#196: Become the Hero of Your Story with Drew Manning

The Mark Groves Podcast

Mark Groves

Education, Relationships, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Themes: Body Image, Mindset, Self-Love, Transformation, Self-Sabotage, Infidelity

Summary:

Drew Manning is a fitness trainer, motivator, New York Times best-selling author, and creator of the Fit2Fat2Fit movement where he shares the lessons learned from his personal experiences of gaining and losing over 75 pounds.

I've been following Drew's work for a while now, and am so excited to have him on the podcast. His message extends well beyond health and fitness, and has empowered millions of people from all over the world with a healthy mindset, greater self-love, and empathy for those around them.

Discover:

What inspired Drew to gain and lose over 75 pounds (on purpose, twice!) and his key takeaways from these experiments
How to approach your health and fitness goals from a place of self-love instead of 'hating yourself to skinny'
Why most people lose motivation and give up on their health goals
Simple practices you can incorporate into your daily routine to help you stick with your goals in moments of discomfort
Drew's experience of divorce, porn addiction and growing up in the Mormon community

Links:

fit2fat2fit.com
Instagram: @fit2fat2fit
Check out my Rediscover Your Wholeness course as mentioned in this episode
The Fit2Fat2Fit Experience Episode 100: Life After Porn, Affairs and Lies

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Organifi | Use code CREATETHELOVE for 20% off all products at organifi.com/createthelove
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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the Mark Rose podcast.
0:12.0	As you know, I really love exploring the edges of how we relate the spaces where we are
0:17.6	experiencing friction or a lack of liberation, where we're not free, where that relationship
0:24.4	that we have actually requires that we don't share our truth or a voice or that drink
0:29.3	we're having is actually treating a feeling.
0:32.3	So are we really in choice or are we using that thing to avoid a feeling that would actually
0:37.8	liberate us into making a certain choice?
0:41.2	And this is why I explore it in every aspect and everything we're in relationship with
0:46.1	can inform us, especially if there is friction or what feels like a lack of choice, which
0:51.8	would ultimately feel like what an addiction is to.
0:55.7	And I've been fascinated by my own relationship with my body and exercise and how being fit
1:04.5	and then not being fit, how those things really informed in a lot of ways how I felt about
1:10.4	myself and the challenges of eating a certain way versus not or avoiding certain foods versus
1:15.5	not.
1:16.5	Like there's something so much more challenging going on than literally just a logical
1:20.9	choice of choose this food and you'll feel better or choose this one and you'll feel worse,
1:26.9	but you'll feel better in a way, right?
1:29.0	And if it was just easy, we'd all choose the broccoli over the pizza, but there's something
1:34.5	about it.
1:35.5	And again, even exploring this idea that it has to be either or restriction or what is considered
1:40.9	not.
1:42.6	And I've always been really inspired and fascinated by the guest today's journey because he
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