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3 Beliefs That Are Holding Your Health Back · Doctor Turned Health Coach

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  In today's episode, I wanted to take a look back at some of my patients and,
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  share with you guys some of the most important beliefs that are holding people
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  back from actually improving their health.
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  As a family medicine physician and health coach, I've coached a lot of people
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  now, and I've certainly taken care of tens of thousands of patients over these past two decades.
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  So the top three things are the thoughts and beliefs that I've seen come up over and over.
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  And what's really interesting about it is once people understand that this was
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  a flawed way of thinking, once they actually achieve their ideal health goals,
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  they then come to realize like,
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  oh my gosh, I had no idea that this way of thinking was flawed.
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  If I only knew back then, how much easier would my journey have been so without further ado,
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  the first one is that they believe they can't be strong they can't be fast,
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  they can't be skinny they can't be pain-free any version of this that maybe
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  applies to you think about the one health,
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  goal that you have the one thing that you're really after, the one thing that
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  if you had it or achieved it would make you believe that you're finally there, that you've succeeded.
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  For people who are trying to lose weight or look more fit or be stronger,
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  they often just think that it's really not possible with my body type.
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  It's really not possible given my genetics or there is just no way.
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  I am too busy. I have too many things going on.
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  I get injured when I try to lift. I get really hungry when I try to fast.
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  These are what we call limiting beliefs. A limited belief is a belief that is
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  holding you back and you tend to double down on.
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  So even if an expert comes along and says, well, you could try this and you
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  could try that, you probably will still hold on to that belief.
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  Even worse, you might hold on to it subconsciously.
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  And on the outside, tell yourself that you really are doing all the things necessary.
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  Now, I'm not saying at all that this is about harder work.
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  If anything, the biggest mistake that my health coaching clients make is they
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  try too hard, which actually takes us to point number two, to the second most common thing that I see.
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  This is the belief that they have to make drastic changes, major sacrifices,
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  or else they won't get the results they're after.
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  They believe that only with drastic health changes, only drastic lifestyle changes,
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  will they see the results that they're after.
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  And this is always false because drastic changes almost never are sustainable.
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  These are the habits that you will often give up on very quickly.
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  Over these past two decades, I've learned that the small, tiny habits are the
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  ones that are most likely to stick, that are most likely to be successful,
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  and are the habits that are the easiest to adopt.
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  So while you might think that I have to go vegan, that's the only way,
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  I have to cut my calories by 50%, that's the only way, I have to run for an
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  hour every single day if I want the kind of health,
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  or physical body that I'm after.
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  These beliefs are holding you back because these are drastic changes.
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  When in reality, all you need to do is probably set your alarm to get up every
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  one hour and just walk a little bit.
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  Maybe when you plan your meal for the day,
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  you add in a little bit more vegetables you don't change anything else you just
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  add in a little bit more vegetables or more beans and there you go,
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  you will already see drastic improvements great results without having,
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  had to sacrifice a lot.
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  This takes us to point number three.
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  Many believe that there is some secret out there that they haven't yet discovered.
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  They jump from expert to expert, from specialist to doctor to nutritionist to
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  chiropractor to naturopath.
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  They do test after test after test, hoping that somehow they'll discover that one secret.
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  I think the source of this probably comes from the biohacking community where
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  people experiment on themselves and eventually they discover that one thing,
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  that was a game changer for them.
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  And I actually do believe that if you search enough, you will find something
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  that's going to work better for you.
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  But the searching is not the important part.
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  It's the trial and error. It's testing and reiterating.
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  That's the part that a lot of my clients miss.
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  They're searching for an answer, but they've never really attempted all the
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  ways in which they need to fail before they find that one thing that really works for them.
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  I've not discovered that one secret. It even hasn't been these GLP-1 medications,
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  because they have side effects.
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  They are expensive. And when you do lose weight, you also lose muscle mass.
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  And when you do curb your appetite, you're also changing the way you feel and your heart rate goes up.
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  But that doesn't make these medications less effective.
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  It's just that there is no secret. These medications give you a result at a cost.
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  Maybe the cost for some people is financial and for somebody else.
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  They realize that they have to take this medication forever.
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  Whatever it might be for you, I hope that these three things,
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  believing that you can never achieve your health goal, number one,
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  number two, that you need to be really drastic with your changes, or number three,
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  that it's a secret that's out there, not your trial and error that's going to
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  help you achieve your health goal.
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  If you can internalize these three things now, You will save yourself so much
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  headache, so much money, so much cost,
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  so much frustration down the line, because you will achieve your ideal health
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  goals and do it much easier than anybody else.