771: Motivation Monday - How To Lose Over 20lbs And Keep It Off, Deal with Insecurity & Increase Pull-Ups

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🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Welcome to Motivation Monday, where every Monday we answer all of your questions and have some real talks about life & fitness & get you fired up for the week! In this episode we talk about how to lose over 20lbs and keep it off, deal with insecurities and increase pull-ups.

Question 1- For the last few years i’ve had just over 20 pounds to lose. I’ve tried a few times but it hasn’t stuck.How can I do this sustainably this year and lose this weight for good?

Josh quote: "We don't grow when things are easy, we grow when we face challenge."

Kyle quote: “You don’t need a million people to believe in you, you just need 1. “

What has us excited or intrigued:

Client shoutout: Jeff Kimmel

Question 2- Do you ever have those times where you feel like you’re not in good enough shape?

Question 3- I have been strength training regularly for about 6 years, and I can do one pull up. It’s one of my goals this year to be able to rep at least 5 good pull-ups. What are some tips or strategies?

Thanks for listening! We genuinely appreciate every single one of you listening.

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0:00.0	What's going on everybody? Welcome to the fit, healthy, and most of all happy podcast. I'm your
0:06.1	coach and host Josh here with. Is co-hosting co-coach KG and I'm in the house. And this is
0:12.4	Motivation Monday. We are here to fire you up, get you inspired, motivated, educated. And we're
0:17.8	going to jump into it with our primary question that you guys have asked if
0:21.3	you ever want to submit a question for the show i highly recommend just sending us a DM to our
0:25.4	instagram at gloss is fit c-o s us f-it and if you love this show you're going to love the extra
0:31.8	value there we're always posting motivational stories high-level tips nutrition tips giving away
0:36.7	things so it's a great companion
0:38.7	to this podcast i definitely recommend checking this out there say what up any kind message you want to send
0:43.8	us will always take and if you have a question we'd be more than happy to answer it but now we're
0:48.2	going to jump into that first question out of the mailbag and that is in the last few years I've had just over 20 pounds to lose.
0:56.7	I've tried a few times but it hasn't stuck. How can I do this sustainably this year and lose
1:03.1	the weight for good? Yeah, this is a great question and honestly I know a lot of people who are in
1:08.1	this exact situation, obviously from talking to friends,
1:11.5	family members, some of you listeners and people who just talk to us through Instagram.
1:15.7	So I know there have been a lot of people in kind of the same spot for the last little while.
1:21.1	And, you know, the first step is just not beating yourself up over it, just realizing, you know what,
1:26.7	don't think of the failures in the past
1:29.0	don't spend too much time thinking of you know what i wasted so much time i'm a failure i was
1:33.8	never able to do it i don't have what it takes that's going to be a very important step now i'm
1:38.8	going to list out five things and you should take notes on it that you can 100% do to see change
1:43.5	and then josh myself will break each one down one by one giving you different tangibles.
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