The Steven Mueller Interview: We talk with the owner of 3 Discover Strength locations and discuss his health journey which included losing 100lbs of fat and transforming his physique and career path!

That is great.

And I love the intro.

I think it was important to have that foundation.

And I know people are going to ask, so let's kind of get it early.

You lost 50 pounds initially, and then you switched and you lost the other 50 pounds.

Obviously, you know, from our conversations.

Weight training does not burn the calories.

Your diet has to burn the calories, but your physique transformed probably quicker because you're putting in less time.

So even if everything was equal, you put in much less time going to discover strength versus going to, you know, lifetime fitness every single day.

What dietary changes did you make? Because people are going to hear you dropped 100 pounds.

Yeah.

What would you do?

Well, and again, you get into these polarization-type conversations with people around what is the diet, what's the nutrition, and everybody's got to kind of figure out what works for them, right? Thermodynamics and basically creating a deficit is the critical component.

How you actually achieve that, you can achieve it in lots of different ways.

For me personally, I think the transformation happened, the mental model shifted dramatically which was, I love carbohydrates as much as the next person loves carbohydrates.

But what I started to do was have one night a week where basically from 5 p.m. until 10 p.m. and do whatever I want.

I don't weigh stuff.

I don't measure stuff.

I don't think about it.

I just enjoy.

And that's one night a week.

And I literally in my brain say, That's the only time I get to do it, and every other day is off limits.

No sugar any other day, no carbs any other day.

And then I think complementary to that was eliminating breakfast.

You can call it whatever type of fasting you want to call it, but last meal at 6 p.m. at night, and you don't eat again until noon the next day.

That is great.

And I love the intro.

I think it was important to have that foundation.

And I know people are going to ask, so let's kind of get it early.

You lost 50 pounds initially, and then you switched and you lost the other 50 pounds.

Obviously, you know, from our conversations.

Weight training does not burn the calories.

Your diet has to burn the calories, but your physique transformed probably quicker because you're putting in less time.

So even if everything was equal, you put in much less time going to discover strength versus going to, you know, lifetime fitness every single day.

What dietary changes did you make? Because people are going to hear you dropped 100 pounds.

Yeah.

What would you do?

Well, and again, you get into these polarization-type conversations with people around what is the diet, what's the nutrition, and everybody's got to kind of figure out what works for them, right? Thermodynamics and basically creating a deficit is the critical component.

How you actually achieve that, you can achieve it in lots of different ways.

For me personally, I think the transformation happened, the mental model shifted dramatically which was, I love carbohydrates as much as the next person loves carbohydrates.

But what I started to do was have one night a week where basically from 5 p.m. until 10 p.m. and do whatever I want.

I don't weigh stuff.

I don't measure stuff.

I don't think about it.

I just enjoy.

And that's one night a week.

And I literally in my brain say, That's the only time I get to do it, and every other day is off limits.

No sugar any other day, no carbs any other day.

And then I think complementary to that was eliminating breakfast.

You can call it whatever type of fasting you want to call it, but last meal at 6 p.m. at night, and you don't eat again until noon the next day.