Hello, welcome to the Lean of Plants podcast. My name is Chelsea and if you are struggling to lose weight on a plant-based diet, then this podcast is for you. While there are thousands of books, podcasts and resources about the benefits of a plant-based diet, the reality is that being vegan does not

guarantee losing weight. If you are feeling frustrated and confused about where to start,

or you know exactly what you should be doing, but you just can't seem to rustle up enough

willpower to do it, then keep listening. In this podcast, you'll learn the truth about plant-based weight loss, but just as importantly,

how to use proven methods of behavioural change to turn what you know into lifelong habits

that lead to getting and staying lean.

Can't wait to get started.

Let's do this.

Music lean. Can't wait to get started. Let's do this. Hello, welcome to the podcast. I'm super excited for this one because it's been a couple of weeks since I have consistently been making content. You might hear it in my voice recovering from the flu. And I was inspired by this idea of how do I stay consistent when life gets really difficult? How do I not gain weight all the time when things kept really

stressful? Because my life is not picture perfect. And from what I can see and surmise on social

media, which is a total fallacy anyway, other people's lives appeal to be really, really good. They've got time to work

out. They've got these kind of beautiful gyms where they film content and they've got access to

year-round cherry tomatoes, which I certainly don't have and sunlight and all of these things

and they're sponsored by amazing companies, clothing companies, and all this stuff.

That's really not actually true. It's a snippet of people's lives. But I think my perception or my tendency to see this as normal or as someone else having an easier method of succeeding because their life feels easier.

I think that's a common theme.

I think that we all feel victimized sometimes and that we all feel like, well, my life is just really hard

and therefore it's going to be more difficult for me to actually see success.

We put this at our ability to succeed on something outside of our control, which is that our circumstances should be better.

I'm here to tell you that you can be successful regardless of your life being difficult,

regardless of you having everything together and your circumstances can be crap. You can still

succeed. The benefit of thinking this way is that you will much more likely achieve your goals.

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