Summary When I was obese, I treated weight loss like an emergency and constantly abandoned my plans when they didn’t yield fast results. This impatience led to a frustrating cycle of quitting and inconsistent outcomes. I eventually learned that weight loss is not a straight line down and that a healthy goal is losing about […]
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Summary While I love intermittent fasting and it is my preferred way to eat, I realized early on that I couldn’t do it perfectly every single day for the rest of my life. Key Takeaways 1. Taking deliberate breaks from intermittent fasting can prevent you from resenting your plan and actually improve your long-term consistency.
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Summary On my 80-pound weight loss journey, I realized that my perfectionism was only leading to yo-yo dieting. I discovered a paradox: to get better results, I actually needed to lower my expectations. Key Takeaways 1. Losing weight will not automatically fix personal, financial, or relationship struggles, but it does solve physical challenges like mobility
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Summary In this video, I share my personal journey of successfully overcoming and maintaining my weight loss after hitting a peak weight of 222 pounds. After years of chronic dieting and gaining weight with each of my three pregnancies, I realized I was caught on a “weight loss roller coaster” and needed a permanent lifestyle
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Sources/Links Sources: Actual Study on Dokumen This Popular Diet May Raise Your Heart Disease Death Risk by 135%, New Study Says 8-hour time-restricted eating linked to a 91% higher risk of cardiovascular death Also of interest: Dr. John Ioannidis is a physician and a scientist, and in 2005 he wrote an essay titled, Why Most
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Summary In this video, I share how my background in freelance software testing helped me lose 80 pounds by teaching me to think like a computer. While humans are emotional, computers are predictable—they simply follow their programming. I realized that if I could “write a program” for my weight loss and run it consistently, I
In this video, I tackle the panic that sets in when you step on the scale and see a sudden 5-pound jump overnight. The most important thing to remember is that you did not gain 5 pounds of fat overnight. To do that, you would have to consume over 15,000 calories in a single day,
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Summary In this video, I explain how fine the line is between a caloric deficit and a caloric surplus. Often, we think weight gain is caused by massive overeating, but it’s usually the result of small daily habits—like “death by a thousand paper cuts”. Just 150 extra calories a day can lead to gaining 15
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Summary In this video, I explain why I choose “dirty fasting” over “clean fasting” and how this method helped me lose 80 pounds and maintain my weight in a healthy BMI range. While “clean” fasting rules often demand water only (and absolutely no flavors, mints, or sweeteners), I found that approach rigid and difficult to
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Summary In this video, the focus is on a major mindset shift that occurred at the start of 2016. After a frustrating year of intense workouts and restrictive habits that led to minimal results and eventual weight regain, a single question changed everything: “What would this look like if it were easy?”. The “Easy” Plan
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