What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the Mind Over Macros Podcast. As always, I am your

host Mike Milner and today I was joined by a special guest.

I had my good friend Nick Ross on the show to talk about the six stages of identity change.

You know that this is something that is near and dear to my heart

because I talk about it all the damn time I'm sure you guys are sick of it by now but

Nick Ross brings a fresh perspective from his own journey,

which in and of itself,

in and of itself, is an incredibly powerful one.

This is somebody who grew up with having no relationship with his father, feeling abandoned by his father, and then going

through a dark depressive-like state was then diagnosed with cancer and turned into survival mode and overcame all the odds that were stacked against him to come out the other side, a completely different person.

Truly, if you ever see like before and after pictures,

body transformations, it's always impressive, I, you know, and I'm always cautious with before and afters because I think that they're great.

However, there's so much below the surface.

There's so much behind that picture the story behind that

picture that doesn't get told sometimes it's a misleading picture sometimes

it's a story that actually paints a very different

picture than what you see in the before and after. Like if somebody were to look at

my before and after when I went from 260 pounds to like a hundred and sixty seven

pounds you would see the physical transformation and you might be like, oh my God, that's incredible.

Congratulations. But what you wouldn't see, what the picture wouldn't tell you is the

depression and the anxiety and the obsessiveness and the it apart and being so obsessed and stressed about my nutrition that I tarnished every

relationship that was meaningful to me at that time. Those pictures don't tell that story.

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