The "Who" is important

The first of the year has just passed as we are well on our way to the start of the 2025 season. This is a time for change, new motivation and energy into our goals. While these are all great and should be capitalized on, this year I want us to begin to focus on who we are vs the actions we simply do during this motivational time for change. What does this mean?

Over the course of my wellness journey I have primarily focused on changing my body, the way I interact with my spiritual beliefs and mentally working to shift my perspective on things in life so I can continue to get certain outcomes. This has worked to get me to a place where I’ve lost 197lbs and maintained over 80% of that weight loss, even with some ups and downs over the past 7 years. Anyone who has lost weight naturally without any surgery can tell you keeping it off can be hard, and there’s many reasons for that difficulty that can be out of your control if you don’t understand why things happen. What happened to me that allowed me to maintain 80% but not 100%?

Almost all of 2024 I have been focused on trying to find a diet that worked for me, working to get into fitness and build a routine, slight ups and downs using supplements and programs working to find something I can be consistent with. All of these constant changes caused me to become stressed and I struggled to figure out why what I was doing was not getting me the results I wanted. There’s a couple things I figured out.

1. Constant changes and flipping from program to program doesn’t work. We always end up searching for the next best thing as soon as we feel our progress has slowed. I found out that actually most of what’s out there for weight loss and fitness does indeed work. The problem is that we struggle to stick to the programs for an extended amount of time. A lot of programs don’t tell you about the pitfalls you will face, they don’t tell you the highs and lows and the stalls in progress and what to expect. Let alone the body dysmorphia that can occur when you do have major progress.

2. Fasting alone will not get you to the body that you have envisioned yourself living in. Most of the clients and myself that I have worked with have this mental picture of themselves in a toned body, flat stomach, tight arms, muscular thighs, and 1 single chin. Fasting does an amazing job at stripping and removing fat from the body and decreasing toxins so the body can function more effectively. At my lowest weight of 205 standing a towering 6’4 I assumed I’d be athletic and muscular and beach ready… I was slightly wrong… I had spent so many years focusing on Weight loss I completely neglected muscle production. I looked and felt great but it wasn’t what I envisioned in my mind. This threw me mentally into a spiral searching for answers because this blew up the vision I had for myself and who I was working to become.

3. Who you believe you are is just, if not more important than your actions. The last year (2024) I have been struggling to understand who I was in wellness. My actions were all over the place. One day focused on fitness one day focused on fasting, one day focused on detox. I sat one afternoon after reading a book and said “Who am I.” This lead me to the premise of Identity.

Your identity is comprised of many factors beginning before birth and affects you every single day. up until about 7 years old you are being fed information about who you are and you begin to take on those programs. The more positive feedback you receive as those programs run the more engrained they become and you feel this is you. The problem with that is what and who you have been your entire life is why you are in the situation you are now. so in order to change where you are you have to focus on your identity and who you actually are. This shift in mindset forces you to shine a light on the subconscious mind, no longer allowing it to run its programs in the background. Figuring out deeply why you believe certain things and struggle to make long term change.

This is going to be a huge topic of discussion all 2025 so make sure to keep up to date with this newsletter. I have also created a guide that will assist you in scratching the surface to understanding self and making changes in conjunction with fasting. There are only a few limited copies remaining and when they are sold out the next set will release in a few months, so don’t wait to grab one so you can get a major head start on who you are and how to change the WHO not just the actions of yourself.

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