What does it take to lose 220 pounds with no drugs, no surgery, and no shortcuts? In this powerful episode of the Active Action Podcast, Dr. Nazif sits down with Stanley Bronstein, an attorney, CPA, life coach, and author who transformed his life at age 49 after staring down a terrifying truth: if he kept going the way he was going, he would be dead in five years.
Stanley shares the raw, honest story of how childhood trauma, poor habits, and decades of obesity nearly cost him his life—and how one decision on February 1st, 2009 changed everything. From giving up scotch and soda pop, to going vegetarian, to eventually going fully vegan, Stanley's journey was gradual, intentional, and permanent. Today at 66, he has the bloodwork of a 30-year-old and walks the equivalent of crossing continents every year.
This episode is for anyone who has tried to lose weight, failed, tried again, and wondered if lasting change is truly possible. The answer, according to Stanley, is a resounding yes—and it starts between your ears.
What You'll Learn in This Episode
- Why temporary changes produce temporary results — and what "permanent action" actually looks like
- The three simple, doable habits Stanley recommends to anyone starting a weight loss journey
- What processed food really means and why added sugar and sodium are sabotaging your health
- Why you cannot exercise your way out of a poor diet — and what to do instead
- The truth about carbohydrates: why not all carbs are the enemy
- How to eat healthy when you're busy and don't have time to cook
- Stanley's four-pillar success framework: Willingness, Belief, Discipline, and Commitment
- Why 90% of weight loss is a mindset challenge, not a physical one
- How to handle setbacks without quitting — and why mistakes are proof you're trying
- The one shift in language that makes healthy living feel like a privilege, not a punishment
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00:00:47 --> 00:00:49 Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another
00:00:49 --> 00:00:53 episode of the Activation Podcast. It's me, your
00:00:53 --> 00:00:55 host, Dr. Naziv, back again with another amazing
00:00:55 --> 00:00:59 guest. And today we have with us Stanley Bronstein.
00:01:00 --> 00:01:03 So Stanley is an attorney, CPA, life coach and
00:01:03 --> 00:01:07 author. But what really has astonished me and
00:01:07 --> 00:01:10 what actually led me to ask or request Stanley
00:01:10 --> 00:01:12 to kindly join this podcast is to go through
00:01:12 --> 00:01:17 his journey of transformation. So I'm sure we'll...
00:01:18 --> 00:01:20 listen to that journey but thank you so much
00:01:20 --> 00:01:23 stanley for joining the podcast today how are
00:01:23 --> 00:01:25 you doing this morning sir fine sir thank you
00:01:25 --> 00:01:27 for having me doctor that's wonderful stanley
00:01:27 --> 00:01:31 can you share a bit about yourself with our audiences
00:01:31 --> 00:01:33 and this wonderful journey of transformation
00:01:33 --> 00:01:37 that you have embarked on okay i'll give you
00:01:37 --> 00:01:39 the quick version and we can fill in details
00:01:39 --> 00:01:42 along the way if we choose to the quick version
00:01:42 --> 00:01:45 is my mother died when i was eight years old
00:01:45 --> 00:01:49 and impacted my life obviously and i was living
00:01:49 --> 00:01:52 with my massively obese father who did not understand
00:01:52 --> 00:01:55 proper nutrition did not understand healthy habits
00:01:55 --> 00:01:58 and we both literally just ate ourselves to oblivion
00:01:58 --> 00:02:01 From the time eight years old on, I started getting
00:02:01 --> 00:02:03 bigger and bigger and bigger, more and more obese.
00:02:04 --> 00:02:07 By the time I was 13, I weighed more than I weigh
00:02:07 --> 00:02:09 today. So yeah, you have a lot of men that they're
00:02:09 --> 00:02:11 proud that they weigh the same that they did
00:02:11 --> 00:02:13 when they got married. Well, I weigh less than
00:02:13 --> 00:02:15 I did when I was 13 years old. I don't know whether
00:02:15 --> 00:02:19 that's funny, good, sad, sick, whatever, but
00:02:19 --> 00:02:24 that is the truth. And so I got bigger and bigger
00:02:24 --> 00:02:28 and bigger. Along the way. I maxed out at 367
00:02:28 --> 00:02:30 pounds, which is what you can see in the picture
00:02:30 --> 00:02:32 on the left. The picture on the right is what
00:02:32 --> 00:02:36 I look like now, around 145 pounds, big difference.
00:02:37 --> 00:02:40 And I did it with no drugs or surgeries. Now,
00:02:40 --> 00:02:42 what happened to me, I had had times along the
00:02:42 --> 00:02:45 way where I would lose some weight, and I would
00:02:45 --> 00:02:48 go right back to my old habits. The weight would
00:02:48 --> 00:02:52 come back on, plus more. But as I was approaching
00:02:52 --> 00:02:55 the age of 50, I'm 66 now. All this happened
00:02:55 --> 00:02:59 17 years ago, February 1st, 2009. I call that
00:02:59 --> 00:03:02 day my rebirth day. I just celebrated my 17th
00:03:02 --> 00:03:05 rebirth day six days, seven days ago. Anyway,
00:03:05 --> 00:03:12 I was four months away from turning 50. I was
00:03:12 --> 00:03:16 320 pounds at the time. I wasn't at my full max,
00:03:16 --> 00:03:18 but I was still pretty big. I was 320 pounds.
00:03:19 --> 00:03:22 I hadn't had a heart attack yet. I had not had
00:03:22 --> 00:03:25 a stroke yet. I was not on diabetes medication
00:03:25 --> 00:03:28 or high blood pressure medication, but I probably
00:03:28 --> 00:03:31 should have been. However, I didn't go to the
00:03:31 --> 00:03:33 doctor, so I don't know. I avoided the doctor.
00:03:33 --> 00:03:35 All these things were coming. I mean, I have
00:03:35 --> 00:03:39 no doubt in my mind that I was in for a rough
00:03:39 --> 00:03:43 ride if I kept going on the way that I was going.
00:03:44 --> 00:03:47 I asked myself, as a lot of people do when you're
00:03:47 --> 00:03:50 approaching a milestone age, both men do that
00:03:50 --> 00:03:54 and women. I said, where am I going to be in
00:03:54 --> 00:03:58 five years if I keep doing what I'm doing? Would
00:03:58 --> 00:04:01 you care to guess what the answer was? No. Dead.
00:04:01 --> 00:04:05 Dead. I said that if I keep going this way, I'm
00:04:05 --> 00:04:08 going to be dead in five years and I don't want
00:04:08 --> 00:04:12 to be dead. So I said, I woke up and I said.
00:04:12 --> 00:04:16 I need to make changes right now, not tomorrow,
00:04:16 --> 00:04:20 not next week, not next month, not next year,
00:04:20 --> 00:04:23 right now. And the changes I need to make are
00:04:23 --> 00:04:25 I need to learn to start eating better right
00:04:25 --> 00:04:28 now. Again, not tomorrow, not next week, not
00:04:28 --> 00:04:31 next month, not next year, right now. And I need
00:04:31 --> 00:04:33 to start getting some form of exercise. I need
00:04:33 --> 00:04:35 to get off my rear end and I need to get some
00:04:35 --> 00:04:39 form of exercise. And I decided on walking. Because
00:04:39 --> 00:04:42 I figured walking, you did not need a lot of
00:04:42 --> 00:04:44 special equipment. You could do it almost any
00:04:44 --> 00:04:47 time, almost anywhere. And I figured it would
00:04:47 --> 00:04:50 beat my body up less than most other forms of
00:04:50 --> 00:04:53 exercise. So I said, I'm going to start walking.
00:04:54 --> 00:04:57 And little did I realize how prophetic my words
00:04:57 --> 00:05:00 were, because that's exactly what I started doing.
00:05:00 --> 00:05:04 So the important thing is, that was not the first
00:05:04 --> 00:05:06 time in my life that I told myself I needed to
00:05:06 --> 00:05:08 do something. But it was the first time in my
00:05:08 --> 00:05:10 life where I said I need to do something, and
00:05:10 --> 00:05:14 I actually took permanent action on it. Not temporary
00:05:14 --> 00:05:18 action, permanent action. Because when you make
00:05:18 --> 00:05:20 temporary changes, you're going to get temporary
00:05:20 --> 00:05:23 results. When you make permanent changes, then
00:05:23 --> 00:05:25 you'll get permanent results. So we're going
00:05:25 --> 00:05:26 to talk about permanent changes as we're going
00:05:26 --> 00:05:29 here. So I said, I need to make some permanent
00:05:29 --> 00:05:32 changes. Well, here's what I started with. First
00:05:32 --> 00:05:35 thing I did was I was drinking scotch every day.
00:05:35 --> 00:05:38 I don't know if I was an alcoholic or not, but
00:05:38 --> 00:05:40 I do know that I was drinking too much. And I
00:05:40 --> 00:05:43 do know that I was serving the alcohol. It was
00:05:43 --> 00:05:48 not serving me. So I said, no more, no more scotch.
00:05:49 --> 00:05:51 I took my last bottle of scotch. I poured it
00:05:51 --> 00:05:54 down the toilet. I hit flush. I believe in symbolism.
00:05:54 --> 00:05:57 So I got rid of it. I have not had a drink in
00:05:57 --> 00:06:00 17 years and I don't miss it. And it makes it
00:06:00 --> 00:06:02 much more interesting when you go to parties
00:06:02 --> 00:06:04 and everyone else is drinking and you're not.
00:06:04 --> 00:06:06 You watch everybody else's behavior and you go,
00:06:06 --> 00:06:09 boy, that's what I used to be like. So then the
00:06:09 --> 00:06:13 second thing I did was those two liter bottles
00:06:13 --> 00:06:16 of soda pop. I was drinking three of those a
00:06:16 --> 00:06:19 day. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, wow. That's right. And I
00:06:19 --> 00:06:21 was drinking, but I was drinking diet caffeine
00:06:21 --> 00:06:24 free. So surely that was healthy, right? Oh,
00:06:24 --> 00:06:28 not really. No, no. But the marketing people
00:06:28 --> 00:06:30 want you to think it's healthy. The soda companies
00:06:30 --> 00:06:32 want you to think, oh, it's diet, caffeine -free,
00:06:32 --> 00:06:34 it's healthy for you. No, it's not. So those,
00:06:35 --> 00:06:37 I said, I need to stop drinking those. Same thing.
00:06:37 --> 00:06:39 I took my last bottle, poured it down the toilet,
00:06:39 --> 00:06:43 hit flush. Then the other thing was I said, okay,
00:06:43 --> 00:06:46 I need to start eating better. So what came into
00:06:46 --> 00:06:48 my mind at the time was that I'm going to quit
00:06:48 --> 00:06:51 eating red meat. So I quit eating beef and pork.
00:06:51 --> 00:06:54 I did all of those immediately. That was very
00:06:54 --> 00:06:56 interesting for me to do that because my father
00:06:56 --> 00:06:59 was a butcher and I grew up in a home with unlimited
00:06:59 --> 00:07:03 free meat. And for me to say no more beef and
00:07:03 --> 00:07:05 pork, that's an interesting thing to do because
00:07:05 --> 00:07:09 I had a lot of it when I was a child. And so
00:07:09 --> 00:07:12 I did those things and I started walking. By
00:07:12 --> 00:07:15 the time I turned 50, four months later, I had
00:07:15 --> 00:07:17 lost almost 50 pounds and I was starting to feel
00:07:17 --> 00:07:21 better and I was getting a little bit healthier.
00:07:22 --> 00:07:25 And I kept going. After about five years of that,
00:07:25 --> 00:07:27 my walking activities started picking up and
00:07:27 --> 00:07:30 my weight kept getting a little lower, but it
00:07:30 --> 00:07:33 kind of stalled. I couldn't get lower than I
00:07:33 --> 00:07:35 wanted to be. So I said, I'm going to make some
00:07:35 --> 00:07:38 more dietary changes. I'm a big believer in nutrition.
00:07:39 --> 00:07:44 And when I say nutrition, dietary, I don't think
00:07:44 --> 00:07:47 dietary is just the food you put in your mouth.
00:07:47 --> 00:07:49 I think it's the thoughts you put in your head.
00:07:49 --> 00:07:51 It's the environment you create for yourself.
00:07:52 --> 00:07:55 It's the people you surround yourself with. It's
00:07:55 --> 00:07:57 the activities you do. It's all those things.
00:07:57 --> 00:07:59 So I said, I'm going to make some more changes.
00:07:59 --> 00:08:02 I gave up chicken and turkey. And essentially
00:08:02 --> 00:08:05 I went vegetarian is what I did. And I felt much
00:08:05 --> 00:08:08 better. I got stronger. And since that day, I
00:08:08 --> 00:08:11 turned vegetarian over 12 years ago. I've only
00:08:11 --> 00:08:13 been sick one time in the last 12 years. And
00:08:13 --> 00:08:18 that includes COVID. That includes COVID. And
00:08:18 --> 00:08:20 I got exposed to COVID. My wife came home from
00:08:20 --> 00:08:23 a trip and she caught COVID in the airport. And
00:08:23 --> 00:08:26 she brought it home. And I had two days where
00:08:26 --> 00:08:30 my body felt off. I felt I was 75 % there. But
00:08:30 --> 00:08:32 I continued my activities. I stayed on my program.
00:08:32 --> 00:08:37 And my body flew off COVID. Because I have a
00:08:37 --> 00:08:43 strong immune system. And I maintain physical
00:08:43 --> 00:08:45 activities. But the point is, from the moment
00:08:45 --> 00:08:49 I turned vegetarian, I saw major health improvements.
00:08:49 --> 00:08:52 But it gets even better than that. After about
00:08:52 --> 00:08:55 five years of being vegetarian, I was at a point
00:08:55 --> 00:08:58 where I was walking 10 to 15 miles every day.
00:08:59 --> 00:09:03 I would say that's 15 to 20 kilometers every
00:09:03 --> 00:09:06 day. Yet, I could not get my weight below 180
00:09:06 --> 00:09:10 pounds. And it would fluctuate. 180, 190, 200,
00:09:11 --> 00:09:14 190, 180. It wasn't stable. And I couldn't get
00:09:14 --> 00:09:17 it below 180. So once again, I said, I'm doing
00:09:17 --> 00:09:20 something wrong here. If I'm walking that much
00:09:20 --> 00:09:22 and getting that much physical activity, there
00:09:22 --> 00:09:25 must be something wrong with my diet. So lesson
00:09:25 --> 00:09:28 to learn from that. You cannot exercise your
00:09:28 --> 00:09:30 way out of a poor diet. Okay. Can you please
00:09:30 --> 00:09:33 explain that a little bit better? Okay. I saw
00:09:33 --> 00:09:36 an article the other day. It said, how much walking
00:09:36 --> 00:09:39 should a person do if they want to lose 20 pounds?
00:09:39 --> 00:09:43 And I think that article was... was totally off
00:09:43 --> 00:09:47 base because if you eat nothing but garbage and
00:09:47 --> 00:09:48 you eat way too much garbage i don't care how
00:09:48 --> 00:09:51 much walking you do you're not going to lose
00:09:51 --> 00:09:53 20 pounds you see what i mean does that make
00:09:53 --> 00:09:58 sense right let me to restate that again if okay
00:09:58 --> 00:10:01 think about this if you eat a poor diet if you
00:10:01 --> 00:10:05 eat donuts cookies ice cream lots of butter things
00:10:05 --> 00:10:08 like that Yet you do a lot of walking. You're
00:10:08 --> 00:10:10 still not going to lose weight because you're
00:10:10 --> 00:10:14 eating all that garbage food. Does that make
00:10:14 --> 00:10:16 sense now? Yes, yes, it does. So that's what
00:10:16 --> 00:10:19 I mean when I say you cannot exercise your way
00:10:19 --> 00:10:21 out of a poor diet. That's something I learned.
00:10:21 --> 00:10:24 So I said, what do I need to change in my diet?
00:10:24 --> 00:10:28 Well, I gave up butter, cheese, and ice cream.
00:10:28 --> 00:10:31 In other words, I gave up dairy. I went full
00:10:31 --> 00:10:35 vegan is what I did. And does that include milk
00:10:35 --> 00:10:38 as well? Yeah, milk as well. Yes, milk as well.
00:10:38 --> 00:10:40 And I'll elaborate on this. And also, just so
00:10:40 --> 00:10:43 you know, anyone listening, I'm not telling you
00:10:43 --> 00:10:46 this is what you have to do. I'm telling you
00:10:46 --> 00:10:50 this is what I did. This is what I did gradually
00:10:50 --> 00:10:55 over time. I didn't do it immediately. And it's
00:10:55 --> 00:10:58 what has worked for me. Your experience may be
00:10:58 --> 00:11:01 different. But listen to what I'm saying. And
00:11:01 --> 00:11:03 then we'll bring this back to you, the listener.
00:11:04 --> 00:11:05 Would you care to guess what happened when I
00:11:05 --> 00:11:07 gave up bread, butter, cheese, ice cream, and
00:11:07 --> 00:11:09 all dairy products? Would you care to guess what
00:11:09 --> 00:11:11 happened? Like that plateau weight started to
00:11:11 --> 00:11:14 come down. Lost 50 pounds in five minutes. Oh,
00:11:14 --> 00:11:18 wow. I melted because of all the walking I was
00:11:18 --> 00:11:22 doing. I was walking 15 to 20 kilometers a day.
00:11:22 --> 00:11:25 And when I made that dietary adjustment, the
00:11:25 --> 00:11:27 weight just came off. Boom. So that's what my
00:11:27 --> 00:11:30 roadblock was. It was not working. That was the
00:11:30 --> 00:11:32 dietary change that was needed. And since that
00:11:32 --> 00:11:37 day, okay, I am 66 now. I just had my annual
00:11:37 --> 00:11:39 physical three or four weeks ago. My blood work
00:11:39 --> 00:11:42 numbers, I'll put them up against any 30 year
00:11:42 --> 00:11:44 old you want to put them up against. My blood
00:11:44 --> 00:11:46 work numbers are excellent. I feel excellent.
00:11:46 --> 00:11:50 I feel I'm 30, 35 years old, except I was not
00:11:50 --> 00:11:52 in this, I was not in anywhere near this kind
00:11:52 --> 00:11:55 of shape when I was 30 to 35 years old. I was,
00:11:55 --> 00:11:58 I mean, when I, when I was, when I was 30 years
00:11:58 --> 00:12:02 old, this is what I looked like. So it made a
00:12:02 --> 00:12:07 big difference. So as a result of all this experience,
00:12:07 --> 00:12:11 this experience of taking this weight off, becoming
00:12:11 --> 00:12:14 a person who does a lot of walking, a person
00:12:14 --> 00:12:18 who is capable of doing a lot of walking. I mean,
00:12:18 --> 00:12:21 and when I say a lot of walking, this is how
00:12:21 --> 00:12:24 much walking I do. And once again, you do not
00:12:24 --> 00:12:26 have to do what I do, but I'm going to tell you
00:12:26 --> 00:12:29 what I recommend for people in just one minute.
00:12:29 --> 00:12:32 But I'm going to tell you what I do just to show
00:12:32 --> 00:12:36 you the power that is within people. Because,
00:12:36 --> 00:12:39 Dr., this experience taught me two things. It
00:12:39 --> 00:12:42 taught me I am more powerful than I ever imagined.
00:12:42 --> 00:12:45 And it also taught me that if I am more powerful
00:12:45 --> 00:12:48 than I ever imagined, so is everyone else. If
00:12:48 --> 00:12:51 you are listening, you are more powerful than
00:12:51 --> 00:12:54 you ever imagined. Know it. Feel it. believe
00:12:54 --> 00:12:57 it. And when I teach you that knowledge, when
00:12:57 --> 00:12:59 I give you that knowledge, the question becomes,
00:12:59 --> 00:13:00 what are you going to do with that knowledge?
00:13:01 --> 00:13:04 And for me, what that knowledge has taught me
00:13:04 --> 00:13:07 is that if I'm more powerful than I ever imagined,
00:13:07 --> 00:13:11 and I'm capable of losing 220 pounds and keeping
00:13:11 --> 00:13:15 it off, if I'm capable of walking as much as
00:13:15 --> 00:13:17 I do, and when I say walking, this is how much
00:13:17 --> 00:13:21 I walked last year. Wow. Imagine I started in
00:13:21 --> 00:13:24 Los Angeles. I came within 300 miles of London.
00:13:24 --> 00:13:26 I ended up in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
00:13:27 --> 00:13:29 So it's a good thing I know how to swim. But
00:13:29 --> 00:13:32 that's how much walking I do. And I do that all
00:13:32 --> 00:13:36 the time. And I do it because I can. I have not
00:13:36 --> 00:13:39 found my limits yet. That's how powerful we are
00:13:39 --> 00:13:41 as individuals. So that's what I'm showing you
00:13:41 --> 00:13:44 that essentially what I did was I took some unhealthy
00:13:44 --> 00:13:47 addictions and I replaced them with healthy addictions.
00:13:47 --> 00:13:51 is what I essentially did. Because to be quite
00:13:51 --> 00:13:52 frank with you, I have an addictive personality.
00:13:53 --> 00:13:56 I do. When I do something, I'm all in. That's
00:13:56 --> 00:13:59 the way I am. But that's how powerful we are
00:13:59 --> 00:14:02 as people. Now let me tell you what I advocate
00:14:02 --> 00:14:05 to someone that they do. If you want to get started,
00:14:05 --> 00:14:09 first of all, I'm going to talk about weight
00:14:09 --> 00:14:11 loss, and then we're going to talk about personal
00:14:11 --> 00:14:14 development. I think of weight loss as a subset
00:14:14 --> 00:14:16 of personal development. A lot of, there are,
00:14:16 --> 00:14:19 you know, probably half the people need to lose
00:14:19 --> 00:14:21 some weight, but the other half don't need to
00:14:21 --> 00:14:22 lose any weight, but they can all use personal
00:14:22 --> 00:14:25 development. If you want to get started on a
00:14:25 --> 00:14:27 healthy weight loss program, I advocate three
00:14:27 --> 00:14:30 things, and they're all easy things that anyone,
00:14:30 --> 00:14:33 that almost anyone can do if you're able -bodied.
00:14:33 --> 00:14:37 First thing is, eat less processed food. Less.
00:14:37 --> 00:14:40 I'm not saying never eat processed food. I'm
00:14:40 --> 00:14:43 not saying never eat fast food. I mean, I don't
00:14:43 --> 00:14:46 eat those things anymore, but I'm saying eat
00:14:46 --> 00:14:49 less of it. That's a goal anybody can do. Less
00:14:49 --> 00:14:54 junk food, less packaged food, less boxed food,
00:14:54 --> 00:14:56 less of that. I'm not saying totally eliminate
00:14:56 --> 00:14:59 it. I'm saying less of it. Now, stop eating five
00:14:59 --> 00:15:02 hours before you go to sleep. So in other words,
00:15:02 --> 00:15:04 don't take your food to bed with you. Give your
00:15:04 --> 00:15:07 body some time to... to just the food you've
00:15:07 --> 00:15:10 eaten, some time to process the food you're eating.
00:15:10 --> 00:15:12 So if you go to bed at 11 o 'clock at night,
00:15:13 --> 00:15:15 eat your dinner at 6 o 'clock. And don't eat
00:15:15 --> 00:15:18 any snacks after you do eat your dinner. Give
00:15:18 --> 00:15:20 your body some time. And then the last thing
00:15:20 --> 00:15:22 I advocate is if you can, walk 20 minutes a day.
00:15:23 --> 00:15:26 The American College of Sports Medicine advocates
00:15:26 --> 00:15:31 150 minutes of cardio exercise a week. So if
00:15:31 --> 00:15:34 you walk 20 minutes a day. seven days a week,
00:15:34 --> 00:15:37 that's 140 minutes. That's close enough. Oh,
00:15:37 --> 00:15:42 but if you do that, let me ask you, if you could
00:15:42 --> 00:15:45 get people, I know you're in Canada where I,
00:15:45 --> 00:15:48 my, my assumption is Canadians are generally
00:15:48 --> 00:15:50 a little bit healthier than Americans are. I
00:15:50 --> 00:15:53 just, I think that's a safe assumption. But if
00:15:53 --> 00:15:57 Americans and Canadians would eat less processed
00:15:57 --> 00:15:59 food, quit eating five hours before they go to
00:15:59 --> 00:16:02 sleep and walk 20 minutes a day. Do you think
00:16:02 --> 00:16:04 we will be healthier? Yeah. And those are all
00:16:04 --> 00:16:07 doable things. Can I ask you a question? Sure.
00:16:07 --> 00:16:11 When you say processed food, what do you mean
00:16:11 --> 00:16:14 by processed foods? And I have another question
00:16:14 --> 00:16:17 because I can relate this to like my scenario
00:16:17 --> 00:16:20 as well. Because if someone is like a very busy
00:16:20 --> 00:16:25 individual and they doesn't get the time to do
00:16:25 --> 00:16:27 those cooking to accommodate like some of the
00:16:27 --> 00:16:29 other things. within their work or household
00:16:29 --> 00:16:32 chores or something like that. What advice would
00:16:32 --> 00:16:35 you kind of give them to? Okay. The first thing
00:16:35 --> 00:16:37 first, I'll tell you what processed food means
00:16:37 --> 00:16:43 to me. Okay. It came out of a plant, a construction
00:16:43 --> 00:16:46 plant. Now, I'm not talking about the kind of
00:16:46 --> 00:16:48 plant you eat. I'm talking about, you know, it
00:16:48 --> 00:16:51 was made in a plant. You know, you have a factory
00:16:51 --> 00:16:54 where a factory puts it together, puts it in
00:16:54 --> 00:16:57 a box for you. And you get a product with a big
00:16:57 --> 00:17:00 long list of ingredients, half of which you can't
00:17:00 --> 00:17:01 pronounce because you don't know what they are.
00:17:01 --> 00:17:06 That type of food generally contains lots of
00:17:06 --> 00:17:09 added sugars and lots of added sodium, both of
00:17:09 --> 00:17:12 which as a general rule are very bad for you.
00:17:14 --> 00:17:18 The only types of people who should be, almost
00:17:18 --> 00:17:20 no one should be adding sodium to their diet.
00:17:21 --> 00:17:23 The only ones who should be adding sodium to
00:17:23 --> 00:17:25 their diet are, if you're a construction worker,
00:17:25 --> 00:17:28 someone who works outside, where you're sweating
00:17:28 --> 00:17:32 all the time, you're having fluid loss, yes,
00:17:32 --> 00:17:34 then you probably need to supplement your diet
00:17:34 --> 00:17:36 with some sodium. But if you're just a general
00:17:36 --> 00:17:39 person who sits at a desk like me, you probably
00:17:39 --> 00:17:41 have no business adding sodium to your diet.
00:17:41 --> 00:17:43 You get plenty of it in the foods that you're
00:17:43 --> 00:17:46 eating. Now, added sugars, those are almost always
00:17:46 --> 00:17:50 bad for you. Plus, I want to define sugar. And
00:17:50 --> 00:17:52 define carbohydrates while we're at it. Everyone
00:17:52 --> 00:17:56 says carbohydrates are bad. That's not true.
00:17:56 --> 00:17:59 Bad carbohydrates are bad. Good carbohydrates
00:17:59 --> 00:18:02 are good. And what I mean by that is a piece
00:18:02 --> 00:18:05 of fruit. A piece of fruit is loaded with carbohydrates.
00:18:05 --> 00:18:09 It's loaded with sugars, but it's natural sugars.
00:18:10 --> 00:18:13 And there is lots of fiber in that piece of fruit.
00:18:13 --> 00:18:17 Eat the piece of fruit, the fiber in the fruit.
00:18:17 --> 00:18:21 slows down your body's processing of the sugars
00:18:21 --> 00:18:24 in the fruit. And so it does not cause your blood
00:18:24 --> 00:18:27 sugar to spike. It does not cause you to get
00:18:27 --> 00:18:31 diabetes. I mean, I eat a ton of fruit every
00:18:31 --> 00:18:34 day, and my A1c at my last physical was 5 .7,
00:18:34 --> 00:18:38 which is, just for anyone who knows, 5 .7 is
00:18:38 --> 00:18:40 where they start saying you have prediabetes.
00:18:40 --> 00:18:45 Right, yeah, yeah. And mine was 5 .2, which I
00:18:45 --> 00:18:48 think is good. I eat tons of fruit. But now if
00:18:48 --> 00:18:51 I were eating donuts or eating those little packages
00:18:51 --> 00:18:54 of sugar that you get at the restaurants or eating
00:18:54 --> 00:18:58 foods that have added sugars in them, that's
00:18:58 --> 00:19:02 refined sugar. That refined sugar, the fiber
00:19:02 --> 00:19:04 has been taken out of it. And because the fiber
00:19:04 --> 00:19:07 has been taken out of it, you eat that stuff.
00:19:07 --> 00:19:10 your blood sugar immediately spikes and it ultimately
00:19:10 --> 00:19:13 causes you to get diabetes. Right. Which is not
00:19:13 --> 00:19:15 good. So that's one thing right there. And in
00:19:15 --> 00:19:18 refined foods, you're going to tend to get way,
00:19:18 --> 00:19:20 sorry, in processed foods, you're going to tend
00:19:20 --> 00:19:23 to get way too much sodium and way too much sugar.
00:19:23 --> 00:19:27 And they put those things in the products just
00:19:27 --> 00:19:29 to make them taste better. And the reason they
00:19:29 --> 00:19:31 try to make them taste better is so that you,
00:19:31 --> 00:19:33 the consumer, will buy more of those products.
00:19:33 --> 00:19:37 They, the vendor, will make more money because
00:19:37 --> 00:19:40 they want your money. This is all about the money.
00:19:40 --> 00:19:42 Well, here's what I'm going to say about that.
00:19:42 --> 00:19:44 Everything I'm telling you right now, I'm not
00:19:44 --> 00:19:47 asking you for your money. Right. Now, don't
00:19:47 --> 00:19:50 get me wrong. I love money. Money's great. And
00:19:50 --> 00:19:52 if someone wants to hire me privately to work
00:19:52 --> 00:19:55 with me. I will work with them privately. But
00:19:55 --> 00:19:58 I take all of my materials, all of my books,
00:19:59 --> 00:20:01 all of my information is on my websites and it
00:20:01 --> 00:20:04 is available for free. I give it away for free
00:20:04 --> 00:20:07 because I want people to have this information.
00:20:07 --> 00:20:11 To me, the mission is more important than the
00:20:11 --> 00:20:14 money. And I am fortunate that I am a phase in
00:20:14 --> 00:20:18 my life where I can say that. Not everyone can
00:20:18 --> 00:20:21 do that. Not everyone can do that. So that's
00:20:21 --> 00:20:24 what I mean by refined foods. Now, processed
00:20:24 --> 00:20:26 foods. Now, you asked me a second part of the
00:20:26 --> 00:20:28 question. You said, what can people do if they
00:20:28 --> 00:20:30 don't have the time? First of all, that's one
00:20:30 --> 00:20:33 of the reasons I say reduce the amount of processed
00:20:33 --> 00:20:36 food, not totally eliminate it. Because I realize
00:20:36 --> 00:20:39 not everyone has the time or not everyone is
00:20:39 --> 00:20:42 going to take the time. But there are simple
00:20:42 --> 00:20:46 things you can do. You can start, you can take,
00:20:46 --> 00:20:48 you need to take a little bit of time. You can
00:20:48 --> 00:20:53 make. your own lunch. If you work, I work with
00:20:53 --> 00:20:55 a lot of outdoor workers, you know, landscape
00:20:55 --> 00:20:57 workers, that type of thing. And he says, I don't
00:20:57 --> 00:21:00 have time. I go to Burger King, McDonald's, and
00:21:00 --> 00:21:05 I get whatever food there is. And I say, you
00:21:05 --> 00:21:08 need to make yourself a bag or take a little
00:21:08 --> 00:21:11 cooler. And then that cooler, put some fruit,
00:21:11 --> 00:21:14 make yourself a sandwich if you want. You know,
00:21:14 --> 00:21:16 something that's healthy on there. Maybe eliminate
00:21:16 --> 00:21:19 the cheese from it. Get rid of the dairy. Put
00:21:19 --> 00:21:21 that in there. Take yourself some nuts. And when
00:21:21 --> 00:21:24 I tell people to eat nuts, I tell them raw is
00:21:24 --> 00:21:28 better and unsalted. And the reason why I say
00:21:28 --> 00:21:31 that is when you go to, when most nuts you buy
00:21:31 --> 00:21:34 that are roasted, they roast them in peanut oil.
00:21:34 --> 00:21:38 So when they do that, it adds more calories to
00:21:38 --> 00:21:41 the nuts and more fat to the nuts. If you take
00:21:41 --> 00:21:44 raw ones, it doesn't have that added fat, doesn't
00:21:44 --> 00:21:47 have the added oil, and it does not have the
00:21:47 --> 00:21:50 added sodium. Right. Put that in your bag and
00:21:50 --> 00:21:52 you take that with you. I tell my wife, she's
00:21:52 --> 00:21:54 outdoors all the time. She says, I didn't have
00:21:54 --> 00:21:57 time to eat. I keep in the house, I keep a container
00:21:57 --> 00:22:01 full of nuts, raw nuts. I have an air fryer.
00:22:02 --> 00:22:04 I throw them in the air fryer for eight minutes.
00:22:04 --> 00:22:06 And when you do that, it brings out the oil.
00:22:06 --> 00:22:09 They taste roasted. It brings out the oils that
00:22:09 --> 00:22:13 are in the nuts, but it doesn't add any oil to
00:22:13 --> 00:22:15 it. Oh, right. And it makes them taste delicious.
00:22:15 --> 00:22:18 That's a very good thing. Everything I'm telling
00:22:18 --> 00:22:21 you, all of this is on my websites. So anybody
00:22:21 --> 00:22:24 can go there and get that. But anyway, and I
00:22:24 --> 00:22:26 tell her, take a baggie with you, put that stuff
00:22:26 --> 00:22:29 in there, and you have that. Did that sort of
00:22:29 --> 00:22:32 make sense? It takes a little bit of work, but
00:22:32 --> 00:22:34 it's changing your habits. No, wonderfully, that
00:22:34 --> 00:22:38 really, really does make sense. Okay. What would
00:22:38 --> 00:22:40 you, do you have any questions? What would you
00:22:40 --> 00:22:44 like to talk about? This is my website. That's
00:22:44 --> 00:22:47 wonderful. Thank you so much, Stanley, for sharing
00:22:47 --> 00:22:51 those really, really helpful tips. And I think
00:22:51 --> 00:22:54 because I myself, I'm currently on a weight loss
00:22:54 --> 00:22:58 journey. My experience was pretty, pretty much
00:22:58 --> 00:23:06 similar to you back in 2021. I actually, because
00:23:06 --> 00:23:10 I measure weights in kilograms. Yes. So I actually.
00:23:10 --> 00:23:14 was able to lose around 38 kilograms at that
00:23:14 --> 00:23:18 time good but what happened is that After a series
00:23:18 --> 00:23:22 of excuses that I can say, I gained all those
00:23:22 --> 00:23:25 weight back and more. I've done that many times,
00:23:25 --> 00:23:29 so don't feel bad. And more. So currently, I
00:23:29 --> 00:23:31 know it's a very, very unhealthy lifestyle. So
00:23:31 --> 00:23:33 currently, I'm again embarking on that journey
00:23:33 --> 00:23:37 of losing weight. So I have lost around four
00:23:37 --> 00:23:41 kilograms of weight in the past one month. But
00:23:41 --> 00:23:44 I'm trying to drive through it. The way that
00:23:44 --> 00:23:49 I'm following that is through tracking my macros,
00:23:49 --> 00:23:52 the calories that I eat, trying to do it within
00:23:52 --> 00:23:55 1500 calorie diet. So, yeah. Do you have any
00:23:55 --> 00:23:58 advice on that? Yes, I do have advice. First
00:23:58 --> 00:24:01 of all. That website that you directed people
00:24:01 --> 00:24:05 to is my, that's where my resume is. And that
00:24:05 --> 00:24:07 will link you to all my other websites. But I
00:24:07 --> 00:24:10 have two main websites. And the second one is
00:24:10 --> 00:24:14 what's important. Millionpoundweightlosschallenge
00:24:14 --> 00:24:16 .com. Can you see this on the screen? Yes, we
00:24:16 --> 00:24:19 can. Okay. Now, and both of these two sites link
00:24:19 --> 00:24:22 to each other. Okay. But I have tons of weight
00:24:22 --> 00:24:25 loss information on there and it's healthy weight
00:24:25 --> 00:24:28 loss information. Now that site, you have to
00:24:28 --> 00:24:30 create an account, but it's a free account, but
00:24:30 --> 00:24:33 you have to create an account. I did that on
00:24:33 --> 00:24:36 purpose because I wanted to control who goes
00:24:36 --> 00:24:38 on that site and what they do, because I did
00:24:38 --> 00:24:41 not, I wanted to create a safe space for people
00:24:41 --> 00:24:42 who want to lose weight. I didn't want to create
00:24:42 --> 00:24:46 a place where trolls go to make fun of me. trying
00:24:46 --> 00:24:48 to lose weight. Right. Okay. That's wonderful.
00:24:49 --> 00:24:51 Now let's respond to what you were saying. First
00:24:51 --> 00:24:53 of all, my weight loss philosophy has become
00:24:53 --> 00:24:56 different. It has been years since I counted
00:24:56 --> 00:24:59 calories. Again, that doesn't mean calories are
00:24:59 --> 00:25:03 unimportant. They are. But my philosophy is that
00:25:03 --> 00:25:06 if you make a commitment that you're only going
00:25:06 --> 00:25:09 to put healthy food in your mouth and you're
00:25:09 --> 00:25:12 going to quit eating when you're full, you can
00:25:12 --> 00:25:13 pretty much eat whatever you want, whenever you
00:25:13 --> 00:25:16 want, and you're going to get in shape. That's
00:25:16 --> 00:25:19 true. You are. And first of all, I'm going to
00:25:19 --> 00:25:22 give you an invitation right now. I like you,
00:25:22 --> 00:25:26 doctor. You seem like a very kind, generous man.
00:25:26 --> 00:25:28 I want to trade personal information with you.
00:25:29 --> 00:25:32 And afterwards, if you want to do a private Zoom
00:25:32 --> 00:25:35 and we sit down and talk, I would love to help
00:25:35 --> 00:25:38 you in any way I can. And you can report back
00:25:38 --> 00:25:42 to your listeners as they watch and as they gradually
00:25:42 --> 00:25:44 see less and less and less of you. Yeah, they
00:25:44 --> 00:25:48 do like, do interact and connect with me. And
00:25:48 --> 00:25:51 I have shared my journey like with them that
00:25:51 --> 00:25:53 I'm embarking on that. So I would really, really
00:25:53 --> 00:25:56 take on that opportunity and that would be really
00:25:56 --> 00:26:00 helpful. And also that's a way for them to understand
00:26:00 --> 00:26:02 that it actually works. It does. This actually
00:26:02 --> 00:26:05 works. You can do it. That's a magic. They don't
00:26:05 --> 00:26:07 believe that weight loss is a magic that just
00:26:07 --> 00:26:10 appears. Do we have five more minutes? Yeah,
00:26:10 --> 00:26:14 sure, sure. Okay, here. Sure. I've identified
00:26:14 --> 00:26:17 four things that determine whether or not you're
00:26:17 --> 00:26:20 going to be successful. And these four things
00:26:20 --> 00:26:23 are part of my whole system. This is my whole
00:26:23 --> 00:26:26 system. You see it on the big chart behind me
00:26:26 --> 00:26:28 as well. But this is my whole system and this
00:26:28 --> 00:26:31 is on my website. Okay. And these are the four
00:26:31 --> 00:26:34 things. The first one is willingness. Okay. If
00:26:34 --> 00:26:38 you want to succeed, you have to be willing to.
00:26:38 --> 00:26:42 permanently do what it takes for the rest of
00:26:42 --> 00:26:45 your hopefully very long, hopefully very healthy,
00:26:46 --> 00:26:49 hopefully very happy life. You have to be willing
00:26:49 --> 00:26:52 to do what it takes, but I'm going to make it
00:26:52 --> 00:26:54 easier for you. You don't have to do that. You
00:26:54 --> 00:26:57 get to do that. It is your privilege to do that.
00:26:57 --> 00:27:00 You are still alive. You are still breathing.
00:27:00 --> 00:27:04 You can do those things. It's your privilege
00:27:04 --> 00:27:06 to do it. If you're dead, it's too late. It's
00:27:06 --> 00:27:09 no longer your force. You can't do it. You're
00:27:09 --> 00:27:10 still alive. You're still breathing. So it's
00:27:10 --> 00:27:13 not too late. But you have to be willing to do
00:27:13 --> 00:27:16 what it takes for the rest of your life. Now,
00:27:16 --> 00:27:19 the second one, you mentioned it. Belief, okay?
00:27:20 --> 00:27:22 Belief. I've already told you. I learned that
00:27:22 --> 00:27:25 I am more powerful than I ever imagined. And
00:27:25 --> 00:27:28 I suggested to your listeners that so are you.
00:27:28 --> 00:27:31 Well, here you go. You are more powerful than
00:27:31 --> 00:27:34 you ever imagined. Remember that. Believe it.
00:27:34 --> 00:27:37 Act upon that belief. You have it within you.
00:27:38 --> 00:27:41 Look, I failed many times. I mean, I had times
00:27:41 --> 00:27:44 where I lost 100 and put weight back on. That's
00:27:44 --> 00:27:48 what? 50, 60 kilos. I lost that much weight and
00:27:48 --> 00:27:53 put it back on. But ultimately, I lost 102 kilos
00:27:53 --> 00:27:58 and kept it off. Yeah. That's amazing. That's
00:27:58 --> 00:27:59 the difference between these two pictures is
00:27:59 --> 00:28:04 102 kilos. Pretty crazy, isn't it? Now, believe
00:28:04 --> 00:28:07 it, but I told you. I'm a pretty confident man.
00:28:07 --> 00:28:11 I was raised to be confident. I was talking about
00:28:11 --> 00:28:14 confidence. Yet the experience of doing what
00:28:14 --> 00:28:20 I did blew my mind. I surprised myself. I surpassed
00:28:20 --> 00:28:24 my own beliefs. So the lesson for you is you
00:28:24 --> 00:28:28 can do it to surpass your own beliefs. Get rid
00:28:28 --> 00:28:30 of your limits. That's one of the reasons I walk
00:28:30 --> 00:28:33 as much as I do. It's not because I'm crazy.
00:28:33 --> 00:28:36 It's because I enjoy the walking. It's meditative
00:28:36 --> 00:28:40 for me, and I do it because I can. I want to
00:28:40 --> 00:28:43 see what I can do. I'm 66 years old, and I've
00:28:43 --> 00:28:46 logged from Los Angeles almost to London last
00:28:46 --> 00:28:49 year. Over the last 17 years since that date
00:28:49 --> 00:28:52 I told you I woke up, February 1st, 2009, if
00:28:52 --> 00:28:55 you take the Earth at the equator, I've gone
00:28:55 --> 00:28:59 around the globe 2 .92 times. And on my present
00:28:59 --> 00:29:02 pace, June or July, it'll be three times when
00:29:02 --> 00:29:05 I'll get around. Wow. And I'm not stopping. I'm
00:29:05 --> 00:29:08 doing it because you can do things and you don't
00:29:08 --> 00:29:10 have to do what I do. The world already has one
00:29:10 --> 00:29:13 Stanley. It doesn't need another, but it does
00:29:13 --> 00:29:17 need you to be the best you that you can be.
00:29:17 --> 00:29:20 And it needs you to be happy, healthy, and wise.
00:29:21 --> 00:29:24 Now, we're almost done. Discipline. I don't mean
00:29:24 --> 00:29:27 punishment. What you're doing does not need to
00:29:27 --> 00:29:29 be punishment. It doesn't need to feel like punishment.
00:29:29 --> 00:29:32 I'm talking about self -discipline. identifying
00:29:32 --> 00:29:34 all your negative habits. Yes, there's the website.
00:29:34 --> 00:29:37 There you go. Identifying all your negative habits
00:29:37 --> 00:29:41 and eliminating them. For me, it was drinking
00:29:41 --> 00:29:45 alcohol. Boom, gone. That's a message from one
00:29:45 --> 00:29:48 of our first members. She totally changed her
00:29:48 --> 00:29:52 life. Now, you eliminate your negative habits.
00:29:52 --> 00:29:55 I was drinking every day. Gone. Drinking soda
00:29:55 --> 00:29:58 pop every day. Gone. On my rear end every day.
00:29:59 --> 00:30:01 Gone. And then replacing it with positive habits.
00:30:01 --> 00:30:04 Eating healthy food. Putting healthy food in
00:30:04 --> 00:30:07 my mouth. Positive habit. Walking every day.
00:30:07 --> 00:30:11 Positive habit. And things like that. That's
00:30:11 --> 00:30:13 what I mean by discipline. It's adjusting your
00:30:13 --> 00:30:16 habits accordingly. But now let's make it all
00:30:16 --> 00:30:19 even easier. Commitment. When you become 100
00:30:19 --> 00:30:22 % committed to something, it becomes easier.
00:30:22 --> 00:30:26 I'll give you an example. I am 100 % committed.
00:30:26 --> 00:30:29 that no unhealthy food is going to enter my mouth.
00:30:30 --> 00:30:33 Right. Before Christmas, I had another lawyer
00:30:33 --> 00:30:36 who I worked with. They delivered gourmet cupcakes
00:30:36 --> 00:30:39 and cookies to me. They obviously didn't know
00:30:39 --> 00:30:41 how I eat, but they delivered gourmet cupcakes
00:30:41 --> 00:30:43 and cookies. The thought of eating them never
00:30:43 --> 00:30:46 occurred to me. I didn't ask myself, could I
00:30:46 --> 00:30:48 eat one of these cupcakes or cookies? I could.
00:30:49 --> 00:30:51 I mean, I have no doubt in my mind that if I
00:30:51 --> 00:30:53 ate one of those cupcakes or cookies, I would
00:30:53 --> 00:30:57 not put on 100 pounds. I also know that I have
00:30:57 --> 00:31:00 no business eating cupcakes or cookies. I have
00:31:00 --> 00:31:03 already eaten my lifetime share of cupcakes and
00:31:03 --> 00:31:06 cookies. I've eaten your lifetime share of cupcakes
00:31:06 --> 00:31:08 and cookies. And I have probably eaten 20 other
00:31:08 --> 00:31:11 people's lifetime share of cupcakes and cookies.
00:31:12 --> 00:31:14 I don't need them anymore. And I'm going to share
00:31:14 --> 00:31:17 with you another little tip. You can taste food
00:31:17 --> 00:31:19 without putting it in your mouth. I looked at
00:31:19 --> 00:31:21 those cupcakes and cookies and I immediately
00:31:21 --> 00:31:24 envisioned what they tasted like. I could literally
00:31:24 --> 00:31:27 taste it in my mouth. I knew what it tasted like
00:31:27 --> 00:31:30 because I've had these before. And then I gave
00:31:30 --> 00:31:32 the cupcakes and cookies to a neighbor who's
00:31:32 --> 00:31:35 very skinny, who likes that kind of food. I gave
00:31:35 --> 00:31:37 them to her and she was grateful and everybody
00:31:37 --> 00:31:39 was happy. That's because I'm 100 % committed.
00:31:39 --> 00:31:42 I'm 100 % committed that I'm going to walk every
00:31:42 --> 00:31:44 day. And by walking every day, my definition
00:31:44 --> 00:31:47 is that I walk at least two hours a day every
00:31:47 --> 00:31:49 day. Now, I walk a lot more than that. I walk
00:31:49 --> 00:31:53 five or six hours a day. But I work from home,
00:31:53 --> 00:31:57 have a computer on my treadmill at home, so I
00:31:57 --> 00:32:00 am able to work while I'm walking. So I've combined
00:32:00 --> 00:32:03 tasks. Not everyone can do that. I'm not telling
00:32:03 --> 00:32:05 you have to do that. I'm telling you walk 20
00:32:05 --> 00:32:08 minutes a day. And if you have two legs, and
00:32:08 --> 00:32:11 unless you're crippled or infirm, you should
00:32:11 --> 00:32:13 be able to do that. And if you can't do 20, do
00:32:13 --> 00:32:19 10. Do five. Do something. When I started walking,
00:32:20 --> 00:32:22 I had trouble walking two blocks. Yeah, for sure.
00:32:23 --> 00:32:26 It does indeed take some habit to develop walking
00:32:26 --> 00:32:29 regularly. And I really like, Stanley, how you
00:32:29 --> 00:32:32 mentioned about... Training your mindset of not
00:32:32 --> 00:32:36 having food or not resist that craving of food
00:32:36 --> 00:32:39 when you see that. So this is one of the vital
00:32:39 --> 00:32:41 things that is really hard to do, but also it's
00:32:41 --> 00:32:44 really important to do. See, I believe in word
00:32:44 --> 00:32:49 choices. When we say something is hard, it's
00:32:49 --> 00:32:52 going to be hard. It's not hard. Can I tell you
00:32:52 --> 00:32:55 something? Walking around like this was hard.
00:32:56 --> 00:32:59 What I do today is easy compared to that. I'll
00:32:59 --> 00:33:01 give you an example. This happened to me a couple
00:33:01 --> 00:33:04 of years ago. I was in Costco buying bird seed.
00:33:04 --> 00:33:07 They had huge 50 -pound bags of bird seeds. Those
00:33:07 --> 00:33:11 are like 30 kilograms each probably of bird seed.
00:33:11 --> 00:33:16 I bought four of them. That's 200 pounds. It's
00:33:16 --> 00:33:21 probably closer to 25 kilos each. So on that
00:33:21 --> 00:33:26 cart, I had 200 pounds, almost 100 kilos. I'm
00:33:26 --> 00:33:29 pushing this cart through the store. And I'm
00:33:29 --> 00:33:31 huffing and puffing because the cart is heavy,
00:33:31 --> 00:33:33 pushing it to the store. And then I realized
00:33:33 --> 00:33:36 that's how much weight I used to carry on my
00:33:36 --> 00:33:38 body. I used to walk around with my body. And
00:33:38 --> 00:33:40 that's how hard I was making it on myself. What
00:33:40 --> 00:33:43 I do now is easy. If we tell ourselves something's
00:33:43 --> 00:33:46 going to be hard, it's going to be hard. If we
00:33:46 --> 00:33:49 believe we can do something, we can do it. If
00:33:49 --> 00:33:51 we don't believe we can do something, we're not
00:33:51 --> 00:33:53 going to be able to do it. Our minds, listen,
00:33:53 --> 00:33:56 that's why I talked about diet. Diet is also
00:33:56 --> 00:33:59 the thoughts you put. in your head. I'm telling
00:33:59 --> 00:34:04 you right now, 90 % of what it takes to lose
00:34:04 --> 00:34:07 weight in a healthy manner is between your ears.
00:34:07 --> 00:34:10 Right. Yeah. And that applies to any addiction
00:34:10 --> 00:34:14 that applies to any area of your life where you
00:34:14 --> 00:34:17 want to improve yourself. Now, realize something
00:34:17 --> 00:34:19 here. When you're embarking on this journey,
00:34:19 --> 00:34:23 the goal is not perfection. The goal is excellence.
00:34:23 --> 00:34:27 You are a human being. You are going to mess
00:34:27 --> 00:34:30 up. promise you. You're going to have good days.
00:34:30 --> 00:34:34 You're going to have bad days. You're gonna make
00:34:34 --> 00:34:38 mistakes. Well, mistakes are proof that you're
00:34:38 --> 00:34:40 trying. The question is, what do you do when
00:34:40 --> 00:34:43 you make a mistake? Do you beat yourself over
00:34:43 --> 00:34:46 the head and quit? Do you blame yourself? Do
00:34:46 --> 00:34:49 you punish yourself? Or do you say, I messed
00:34:49 --> 00:34:52 up. Here's what I've learned from that. I'm going
00:34:52 --> 00:34:54 to do better tomorrow. There's an old saying,
00:34:55 --> 00:34:58 fall down seven times, get up eight. Every time
00:34:58 --> 00:35:01 you fall down, get going. It's all about to be
00:35:01 --> 00:35:03 successful in anything. It requires two things.
00:35:03 --> 00:35:07 It requires starting and it requires never stopping.
00:35:07 --> 00:35:10 That's what it requires. Start and never stop.
00:35:10 --> 00:35:12 If you have a good day, whatever. If you had
00:35:12 --> 00:35:15 a bad day, start again. Now, your goal is simple.
00:35:15 --> 00:35:18 You want to beat yesterday. You want to do better
00:35:18 --> 00:35:21 today than you did yesterday, better tomorrow
00:35:21 --> 00:35:24 than you did today. Now, if you have a bad day
00:35:24 --> 00:35:27 and you mess up. As long as you get started again
00:35:27 --> 00:35:31 the next day, that's okay. That is beating yesterday.
00:35:31 --> 00:35:34 Because in the past, whenever you messed up,
00:35:34 --> 00:35:37 you quit. But now if you mess up, you say, okay,
00:35:37 --> 00:35:39 I messed up. I'm going to start again. That's
00:35:39 --> 00:35:41 better than yesterday. You did a better job.
00:35:41 --> 00:35:46 Good. Keep going. See, I am now in year 18 of
00:35:46 --> 00:35:48 beating yesterday. That's how I am able to do
00:35:48 --> 00:35:51 what I do. This did not happen overnight. It
00:35:51 --> 00:35:55 was not a straight line. I had good days. I had
00:35:55 --> 00:36:00 bad days. I had successes. I had failures. But
00:36:00 --> 00:36:02 I got started and I never stopped. And that's
00:36:02 --> 00:36:05 what I suggest to people. Get started. Never
00:36:05 --> 00:36:08 stop. All this, everything I'm talking about,
00:36:08 --> 00:36:12 it's all on my main website. The easiest thing
00:36:12 --> 00:36:16 is if people go to thewayofexcellence .com, and
00:36:16 --> 00:36:17 if you have that, and if you can put that in
00:36:17 --> 00:36:20 the show notes, thewayofexcellence .com, if you
00:36:20 --> 00:36:23 go there. At the bottom of the page, there's
00:36:23 --> 00:36:25 also a link to the Weight Loss website. So you
00:36:25 --> 00:36:28 can get to both of them through there. And that
00:36:28 --> 00:36:31 website has all of my books listed on it for
00:36:31 --> 00:36:33 free digital download. They're yours for free.
00:36:33 --> 00:36:36 You don't have to do anything. You can contact
00:36:36 --> 00:36:37 me through there if you want to contact me, if
00:36:37 --> 00:36:39 you have questions, if you want to say thank
00:36:39 --> 00:36:41 you, if you want to work with me privately, whatever,
00:36:41 --> 00:36:43 you can do that. And you can go to the Weight
00:36:43 --> 00:36:46 Loss website. Create an account on there. It's
00:36:46 --> 00:36:49 set up. It's set up as a system where you just
00:36:49 --> 00:36:52 start. Start here. Go step one, step two, step
00:36:52 --> 00:36:54 three, all the way through. And it helps you
00:36:54 --> 00:36:57 get going. Because I'm a believer in systems.
00:36:57 --> 00:36:59 Make this simple so that everyone can do it.
00:37:00 --> 00:37:02 Thank you so much, Stanley, for sharing those
00:37:02 --> 00:37:04 wonderful words of wisdom and encouragement.
00:37:04 --> 00:37:08 And from your own personal experience, I'm sure
00:37:08 --> 00:37:11 I personally have benefited. a lot from those
00:37:11 --> 00:37:13 discussions and it really really helped me to
00:37:13 --> 00:37:17 get some ideas of what i need to modify in my
00:37:17 --> 00:37:20 diet and build that habit of walking and i'm
00:37:20 --> 00:37:23 sure it also is affecting millions of our listeners
00:37:23 --> 00:37:26 who are listening to this podcast and around
00:37:26 --> 00:37:29 the world and how they can motivate and train
00:37:29 --> 00:37:31 their mindset with your words of encouragement
00:37:31 --> 00:37:35 and with your resources dear listeners i'm going
00:37:35 --> 00:37:38 to list stanley's resources the website in the
00:37:38 --> 00:37:41 description of the podcast as well as in youtube
00:37:41 --> 00:37:45 and in on the other channels also if you wish
00:37:45 --> 00:37:47 to know more about stanley and his resources
00:37:47 --> 00:37:50 and its methods and techniques one way of doing
00:37:50 --> 00:37:53 that is visiting our website activeactionlab
00:37:53 --> 00:37:57 .com search stanley's name you how his webpage
00:37:57 --> 00:38:00 will appear and that webpage will have all the
00:38:00 --> 00:38:04 links bios and everything of stanley in one area
00:38:04 --> 00:38:08 so that you can access those easily can i revise
00:38:08 --> 00:38:10 one thing that you said yeah for sure you said
00:38:10 --> 00:38:13 stanley these are all things that you have to
00:38:13 --> 00:38:15 do nope You don't have to do them. You get to
00:38:15 --> 00:38:18 do them. Again, that's correct, Stanley. Yes,
00:38:18 --> 00:38:21 I get to do them because I'm alive. Thank you
00:38:21 --> 00:38:23 so much, Stanley, for your wonderful words of
00:38:23 --> 00:38:26 wisdom and for joining to this podcast. I'm sure
00:38:26 --> 00:38:29 our listeners will have a lot of questions after
00:38:29 --> 00:38:32 this, but if they do, again, dear listeners,
00:38:32 --> 00:38:34 you will have those links so you can contact
00:38:34 --> 00:38:37 with Stanley if you want to learn more. We're
00:38:37 --> 00:38:40 both here to help. No doubt about it. Thank you
00:38:40 --> 00:38:42 again, Stanley, for joining the podcast. Dear
00:38:42 --> 00:38:44 listeners, if you have enjoyed the episode, please
00:38:44 --> 00:38:46 feel free to share it with your friends and family
00:38:46 --> 00:38:49 who you also might think could benefit from Stanley's
00:38:49 --> 00:38:51 words of wisdom and keep listening to our podcast.
00:38:52 --> 00:38:54 I'll meet you in another episode, another day
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