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Lean With Plants

8 Stupid Mistakes I Made Before Losing 40lbs

Lean With Plants

Chelsea Mae Cullen

Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.9952 Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Why does weight loss work for a while… then quietly fall apart?

In this episode, I break down the hidden reasons weight loss doesn’t stick for most women. Not willpower, hormones, or motivation, but common mistakes and patterns that keep people repeating the same cycle without realizing it.

We talk about why “trying harder” backfires, how inconsistency creeps in, and what actually needs to change for results to last.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing everything right but still not seeing progress, this episode will give you the clarity you’ve been missing.


If you’re ready to do whatever is required to succeed for your health goals, then book a free consult with our team to talk about making that a reality.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, welcome to the podcast. I'm super excited for this one, which I know I say every time,

0:04.9

because we are going to be talking about the most stupid eight things that women get wrong

0:11.7

when it comes to trying to build long-term weight loss habits.

0:15.0

So if you want to be smarter than 98% of people, get leaner than 98% of people and avoid the dumbest mistakes

0:25.3

and know exactly what to look for so that you don't fall into these common patterns that I see

0:29.8

over and over again, then keep listening because we are going to dive right in.

0:35.4

And I love this quote from Charlie Munger, who is or was RIP, Warren Buffett's partner.

0:42.8

And he said, it's remarkable how much advantage people like us talking about him and Warren, not banks by being super smart, but simply by avoiding being really, really dumb.

0:55.9

And this, by the way,

1:02.2

is someone who was a like a multi-billionaire, one of the richest people alive. So obviously what he says has a little bit of weight and his inversion theory of simply avoiding what people

1:09.8

who fail do was highly successful and has been highly

1:13.8

successful and is an amazing framework to use. So the more that we understand, the things that we need

1:18.2

to avoid them, just simply avoid them, the more long-term success we can see. So let's dive in.

1:24.0

The first mistake that I see is that people always think that their situation is unique.

1:30.3

No many how many times I've heard the same reasons as to why someone can't lose weight.

1:35.0

No matter how many of these patterns occur over and over again, people will think that they are saying what I'm hearing for the first time or that their situation

1:46.2

for some reason is special or different to everyone else. This is so predominant. And even if

1:53.7

you don't think that your situation is unique, you probably think that there is some reason

1:58.4

why you are slightly worse off, why things are slightly harder,

2:02.9

or you have a slightly unique situation. So maybe my situation being unique is less of a

2:10.2

blanket rule and more of a spectrum where everyone will put themselves on the spectrum of harder,

2:16.8

slightly more unique, slightly more tailored, slightly more difficult.

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