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Welcome back to Success with Srini. Today’s podcast episode is a direct conversation I had with a coaching client of mine yesterday from last evening. And I was in this in-depth conversation around weight gain, and weight loss. So even though the coaching was not about that the coaching was about carrier growth, but then the weight loss discussion came up in the middle. And then there was a new discovery I made about my coaching client, which is they’re going through a different kind of challenge, which is interfering with the goals that they have set for themselves for their career change. So I started addressing the problem. And I started discovering that a major part of the belief system is incorrect when it comes to weight loss, or weight gain in this specific case, weight loss. So the problem statement is that I have found with weight loss for my entire life, I had some success at the beginning of the year. But then I suddenly realized that in the first week of March, I started gaining, and I ignored that even though it was the scale was going up, I didn’t check. And then just three days ago, I check Srini. And then I’m like, I’m back to where I was in 2018. So this was not a question to me. But then I took it on to myself, and I started dressing this and it came down to telling them to make some changes. And I’m going to walk through some of the suggestions I gave this individual. So the majority of the understanding about weight loss was incorrect. And the question was not about what to do but how do I go back and get back to the same situation I was at the beginning of the year when I was like at the end of January when I was in the best shape? How do I get back to that it’s not about looking for a strategy or a technique, it’s more about just getting the belief that I can do it again?
Now understand that this individual has gone through multiple different programs, and over the years had weight loss, you know, had a program lost weight, they could not sustain came back gain, weight loss weights, all kind of patterns have evolved over a period of time. So here are a few things that most people have in this state of mind. And I want to call those things out on this podcast episode today. The first and foremost thing is, that people believe that they need to have everything in place before they can get started with fitness before they can get started with weight loss. Everything is in place. So the mind goes like this. I know what needs to be done. But I cannot do that. Because I sleep late at night. I can’t wake up early in the morning. Because I can’t wake up early in the morning. I don’t go to the gym early in the morning. Now, I cannot go to the gym early in the morning, or I don’t work out early in the morning, it doesn’t make any sense to work hard throughout the day, because my date, my schedule is busy. So people struggle with the routines. Because they don’t have one. And they think that in order to bring anything new in, they have to alter the routine. So they can never alter the routine because that’s the default behavioral pattern. So the response, they give each time to themselves or others is that I need to have everything in place before I can get started. I understand I need to lose weight, I understand I need to become fit. But then I need to take care of many things before I go there. Okay, that’s one that’s belief.
The second thought process or the second belief is I’m too out of shape to work out. Why are you suggesting I work out? I’m out of shape. I’m not going to see any changes in the way you are suggesting that I go work hard for 20 minutes or 30 minutes. I do that every day. I don’t see any I will not see any change. I know that because I’m too much out of shape. See, the point is this. It doesn’t matter over a period of the next 1020 3040 days, you may not see a change. But then it’s very hard that you to do something consistently over a long period of time and not see a change eventually. So started the podcast example. Didn’t see a lot of change right away. But it’s impossible that we are already into the fourth month of this podcast is impossible. And we do that every day I record this podcast. So it’s impossible not to see a change and the graph is showing the change. Now, the graph is showing that we had 900 downloads in January 1400 downloads in February, and nearly 1700 or some odd downloads in the month of March. And April is off to a great start. So it’s there. It’s visible now in the graph. So you got to put in the basic minimum stuff, and you do that incrementally, over and over and over again every day till you get to the point where you start to see a change impossible to hide the change. If you put your effort and your time into something, you know that regularly with that kind of discipline, and then I hear, I don’t have time to cook because 90% of weight loss happens in the kitchen. So people who cook their food, who control their calorie intake, and control the quality of the calories usually lose weight, we know that they have greater success than other people. So if that is the case, then you should be cooking food. And the complaint I hear and people say this is I don’t have time to cook.
See, there are a lot of things in your life right now for which you don’t have time, but you still do them, because they’re on your neck. This is something that you can avoid. And this, you think it’s not on your neck, it will be on your neck, by the time you reach a point where your blood sugar levels shift, God forbid, your blood pressure shifts, or whatever I just I don’t know somehow that the word is not coming to my mind. But you get the point, right did date internal data shifts. Now guess what? Now it is shifting because you didn’t do something at the beginning. Cholesterol, that’s the word cholesterol here, see that? See, if you really look into things, if you start really analyzing things, you’ll see that majority of the actions that we take on a daily basis, don’t take a lot of time, it’s just that we make up things in our mind. So you’re burning 1000 calories in three hours, you understand you can burn 1000 calories in 30 minutes, or in 15 minutes. There are activities that you should be doing to condense the out the time duration, yet keeping the same throughput or output you should be. So it’s all about either figuring out celebrating a few things, or not doing a few things or starting to do things a little bit earlier so that you find time to cook then this coaching client yesterday, see, in the last one month, I have been sort of shape that I will never be able to get back in shape. Seen never is a cry for help. Never. So the minute you say never means you are believing you like strengthening your mind not to do something that is otherwise, you know is important. See, if you’re in a bad shape, you’re in a bad health. Anything that you do is good enough, anything a little bit. That’s why we say hypnosis and weight loss, we say all you had to do is go to the gym and get on the treadmill for 60 seconds, every day. That’s the bare minimum thing you have to do go to the gym and get on the treadmill for 60 seconds, it’s impossible to get on a treadmill for 60 seconds and only get on there for 60 seconds because I told you, it looks silly that you go to a gym, you drive like 10 minutes to the gym, or 20 minutes to the gym and get on a treadmill for 60 seconds, it doesn’t make any sense. So you do more you see. So if you clean up your diet a little bit, you clean up your activities a little bit. And you get going okay, and most people say, I’m so out. And I’m so out of rhythm and out of the cycle and I can’t get back in shape is because they’re thinking too much of themselves that time that they have on their hand. I’m not thinking about what I can do in 90 days or six months with weight loss. I’m I need to know what I’m doing over the next five days. next seven days next week. This week. That’s my only measure. I’m not measuring myself. You know, if I do this for the next six months, will I lose weight? That’s too big of a question to ask. And it’s such so many things that could happen over the next six months. It’s hard. So next five days, what can I do? Can I stay honest with myself? Can I stay consistent with activities as the question and then obviously, I don’t know how to get started. This podcast hopefully episode will help you if you want to. If you’re looking to get started. Just you want to get started.
Hopefully, this motivates you. I would start with the walk. I would start with a walk after every meal. I would start with just walking around the block and then slowly making it faster over the next few days. And after a few weeks a little bit faster and a little bit later. A little bit faster. Write something like that some pattern I’ll come up with in my mind and the soul I will do and do it consistently for over a long period. Fine, but then with a goal in mind, just not for the sake of doing. But then your goal is to improve that which you are doing. To improve your pace, increase the duration, bring in some complexity in the activity, maybe a little bit of, you know, bigger incline terrain, things like that. So you know how to get started, there isn’t that there isn’t a magical thing. Of course, you can’t go and just, you know, lift to a 200-pound benchpress starting from nothing thought, but then what a period of time you can do it. And you have to start. And then I also hear that this also came up yesterday in the call in, you know, all this is too complicated. Yeah. It’s complicated because you think that your knowledge is insufficient. When it comes to weight loss, or weight gain, or anything in life, no, you have knowledge. It’s not like anybody, I don’t think that anybody listens to this podcast, or ghost on the internet, or does research, like, whatever, because they lack knowledge. I don’t think weight loss is, is such a so ingrained thing in our day-to-day life that everybody knows how to lose weight, listen, you take less in, and you give away more than whatever is left is lost. Right. So you eat less, and you work out more. So your intake calorie intake is less, and your calorie output is high. And if you do that for a long amount of time, you’re going to lose weight, provided there’s no other medical condition going on. There’s no other condition going on. If this is if everything is normal, this is the only thing that needs to be done. And along the way, you kickstart the metabolism and this and so many other things. But then this is the basic math is basic fundamental math. And again, you’re burning calories anyway, all you have to do is you want to kind of accelerate the body by default, naturally burns calories, it seeks calories, it burns calories, so it is burning. All you have to do is kind of accelerate that part or kind of enhance the part. So my request to you is this, I want you to start examining your beliefs when it comes down to this concept called weight loss. And I want you to take yourself seriously and you start excusing yourself from this belief system where you know, I can’t do this. It’s very hard. It’s complicated. I need more knowledge. I need help. All that. Excuse yourself for this belief system. It’s doable. People have done it. People 85 years, 90 years old, have lost weight people who are 12 years, 14 years 16 years have lost weight. Everything any possible scenario that you are going through right now has been experienced by other people before there’s nothing but no secret to this. The secret is that you make up your mind and you apply yourself to the outcome.
Okay, that’s all for now. Have a wonderful Saturday, and I will talk to you tomorrow. I promise you I’m not gonna make the podcast. This intense. Okay, that’s all for now. Bye