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2055: Crushing Diet Fads With Layne Norton

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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The Hard Way to Lose Weight

If you lose 50 pounds, you're physically not the same person. You have to become a different person and that's why this journey is an incredible path for personal growth. My brother was a drug addict; he said one of the most powerful things I've ever heard. The problem with obesity is it's so slow and so insidious and it's so relatively easily managed,. And I think like there's a lot of compassion for obese folks now in our society.

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You know, or you got to do just a little bit of cocaine. You
Speaker 1
know, like you can't abstain from food. So this is why this stuff is so hard because
Speaker 2
it's so ingrained in people's lifestyles and behaviors. Well, look, if you lose 50 pounds, you're physically not the same person.
Speaker 1
Well, they even said that they had to, they lost a lot of friends.
Speaker 2
Well, I was just going to say you have to become a different person. Yeah. The person you were is the person that ate a particular way is the person that moved a particular way is a person that had that particular type of relationship with their body and nutrition. In order for you to have this weight loss stick, you have to become this person where that weight loss would stick. You have to become a different person, which is why it's so challenging, but also why this journey is an incredible path for a personal growth. It can be, but boy, is it hard.
Speaker 4
But you know what?
Speaker 1
It's you can take somebody who's an addict and you put them in rehab and if they're not ready for it. So I listened to a, it was part of the motivational speech or motivational video, but it was an interview with Robert Downey Jr. on Oprah. And this was after he went through all of his, his shit. And he said, you know, it's really not that hard to fix these seemingly ghastly problems in your life. And Oprah was like, Shockley said this. He goes, what's hard is to decide because even if it's a positive change, people don't like change because your whole life is set up a certain way. Your whole life is the summation of the choices you've
Speaker 4
made and what's around
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you. And now you're going to have to blow that up. And it's why people stay in unhappy relationships, right? Because
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it's like you could
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be, but there's a lot of work to get to the other side of that, right?
Speaker 4
And so, you
Speaker 1
know, I use the example, my brother. My brother was a drug
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addict, all right, my younger
Speaker 1
brother went to prison and he said one of the most powerful things I've ever heard. Because a few months ago, I called him because I realized like how well he'd been doing. And I just, when he was going through all that stuff, I just got out of that habit of talking to him because it was too painful, you know what I mean? Because it was just like everything was somebody else's fault. He had a chip on his shoulder. He was just not in a good place, you know? And so I like made a point. I'm like, I need to call him more often and keep up because he's actually doing well and not. I called him and I said, man, I just wanted you to know I'm really proud of you. And we got talking and I said, so what was your rock bottom? Like what was it? What was the thing that like just finally, because every person I've ever talked to like Ethan or whoever, somebody who was like one way and then all of a sudden a few years later, there are different human
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beings. At some
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point, a switch flipped and they just made a choice. Like almost every person down to the person will tell you that. So I was like, was it when you went to prison? He said, no. He said, one day I just woke up and I realized I lose everything.
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I get a relationship and I lose it. I get a job and I lose it.
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I get a little bit of money and I lose it. I just got tired of fucking losing. I was like, man, how powerful is that? You know, like he identified that and Eric Thomas has a great quote, which is when the pain of staying the same becomes the greater than the pain of change, that's when we change. The problem with obesity is it's so slow and so insidious and it's so relatively easily managed, right? And I think like there's a lot of compassion for obese folks now and I think I understand. I think it's a good thing in many ways, but it's also like, you know, Ethan Supplee was like, I wish I'd been more uncomfortable.
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He's
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like, because he did this example. He goes, I did a rock yesterday with a 50 pound rock
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sack, right? It was hard. He's like,
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now I think I used to have six of those strapped to me. And then I think about like that hard hour or two of exercise I do is so much easier than living my entire life as 500 plus pounds. He's like the amount of work it was. He's like, I never realized I was out of it. He's like, I had to set up everything so that I could just live. He's like, when I would go to sit down in a chair, I'd have to like shake the chair to make sure it wasn't going to break when I sat
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down. It's the Eric Thomas quote, and then also what you're referring to right now, it's a paradox that I forget the name of it. Every time I bring it up, I forget the damn name of this thing. But that's where we will actually walk, let's say a mile, but if it's 1.2 miles, we'll get in a car and drive because it's not quite uncomfortable enough to do that. So they've studied this and it's like, it's wild. And I guess that's why things are 99 cents or 999, right? I think that's the main thing. I think most people just aren't uncomfortable enough or don't dislike where they're currently out there in that awful paradox in the middle where they can't.

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