Mitchell Osmond

And it all comes down to mindset.

Anyone who's done the deep work understands that trying to get a meal plan and get a six-pack, if you don't deal with your emotional relationship with food, or if you try and be the best husband in the world, but you don't deal with these sabotaging impulses that you have because of past relationships,

Um, these are all just going to be band-aids that you're trying to stretch over a gaping wound.

And so at the end of the day, what we need to do is go way deeper into the surface.

We know, Paul, we know that 80% of the way we see ourselves and the way we see the world is shaped before we're 12 years old.

That's why we have to look to the past to see where where we went wrong, where our limiting beliefs come from.

And that that was the problem, man, is, for example, in my fitness.

Yeah, I was I was I was 240 pounds and I'm a short guy.

I'm not that tall.

So I was heavy and I was training five, six times a week.

But I was eating a slop because here's a crazy thing.

I had this crazy emotional attachment to food and I didn't understand why.

But as I hired coaches and began to do the deep work, I was brought back to a time in my life when I was in elementary school and I would get bullied a lot.

And so when I come home from school, my mom would say, did you have another bad day again?

And I say, yeah.

And she'd say, well, here's a cookie to help you feel better.

And then boom.

What I understood then was when I'm when I'm sad.

Chocolate makes me feel better when I'm mad, when I'm frustrated, when I'm happy, when I'm irritated.

Food makes me feel better.