Mike Israetel
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You actually just don't have to starve at all. And so you can do this. Is it just going to be a little bit more of a long haul than I think people plan for? And I think also one of the number one reasons that people have this tendency to like kind of want to do it all at once is because they're just vibing off the emotion of frustration.
You actually just don't have to starve at all. And so you can do this. Is it just going to be a little bit more of a long haul than I think people plan for? And I think also one of the number one reasons that people have this tendency to like kind of want to do it all at once is because they're just vibing off the emotion of frustration.
You actually just don't have to starve at all. And so you can do this. Is it just going to be a little bit more of a long haul than I think people plan for? And I think also one of the number one reasons that people have this tendency to like kind of want to do it all at once is because they're just vibing off the emotion of frustration.
When you look in the mirror January 3rd and you see this love handle situation, Drew, you feel frustrated, right? You're like, oh, what is this? And frustration is literally kind of like a bias to the large language model of your brain. Like if you bias ChatGPT by telling it, only answer things in a funny British accent. Now it does all those things in a British accent.
When you look in the mirror January 3rd and you see this love handle situation, Drew, you feel frustrated, right? You're like, oh, what is this? And frustration is literally kind of like a bias to the large language model of your brain. Like if you bias ChatGPT by telling it, only answer things in a funny British accent. Now it does all those things in a British accent.
When you look in the mirror January 3rd and you see this love handle situation, Drew, you feel frustrated, right? You're like, oh, what is this? And frustration is literally kind of like a bias to the large language model of your brain. Like if you bias ChatGPT by telling it, only answer things in a funny British accent. Now it does all those things in a British accent.
Frustration biases your brain to look for really quick, short-term, let's just fix this now solution. It's frustrating to feel a mosquito like making you itch when it's like taking your blood. So you go slap and you kill the mosquito. Get out of here. Mosquito or the flies buzzing. Get get. That's what the emotion of frustration is good at handling.
Frustration biases your brain to look for really quick, short-term, let's just fix this now solution. It's frustrating to feel a mosquito like making you itch when it's like taking your blood. So you go slap and you kill the mosquito. Get out of here. Mosquito or the flies buzzing. Get get. That's what the emotion of frustration is good at handling.
Frustration biases your brain to look for really quick, short-term, let's just fix this now solution. It's frustrating to feel a mosquito like making you itch when it's like taking your blood. So you go slap and you kill the mosquito. Get out of here. Mosquito or the flies buzzing. Get get. That's what the emotion of frustration is good at handling.
The emotion of frustration is not designed to handle mega projects like re architecting your entire body. The better emotion for that is calm and patience and an optimistic attitude. And exactly the emotions you get looking at your love handles in the mirror. Can you imagine that? Someone looks at their love handles and you're like, what do you think?