Feel It Before You Get There

Debbie says pleasure equals goal weight.

I like that.

Yes, yes, yes.

That's what we want to do.

You know, again, um, the greatest pleasure you can have really is, is living life at your goal weight that, that if it doesn't feel that way, you're, you're going to be in big trouble.

You know, and most people don't feel that way.

Most people subconsciously associate pain.

So you think about it, right? It may not make logical sense, but let's talk about your nervous system for just a moment.

If your entire life, every time you've thought about losing weight, um, In your entire life, every time you think about losing weight, you've thought about doing a diet that's really hard and difficult.

And so all of a sudden, you're going to take this difficult thing on.

All of a sudden, you're going to not eat your favorite foods.

You're going to feel miserable.

You're going to feel deprived.

You're going to feel frustrated and annoyed.

You're going to be hungry.

You're going to be sleeping worse.

And for most people, that's what they associate to weight.

And weight loss, fine.

And so most people have no ability to imagine being at their goal weight and it being pleasurable.

You have no ability to imagine losing weight in a pleasurable way, right? It doesn't even exist in your mind.

It's not even a concept.

There's nothing there in terms of pleasurable weight loss, living at your goal weight pleasurably, right? Notice that.

Experience that.

It's a blank space, right? In the Zen tradition, the Zen meditation tradition, if you don't know, and I might say this wrong, I've got cones, but what's the sound of one hand clapping? The idea of these questions in part is to cause your brain, well, you've got no, what's the sound of one hand clapping? Well, there's no reference.

It's a blank space, right? So in the Zen tradition, they literally use things like that as a meditation tool.

Debbie says pleasure equals goal weight.

I like that.

Yes, yes, yes.

That's what we want to do.

You know, again, um, the greatest pleasure you can have really is, is living life at your goal weight that, that if it doesn't feel that way, you're, you're going to be in big trouble.

You know, and most people don't feel that way.

Most people subconsciously associate pain.

So you think about it, right? It may not make logical sense, but let's talk about your nervous system for just a moment.

If your entire life, every time you've thought about losing weight, um, In your entire life, every time you think about losing weight, you've thought about doing a diet that's really hard and difficult.

And so all of a sudden, you're going to take this difficult thing on.

All of a sudden, you're going to not eat your favorite foods.

You're going to feel miserable.

You're going to feel deprived.

You're going to feel frustrated and annoyed.

You're going to be hungry.

You're going to be sleeping worse.

And for most people, that's what they associate to weight.

And weight loss, fine.

And so most people have no ability to imagine being at their goal weight and it being pleasurable.

You have no ability to imagine losing weight in a pleasurable way, right? It doesn't even exist in your mind.

It's not even a concept.

There's nothing there in terms of pleasurable weight loss, living at your goal weight pleasurably, right? Notice that.

Experience that.

It's a blank space, right? In the Zen tradition, the Zen meditation tradition, if you don't know, and I might say this wrong, I've got cones, but what's the sound of one hand clapping? The idea of these questions in part is to cause your brain, well, you've got no, what's the sound of one hand clapping? Well, there's no reference.

It's a blank space, right? So in the Zen tradition, they literally use things like that as a meditation tool.