Latest / Connor with Honor: AI, Real Estate and Real Life / I fixed my fat self with fasting, curing my addictions, quitting being self critical and forgiving myself so I could not wake up three weeks later in a larger mess
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- 0:00not an attempt to get attention but I cut my ear shaving so there's that I wanted to talk today about something that I thought was kind of funny if you're watching a lot of the YouTube stuff and you're trying to get this fatness under control and you've been seeing my other videos one of the things that you notice if you're interested in trying to take care of yourself and all the videos and your content that you're seeing with on the on on the online channels everything is not reflective of that it all looks it all starts to talk about that so if you start to maybe look into protein consumption then you're gonna start seeing a lot of videos on it one of the big things people talk about is how to lose weight without losing any muscle when you're either caloric restricted or you know fasting when I was dropping all that fat a big concern of mine was losing muscle and looking back I think I I think that was something that slowed my progress because of those concerns when you are working out from what I found when you're working out that shouldn't have to be a concern because you have the muscles active in the body isn't going to cannibalize the muscle that you need that you work with on a daily basis it's not gonna cannibalize that when you are not eating or changing your diet from what I've studied and what I've seen but even if it does the thought process was it shouldn't matter because here I am at 365 pounds with a 65 inch waist high blood pressure everything blood super thick and very high triglycerite count all of all of the markers that are you know here we go any day you're gonna have one Snickers bar too many one Kit Kat too many one sees candy too many your Ben and Jerry's ice cream or whatever it may have been too many once that happens then I'm down that road forever that was a big concern but the bear concern was oh my gosh I don't wanna lose muscle so I didn't bother there's so much misinformation I I seem to find and whether it does or doesn't I've settled on the fact because I've seen and I've read some things and while I'm not a doctor and you need to get your doctor's advice I do believe that it was no muscle loss at all and because back then also this was couple years ago three years ago I also had my blood work done and discovered that I also had low testosterone so I started using that as well and I've been doing that since so that's content for another show but if you're sitting there and one of these reasons why you don't wanna progress or try to besides failing cause I fail I was a fat kid fat teenager fat young adult fat adult fat older adult fat past my prime adult whatever it is but then I got it together one of the things that I will tell you that's super important I'm gonna harp on this on everything that I update with that I found is you have to have those people with you that support you in that regard if that's what you want your lifestyle to become if you're alone well you have a fresh outlook you don't have any influence for outside parties great it's simpler that way but if you are gonna team up with people or let people in your lives something that's super important is to find those people that have similar desires and that can support you when you're wanting to not eat for a week or when you're wanting to do a dry fast for a couple days or when you cut your ear they're concerned those sorts of things but you want to have those people in your periphery so you're able to continue your process and as I talked about before forgiving yourself if you do happen to mess it up and getting right back on track do not let this continue do not let that autopilot eating continue do not let your past habits continue you got to stop it once you slip because you will you have in the past now I want you to be aware once you slip acknowledge it you just effed up it's time to move on forgive yourself and move on get right back on track if you have to scoop out the bite of cheeseburger as you realize what you're doing or cheeseburgers are okay without the bread but there's a whole other thing that climb down that rabbit hole but if you're going to go eat the candy or the bread or the pizza think we can all agree that those are probably not great things for you if you're going to do it and that happens and you given in you broken your rule you sabotaged your future progress stop acknowledging forgive yourself and just continue don't wake up three or weeks from that moment having been in this downward spiral the entire time over feeding multiple times per day back to the same habit or drinking or insert drug of choice here or bad habit here don't wake up later and realize that time has now passed you by yet again make it different and I believe with me it was that forgiving mechanism that really made it different I hope this one helps and let me know what you think we'll talk to you soon