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Why switching to a healthier lifestyle is not for the weak minded. · The Facts with Jamal 🇺🇸🦅👊

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  Take it from a guy that will be the first to tell you that
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  making the change to be healthier, it's no easy chore or
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  task in and of itself. Everybody thinks it's just real
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  easy to get with a diet plan. A healthy 1 at that.
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  Stay with it and just go from there.
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  And even some will believe that, you know, you can exercise
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  feverishly and hope that you'll be able to see dramatic results
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  in an instant. There's just a couple things
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  wrong with that. Number one, it doesn't just take
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  a good diet and it certainly doesn't take exercising on the
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  consistent basis to do the job. What it boils down to is that it
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  takes a serious level of commitment, focus, effort and
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  the fortitude to say to yourself, I've got to stay with
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  it, even if I don't see what solves why away.
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  And unfortunately for most people, especially nowadays,
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  it's that part that always gets. I'm going to talk about how in a
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  way, being healthy and making the switch to a healthier
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  lifestyle isn't as always as easy as some people think.
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  Now, compared to where I was eight years ago to now, I feel
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  has healthier and better than I've ever been.
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  But yes, eight years may seem like a long time and believe in
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  life is, but it's also in the way a constant reminder of
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  whenever I look back on myself. You know, I keep a picture of me
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  conflicts like a keepsake as a stoic reminder of how far I have
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  come in my health journey that I certainly do not want to go back
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  to that point and I don't plan to.
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  Now as far as yours truly is concerned, I've always had
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  pretty much a easy guy. And by that I mean a strict guy
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  that has worked for me for a lot of years.
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  Although I will be the first to admit it wasn't easy at times.
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  You know, getting ready for a lot of foods that I actually
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  thought were going to be a part of my life even today.
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  But one of the things I had to learn almost immediately was
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  that all those good foods that you know you thought were good
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  when you were a kid or even as a teenager slash young adult even,
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  you find out fairly quickly you had to get rid of those because
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  they just weren't good enough for you.
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  Or even in some cases they had ran their course.
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  And while I was soft, I will and men saying goodbye to a lot of
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  those foods. It was something I had to do in
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  order to save myself. But nonetheless, 8 years later,
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  I'm still here. I'm still making it happen.
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  I'm as healthy as I've ever been, and I'm thankful just for
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  that. Now, for a lot of people, they
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  always talk about wanting to make the transition to be more
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  healthier, wanting to, you know, essentially come up with ways to
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  try to have more of a healthier lifestyle.
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  Now, talk's cheap. We understand, and people can
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  say, well, I'm going to do this. Then the third as a switch up to
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  my life so I can be more healthier.
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  Easy to say, but there's several reasons why people ultimately,
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  for one reason or another, always seem to find a way to
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  literally hold themselves back from making that switch.
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  But it's really a couple things which I'm about to explain in a
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  second as to why that might be the case.
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  Anybody can talk a big game as far as you know.
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  I plan on losing weight this year or I plan now to eliminate
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  some things as far as either food or beverage wise to become
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  more healthier. But again, like a topic I had
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  talked about earlier, what is the plan for?
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  What do you plan on doing to actually make it happen?
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  What are the steps are you willing to take in order to make
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  sure that happens? And unfortunately, as with many
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  things, that's where people get caught.
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  You see, anybody can say that they want to lose weight and
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  they're going to do this stand the third, but they don't
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  usually have a straightforward plan for it.
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  And there's actually several reasons why that might be the
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  case. See #1 the commitment factor
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  people nowadays and unfortunately this is a
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  byproduct of society and more ways than one.
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  The commitment part is so difficult now take it from
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  someone who at various points start about giving up, wanting
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  to be done with it and even had the thought of I don't know if
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  this is even going to work now. We all want to be healthy
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  overnight. I mean, I wouldn't lie and say I
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  didn't think about having that same thought.
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  But just like with Rome, which took several 100 years to build,
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  you're not going to be healthy overnight and work people's
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  attention spans. You know, it is what it is.
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  But if you don't have the commitment within yourself to
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  want to be healthy, then that's going to be your biggest
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  problem. You can't ultimately say, well,
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  I'm going to start out, let's say, being healthy.
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  You know, things are slowly but surely going well.
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  And then about two months to three months in, you're not
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  seeing the gradual change you thought you had been hoping for.
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  And then you get frustrated and you say, you know what, I tried,
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  it didn't work, so the hell with it, I'm just going to give up
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  now. Usually whenever that kind of
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  thought process happens, it is usually hard to go back on
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  because believe it or not, more people tend to just stroll in
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  the towel and not stay with it as opposed to you know, just
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  running. The process play itself out over
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  time and that's really how people never ultimately achieve
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  their goals. See when it comes to eliminating
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  certain food groups and or drinks slash beverages, it
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  really varies. If you want to have like a
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  healthier diet per SE, it's very important to pick out
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  specifically what to eliminate. See, in a lot of cases, a lot of
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  people stick to well what they know to be as good or comfort
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  food because that's the only foods they know how to really
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  rely on. The issue becomes at a certain
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  point, those same comfort foods end up being your detriment to
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  your health. Now, I had mentioned all your
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  diet to, you know, from when I was a kid to a young adult, I
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  had to cut a lot of things, whether it was, you know, ramen
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  noodles, hot dogs. Now in that case, I still eat
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  one like if it's like on a cookout or 4th of July thing,
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  but I had to get rid of those on a consistent basis, whether it
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  was cookies, endless fruit snacks like the tasty ones, and
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  really just sugary drinks in general, especially sauce and
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  what have you. I had to say goodbye to a lot of
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  those things and incorporate more healthier alternatives.
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  Now mind you, it's OK to do things moderation.
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  For example, I snack on chips as a snack.
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  Like I don't do it all the time I got used to when I was a kid.
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  Every once in a while I like, as I mentioned with hot dogs on
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  occasion. I like a good cupcake as I go
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  sweet and I really don't drink sodas as much as I used to.
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  Although ginger ale slash Sprite I'm sorry isn't too bad either.
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  But the key is either orange juice.
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  I don't even drawing apple juice.
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  But water your guy have water otherwise nothing else matters.
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  And look, it's not going to be easy drawing out the things that
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  you love, but it's something you have to do because in order for
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  you to have a chance at long term health, you have to
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  eliminate the comfort stuff. And you have to make the
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  transition to the more healthier but uncomfortable things that
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  you may not want, but you essentially need.
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  Most people's problems is that they always seem to come up with
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  one excuse after another as far as time management.
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  Now see, and look, I get it. We all have things to do in our
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  lives or situations that are going to come up that might
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  handle us from being able to find the time and really space
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  in some ways to exercise. But to me, and this is something
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  I actually have to learn myself so I can speak on this, that's
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  the ultimate cop out and work. You can find at least 30 minutes
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  to at no more than an hour, you know, doing some form of
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  exercising or even just walking around keeping your body moving
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  isn't a bad thing here. See, when it comes to that, you
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  know, people will say, oh, I don't really have the time.
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  Do you go to a gym or exercise or this scenario came up so I
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  have to address it, Stop. There's always time to exercise
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  or to go to the gym. You just have to find a way.
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  And this is where people slip up more than they realize.
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  You have to find a way to manage that time because look, anybody
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  can say that they don't have the time, right?
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  But the question is, do you really not have the time or are
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  you using it as a excuse to essentially not one exercise?
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  Now look, on a good day for your surely.
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  I work out about 5-6 days a week.
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  I spend at best an hour, maybe an hour 30, or if I'm really
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  getting going, two hours at most, exercising.
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  Now, that might be, you know, a little strenuous for some,
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  especially if you're trying to start out on this health
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  journey. Understandably so.
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  But you have to find a way to make time to exercise.
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  But this is unfortunately in more ways than one, why society
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  unfortunately has become too lazy.
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  Because it seems to me people don't want to prioritize their
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  health just for the sake of living, but yet they wanna
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  century. It'll be on their phones, eat
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  all the comfort food. They think it's good for them.
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  And since we have a laissez faire attitude about it, unless
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  you're dealing with a more significant, you know, health
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  issue or medical condition that has prevented you from doing
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  that, you know, in some cases, there is no reason for you to
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  not spend at best 30 minutes to at least an hour to do something
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  as far as exercising. But again, it's that lazy,
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  complacent and laissez faire attitude that most people have
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  nowadays that has essentially been their ultimate deterrent.
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  And those same people will find now that if they don't get their
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  asses in shape, it is going to eventually haunt them later in
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  life. And by then, for some, it will
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  be too late. And finally, this is the most
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  important thing that I think if you're a person that wants to
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  make that transition, you have to ask yourself, how bad do you
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  want? See, again, in a society like
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  this one, talk is really cheap and most times people don't
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  always, you know, live up to what they say.
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  That part is true. But as far as being healthy, how
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  bad do you really want to be 'cause you see, anybody can sit
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  there and tell you I plan on losing weight.
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  You don't get to say that. And then ultimately for one
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  reason unexcused or why I would not do it.
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  So it's like you have to, before you even ask how bad do I want,
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  you know, be healthy? You have to actually look within
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  yourself and ask this instead. Will I be committed to it?
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  See, like I had talked about with the commitment part
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  earlier, the other thing that people usually don't ask
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  themselves is, is that do I have the 42 within myself to be
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  committed to do this? Anybody can sit there and talk a
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  good game, but will they have the mentality of no matter how
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  hard it gets, no matter how many days go by, let's say months,
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  you know, have moved forward that if I don't see the results
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  I had yearned for, almost merely will I pack it in and just give
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  up? Look, take it from a guy that
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  had to learn the hard way that yes, patience is a virtue, but
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  as far as being healthy, you have to be patient.
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  See, it's never enough just to you know you have a good to
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  great diet, exercise vigorously and hope to see results.
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  You have to learn to stay with it even when you may not be
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  seeing it right off to get go and look.
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  You may not see it within the first.
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  What's the straw out there? You may not be able to see any
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  results the first eights, OK, But the more you even look in
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  the mirror and start to see a gradual change or if you have a
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  scale at home and you weigh yourself, you will see how much
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  having patience within yourself matters.
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  And before you know it, you will have reached your goal that you
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  have set when you decide to make this transition to a more
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  healthier lifestyle. And then when you finally get to
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  the end goal, you will essentially cry tears of joy
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  because you stuck with it no matter how hard it got.
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  So in the end, yes, being healthy and being in a
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  healthier, more fit lifestyle, it's not built for everyone.
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  It's not, you know, built for the weak minded and the fragile
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  ones that don't believe they can do it.
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  It's all about if you have to fortitude the wherewithal and
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  the absolute commitment to be healthy, then there was no
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  reason why you can't have it happen for you.
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  Because you may not be able to see what's all today, may not
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  even be able to see it tomorrow, but eventually you will see
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  results.