Back-to-School Reset: How to Recommit and Refine Your Health Goals
The Fasting Method Podcast
Megan Ramos Nutrition Inc
4.8 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Episode #221
As September rolls in, Terri and Heather invite you to embrace a "back-to-school" mindset—because it's the perfect season for fresh starts.
In this week's episode, they share practical strategies to recommit to your weight-loss and health journey, fine-tune what's working, and leave behind what isn't. Whether you've hit a plateau or just need a renewed sense of motivation, this episode will help you step into fall with clarity, confidence, and a plan that feels doable.
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Summary Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:30 September as a fresh start, like the new school year
05:26 We are works in progress
07:00 Breaking your goal up into manageable chunks
12:39 Promotion - Beyond Knowing: Living Your Transformation
13:53 Two biggest reasons for failure to reach goals
15:28 Start with a base level of skills and build from there
19:14 September - recommit, audit, and refine
20:46 Pace and keeping records
25:18 Commit to consistency
31:44 Progress not perfection
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| 0:00.0 | you build from those base level of skills |
| 0:02.5 | as you progress through your education. We start with basic math and we get to calculus. We don't start there. And I think that's another thing that people need to recognize is that they wanna come into this thing as experts. Ain't no such thing as a beginner expert. I'm |
| 0:21.7 | I'm going to be |
| 0:22.8 | I'm going to ain't no such thing as a beginner expert. |
| 0:29.3 | Welcome back to another episode of the Fasting Method podcast. |
| 0:34.4 | This is Coach Terry Lance and I am joined by Coach Heather Shicker. |
| 0:35.9 | Heather, how are you today? |
| 0:38.3 | Doing great as usual, Terry. How are you? I'm very well, thanks. |
| 0:40.3 | All right, Heather, well, I think you and I have a great topic that we're going to talk about today. |
| 0:45.3 | We're both smiling right now because I think we get kind of excited about this kind of stuff. |
| 0:50.3 | You can feel the energy. Good thing we're not doing this on a video because then people will be like, why are they |
| 0:56.2 | smiling so much? |
| 0:58.2 | We're going to talk about an important theme at TFM right now, and that is September being |
| 1:04.3 | a time to recommit to your strategies that you're doing and your goals and to refine how you're doing it. |
| 1:14.9 | So, Heather, I was thinking about this. |
| 1:18.0 | And I was thinking about everyone knows I love to speak in analogies. |
| 1:23.3 | I think you do as well. |
| 1:24.7 | I'm still thinking about the video game analogy episode that you gave us. |
| 1:29.8 | I was thinking about my former career, my first career as a middle school teacher. Yes, I paid my |
| 1:37.4 | penance as six years as a middle school teacher. But one of the things I really remember about that as we come into September is, |
| 1:47.9 | as much as I disliked having to let go of my summer, September was exciting because it was a fresh start. |
| 1:55.8 | It was a new beginning. |
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