Well, hello there, my friends. This is a special bonus podcast for all of you who have been asking me about weight loss. I don't know what's going on right now, but it seems to be the biggest concern on most of my clients' minds.
What I have concluded is that most of you have been overeating in place while you've been sheltering in place. So, I want to help. I want to help all of you who are asking for my help because that's my jam.
So, here's what I've done. I have dedicated June to losing eight pounds. Anyone who wants to lose eight pounds, we're gonna call it eight pounds down.
Let's do this. Let's get eight pounds down. Anyone who wants to lose eight pounds can go through this process with me.
Now, those of you who know scholars, you know that I have lots of classes in there on weight loss, and I have a lot of extensive videos and books that you can read on all of the concepts that I teach about weight loss and hormones and overeating and urges and intermittent fasting and fat adaptation and all of the things that we need to know and understand in order to lose weight and keep it off permanently. So, when you join scholars, you'll get access to all the depth of that knowledge. Those of you who are already in scholars can access this at will.
But what I'm going to do for this June program is I am going to only focus on and pull out the most important pieces so you guys can get started and get to work and stay focused. I'm going to be doing one class per week where I'll be coaching everybody live in terms of what they need to do and what they need coaching on. I'm going to start on June 1st with an in-depth summary of my philosophy on how to lose weight consistently and keep it off.
And one of the things that I wanted to talk about on this podcast and just give you a glimpse of is there is the process of losing weight that is very simple. And it includes planning what you're going to eat. And the reason why that is so important is you want to be sure you're making decisions about what you're going to eat with your prefrontal cortex.
You want to make sure the highest part of your brain that is not a total wimp when it comes to instant gratification is making decisions for your long-term best interest. So the process that we'll be going through is the day before we will decide exactly what we're going to eat for the next day. One of the things that I love about this process is it's a microcosm of your relationship with your future and your past self.
So for example, if I'm going to write down what I'm gonna eat tomorrow, I need to consider myself how I'm gonna feel tomorrow. I need to consider what I might be hungry for. I need to consider how much energy I might want or how much time I'm gonna have or if I'm gonna be able to go to the store.
Like I have to really consider my own self for the next day. And then the next day when I have this list and this plan of what I'm gonna eat, I'm gonna be thinking about my past self and how she took care of me or didn't take care of me or isn't giving me enough food or is giving me too much food, right? So that process of kind of writing down what you do the night before and then honoring it the next day is really a playground for your relationship with yourself.
And when we think about our relationship with ourselves, what we're really thinking about is our relationship with our past self, our relationship with our present self and our relationship with our future self. And they're all very connected. And when we look at our relationship that way, we can see, are we really looking out for ourselves?
I was recently just having a conversation with my son about this, who is going back to college, hopefully. You know, if everything's open, he'll be going back to college in September to golf. And what I said to him, he's been playing around and messing around a lot with his friends, I said, listen, when you are getting back on that golf course to play in a division One tournament, are you going to be appreciative of yourself now?
Are you setting your future self up for success? Are you practicing enough? Are you playing enough?
Are you working on your mental game enough in order to really take care of yourself in the future? And he was like, that is a really good point, mom. That's like a really interesting way of thinking about it.
And so what I want to do, I do want you all to lose eight pounds because I think that's fun, right? Why not get focused, create the body that you want to have. If you've gained some weight during sheltering in place, let's get it off.
But also I want to help you work on your relationship with yourself. And I think food and weight is just a beautiful way of taking care of your own health and taking care of yourself physically. And also honoring the decisions that you've made the day before builds a lot of trust with yourself.
One of the beautiful things about my relationship with myself is that I really do trust myself. I trust that I am going to do what I plan to do, that I'm going to honor my calendar, that I'm going to follow through on the commitments that I've made. But I also trust my past self not to over schedule me or under feed me or over commit me in any way because I have such a good relationship with my future self and with my past self and I take very good care of myself.
So that is one of the benefits of going through this eight pound weight loss with me is not just that you'll lose weight, but also that you will learn the process of that relationship with yourself. The other part of it that is so important, and it's actually the theme of scholars in June is how to process and feel emotions. Now, a lot of times people will say to me that processing emotion and feeling emotion is difficult and hard, and it's not necessarily a skill that they want to focus on developing.
And I always laugh, especially when I'm in like a, it's usually when I'm in a big group of men who want to know how I make so much money. And I say, let's talk about feelings. And they're like, no, no, let's get to the part.
Let's talk about Facebook ads, you know? And I was like, no, I'm like, the key to achieving any dream that you have is your ability to feel the feels, to access and process your own emotions, and then to not be afraid of feeling any future emotions. So you will be willing to take risks and fail and process through those emotions.
So the weight loss journey is what originally taught me how important it is to be in my body, to process vibration, to be able to hold space inside of my own body for any emotion that might come my way. And if you think about it, weight loss would be so easy if we didn't have emotions. I want you to even think about hunger.
The feeling of hunger is uncomfortable for most of us, most of it because of the food that we eat. We have kind of abnormal hunger signals because of our insulin not being regulated. And so that hunger is uncomfortable for us because of the way that we've treated our bodies and the food that we've eaten.
But the hunger alone, there's a discomfort of hunger alone, is not even the issue. It's the drama and the emotion that we have about being hungry. What we've created that to mean and the anxiety that it creates and the deprivation that it creates and all the emotions around it that drive us to overeat.
And so if you can learn how to be present with an emotion without reacting to it, if you can learn how to process a vibration all the way through to its end, you're really gonna understand how to live life at the highest level. How to up level your life in a way that takes you to goals and aspirations and situations that you may have been afraid of before. So again, yes, nice to lose weight, nice to stop overeating, nice to get your food under control, but even better is learning how to have emotional competence, how to stay connected and in your body without buffering is the super skill that we all need to develop in order to achieve our biggest dreams.
One of the other things that I really love to do with weight loss is to evaluate what's going on in the brain. I feel like standing on a scale is a really beautiful way to kind of reveal our brains to ourselves. And we're gonna be doing that a lot in June too.
And then the last piece of what I'm gonna discuss and teach is about body image and being in your body and dressing your body and connecting with your body in a way that makes you feel beautiful, that makes you feel energetic, that makes you feel proud to go out in the world. No matter what your body size is right now, we have to start treating it with reverence right now. We have to start dressing it with reverence and owning it and inhabiting it.
A lot of what many of us are trying to do, especially right now during this pandemic, is we're trying to get out of our bodies, get out of our minds, get out of the experience of stress. And we're doing that by kind of abandoning ourselves and overeating. And I wanna help us come back to being inside of our bodies and recognizing that even when the brain is scaring us, we can stay.
And when we stay, that is when we can control whatever we need to control when it comes to our own personal self care. If you're anything like me, you've gone through a process where you feel completely out of control with your food. You feel like you can't stop eating or you can't stop eating when you want, or you can't stop snacking.
And that is really just a symptom of not knowing how to stay present with your own emotion long enough, and to be willing to be uncomfortable long enough. It's the fear of being uncomfortable, the discomfort of uncomfortableness that cost us our dreams, y'all, really. So this is my jam.
Weight loss is my jam. It's what I originally started my coaching business with. I haven't taught on it live in a long time, but you guys are all asking me about it.
And even though I have all of the content there in Scholars, let's do it live. So anyone who wants to lose eight pounds in June, join Scholars. Our first class is on June 1st.
They will be recorded. If you can't attend them live, there'll be a page where you can ask me personally any question that you wanna ask me about your own weight loss. I'm gonna share my own food journals.
I'm gonna share my own mind journals. I'm gonna share what I do each day, all the questions that you have about me, and I'm gonna help you figure out the answers to your questions about you. So eight pounds down in June, join Scholars now.
You can go to thelifecoachschool.com/eightpounds down, all spelled out in letters, or you can go to lifecoachschool.com/join, and just join Scholars, and there'll be a video inside there. All right, my friends, I'll see you in Scholars. June, eight pounds down.
Talk to you soon, bye.
