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Sal Di Stefano

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Dhru Purohit Show
Biggest Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths Sabotaging Your Health and The Top Hacks That Actually Work In 2025

And it changes the filter. through which you perceive the world in some ways, in profound ways. And this is all connected to or all contributes to, I should say, your potential success rate. Again, if you look at the data on weight loss or on people embarking on a fitness journey, getting results in the context of what I'm saying isn't the hard part. It's keeping them.

Dhru Purohit Show
Biggest Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths Sabotaging Your Health and The Top Hacks That Actually Work In 2025

Keeping them is where everybody really fails. And it's their strategy. It's the approach. It's the strategy. It's how, and it's also why, why they do it. And I've talked about this on, I think on your show, it's the self-hate versus self-care, you know, perception of why you're doing it. But this one small thing that I just told you, okay. Walking after you eat has such profound effects.

Dhru Purohit Show
Biggest Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths Sabotaging Your Health and The Top Hacks That Actually Work In 2025

Keeping them is where everybody really fails. And it's their strategy. It's the approach. It's the strategy. It's how, and it's also why, why they do it. And I've talked about this on, I think on your show, it's the self-hate versus self-care, you know, perception of why you're doing it. But this one small thing that I just told you, okay. Walking after you eat has such profound effects.

Dhru Purohit Show
Biggest Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths Sabotaging Your Health and The Top Hacks That Actually Work In 2025

Keeping them is where everybody really fails. And it's their strategy. It's the approach. It's the strategy. It's how, and it's also why, why they do it. And I've talked about this on, I think on your show, it's the self-hate versus self-care, you know, perception of why you're doing it. But this one small thing that I just told you, okay. Walking after you eat has such profound effects.

Dhru Purohit Show
Biggest Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths Sabotaging Your Health and The Top Hacks That Actually Work In 2025

I wish I knew this in the first 10 years I trained people. I used to scoff at people saying walk more to improve your health. I mean, back when I was a meathead trainer, I thought, well, that's not a form of exercise. You're just walking. You're not sweating and getting sore. 10 years into my career and realizing I wasn't doing what I thought I could, started incorporating tips like this one.

Dhru Purohit Show
Biggest Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths Sabotaging Your Health and The Top Hacks That Actually Work In 2025

I wish I knew this in the first 10 years I trained people. I used to scoff at people saying walk more to improve your health. I mean, back when I was a meathead trainer, I thought, well, that's not a form of exercise. You're just walking. You're not sweating and getting sore. 10 years into my career and realizing I wasn't doing what I thought I could, started incorporating tips like this one.

Dhru Purohit Show
Biggest Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths Sabotaging Your Health and The Top Hacks That Actually Work In 2025

I wish I knew this in the first 10 years I trained people. I used to scoff at people saying walk more to improve your health. I mean, back when I was a meathead trainer, I thought, well, that's not a form of exercise. You're just walking. You're not sweating and getting sore. 10 years into my career and realizing I wasn't doing what I thought I could, started incorporating tips like this one.

Dhru Purohit Show
Biggest Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths Sabotaging Your Health and The Top Hacks That Actually Work In 2025

And I just, the success rate went through the roof as a result of this, like I said, just this one thing right here. And again, now we have the data to support it.

Dhru Purohit Show
Biggest Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths Sabotaging Your Health and The Top Hacks That Actually Work In 2025

And I just, the success rate went through the roof as a result of this, like I said, just this one thing right here. And again, now we have the data to support it.

Dhru Purohit Show
Biggest Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths Sabotaging Your Health and The Top Hacks That Actually Work In 2025

And I just, the success rate went through the roof as a result of this, like I said, just this one thing right here. And again, now we have the data to support it.

Dhru Purohit Show
Biggest Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths Sabotaging Your Health and The Top Hacks That Actually Work In 2025

Anytime you set a goal, again, behavioral science will show this. If you give me a goal, the further I stretch the end of that goal out, the more bloated or the more I believe I can accomplish that goal. So if you tell me 10 years from now, what do you think you can accomplish? I'm going to give you these huge, crazy things. If you say next week, then I tend to be much more realistic.

Dhru Purohit Show
Biggest Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths Sabotaging Your Health and The Top Hacks That Actually Work In 2025

Anytime you set a goal, again, behavioral science will show this. If you give me a goal, the further I stretch the end of that goal out, the more bloated or the more I believe I can accomplish that goal. So if you tell me 10 years from now, what do you think you can accomplish? I'm going to give you these huge, crazy things. If you say next week, then I tend to be much more realistic.

Dhru Purohit Show
Biggest Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths Sabotaging Your Health and The Top Hacks That Actually Work In 2025

Anytime you set a goal, again, behavioral science will show this. If you give me a goal, the further I stretch the end of that goal out, the more bloated or the more I believe I can accomplish that goal. So if you tell me 10 years from now, what do you think you can accomplish? I'm going to give you these huge, crazy things. If you say next week, then I tend to be much more realistic.

Dhru Purohit Show
Biggest Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths Sabotaging Your Health and The Top Hacks That Actually Work In 2025

Well, when people think of a year, right? Oh, it's the new year. It's 2025. I'm going to lose 40 pounds, right? Break that down into smaller goals and break that down into goals that contribute to the larger goal. So it may be something like I'm going to walk.

Dhru Purohit Show
Biggest Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths Sabotaging Your Health and The Top Hacks That Actually Work In 2025

Well, when people think of a year, right? Oh, it's the new year. It's 2025. I'm going to lose 40 pounds, right? Break that down into smaller goals and break that down into goals that contribute to the larger goal. So it may be something like I'm going to walk.

Dhru Purohit Show
Biggest Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths Sabotaging Your Health and The Top Hacks That Actually Work In 2025

Well, when people think of a year, right? Oh, it's the new year. It's 2025. I'm going to lose 40 pounds, right? Break that down into smaller goals and break that down into goals that contribute to the larger goal. So it may be something like I'm going to walk.

Dhru Purohit Show
Biggest Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths Sabotaging Your Health and The Top Hacks That Actually Work In 2025

every single day for 20 minutes, or I'm going to do one structured workout a week, which is one more workout a week than I'm doing currently. Start there and you can build upon that. And this is a strategy for developing discipline and developing new behaviors. Every new behavior has to develop on previous behaviors.

Dhru Purohit Show
Biggest Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths Sabotaging Your Health and The Top Hacks That Actually Work In 2025

every single day for 20 minutes, or I'm going to do one structured workout a week, which is one more workout a week than I'm doing currently. Start there and you can build upon that. And this is a strategy for developing discipline and developing new behaviors. Every new behavior has to develop on previous behaviors.

Dhru Purohit Show
Biggest Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths Sabotaging Your Health and The Top Hacks That Actually Work In 2025

every single day for 20 minutes, or I'm going to do one structured workout a week, which is one more workout a week than I'm doing currently. Start there and you can build upon that. And this is a strategy for developing discipline and developing new behaviors. Every new behavior has to develop on previous behaviors.

Dhru Purohit Show
Biggest Weight Loss and Nutrition Myths Sabotaging Your Health and The Top Hacks That Actually Work In 2025

Very rarely do you see a situation where a person goes from one set of behaviors to a radically different set of behaviors. That's called an epiphany. And most of us have experienced maybe one epiphany in our lives or none. We know it because that's why it's called an epiphany. Like I had that one life-changing experience. In many cases, it doesn't happen even with dire consequences.