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I love it.

And you know what you you did it like you say you did it with diet and exercise right nowadays and social media and society, you know, there's a lot of promotion of getting shots or getting injections or, you know, but What I want you to do is I want you to encourage people, just give a little bit of encouragement on why you think diet and exercise still works, even in the midst of people trying to kind of like expedite this thing and get the shots.

And look, I'm not saying shots are wrong.

I'm not saying they're bad or anything like that.

Yeah.

I think what's happening is people are promoting that more than the exercising and the diet and things of that nature.

Because even after you get the shot, you still have to do that anyway.

You still got to maintain, right? So kind of encourage people on why diet and exercising and doing things the old fashioned way still works.

So with the diet and exercise, when you do it that way, you build your character throughout the journey.

You discover who you truly are by kind of going through that suffering in a way.

My old coach used to tell me all the time, embrace the suck.

And, you know, like I said, this journey, if you're coming from over 400 pounds, if you are living a restrictive lifestyle that is going to suck getting out of.

It's going to be much easier to stay where you are.

But if you embrace the suck, and I'm not saying you have to literally starve yourself or suffer, but if you embrace the suckiness throughout the journey, you will, again, reap the results.

And like...

I'm going to be honest, if the GLPs were as popular as they were when I first started, I probably would have fell into trying them more.

And the reason that I'm saying that is because, yes, it does expedite the process to an extent.

But like you said, you still have to put in the effort.

It's not a magical pill unless you take the shots and you don't eat and then you lose all the weight.

You don't build the habits and then you go right back to where you were once you're done taking it.

These are all things that people don't realize because they are so focused on short-term gratification than the long-term results.

So they want the weight gone, and I respect it.

When I was 435 pounds, my biggest goal was losing the weight as fast as possible.

I just didn't want to be that size anymore.

So that's why I don't judge people who take these shots or get surgery.