn't it? Now, believe
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it, but I told you. I'm a pretty confident man.
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I was raised to be confident. I was talking about
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confidence. Yet the experience of doing what
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I did blew my mind. I surprised myself. I surpassed
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my own beliefs. So the lesson for you is you
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can do it to surpass your own beliefs. Get rid
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of your limits. That's one of the reasons I walk
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as much as I do. It's not because I'm crazy.
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It's because I enjoy the walking. It's meditative
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for me, and I do it because I can. I want to
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see what I can do. I'm 66 years old, and I've
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logged from Los Angeles almost to London last
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year. Over the last 17 years since that date
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I told you I woke up, February 1st, 2009, if
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you take the Earth at the equator, I've gone
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around the globe 2 .92 times. And on my present
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pace, June or July, it'll be three times when
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I'll get around. Wow. And I'm not stopping. I'm
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doing it because you can do things and you don't
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have to do what I do. The world already has one
00:29:10.900 --> 00:29:13.740
Stanley. It doesn't need another, but it does
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need you to be the best you that you can be.
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And it needs you to be happy, healthy, and wise.
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Now, we're almost done. Discipline. I don't mean
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punishment. What you're doing does not need to
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be punishment. It doesn't need to feel like punishment.
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I'm talking about self -discipline. identifying
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all your negative habits. Yes, there's the website.
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There you go. Identifying all your negative habits
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and eliminating them. For me, it was drinking
00:29:41.940 --> 00:29:45.240
alcohol. Boom, gone. That's a message from one
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of our first members. She totally changed her
00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:52.599
life. Now, you eliminate your negative habits.
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I was drinking every day. Gone. Drinking soda
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pop every day. Gone. On my rear end every day.
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Gone. And then replacing it with positive habits.
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Eating healthy food. Putting healthy food in
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my mouth. Positive habit. Walking every day.
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Positive habit. And things like that. That's
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what I mean by discipline. It's adjusting your
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habits accordingly. But now let's make it all
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even easier. Commitment. When you become 100
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% committed to something, it becomes easier.
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I'll give you an example. I am 100 % committed.
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that no unhealthy food is going to enter my mouth.
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Right. Before Christmas, I had another lawyer
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who I worked with. They delivered gourmet cupcakes
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and cookies to me. They obviously didn't know
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how I eat, but they delivered gourmet cupcakes
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and cookies. The thought of eating them never
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occurred to me. I didn't ask myself, could I
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eat one of these cupcakes or cookies? I could.
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I mean, I have no doubt in my mind that if I
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ate one of those cupcakes or cookies, I would
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not put on 100 pounds. I also know that I have
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no business eating cupcakes or cookies. I have
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already eaten my lifetime share of cupcakes and
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cookies. I've eaten your lifetime share of cupcakes
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and cookies. And I have probably eaten 20 other
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people's lifetime share of cupcakes and cookies.
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I don't need them anymore. And I'm going to share
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with you another little tip. You can taste food
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without putting it in your mouth. I looked at
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those cupcakes and cookies and I immediately
00:31:21.710 --> 00:31:24.910
envisioned what they tasted like. I could literally
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taste it in my mouth. I knew what it tasted like
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because I've had these before. And then I gave
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the cupcakes and cookies to a neighbor who's
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very skinny, who likes that kind of food. I gave
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them to her and she was grateful and everybody
00:31:37.269 --> 00:31:39.650
was happy. That's because I'm 100 % committed.
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I'm 100 % committed that I'm going to walk every
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day. And by walking every day, my definition
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is that I walk at least two hours a day every
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day. Now, I walk a lot more than that. I walk
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five or six hours a day. But I work from home,
00:31:53.910 --> 00:31:57.170
have a computer on my treadmill at home, so I
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am able to work while I'm walking. So I've combined
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tasks. Not everyone can do that. I'm not telling
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you have to do that. I'm telling you walk 20
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minutes a day. And if you have two legs, and
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unless you're crippled or infirm, you should
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be able to do that. And if you can't do 20, do
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10. Do five. Do something. When I started walking,
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I had trouble walking two blocks. Yeah, for sure.
00:32:23.069 --> 00:32:26.930
It does indeed take some habit to develop walking
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regularly. And I really like, Stanley, how you
00:32:29.450 --> 00:32:32.319
mentioned about... Training your mindset of not
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having food or not resist that craving of food
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when you see that. So this is one of the vital
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things that is really hard to do, but also it's
00:32:41.599 --> 00:32:44.859
really important to do. See, I believe in word
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choices. When we say something is hard, it's
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going to be hard. It's not hard. Can I tell you
00:32:52.299 --> 00:32:55.359
something? Walking around like this was hard.
00:32:56.619 --> 00:32:59.599
What I do today is easy compared to that. I'll
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give you an example. This happened to me a couple
00:33:01.470 --> 00:33:04.529
of years ago. I was in Costco buying bird seed.
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They had huge 50 -pound bags of bird seeds. Those
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are like 30 kilograms each probably of bird seed.
00:33:11.809 --> 00:33:16.609
I bought four of them. That's 200 pounds. It's
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probably closer to 25 kilos each. So on that
00:33:21.490 --> 00:33:26.829
cart, I had 200 pounds, almost 100 kilos. I'm
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pushing this cart through the store. And I'm
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huffing and puffing because the cart is heavy,
00:33:31.420 --> 00:33:33.880
pushing it to the store. And then I realized
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that's how much weight I used to carry on my
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body. I used to walk around with my body. And
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that's how hard I was making it on myself. What
00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:43.859
I do now is easy. If we tell ourselves something's
00:33:43.859 --> 00:33:46.220
going to be hard, it's going to be hard. If we
00:33:46.220 --> 00:33:49.460
believe we can do something, we can do it. If
00:33:49.460 --> 00:33:51.440
we don't believe we can do something, we're not
00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:53.599
going to be able to do it. Our minds, listen,
00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:56.619
that's why I talked about diet. Diet is also
00:33:56.619 --> 00:33:59.930
the thoughts you put. in your head. I'm telling
00:33:59.930 --> 00:34:04.049
you right now, 90 % of what it takes to lose
00:34:04.049 --> 00:34:07.289
weight in a healthy manner is between your ears.
00:34:07.470 --> 00:34:10.690
Right. Yeah. And that applies to any addiction
00:34:10.690 --> 00:34:14.510
that applies to any area of your life where you
00:34:14.510 --> 00:34:17.309
want to improve yourself. Now, realize something
00:34:17.309 --> 00:34:19.130
here. When you're embarking on this journey,
00:34:19.329 --> 00:34:23.170
the goal is not perfection. The goal is excellence.
00:34:23.329 --> 00:34:27.309
You are a human being. You are going to mess
00:34:27.309 --> 00:34:30.639
up. promise you. You're going to have good days.
00:34:30.780 --> 00:34:34.039
You're going to have bad days. You're gonna make
00:34:34.039 --> 00:34:38.059
mistakes. Well, mistakes are proof that you're
00:34:38.059 --> 00:34:40.800
trying. The question is, what do you do when
00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:43.199
you make a mistake? Do you beat yourself over
00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:46.380
the head and quit? Do you blame yourself? Do
00:34:46.380 --> 00:34:49.860
you punish yourself? Or do you say, I messed
00:34:49.860 --> 00:34:52.719
up. Here's what I've learned from that. I'm going
00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:54.980
to do better tomorrow. There's an old saying,
00:34:55.099 --> 00:34:58.099
fall down seven times, get up eight. Every time
00:34:58.099 --> 00:35:01.039
you fall down, get going. It's all about to be
00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:03.619
successful in anything. It requires two things.
00:35:03.800 --> 00:35:07.159
It requires starting and it requires never stopping.
00:35:07.300 --> 00:35:10.079
That's what it requires. Start and never stop.
00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:12.119
If you have a good day, whatever. If you had
00:35:12.119 --> 00:35:15.679
a bad day, start again. Now, your goal is simple.
00:35:15.820 --> 00:35:18.840
You want to beat yesterday. You want to do better
00:35:18.840 --> 00:35:21.039
today than you did yesterday, better tomorrow
00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:24.000
than you did today. Now, if you have a bad day
00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:27.280
and you mess up. As long as you get started again
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:31.000
the next day, that's okay. That is beating yesterday.
00:35:31.420 --> 00:35:34.099
Because in the past, whenever you messed up,
00:35:34.099 --> 00:35:37.019
you quit. But now if you mess up, you say, okay,
00:35:37.099 --> 00:35:39.400
I messed up. I'm going to start again. That's
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better than yesterday. You did a better job.
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Good. Keep going. See, I am now in year 18 of
00:35:46.039 --> 00:35:48.880
beating yesterday. That's how I am able to do
00:35:48.880 --> 00:35:51.900
what I do. This did not happen overnight. It
00:35:51.900 --> 00:35:55.059
was not a straight line. I had good days. I had
00:35:55.059 --> 00:36:00.260
bad days. I had successes. I had failures. But
00:36:00.260 --> 00:36:02.340
I got started and I never stopped. And that's
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what I suggest to people. Get started. Never
00:36:05.639 --> 00:36:08.440
stop. All this, everything I'm talking about,
00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:12.079
it's all on my main website. The easiest thing
00:36:12.079 --> 00:36:16.260
is if people go to thewayofexcellence .com, and
00:36:16.260 --> 00:36:17.980
if you have that, and if you can put that in
00:36:17.980 --> 00:36:20.559
the show notes, thewayofexcellence .com, if you
00:36:20.559 --> 00:36:23.340
go there. At the bottom of the page, there's
00:36:23.340 --> 00:36:25.820
also a link to the Weight Loss website. So you
00:36:25.820 --> 00:36:28.119
can get to both of them through there. And that
00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:31.000
website has all of my books listed on it for
00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:33.420
free digital download. They're yours for free.
00:36:33.539 --> 00:36:36.059
You don't have to do anything. You can contact
00:36:36.059 --> 00:36:37.760
me through there if you want to contact me, if
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:39.480
you have questions, if you want to say thank
00:36:39.480 --> 00:36:41.880
you, if you want to work with me privately, whatever,
00:36:41.980 --> 00:36:43.920
you can do that. And you can go to the Weight
00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:46.699
Loss website. Create an account on there. It's
00:36:46.699 --> 00:36:49.280
set up. It's set up as a system where you just
00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:52.219
start. Start here. Go step one, step two, step
00:36:52.219 --> 00:36:54.840
three, all the way through. And it helps you
00:36:54.840 --> 00:36:57.199
get going. Because I'm a believer in systems.
00:36:57.360 --> 00:36:59.900
Make this simple so that everyone can do it.
00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:02.059
Thank you so much, Stanley, for sharing those
00:37:02.059 --> 00:37:04.780
wonderful words of wisdom and encouragement.
00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:08.079
And from your own personal experience, I'm sure
00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:11.519
I personally have benefited. a lot from those
00:37:11.519 --> 00:37:13.920
discussions and it really really helped me to
00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:17.400
get some ideas of what i need to modify in my
00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:20.260
diet and build that habit of walking and i'm
00:37:20.260 --> 00:37:23.280
sure it also is affecting millions of our listeners
00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:26.320
who are listening to this podcast and around
00:37:26.320 --> 00:37:29.579
the world and how they can motivate and train
00:37:29.579 --> 00:37:31.840
their mindset with your words of encouragement
00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:35.119
and with your resources dear listeners i'm going
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to list stanley's resources the website in the
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description of the podcast as well as in youtube
00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:45.329
and in on the other channels also if you wish
00:37:45.329 --> 00:37:47.889
to know more about stanley and his resources
00:37:47.889 --> 00:37:50.869
and its methods and techniques one way of doing
00:37:50.869 --> 00:37:53.989
that is visiting our website activeactionlab
00:37:53.989 --> 00:37:57.750
.com search stanley's name you how his webpage
00:37:57.750 --> 00:38:00.769
will appear and that webpage will have all the
00:38:00.769 --> 00:38:04.750
links bios and everything of stanley in one area
00:38:04.750 --> 00:38:08.309
so that you can access those easily can i revise
00:38:08.309 --> 00:38:10.969
one thing that you said yeah for sure you said
00:38:10.969 --> 00:38:13.309
stanley these are all things that you have to
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do nope You don't have to do them. You get to
00:38:15.619 --> 00:38:18.119
do them. Again, that's correct, Stanley. Yes,
00:38:18.219 --> 00:38:21.119
I get to do them because I'm alive. Thank you
00:38:21.119 --> 00:38:23.360
so much, Stanley, for your wonderful words of
00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:26.199
wisdom and for joining to this podcast. I'm sure
00:38:26.199 --> 00:38:29.019
our listeners will have a lot of questions after
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this, but if they do, again, dear listeners,
00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:34.880
you will have those links so you can contact
00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:37.699
with Stanley if you want to learn more. We're
00:38:37.699 --> 00:38:40.360
both here to help. No doubt about it. Thank you
00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:42.199
again, Stanley, for joining the podcast. Dear
00:38:42.199 --> 00:38:44.139
listeners, if you have enjoyed the episode, please
00:38:44.139 --> 00:38:46.639
feel free to share it with your friends and family
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who you also might think could benefit from Stanley's
00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:51.940
words of wisdom and keep listening to our podcast.
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I'll meet you in another episode, another day
00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:56.880
with another amazing guest. Until then, stay
00:38:56.880 --> 00:38:59.260
active, take action. Have a wonderful day if
00:38:59.260 --> 00:39:04.960
you want. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for
00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:08.019
joining us on the Active Action Podcast at ActiveAction
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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another
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episode of the Activation Podcast. It's me, your
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host, Dr. Naziv, back again with another amazing
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guest. And today we have with us Stanley Bronstein.
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So Stanley is an attorney, CPA, life coach and
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author. But what really has astonished me and
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what actually led me to ask or request Stanley
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to kindly join this podcast is to go through
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his journey of transformation. So I'm sure we'll...
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listen to that journey but thank you so much
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stanley for joining the podcast today how are
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you doing this morning sir fine sir thank you
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for having me doctor that's wonderful stanley
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can you share a bit about yourself with our audiences
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and this wonderful journey of transformation
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that you have embarked on okay i'll give you
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the quick version and we can fill in details
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along the way if we choose to the quick version
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is my mother died when i was eight years old
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and impacted my life obviously and i was living
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with my massively obese father who did not understand
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proper nutrition did not understand healthy habits
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and we both literally just ate ourselves to oblivion
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From the time eight years old on, I started getting
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bigger and bigger and bigger, more and more obese.
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By the time I was 13, I weighed more than I weigh
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today. So yeah, you have a lot of men that they're
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proud that they weigh the same that they did
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when they got married. Well, I weigh less than
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I did when I was 13 years old. I don't know whether
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that's funny, good, sad, sick, whatever, but
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that is the truth. And so I got bigger and bigger
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and bigger. Along the way. I maxed out at 367
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pounds, which is what you can see in the picture
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on the left. The picture on the right is what
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I look like now, around 145 pounds, big difference.
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And I did it with no drugs or surgeries. Now,
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what happened to me, I had had times along the
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way where I would lose some weight, and I would
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go right back to my old habits. The weight would
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come back on, plus more. But as I was approaching
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the age of 50, I'm 66 now. All this happened
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17 years ago, February 1st, 2009. I call that
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day my rebirth day. I just celebrated my 17th
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rebirth day six days, seven days ago. Anyway,
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I was four months away from turning 50. I was
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320 pounds at the time. I wasn't at my full max,
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but I was still pretty big. I was 320 pounds.
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I hadn't had a heart attack yet. I had not had
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a stroke yet. I was not on diabetes medication
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or high blood pressure medication, but I probably
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should have been. However, I didn't go to the
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doctor, so I don't know. I avoided the doctor.
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All these things were coming. I mean, I have
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no doubt in my mind that I was in for a rough
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ride if I kept going on the way that I was going.
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I asked myself, as a lot of people do when you're
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approaching a milestone age, both men do that
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and women. I said, where am I going to be in
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five years if I keep doing what I'm doing? Would
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you care to guess what the answer was? No. Dead.
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Dead. I said that if I keep going this way, I'm
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going to be dead in five years and I don't want
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to be dead. So I said, I woke up and I said.
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I need to make changes right now, not tomorrow,
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not next week, not next month, not next year,
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right now. And the changes I need to make are
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I need to learn to start eating better right
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now. Again, not tomorrow, not next week, not
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next month, not next year, right now. And I need
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to start getting some form of exercise. I need
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to get off my rear end and I need to get some
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form of exercise. And I decided on walking. Because
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I figured walking, you did not need a lot of
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special equipment. You could do it almost any
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time, almost anywhere. And I figured it would
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beat my body up less than most other forms of
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exercise. So I said, I'm going to start walking.
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And little did I realize how prophetic my words
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were, because that's exactly what I started doing.
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So the important thing is, that was not the first
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time in my life that I told myself I needed to
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do something. But it was the first time in my
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life where I said I need to do something, and
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I actually took permanent action on it. Not temporary
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action, permanent action. Because when you make
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temporary changes, you're going to get temporary
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results. When you make permanent changes, then
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you'll get permanent results. So we're going
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to talk about permanent changes as we're going
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here. So I said, I need to make some permanent
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changes. Well, here's what I started with. First
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thing I did was I was drinking scotch every day.
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I don't know if I was an alcoholic or not, but
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I do know that I was drinking too much. And I
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do know that I was serving the alcohol. It was
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not serving me. So I said, no more, no more scotch.
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I took my last bottle of scotch. I poured it
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down the toilet. I hit flush. I believe in symbolism.
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So I got rid of it. I have not had a drink in
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17 years and I don't miss it. And it makes it
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much more interesting when you go to parties
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and everyone else is drinking and you're not.
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You watch everybody else's behavior and you go,
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boy, that's what I used to be like. So then the
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second thing I did was those two liter bottles
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of soda pop. I was drinking three of those a
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day. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, wow. That's right. And I
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was drinking, but I was drinking diet caffeine
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free. So surely that was healthy, right? Oh,
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not really. No, no. But the marketing people
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want you to think it's healthy. The soda companies
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want you to think, oh, it's diet, caffeine -free,
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it's healthy for you. No, it's not. So those,
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I said, I need to stop drinking those. Same thing.
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I took my last bottle, poured it down the toilet,
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hit flush. Then the other thing was I said, okay,
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I need to start eating better. So what came into
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my mind at the time was that I'm going to quit
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eating red meat. So I quit eating beef and pork.
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I did all of those immediately. That was very
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interesting for me to do that because my father
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was a butcher and I grew up in a home with unlimited
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free meat. And for me to say no more beef and
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pork, that's an interesting thing to do because
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I had a lot of it when I was a child. And so
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I did those things and I started walking. By
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the time I turned 50, four months later, I had
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lost almost 50 pounds and I was starting to feel
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better and I was getting a little bit healthier.
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And I kept going. After about five years of that,
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my walking activities started picking up and
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my weight kept getting a little lower, but it
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kind of stalled. I couldn't get lower than I
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wanted to be. So I said, I'm going to make some
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more dietary changes. I'm a big believer in nutrition.
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And when I say nutrition, dietary, I don't think
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dietary is just the food you put in your mouth.
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I think it's the thoughts you put in your head.
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It's the environment you create for yourself.
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It's the people you surround yourself with. It's
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the activities you do. It's all those things.
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So I said, I'm going to make some more changes.
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I gave up chicken and turkey. And essentially
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I went vegetarian is what I did. And I felt much
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better. I got stronger. And since that day, I
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turned vegetarian over 12 years ago. I've only
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been sick one time in the last 12 years. And
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that includes COVID. That includes COVID. And
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I got exposed to COVID. My wife came home from
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a trip and she caught COVID in the airport. And
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she brought it home. And I had two days where
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my body felt off. I felt I was 75 % there. But
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I continued my activities. I stayed on my program.
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And my body flew off COVID. Because I have a
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strong immune system. And I maintain physical
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activities. But the point is, from the moment
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I turned vegetarian, I saw major health improvements.
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But it gets even better than that. After about
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five years of being vegetarian, I was at a point
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where I was walking 10 to 15 miles every day.
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I would say that's 15 to 20 kilometers every
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day. Yet, I could not get my weight below 180
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pounds. And it would fluctuate. 180, 190, 200,
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190, 180. It wasn't stable. And I couldn't get
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it below 180. So once again, I said, I'm doing
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something wrong here. If I'm walking that much
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and getting that much physical activity, there
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must be something wrong with my diet. So lesson
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to learn from that. You cannot exercise your
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way out of a poor diet. Okay. Can you please
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explain that a little bit better? Okay. I saw
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an article the other day. It said, how much walking
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should a person do if they want to lose 20 pounds?
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And I think that article was... was totally off
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base because if you eat nothing but garbage and
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you eat way too much garbage i don't care how
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much walking you do you're not going to lose
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20 pounds you see what i mean does that make
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sense right let me to restate that again if okay
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think about this if you eat a poor diet if you
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eat donuts cookies ice cream lots of butter things
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like that Yet you do a lot of walking. You're
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still not going to lose weight because you're
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eating all that garbage food. Does that make
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sense now? Yes, yes, it does. So that's what
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I mean when I say you cannot exercise your way
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out of a poor diet. That's something I learned.
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So I said, what do I need to change in my diet?
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Well, I gave up butter, cheese, and ice cream.
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In other words, I gave up dairy. I went full
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vegan is what I did. And does that include milk
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as well? Yeah, milk as well. Yes, milk as well.
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And I'll elaborate on this. And also, just so
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you know, anyone listening, I'm not telling you
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this is what you have to do. I'm telling you
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this is what I did. This is what I did gradually
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over time. I didn't do it immediately. And it's
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what has worked for me. Your experience may be
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different. But listen to what I'm saying. And
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then we'll bring this back to you, the listener.
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Would you care to guess what happened when I
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gave up bread, butter, cheese, ice cream, and
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all dairy products? Would you care to guess what
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happened? Like that plateau weight started to
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come down. Lost 50 pounds in five minutes. Oh,
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wow. I melted because of all the walking I was
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doing. I was walking 15 to 20 kilometers a day.
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And when I made that dietary adjustment, the
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weight just came off. Boom. So that's what my
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roadblock was. It was not working. That was the
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dietary change that was needed. And since that
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day, okay, I am 66 now. I just had my annual
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physical three or four weeks ago. My blood work
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numbers, I'll put them up against any 30 year
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old you want to put them up against. My blood
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work numbers are excellent. I feel excellent.
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I feel I'm 30, 35 years old, except I was not
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in this, I was not in anywhere near this kind
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of shape when I was 30 to 35 years old. I was,
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I mean, when I, when I was, when I was 30 years
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old, this is what I looked like. So it made a
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big difference. So as a result of all this experience,
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this experience of taking this weight off, becoming
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a person who does a lot of walking, a person
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who is capable of doing a lot of walking. I mean,
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and when I say a lot of walking, this is how
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much walking I do. And once again, you do not
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have to do what I do, but I'm going to tell you
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what I recommend for people in just one minute.
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But I'm going to tell you what I do just to show
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you the power that is within people. Because,
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Dr., this experience taught me two things. It
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taught me I am more powerful than I ever imagined.
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And it also taught me that if I am more powerful
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than I ever imagined, so is everyone else. If
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you are listening, you are more powerful than
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you ever imagined. Know it. Feel it. believe
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it. And when I teach you that knowledge, when
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I give you that knowledge, the question becomes,
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what are you going to do with that knowledge?
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And for me, what that knowledge has taught me
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is that if I'm more powerful than I ever imagined,
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and I'm capable of losing 220 pounds and keeping
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it off, if I'm capable of walking as much as
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I do, and when I say walking, this is how much
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I walked last year. Wow. Imagine I started in
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Los Angeles. I came within 300 miles of London.
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I ended up in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
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So it's a good thing I know how to swim. But
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that's how much walking I do. And I do that all
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the time. And I do it because I can. I have not
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found my limits yet. That's how powerful we are
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as individuals. So that's what I'm showing you
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that essentially what I did was I took some unhealthy
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addictions and I replaced them with healthy addictions.
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is what I essentially did. Because to be quite
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frank with you, I have an addictive personality.
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I do. When I do something, I'm all in. That's
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the way I am. But that's how powerful we are
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as people. Now let me tell you what I advocate
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to someone that they do. If you want to get started,
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first of all, I'm going to talk about weight
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loss, and then we're going to talk about personal
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development. I think of weight loss as a subset
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of personal development. A lot of, there are,
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you know, probably half the people need to lose
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some weight, but the other half don't need to
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lose any weight, but they can all use personal
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development. If you want to get started on a
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healthy weight loss program, I advocate three
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things, and they're all easy things that anyone,
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that almost anyone can do if you're able -bodied.
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First thing is, eat less processed food. Less.
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I'm not saying never eat processed food. I'm
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not saying never eat fast food. I mean, I don't
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eat those things anymore, but I'm saying eat
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less of it. That's a goal anybody can do. Less
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junk food, less packaged food, less boxed food,
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less of that. I'm not saying totally eliminate
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it. I'm saying less of it. Now, stop eating five
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hours before you go to sleep. So in other words,
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don't take your food to bed with you. Give your
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body some time to... to just the food you've
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eaten, some time to process the food you're eating.
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So if you go to bed at 11 o 'clock at night,
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eat your dinner at 6 o 'clock. And don't eat
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any snacks after you do eat your dinner. Give
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your body some time. And then the last thing
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I advocate is if you can, walk 20 minutes a day.
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The American College of Sports Medicine advocates
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150 minutes of cardio exercise a week. So if
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you walk 20 minutes a day. seven days a week,
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that's 140 minutes. That's close enough. Oh,
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but if you do that, let me ask you, if you could
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get people, I know you're in Canada where I,
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my, my assumption is Canadians are generally
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a little bit healthier than Americans are. I
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just, I think that's a safe assumption. But if
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Americans and Canadians would eat less processed
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food, quit eating five hours before they go to
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sleep and walk 20 minutes a day. Do you think
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we will be healthier? Yeah. And those are all
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doable things. Can I ask you a question? Sure.
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When you say processed food, what do you mean
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by processed foods? And I have another question
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because I can relate this to like my scenario
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as well. Because if someone is like a very busy
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individual and they doesn't get the time to do
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those cooking to accommodate like some of the
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other things. within their work or household
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chores or something like that. What advice would
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you kind of give them to? Okay. The first thing
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first, I'll tell you what processed food means
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to me. Okay. It came out of a plant, a construction
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plant. Now, I'm not talking about the kind of
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plant you eat. I'm talking about, you know, it
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was made in a plant. You know, you have a factory
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where a factory puts it together, puts it in
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a box for you. And you get a product with a big
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long list of ingredients, half of which you can't
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pronounce because you don't know what they are.
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That type of food generally contains lots of
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added sugars and lots of added sodium, both of
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which as a general rule are very bad for you.
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The only types of people who should be, almost
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no one should be adding sodium to their diet.
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The only ones who should be adding sodium to
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their diet are, if you're a construction worker,
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someone who works outside, where you're sweating
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all the time, you're having fluid loss, yes,
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then you probably need to supplement your diet
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with some sodium. But if you're just a general
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person who sits at a desk like me, you probably
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have no business adding sodium to your diet.
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You get plenty of it in the foods that you're
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eating. Now, added sugars, those are almost always
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bad for you. Plus, I want to define sugar. And
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define carbohydrates while we're at it. Everyone
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says carbohydrates are bad. That's not true.
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Bad carbohydrates are bad. Good carbohydrates
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are good. And what I mean by that is a piece
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of fruit. A piece of fruit is loaded with carbohydrates.
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It's loaded with sugars, but it's natural sugars.
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And there is lots of fiber in that piece of fruit.
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Eat the piece of fruit, the fiber in the fruit.
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slows down your body's processing of the sugars
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in the fruit. And so it does not cause your blood
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sugar to spike. It does not cause you to get
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diabetes. I mean, I eat a ton of fruit every
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day, and my A1c at my last physical was 5 .7,
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which is, just for anyone who knows, 5 .7 is
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where they start saying you have prediabetes.
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Right, yeah, yeah. And mine was 5 .2, which I
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think is good. I eat tons of fruit. But now if
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I were eating donuts or eating those little packages
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of sugar that you get at the restaurants or eating
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foods that have added sugars in them, that's
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refined sugar. That refined sugar, the fiber
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has been taken out of it. And because the fiber
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has been taken out of it, you eat that stuff.
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your blood sugar immediately spikes and it ultimately
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causes you to get diabetes. Right. Which is not
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good. So that's one thing right there. And in
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refined foods, you're going to tend to get way,
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sorry, in processed foods, you're going to tend
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to get way too much sodium and way too much sugar.
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And they put those things in the products just
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to make them taste better. And the reason they
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try to make them taste better is so that you,
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the consumer, will buy more of those products.
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They, the vendor, will make more money because
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they want your money. This is all about the money.
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Well, here's what I'm going to say about that.
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Everything I'm telling you right now, I'm not
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asking you for your money. Right. Now, don't
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get me wrong. I love money. Money's great. And
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if someone wants to hire me privately to work
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with me. I will work with them privately. But
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I take all of my materials, all of my books,
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all of my information is on my websites and it
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is available for free. I give it away for free
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because I want people to have this information.
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To me, the mission is more important than the
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money. And I am fortunate that I am a phase in
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my life where I can say that. Not everyone can
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do that. Not everyone can do that. So that's
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what I mean by refined foods. Now, processed
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foods. Now, you asked me a second part of the
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question. You said, what can people do if they
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don't have the time? First of all, that's one
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of the reasons I say reduce the amount of processed
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food, not totally eliminate it. Because I realize
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not everyone has the time or not everyone is
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going to take the time. But there are simple
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things you can do. You can start, you can take,
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you need to take a little bit of time. You can
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make. your own lunch. If you work, I work with
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a lot of outdoor workers, you know, landscape
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workers, that type of thing. And he says, I don't
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have time. I go to Burger King, McDonald's, and
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I get whatever food there is. And I say, you
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need to make yourself a bag or take a little
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cooler. And then that cooler, put some fruit,
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make yourself a sandwich if you want. You know,
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something that's healthy on there. Maybe eliminate
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the cheese from it. Get rid of the dairy. Put
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that in there. Take yourself some nuts. And when
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I tell people to eat nuts, I tell them raw is
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better and unsalted. And the reason why I say
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that is when you go to, when most nuts you buy
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that are roasted, they roast them in peanut oil.
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So when they do that, it adds more calories to
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the nuts and more fat to the nuts. If you take
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raw ones, it doesn't have that added fat, doesn't
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have the added oil, and it does not have the
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added sodium. Right. Put that in your bag and
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you take that with you. I tell my wife, she's
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outdoors all the time. She says, I didn't have
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time to eat. I keep in the house, I keep a container
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full of nuts, raw nuts. I have an air fryer.
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I throw them in the air fryer for eight minutes.
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And when you do that, it brings out the oil.
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They taste roasted. It brings out the oils that
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are in the nuts, but it doesn't add any oil to
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it. Oh, right. And it makes them taste delicious.
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That's a very good thing. Everything I'm telling
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you, all of this is on my websites. So anybody
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can go there and get that. But anyway, and I
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tell her, take a baggie with you, put that stuff
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in there, and you have that. Did that sort of
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make sense? It takes a little bit of work, but
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it's changing your habits. No, wonderfully, that
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really, really does make sense. Okay. What would
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you, do you have any questions? What would you
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like to talk about? This is my website. That's
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wonderful. Thank you so much, Stanley, for sharing
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those really, really helpful tips. And I think
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because I myself, I'm currently on a weight loss
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journey. My experience was pretty, pretty much
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similar to you back in 2021. I actually, because
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I measure weights in kilograms. Yes. So I actually.
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was able to lose around 38 kilograms at that
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time good but what happened is that After a series
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of excuses that I can say, I gained all those
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weight back and more. I've done that many times,
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so don't feel bad. And more. So currently, I
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know it's a very, very unhealthy lifestyle. So
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currently, I'm again embarking on that journey
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of losing weight. So I have lost around four
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kilograms of weight in the past one month. But
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I'm trying to drive through it. The way that
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I'm following that is through tracking my macros,
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the calories that I eat, trying to do it within
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1500 calorie diet. So, yeah. Do you have any
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advice on that? Yes, I do have advice. First
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of all. That website that you directed people
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to is my, that's where my resume is. And that
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will link you to all my other websites. But I
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have two main websites. And the second one is
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what's important. Millionpoundweightlosschallenge
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.com. Can you see this on the screen? Yes, we
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can. Okay. Now, and both of these two sites link
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to each other. Okay. But I have tons of weight
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loss information on there and it's healthy weight
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loss information. Now that site, you have to
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create an account, but it's a free account, but
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you have to create an account. I did that on
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purpose because I wanted to control who goes
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on that site and what they do, because I did
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not, I wanted to create a safe space for people
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who want to lose weight. I didn't want to create
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a place where trolls go to make fun of me. trying
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to lose weight. Right. Okay. That's wonderful.
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Now let's respond to what you were saying. First
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of all, my weight loss philosophy has become
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different. It has been years since I counted
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calories. Again, that doesn't mean calories are
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unimportant. They are. But my philosophy is that
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if you make a commitment that you're only going
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to put healthy food in your mouth and you're
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going to quit eating when you're full, you can
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pretty much eat whatever you want, whenever you
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want, and you're going to get in shape. That's
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true. You are. And first of all, I'm going to
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give you an invitation right now. I like you,
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doctor. You seem like a very kind, generous man.
00:25:26.609 --> 00:25:28.990
I want to trade personal information with you.
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And afterwards, if you want to do a private Zoom
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and we sit down and talk, I would love to help
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you in any way I can. And you can report back
00:25:38.490 --> 00:25:42.349
to your listeners as they watch and as they gradually
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see less and less and less of you. Yeah, they
00:25:44.579 --> 00:25:48.660
do like, do interact and connect with me. And
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I have shared my journey like with them that
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I'm embarking on that. So I would really, really
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take on that opportunity and that would be really
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helpful. And also that's a way for them to understand
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that it actually works. It does. This actually
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works. You can do it. That's a magic. They don't
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believe that weight loss is a magic that just
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appears. Do we have five more minutes? Yeah,
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sure, sure. Okay, here. Sure. I've identified
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four things that determine whether or not you're
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going to be successful. And these four things
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are part of my whole system. This is my whole
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system. You see it on the big chart behind me
00:26:26.609 --> 00:26:28.670
as well. But this is my whole system and this
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is on my website. Okay. And these are the four
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things. The first one is willingness. Okay. If
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you want to succeed, you have to be willing to.
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permanently do what it takes for the rest of
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your hopefully very long, hopefully very healthy,
00:26:46.130 --> 00:26:49.569
hopefully very happy life. You have to be willing
00:26:49.569 --> 00:26:52.349
to do what it takes, but I'm going to make it
00:26:52.349 --> 00:26:54.670
easier for you. You don't have to do that. You
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get to do that. It is your privilege to do that.
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You are still alive. You are still breathing.
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You can do those things. It's your privilege
00:27:04.150 --> 00:27:06.960
to do it. If you're dead, it's too late. It's
00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:09.319
no longer your force. You can't do it. You're
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still alive. You're still breathing. So it's
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not too late. But you have to be willing to do
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what it takes for the rest of your life. Now,
00:27:16.359 --> 00:27:19.619
the second one, you mentioned it. Belief, okay?
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Belief. I've already told you. I learned that
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I am more powerful than I ever imagined. And
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I suggested to your listeners that so are you.
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Well, here you go. You are more powerful than
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you ever imagined. Remember that. Believe it.
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Act upon that belief. You have it within you.
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Look, I failed many times. I mean, I had times
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where I lost 100 and put weight back on. That's
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what? 50, 60 kilos. I lost that much weight and
00:27:48.500 --> 00:27:53.940
put it back on. But ultimately, I lost 102 kilos
00:27:53.940 --> 00:27:58.299
and kept it off. Yeah. That's amazing. That's
00:27:58.299 --> 00:27:59.880
the difference between these two pictures is
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102 kilos. Pretty crazy, isn't it? Now, believe
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it, but I told you. I'm a pretty confident man.
00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:11.480
I was raised to be confident. I was talking about
00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:14.539
confidence. Yet the experience of doing what
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I did blew my mind. I surprised myself. I surpassed
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my own beliefs. So the lesson for you is you
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can do it to surpass your own beliefs. Get rid
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of your limits. That's one of the reasons I walk
00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:33.380
as much as I do. It's not because I'm crazy.
00:28:33.539 --> 00:28:36.910
It's because I enjoy the walking. It's meditative
00:28:36.910 --> 00:28:40.250
for me, and I do it because I can. I want to
00:28:40.250 --> 00:28:43.150
see what I can do. I'm 66 years old, and I've
00:28:43.150 --> 00:28:46.450
logged from Los Angeles almost to London last
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year. Over the last 17 years since that date
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I told you I woke up, February 1st, 2009, if
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you take the Earth at the equator, I've gone
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around the globe 2 .92 times. And on my present
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pace, June or July, it'll be three times when
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I'll get around. Wow. And I'm not stopping. I'm
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doing it because you can do things and you don't
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have to do what I do. The world already has one
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Stanley. It doesn't need another, but it does
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need you to be the best you that you can be.
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And it needs you to be happy, healthy, and wise.
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Now, we're almost done. Discipline. I don't mean
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punishment. What you're doing does not need to
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be punishment. It doesn't need to feel like punishment.
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I'm talking about self -discipline. identifying
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all your negative habits. Yes, there's the website.
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There you go. Identifying all your negative habits
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and eliminating them. For me, it was drinking
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alcohol. Boom, gone. That's a message from one
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of our first members. She totally changed her
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life. Now, you eliminate your negative habits.
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I was drinking every day. Gone. Drinking soda
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pop every day. Gone. On my rear end every day.
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Gone. And then replacing it with positive habits.
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Eating healthy food. Putting healthy food in
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my mouth. Positive habit. Walking every day.
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Positive habit. And things like that. That's
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what I mean by discipline. It's adjusting your
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habits accordingly. But now let's make it all
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even easier. Commitment. When you become 100
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% committed to something, it becomes easier.
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I'll give you an example. I am 100 % committed.
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that no unhealthy food is going to enter my mouth.
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Right. Before Christmas, I had another lawyer
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who I worked with. They delivered gourmet cupcakes
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and cookies to me. They obviously didn't know
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how I eat, but they delivered gourmet cupcakes
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and cookies. The thought of eating them never
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occurred to me. I didn't ask myself, could I
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eat one of these cupcakes or cookies? I could.
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I mean, I have no doubt in my mind that if I
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ate one of those cupcakes or cookies, I would
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not put on 100 pounds. I also know that I have
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no business eating cupcakes or cookies. I have
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already eaten my lifetime share of cupcakes and
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cookies. I've eaten your lifetime share of cupcakes
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and cookies. And I have probably eaten 20 other
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people's lifetime share of cupcakes and cookies.
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I don't need them anymore. And I'm going to share
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with you another little tip. You can taste food
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without putting it in your mouth. I looked at
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those cupcakes and cookies and I immediately
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envisioned what they tasted like. I could literally
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taste it in my mouth. I knew what it tasted like
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because I've had these before. And then I gave
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the cupcakes and cookies to a neighbor who's
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very skinny, who likes that kind of food. I gave
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them to her and she was grateful and everybody
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was happy. That's because I'm 100 % committed.
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I'm 100 % committed that I'm going to walk every
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day. And by walking every day, my definition
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is that I walk at least two hours a day every
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day. Now, I walk a lot more than that. I walk
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five or six hours a day. But I work from home,
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have a computer on my treadmill at home, so I
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am able to work while I'm walking. So I've combined
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tasks. Not everyone can do that. I'm not telling
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you have to do that. I'm telling you walk 20
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minutes a day. And if you have two legs, and
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unless you're crippled or infirm, you should
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be able to do that. And if you can't do 20, do
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10. Do five. Do something. When I started walking,
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I had trouble walking two blocks. Yeah, for sure.
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It does indeed take some habit to develop walking
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regularly. And I really like, Stanley, how you
00:32:29.450 --> 00:32:32.319
mentioned about... Training your mindset of not
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having food or not resist that craving of food
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when you see that. So this is one of the vital
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things that is really hard to do, but also it's
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really important to do. See, I believe in word
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choices. When we say something is hard, it's
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going to be hard. It's not hard. Can I tell you
00:32:52.299 --> 00:32:55.359
something? Walking around like this was hard.
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What I do today is easy compared to that. I'll
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give you an example. This happened to me a couple
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of years ago. I was in Costco buying bird seed.
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They had huge 50 -pound bags of bird seeds. Those
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are like 30 kilograms each probably of bird seed.
00:33:11.809 --> 00:33:16.609
I bought four of them. That's 200 pounds. It's
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probably closer to 25 kilos each. So on that
00:33:21.490 --> 00:33:26.829
cart, I had 200 pounds, almost 100 kilos. I'm
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pushing this cart through the store. And I'm
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huffing and puffing because the cart is heavy,
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pushing it to the store. And then I realized
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that's how much weight I used to carry on my
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body. I used to walk around with my body. And
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that's how hard I was making it on myself. What
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I do now is easy. If we tell ourselves something's
00:33:43.859 --> 00:33:46.220
going to be hard, it's going to be hard. If we
00:33:46.220 --> 00:33:49.460
believe we can do something, we can do it. If
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we don't believe we can do something, we're not
00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:53.599
going to be able to do it. Our minds, listen,
00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:56.619
that's why I talked about diet. Diet is also
00:33:56.619 --> 00:33:59.930
the thoughts you put. in your head. I'm telling
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you right now, 90 % of what it takes to lose
00:34:04.049 --> 00:34:07.289
weight in a healthy manner is between your ears.
00:34:07.470 --> 00:34:10.690
Right. Yeah. And that applies to any addiction
00:34:10.690 --> 00:34:14.510
that applies to any area of your life where you
00:34:14.510 --> 00:34:17.309
want to improve yourself. Now, realize something
00:34:17.309 --> 00:34:19.130
here. When you're embarking on this journey,
00:34:19.329 --> 00:34:23.170
the goal is not perfection. The goal is excellence.
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You are a human being. You are going to mess
00:34:27.309 --> 00:34:30.639
up. promise you. You're going to have good days.
00:34:30.780 --> 00:34:34.039
You're going to have bad days. You're gonna make
00:34:34.039 --> 00:34:38.059
mistakes. Well, mistakes are proof that you're
00:34:38.059 --> 00:34:40.800
trying. The question is, what do you do when
00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:43.199
you make a mistake? Do you beat yourself over
00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:46.380
the head and quit? Do you blame yourself? Do
00:34:46.380 --> 00:34:49.860
you punish yourself? Or do you say, I messed
00:34:49.860 --> 00:34:52.719
up. Here's what I've learned from that. I'm going
00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:54.980
to do better tomorrow. There's an old saying,
00:34:55.099 --> 00:34:58.099
fall down seven times, get up eight. Every time
00:34:58.099 --> 00:35:01.039
you fall down, get going. It's all about to be
00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:03.619
successful in anything. It requires two things.
00:35:03.800 --> 00:35:07.159
It requires starting and it requires never stopping.
00:35:07.300 --> 00:35:10.079
That's what it requires. Start and never stop.
00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:12.119
If you have a good day, whatever. If you had
00:35:12.119 --> 00:35:15.679
a bad day, start again. Now, your goal is simple.
00:35:15.820 --> 00:35:18.840
You want to beat yesterday. You want to do better
00:35:18.840 --> 00:35:21.039
today than you did yesterday, better tomorrow
00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:24.000
than you did today. Now, if you have a bad day
00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:27.280
and you mess up. As long as you get started again
00:35:27.280 --> 00:35:31.000
the next day, that's okay. That is beating yesterday.
00:35:31.420 --> 00:35:34.099
Because in the past, whenever you messed up,
00:35:34.099 --> 00:35:37.019
you quit. But now if you mess up, you say, okay,
00:35:37.099 --> 00:35:39.400
I messed up. I'm going to start again. That's
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better than yesterday. You did a better job.
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Good. Keep going. See, I am now in year 18 of
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beating yesterday. That's how I am able to do
00:35:48.880 --> 00:35:51.900
what I do. This did not happen overnight. It
00:35:51.900 --> 00:35:55.059
was not a straight line. I had good days. I had
00:35:55.059 --> 00:36:00.260
bad days. I had successes. I had failures. But
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I got started and I never stopped. And that's
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what I suggest to people. Get started. Never
00:36:05.639 --> 00:36:08.440
stop. All this, everything I'm talking about,
00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:12.079
it's all on my main website. The easiest thing
00:36:12.079 --> 00:36:16.260
is if people go to thewayofexcellence .com, and
00:36:16.260 --> 00:36:17.980
if you have that, and if you can put that in
00:36:17.980 --> 00:36:20.559
the show notes, thewayofexcellence .com, if you
00:36:20.559 --> 00:36:23.340
go there. At the bottom of the page, there's
00:36:23.340 --> 00:36:25.820
also a link to the Weight Loss website. So you
00:36:25.820 --> 00:36:28.119
can get to both of them through there. And that
00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:31.000
website has all of my books listed on it for
00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:33.420
free digital download. They're yours for free.
00:36:33.539 --> 00:36:36.059
You don't have to do anything. You can contact
00:36:36.059 --> 00:36:37.760
me through there if you want to contact me, if
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:39.480
you have questions, if you want to say thank
00:36:39.480 --> 00:36:41.880
you, if you want to work with me privately, whatever,
00:36:41.980 --> 00:36:43.920
you can do that. And you can go to the Weight
00:36:43.920 --> 00:36:46.699
Loss website. Create an account on there. It's
00:36:46.699 --> 00:36:49.280
set up. It's set up as a system where you just
00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:52.219
start. Start here. Go step one, step two, step
00:36:52.219 --> 00:36:54.840
three, all the way through. And it helps you
00:36:54.840 --> 00:36:57.199
get going. Because I'm a believer in systems.
00:36:57.360 --> 00:36:59.900
Make this simple so that everyone can do it.
00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:02.059
Thank you so much, Stanley, for sharing those
00:37:02.059 --> 00:37:04.780
wonderful words of wisdom and encouragement.
00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:08.079
And from your own personal experience, I'm sure
00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:11.519
I personally have benefited. a lot from those
00:37:11.519 --> 00:37:13.920
discussions and it really really helped me to
00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:17.400
get some ideas of what i need to modify in my
00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:20.260
diet and build that habit of walking and i'm
00:37:20.260 --> 00:37:23.280
sure it also is affecting millions of our listeners
00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:26.320
who are listening to this podcast and around
00:37:26.320 --> 00:37:29.579
the world and how they can motivate and train
00:37:29.579 --> 00:37:31.840
their mindset with your words of encouragement
00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:35.119
and with your resources dear listeners i'm going
00:37:35.119 --> 00:37:38.199
to list stanley's resources the website in the
00:37:38.780 --> 00:37:41.559
description of the podcast as well as in youtube
00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:45.329
and in on the other channels also if you wish
00:37:45.329 --> 00:37:47.889
to know more about stanley and his resources
00:37:47.889 --> 00:37:50.869
and its methods and techniques one way of doing
00:37:50.869 --> 00:37:53.989
that is visiting our website activeactionlab
00:37:53.989 --> 00:37:57.750
.com search stanley's name you how his webpage
00:37:57.750 --> 00:38:00.769
will appear and that webpage will have all the
00:38:00.769 --> 00:38:04.750
links bios and everything of stanley in one area
00:38:04.750 --> 00:38:08.309
so that you can access those easily can i revise
00:38:08.309 --> 00:38:10.969
one thing that you said yeah for sure you said
00:38:10.969 --> 00:38:13.309
stanley these are all things that you have to
00:38:13.309 --> 00:38:15.619
do nope You don't have to do them. You get to
00:38:15.619 --> 00:38:18.119
do them. Again, that's correct, Stanley. Yes,
00:38:18.219 --> 00:38:21.119
I get to do them because I'm alive. Thank you
00:38:21.119 --> 00:38:23.360
so much, Stanley, for your wonderful words of
00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:26.199
wisdom and for joining to this podcast. I'm sure
00:38:26.199 --> 00:38:29.019
our listeners will have a lot of questions after
00:38:29.019 --> 00:38:32.119
this, but if they do, again, dear listeners,
00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:34.880
you will have those links so you can contact
00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:37.699
with Stanley if you want to learn more. We're
00:38:37.699 --> 00:38:40.360
both here to help. No doubt about it. Thank you
00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:42.199
again, Stanley, for joining the podcast. Dear
00:38:42.199 --> 00:38:44.139
listeners, if you have enjoyed the episode, please
00:38:44.139 --> 00:38:46.639
feel free to share it with your friends and family
00:38:46.639 --> 00:38:49.679
who you also might think could benefit from Stanley's
00:38:49.679 --> 00:38:51.940
words of wisdom and keep listening to our podcast.
00:38:52.039 --> 00:38:54.199
I'll meet you in another episode, another day
00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:56.880
with another amazing guest. Until then, stay
00:38:56.880 --> 00:38:59.260
active, take action. Have a wonderful day if
00:38:59.260 --> 00:39:04.960
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00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:08.019
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00:39:11.610 --> 00:39:14.550
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00:39:14.550 --> 00:39:17.309
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