Mike Israetel
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard May 2025
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And then the next phase is maybe another three months of weight loss, but then you aim for 10 or 12 pounds. Why? Because as you get leaner, it's more and more difficult to lose fat. It becomes a more difficult, more expensive process for you psychologically, physically, and so on and so forth. So your goal is a little less. And then you take three months after that.
So we got three, three, three, three. We have one whole year, but you might have successfully lost and kept off 27 pounds. And after that last three months, You are new, fresh you at that new 27-pound less weight.
And just with a few real basics in how to conduct yourself around the food environment and basic resistance training and cardiovascular work, real easy stuff, you just don't ever have to gain the weight back. So the big part of that answer is understanding the scope of the problem and not picking arbitrarily insane things to aim for. Can you imagine if you were doing a pitch for a company?
You're like, all right, so you got this product. It's a new kind of computer. What are your Q1 goals for profits? You're like 10 trillion. They're like, are you on drugs right now? Like who says things like that? But you're like, well, I was saying big, like, okay, but if we give you 10 trillion of capital and you don't spend it appropriately, we lose so much on interest that we all go broke.
There's a cost to shooting for goals that are impossible. And here's the worst one. I think probably it's the psychological cost. of having really poured your heart and soul into a plan that most nutritionists could have looked at and been like, you're not, this is crazy. You're not going to be able to do this. You're like, I got it, bro. No worries. You just never talked to anyone.
And then you pour everything into it. You try so dang hard. And then on the end, you just fall apart. It breaks you and you start regaining the weight. And You consider yourself an ineffectual person. You lose a substantial amount of self-efficacy of self-belief. It's good to succeed on average more than you fail in life because it teaches your brain like, I'm a competent person who can do things.
And someone's like, hey, do you want to start a 5K running program? You're like, yes. And they're like, are you sure you're going to be able to stick to it? You're like, well, generally, I stick to most things. But listen, it's not very hard to set so many goals up that are so exotically crazy for yourself that you have almost no chance of achieving them.
And over time, you can teach your brain things
you're just not good at starting things or doing things and then next time you feel like changing your life your brain is going to low-key be like that's not an us thing we don't do that we fail remember and you're like yeah well it's not for me and so a lot of people try dieting but do it way wrong mostly because they take these crazy bites out of this like mouth more full than you can breathe air through type of situation you know a snake consuming the elephant type of goal and and then they burn out of it and then over time they learn that just dieting is not something that works for them but it
does work for them. They've just been doing way, way, way too much upfront. And I know it's crazy. I'm supposed to be telling you all empowerment and stuff, but the best kind of empowerment is being in touch with reality and doing things at a pace that'll require, or sorry, that cause you to have success rather than cause you to have very glorious burnout and failure.
Yes, absolutely. And you actually can lose probably almost all, if not all of the weight that you want in most cases. But it's just not going to be in one diet. It's not going to be in this grit your teeth and do what it takes for four months and then voila, your problem is healed. It's going to take a few diets with a few maintenance breaks in between to get your body used to the situation again.
It's like, imagine taking your dog to a dog trainer at the pet store and being like, I need Wolfies and new puppies. Great. But I need them trained up and they're like, okay, cool. So we'll set you up with a schedule and you're going to be like, no, no, no. Like I'm actually have tons of money. I actually own the store.
We just, my butlers just bought the store and I'm going to raise all of your pay by four. If you just stay here and train my dog, like sleepless nights for three days straight until he's just better, there's just going to have to tell you like, The way dogs learn is like humans. And so it's a little bit at a time, but then they need to sleep and relax to let those memories take hold.
And then over time, they build up their capacity. But it's going to take us like a week or two. It can't take us three days. It just doesn't work like that. And so people know that's true with dog training. Did you come to dieting? They're like, well, it took me 15 years to get overweight like this. Yeah, I think 15 weeks is enough to just reverse the whole process.
But it's a very curious assumption that doesn't mean you can't reverse the whole process. It'll just take a little bit more time Just the same way that we give dogs breaks between learning sessions and students. Can you imagine school? These are just 24-7 school. They don't let you sleep. They don't let you do anything. That's crazy.
But when you're dieting straight through for months and months and months, that's what you're doing to your body. So what you want to do is give it enough dieting to make a meaningful change, but at the end, not have a lot of what we call diet fatigue, which is like insane hunger, sleeplessness, restlessness, the whole thing. That's kind of like pulling on a slingshot.
to get your rebound back to higher weight as much as possible. We want to lose as much weight as we can without pulling back on the slingshot too much. And then you need that several months break afterwards, the equivalent of rest and sleep for dog training to come back to a point where, okay, now this weight has settled in. This is now your new body weight.
Your body recognizes, okay, I'm leaner now, and this is okay. It doesn't freak out as much. The diet fatigue is gone. And then you're ready to do the process again. It's a multi-stage process. Unless you have less than 10 or 15 pounds total to lose, you can do it in one fell swoop then. The maintenance period is just as important.
There's going to be three months of very due diligence you have to do after so you don't balloon back up like everyone else. But then one phase of dieting, one phase of maintenance, six months total, you could be done with 10 to 15 pounds. But if it's 30 pounds, if it's 40 pounds for many people, it's more. This is going to take months and months and years and years.
It's going to be a process that's at times difficult, but mostly just a matter of checking the green boxes in your daily plan. I'm eating all my meals like I should be. I'm working out like I should be. You don't have to be like bleeding to death on the gym floor. You don't have to starve all the time. especially with the new modern anti-obesity drugs.
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