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The magic number in weight loss · SAY GRACE | Weight Loss + Health for Overwhelmed Women- Stress, Busy, Consistency, Realistic, Motivation, Starting Over, No Restrictions

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  Music.
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  Hey y'all, welcome back. Okay, so I know that y'all hear me talk all the time
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  about how there's nothing magic about weight loss, right?
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  Like I'm always on here dumping on the magic pills and the magic,
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  you know, exclusions and all that, you know, and there's no magic food,
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  superfood, like none of that, right?
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  So I know y'all know that I don't believe in magic when it comes to weight loss.
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  And so I'm sure the title of this episode was like, what is she going to say here, right?
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  But today, I really do want to talk about something that is very often overlooked in your weight loss.
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  And it could be the absolute game changer for your consistent and lasting weight loss progress, okay?
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  So in that sense, it absolutely is magical and has been such a game changer for people.
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  And so I will say, this stemmed from a conversation with a PFM Plus client.
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  This specific client has been with us for a while, off and on.
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  And here recently, she just decided to go in with both feet with PFM Plus.
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  And she is one of my PFM Plusers.
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  And y'all, she has just thrived. I could not be more proud. I asked her today
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  about being on the podcast. We'll see if she says yes.
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  But I could not be more proud of her. and not only her mindset,
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  but just like her approach, her gentle approach to like how she is looking at
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  her weight loss and how she is looking at her progress.
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  And so part of that has been her comfortability with food.
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  And so we were having, we were talking about this, this week.
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  I'm like, I just, you know, I'm so curious. I'm always trying to get feedback
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  and like, you know, I say a lot of things, y'all.
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  And so I'm like, I need to know like what I'm saying that resonates with you.
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  So feel y'all email me anytime. Okay.
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  And let me know support at perfectfitnutrition.com. Let me know what resonates
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  with you because like I talk a lot and I talk about a wide gamut of things in weight loss.
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  And so I'm just, that's what I asked her. I'm like, okay, I just want to know
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  like, what has caused this shift for you?
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  Like what is up, you know, that has made you just be comfortable here.
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  And so we got into this conversation about specifically this magic number that
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  we're going to talk about today and how that has been such a game changer for her. Okay.
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  So if you are a PFM plus client, or if you have been before.
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  This current client right now, this PFM plus client that I'm talking about right
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  now, she is doing something that we call maintenance week. Okay.
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  Okay. And so we encourage maintenance week for all of our ladies,
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  once they catch their stride with like their weight loss rhythm,
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  like I don't encourage maintenance week when you've been losing weight for two weeks, right?
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  Because you really need to get that good mindset. You need to get comfortable
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  with how food looks for you in your calorie deficit.
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  Like you need to just get yourself a rhythm around weight loss first.
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  But then if you've been doing it for a while, we encourage trying a maintenance
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  week every so often for many reasons, okay?
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  One of the main reasons is our body, if it's in, now we keep our ladies in a
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  healthy calorie deficit. We don't go too low with any of our ladies because
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  we know the consequences of that.
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  But even still, like when we train our body in a certain way,
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  it starts to adjust and sometimes it'll fight back, okay?
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  So for instance, let's say you've been eating 2000 calories every day for the past year.
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  And then you join our program, we put you on 1500 calories or 1400 calories
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  a day because you're trying to lose weight, right?
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  Eventually, that consistent calorie deficit is going to cause your body to say, I don't like this.
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  I'm good at 2000 calories, because that's how much my body, you know,
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  wants every day to maintain where I am at in my current weight.
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  And so by putting you in a calorie deficit, it's saying, no,
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  no, no, no, no, you are not allowing me to maintain where I'm at in my current
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  weight. Like I want to maintain, I want to feel comfortable.
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  I want to be, you know, cozy, like all the things, right? And so your body starts to fight back.
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  And so I'm sure if you have tried to lose weight long enough, you have hit a plateau.
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  And this can be why, because your body has to adjust.
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  We talked about this all the time here, right? Like you're, whatever you do to your body,
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  whatever kind of, you know, pressure you put your body under or stress you put
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  your body under or lacking of X, Y, or Z that you put your body under, it has to adjust.
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  Does it adjust comfortably all the time? No. Do we experience health side effects
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  sometimes after a while? Yes, but your body has to adjust.
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  And so sometimes if we are in that calorie deficit for too long,
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  our body adjusts and we stop seeing the weight loss as often or as consistently
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  or as much week in and week out. Okay.
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  And so we do maintenance week for that reason. We want to make sure your body
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  says, oh, wait, she is going to feed me.
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  Like, you know, it doesn't continue to fight back against you on the weight
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  loss, you know, the calorie deficit.
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  But also when you do go to maintenance and you do show your body,
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  hey, I'm going to eat, you know, these, I'm going to eat more calories so that
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  you feel more comfortable.
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  You know, here you go. You know, when you do that for a week or two,
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  then when you get back into your calorie deficit.
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  It's like it jumpstarts that weight loss again. And it comes a little easier.
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  It comes a little quicker than it had been if you were just constant calorie
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  deficit for months in and out, right?
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  And so that is one of the main reasons we do Maintenance Week, right?
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  But also we do it because I know as a dietitian that weight loss,
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  like people can come out here and lose weight, y'all, every which way,
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  right? But it's maintaining the weight once it comes off, okay?
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  And so that can be a really big struggle for anybody in any kind of weight loss,
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  you know, that you have when it's done. Like when you say, oh, I've finished X.
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  Like I've stopped my shots.
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  I've, you know, stopped cutting carbs. I've stopped whatever.
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  I've met my goal weight, right?
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  Then you it kind of feels
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  like oh well I've arrived and so now I can go back to
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  how it was you know and you find yourself
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  like picking up extra donut you know and you know eating mindlessly again and
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  you know you're doing all these things that you weren't doing before but you
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  have because and that's because you have no concept of what it should look like
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  to now maintain your current weight.
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  And so we love to incorporate maintenance week with our weight loss ladies to
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  show them, like, okay, yes, you have not lost all your weight yet,
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  but when you do, this is now how.
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  A week is supposed to look like when you are maintaining your weight so that
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  they can get comfortable there, right?
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  Because a lot of times when people do lose all their weight,
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  their focus is no longer on food or weight, you know?
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  And so this interrupts that when they're in the midst of their weight loss,
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  it interrupts that and says like, no, hey, we're still focused on food and weight
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  and we're going to maintain and we're going to see how that feels and see how that looks, right?
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  And so it's just as much a physical thing as it is a mental thing for our ladies.
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  So anyway, my PFM Plus client is doing maintenance week and she is killing it,
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  like just right on, you know, her numbers and just so comfortable there.
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  And so for those of you that don't know like what that actually looks like.
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  So you have your calorie deficit number, you know, that is within a healthy range.
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  But then you have a number, a calculation that Stacey, my dietitian, or I do.
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  And you have a number that your body, like a number of calories that your body
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  needs to maintain its current weight.
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  So we take what you weigh and we have, you know, this is how many calories you
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  need to eat to lose a pound or whatever a week, or this is how many calories
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  you need to eat daily to maintain the current weight you're at.
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  OK, and so then you just eat at those numbers for however long,
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  at least a week, we say, if you're trying to really do it for the whole jumpstart
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  your metabolism situation that I was talking about earlier.
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  So she's doing this and I asked her, I'm like, OK, what is what is like,
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  why are you so comfortable here?
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  Whereas like I felt like in the past she's been like really uncomfortable with
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  weight loss, you know, like it's just she has been where a lot of other ladies
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  have been, where it's like highs and lows. Like they do really good one week
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  and then the next week they go off the rails.
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  And, you know, that's been her track in the past. And so I'm like,
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  what has happened since you joined PFM Plus?
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  And she's like, I think one of the things, obviously, is that she has learned
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  to get comfortable with the idea of maintenance.
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  So, like, when you sign up to lose weight, y'all, you are usually coming at
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  it from a mindset of, like, I've got to do something.
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  Right? Like maybe desperation, maybe just like sick of it.
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  You know what I mean? Like, so you're coming in to weight loss,
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  usually highly motivated, right?
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  Like knowing I'm about to make a change and this change is going to give me a result, right?
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  And so when you enter into your weight loss program, you know,
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  we'll say it's perfect fit.
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  All eyes are on weight loss. Constance put out these videos.
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  Constance put out these recipes.
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  Constance put out these tip sheets, like everything is geared towards weight
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  loss. And that's where your eyes are going. You're like, how do I eat?
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  You know, what do I eat to lose weight? What do I do to lose weight?
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  Like all the things, right? It's all about the weight loss. And so you're,
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  and it's the same, you know, with anything else you try, right?
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  You're, if you come to me to lose weight, it is because you are motivated to
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  lose weight, not to maintain your weight, right?
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  And for a lot of us, it does come from just like desperation as well,
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  you know? So that's how you start. And that's how you continue.
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  You know, where it's like, all eyes are on weight loss, weight loss,
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  weight loss, weight loss, you know, like, you cannot stop thinking about the
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  weight loss, like that is what the focus is, right?
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  And so no one is really thinking about maintenance from the get go,
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  because we're thinking about the weight loss, right?
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  And that's rightfully so, like, I'm not trying to, you know,
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  say that you should be thinking any different, right?
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  That's rightfully so. And that's what we talk to you about all the time is the weight loss.
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  And so why is maintenance the magic number?
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  Right? Like, why does this conversation mean that maintenance is magical?
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  Well, you get so caught up in the weight loss mindset.
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  But then what happens? Just I mean, we talk about this all the time. What happens, right?
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  Life also continues to happen. Things continue to catch up to us.
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  Like we may, you know, go on vacation. We may have a stressful work week.
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  We may have, you know, just a lot of overwhelm this week that we haven't had
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  in a while or whatever. And so then what happens?
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  We say, I can't handle all of this.
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  I've been thinking too much about food or I can't make time to go to the gym
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  or I need to sleep late. So I'm not going to get up and make a healthy breakfast.
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  It's like, whatever it is that's going on.
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  So we immediately just say, I can't think about weight loss right now.
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  Like, wait, I can't. I'm too overwhelmed. I don't have enough willpower right
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  now. My willpower tank is empty.
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  Like, I can't think about weight loss right now. So what do we do?
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  What do we do when we say, I can't think about weight loss. I'm too tired. I'm too overwhelmed.
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  We give up. We get overwhelmed. We quit.
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  We go back to the rhythm
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  that we had in our life with food specifically
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  before we decided we were going to lose weight okay and
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  this is yo-yo dieting to the t right we talk about this all the
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  time like when the overwhelm and when the life hits that's when our brain has
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  been trained to say oh no no no we can't do this we can't do this let's just
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  let's just quit let's just do let's just do what we know to do which is eat
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  our feelings also in the moment of overwhelm or stress or sleep deprivation
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  or whatever it is, right?
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  And so the reason that your maintenance number could be magic is because it
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  gives you that wiggle room to say, yes, girl,
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  life is stressful right now.
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  Life is lifing right now.
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  But just because I can't be as hardcore and, you know, serious about tracking
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  my, you know, calorie deficit and meal prepping these recipes and what,
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  you know, whatever else, like just because I can't do that.
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  What if I just said, I'm going to maintain this week?
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  Like, what if I exhaled and I gave myself that grace and said, I have a lot going on.
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  I'm not giving up on my weight loss goals just because one or two weeks were
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  hard or busy or whatever.
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  But I can make room for myself and have that like space to say,
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  I'm just going to maintain where I'm at right now instead of gaining.
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  Because I'm feeling so defeated and just give up completely.
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  I'm just going to make space and maintain. Okay.
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  And so we are just always like, as a culture, as women, as, you know,
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  a lot of, I feel like a lot of us women are like all or nothing.
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  We want to do it a hundred percent or we're like, we failed,
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  you know, that kind of thing.
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  And so it's kind of the same thing here where we're caught between a hardcore
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  weight loss mindset and then a hardcore weight gain mindset,
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  right where which that the weight gain mindset is not
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  caring and so my client was telling me she's like Constance I
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  just feel like from the time I was in college I have thought about life like
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  as either I'm losing weight or I'm not worried about my weight like you know
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  like there is no in between and so when you're not worried about your weight
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  you're gaining weight because you're not paying attention to your food right
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  maybe not worried about your weight is not the right phrase for that.
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  But like, I'm either I'm losing weight, or I'm just kind of like disregarding
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  anything to do with food and weight. You know what I mean?
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  And in that disregard is when the weight gain comes.
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  And so she because like, because of the culture, because of like,
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  all the things, right, she was like, I just I have not been able to grasp the
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  concept that okay, if it is a Saturday morning,
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  and if my husband does make cinnamon rolls and if I am, quote,
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  weak and have the cinnamon rolls.
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  I know that those cinnamon rolls are going to run me like 600 calories or whatever,
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  which I know if I don't starve myself for the rest of the day,
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  then I'm going to be outside of my calorie deficit.
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  So I've always assumed that I would just gain weight. And that's a very defeating mindset, right?
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  And she said, so the idea of maintenance where it's like, okay.
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  Didn't plan for the cinnamon rolls this morning, but they're here and I wanted
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  them and I ate them and I can still continue on my day.
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  And maintain my weight, you know, instead of gaining my weight just by having
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  that understanding of maintenance number.
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  So for a lot of our ladies, like, for instance, if you're going to lose about
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  a pound a week, a lot of our ladies, their maintenance number would be about
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  500 calories more than their deficit number.
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  So like, say you're at a 1,400 calorie deficit a day, you, to maintain,
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  this is hypothetical, don't, nobody go take this and run with it,
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  but to maintain, you could maybe get 1,900 calories a day. for maintenance.
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  And so this, so that would cover her cinnamon rolls, right?
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  Easy peasy, that would cover her cinnamon rolls. And so it's,
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  it's such a refreshing mindset to say, like, I didn't fail.
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  I didn't ruin my weight loss. Like I didn't gain weight by just being weak,
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  quote, again, weak, quote, eating these cinnamon rolls.
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  I just chose to eat the cinnamon rolls and chose to accept the fact that I may
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  maintain today instead of lose.
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  And that's okay because Because then that tomorrow, I know I will get back to my weight loss.
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  And so it's just such like that. It takes the pressure off of it.
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  Like it takes the pressure off of having to be perfect every single day at every
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  single meal and never having an emotional, you know, eating slip up and never
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  like being starving and then walking past the break room and finding Lord knows
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  what in there, you know, that you,
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  shoved down before you even realize, you know, like it takes the pressure off
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  there to just exhale and say like, okay, I'm not a failure.
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  I'm not going to not ever lose this weight. I'm just going to maintain, right?
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  And so none of us, like we aren't taught that. Like nobody is living there because
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  we are so, again, we start with this hardcore weight loss mindset.
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  And if we aren't losing, then we're gaining. Like that's immediately what we
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  feel like, you know, like if we aren't losing, then we're just going to be fat forever.
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  Like that's where our brain goes and has been going there for a while.
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  And I think it was just such a beautiful thing for her to tell me,
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  this because I used to live here.
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  Like I used to live in that mindset and y'all, it has been such a long time
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  that I didn't even, like, I didn't even realize it, you know,
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  but that like, oh my gosh, yes, this is exactly how I used to feel before I
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  had like this full understanding of.
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  Nutrition and how it works, which is all, which is why like y'all,
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  our program is so much more than like calorie tracking, you know what I mean?
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  But like you have to understand that.
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  To then be able to give yourself the grace and to be able to say,
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  I'm maintaining today and I'm fine. I'm not going to gain weight.
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  Like you have to understand the basics, right?
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  Before you can really do this mindset work and then also still lose weight.
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  And so once you grasp like the depths of that, once you grasp that,
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  yeah, we would prefer to see you eat 400 calories in a salad full of leafy greens
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  and lean proteins and, you know, lots of good veggies,
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  lots of good fiber, right? We would prefer that.
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  But if you eat 400 calories in, you know, a piece of cake,
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  it's, it's like, it's not going to serve your body as well, obviously,
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  and your blood sugar is going to spike and you're going to be hungry faster
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  and all the things, but it's still the same 400 calories, you know, and like,
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  come at me if you like, come at me if you want to argue about it, right?
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  And so again, there's so much benefit to the salad and all the things that are
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  on it for our body and for our weight loss because it helps with our hunger
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  and it helps with the way we digest and all the things.
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  But at the end of the day, it is a calorie consumption every single day, right?
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  And so you have to understand that so that then you can give yourself grace
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  when you do choose the freaking piece of cake over the salad.
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  You choose the cake over the salad and you don't beat yourself up about it and
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  say, I'm never going to lose weight and I ate that cake and it's going to make me fat.
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  You say, well, that was my 400 calories I would usually spend on a salad,
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  but I ate it on cake today. So what are we going to do next?
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  Right? Are we going to shoot for maintenance and have the salad too?
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  Or are we going to kind of, you know, tweak some things throughout the day to
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  make some room for it, like, then you have the control.
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  You have the control now, instead of literally all the lies of the world,
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  like, trying to control you, and then, of course, that negative mindset spiral
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  trying to control you, you know, and so I just, it was such a,
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  like, great reminder to hear her say, you know,
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  I did not know what it felt like.
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  It's empowerment is what it is. She didn't use that word, but like she did,
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  she had not felt empowered to navigate her day and her food choices and still
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  feel like, okay, I'm making progress.
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  It's almost like a pause, right? Like if you're playing a song,
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  the song's playing, it's sounding good, you're loving it.
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  And then somebody calls you, you pause.
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  Does that mean the song has to stop? No, but you take a minute,
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  you get off the phone, and then you turn the song back on and you finish it, right?
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  And so that's what maintenance is. It's like a pause.
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  In your progress, it doesn't stop the progress.
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  It's just a pause. And actually, it can help the progress, you know,
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  because I explained earlier why, right?
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  So another way this can be just super helpful, I have another PFM Plus client
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  who I was just chatting with too before I hopped on here. She's getting ready
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  to go on a family vacation next week.
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  And I'm like, okay, we are going to shoot for maintenance because her family
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  eats all the good things down at the beach, y'all.
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  Like it's gonna, you know, it's gonna be a time.
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  And I don't know about her or y'all, but for me, I just feel like extra hungry at the beach.
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  I don't know what it is. I'm gonna blame the sun and all that walking in the
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  sand, but I'm just extra hungry at the beach.
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  And so let's pair being extra hungry with being more snack, like,
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  like more snacks available, like more snacky things out on the counter with
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  maybe a little bit of stress of like having the whole family in a condo together,
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  you know, like let's pair all that together. And also it's her family.
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  So like, I don't know about y'all, but like when I'm around my family,
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  I'm always kind of eating the same way I did back when I was little.
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  And you know, like it's just, you kind of pick up habits that you've had around your family.
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  Like so many of my PFM Plus clients will like, they have Sunday dinner with
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  their, their, you know, mom or their dads or whatever. And they're like,
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  that is a non-negotiable because they've been doing that every Sunday.
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  And it's going to be like, you know, lima beans and all, you know,
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  all the good stuff, the cornbread, all the good stuff we have on Sundays. Right.
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  And so anyway, it's easier to get back into those habits when we are around
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  the people we have been around where we ate in a certain way.
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  Right. So all this with her, I'm like, what if we try for maintenance?
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  Right. Like, what if you don't kill yourself trying to stay in a calorie deficit
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  next week and we just try for maintenance so that you can also enjoy your vacation.
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  Like so that if there is some kind of seafood situation that you want,
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  you will feel okay having it.
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  If you're like me, I'm gonna hit maintenance y'all at the beach just to get a bushwhacker.
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  Like I love them so much and that's the only place you can really find them.
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  You know, and them things run about 500 calories a piece. So at least. And so I'm.
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  Again, you get to go down there, enjoy a little more food, you know,
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  and enjoy the rest of the vacation instead of like stressing over all the things
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  that has to do with food instead of enjoying your relaxing time.
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  And then you get to come home, not get on the scale right when you get home,
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  because you probably had lots of sodium and lots of different foods, right?
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  But you get to come home and then you get to just get back to it.
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  It's a pause. It's a pause in the song instead of a complete like turn the song
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  off, pull the radio out the wall, you know, crying because the song ain't playing
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  no more, like all the things. It's just a pause.
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  And so I think this is super like important for any of our ladies that have
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  been on a long-term weight loss journey.
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  And like, you know, we'll have, we'll see people that will like,
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  you know, they'll lose about 20 pounds with us and then something will happen.
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  You know, whether it's a busy work season or whether, you know,
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  they have an ill parent that they're having to take care of or life just like
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  some seasons, y'all like baseball season can be a lot more overwhelming for
• 24:45
  moms, especially moms with multiple children, you know, or the holidays.
• 24:50
  Here we go. It's going to be here before we know it. But the holiday season, right?
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  Like, so we'll see them lose a good bit and then they'll just stall.
• 24:58
  Well, we call it stall, but it's not because they're not trying to lose. They're maintaining.
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  They're maintaining through the holidays. We have an entire challenge for our
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  members that starts after Thanksgiving and runs through Christmas where the
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  goal is not to lose weight.
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  There are very few people that are going to lose weight between Thanksgiving
• 25:15
  and Christmas, y'all. Me included. I ain't doing that.
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  But the goal is to not gain five pounds, 10 pounds, and then feel like you're
• 25:24
  starting over again in January, right?
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  So our push over the holiday is to maintain.
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  And so we do all kinds of fun things to try to instill that into our people,
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  you know, but we're trying to maintain during seasons because the want to and
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  the time and the space will come back.
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  Like you guys have yo-yo dieted enough to know that the desire to try to lose is going to come back.
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  Okay, like we yo-yo, we go in and out of like, I'm super motivated,
• 25:55
  then I'm not really that motivated.
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  And then, you know, like, but the desire to lose will always come back.
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  And so your ultimate goal is to have maintained the current weight loss you were at.
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  And so that when the desire comes back and when you have more space in your
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  days and when the season has slowed down or whatever it is, you can then pick
• 26:14
  up where you left off, right?
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  And yeah, it's not like this super fast, like super amazing weight loss story,
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  but it is one that's like a forever kind of story, right?
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  It's one that like you get to just stay there forever because you've now not
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  only lost weight in a healthy life.
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  A healthy way that you actually enjoy, but you've also learned how to navigate
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  how to stay there along the way, which is just such a beautiful thing to watch.
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  And so anyway, I do that, that was it today, y'all.
• 26:47
  I just wanted to kind of talk more about maintenance. I just wanted to explain
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  it and explain like why it can be so powerful for so many people,
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  especially I know a lot of you guys are, we're geared back up for school and, or, you know,
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  I feel like every one of us moms are like pulled in
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  every different direction right now with all the different activities all
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  that I mean it is wild and crazy kids over here for me so
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  I know it is for you and so yeah it's just kind of like this okay I'm not just
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  because I'm not able to hit my calorie deficit this week doesn't mean I'm like
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  a failure in gaining weight and all the things it just means I've hit pause
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  today you know so as always and especially when we are maintaining our weight
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  y'all remember to say grace.
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  Music.