How to deal with your fat clothes.
🧠 Plus: How I train my brain, my app stack for success, and the figure-out-able mindset.
“Your success in any area of life is tied to the streaks you sustain.”
Welcome to the 125th consecutive edition of the PWL newsletter.
It is also day 1290 of my weight loss journey.
Today’s menu contains…
3 cognitive upgrades
2 clever tactics and
1 tool to become a weight loss titan
Let’s gooooooooooooo!
Cognitive upgrade #1.
“What’s impossible to envision is impossible to do.”
— Patrick Mouratoglou; Serena Williams former tennis coach
— To ponder —
What Patrick talks about with tennis players is also true on the weight loss journey.
Your brain will believe what you tell it.
If you tell it that loss weight is impossible for you, it will believe you and seek out obstacles to make that belief your reality.
But the beauty of the brain is it also works for the opposite side of that coin.
If you believe your weight loss problem is figure-out-able, your brain will seek out the people, resources and opportunities to help you solve that problem.
As Henry Ford once said…
Whether you can or can’t, you’re right.
If you are guaranteed to be right either way, why not default to possibility?
Cognitive Upgrade #2.
The secret to solving your most persistent problems is finding your own unique way to think about the problem.
— My Take —
When I stopped trying to think about my problems the way everyone else was and started finding my own unique ways to think about them that meant something to me, weight loss magic happened.
Here are 3 examples.
I have been sugar-free for 1290 days because I consider it’s removal a productivity hack. It allows my brain to do what it is designed to do and in turn I can do much less and still get great results.
I don’t follow anyone else’s diet. I have created a Diet for One that is designed around my philosophy, psychology and physiology.
I designed one perfect day and I repeat it every day — forever
— Your takeaway —
Find your own way to think about your problems so you can rid yourself of them for good.
Cognitive upgrade #3.
Train your brain to see what you want it to see.
— Try This —
What do you see?
Some will see a goose. Others will see a rabbit.
Now try and see the other one.
Got it?
OK let’s train your brain.
See the goose. Blink. See the rabbit. Blink. See the goose. Blink. See the rabbit.
— My take —
I use this approach when it comes to dealing with failures and setbacks.
My brain only wants to focus on the negatives.
But I train it to sift through the rubble of my failures to find the positives.
It takes work to find them. But they are there, in plain sight, when I train my brain to see them.
— Your takeaway —
Your brain always defaults to the negatives (imagine the goose as the negatives.)
But with practice you can train it to see the positives (imagine the rabbit as the positives.)
Clever tactic #1.
"Keep some of your fat clothes as trophies. Get rid of everything else ASAP.
A common mistake people make on their weight loss journey is to put their fat clothes in storage somewhere in their house.
This is problematic.
You are sending a message to your brain that your weight loss is temporary and when you put the weight back on again you will have these clothes to resort to.
— Do this instead —
Keep one pair of pants (or shorts) from every size on your way down to your ideal body weight.
Once you get to your ideal weight immediately donate, giveaway or throw out all your fat clothes. Hell, burn them if you have to!!
Just get them out of your freaking home. ASAP!
Why?
It sends a clear message to your brain.
You are never putting that weight back on again.
— Your takeaway —
Your brain will believe what you tell it. So constantly send it messages telling it what you want to have happen.
Clever tactic #2.
Try your fat clothes on every once in while to remember how far you have come.
The reality is our brain has a way to help us forget how painful past events once were.
Why else would women have more than one child?
Because they forget just how painful it actually was.
It’s the same on this journey.
You will forget and as a result you won’t appreciate where you presently are.
Tools to be a weight loss titan.
Here is my stack of 9 apps I use every single day on my weight loss journey.
Here’s a breakdown.
Apple Health App — To track km walked
Google Sheets — To track my important data in one spot
Zero — To track my fasting
Elite HRV — To take an HRV reading
MyFitnessPal — To log all my meals
Notion — To reflect on my journey (My 3-2-1 Journal is created with Notion)
Trackit — To track my number of push ups, pull ups etc.
Habit List — To track my essential habit streaks
Tabata Trainer — To time my exercise so I stay below 10 minutes/day
— Your takeaway —
Every habit you do must be measurable because what gets measured gets managed and what gets managed gets mastered. These apps are helping me achieve mastery.
That’s it for today.
See you next Sunday my friend.
Dean 🇨🇦
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