Hey guys, Dr. Ray Highness here and I'd like to welcome you to another episode of the

Cut The Fat Podcast. In today's episode, we actually started with the intention to talk to you guys about high protein low carb diet, but we ended up talking about a question that I had posted on Facebook and some of your answers. And it actually took us on a pretty wild ride. So instead of doing the high protein low carb diet today, we're going to do that on the next podcast. So for today's podcast, we're going to talk about the barriers to successful weight loss. So go ahead and

enjoy the podcast. I hope you get a ton of useful tips out of this that you can apply to your own life. And we'll see you at the next Cut The Fat Podcast.

All right, hello everybody. It's Dr. Ray Highness and I'm joined here with of course, Blythalberg. And we are podcasting for you again. Hey Blyth. Hey, we are back on board. I love it. Yes, we are. So in today's podcast, we're going to touch on high protein diets and talk about.

We're going to talk about the Atkins diet and high protein in general. And then we'll, you know, we'll finish up with what we believe our golden nuggets are or our take home messages from the high protein story.

Is this okay? Sounds great to me.

Now before we do that, you know, I'll point out that we have a Facebook page. It's, are you going to do a search for Cut The Fat Podcast? All one word. Go in there and like it.

You know, what I like to do is post some thoughtful questions. You know, some questions that get people really thinking.

I want to touch on one of the questions that I had asked and some of the answers that people had given. So are you ready? Yeah, I'm ready. Go for it.

How about if I ask you the question and you're going to hit me with the question, okay? Here it is. I know you know the question already because you, you're up on Facebook all the time. But let me go ahead and give you the question and you go ahead and give me your answer.

Okay. It's a mental exercise and here it goes. There are two people who are barriers to your healthy lifestyle. The first person is you.

Okay. Who is the second person and why? And here's the caveat. You must answer. You cannot say that I am the only person responsible.

It has to be someone like your spouse, your kids, your boss, quote, unquote, the man, your lazy dog, your school society as a whole. I don't care what it is, but it can't be you.

We already said there are two people who are responsible or barriers to your healthy lifestyle. One is you and the other is friends.

Can I, can I kind of lump all my friends into one individual? Yeah, I say you can, but you have to explain why.

Okay. I will tell you exactly why because every single time I get invited somewhere with friends, that particular event is a must for them and they put that on me.

So here's a perfect example. My friend Sarah says, oh my gosh, it's my birthday. You have to come. You've got to come to my birthday dinner. It's going to be so much fun.

Got all these people coming. I got a DJ coming. Come on over. We're dressing up. It's a costume party. You've got to come. And I'm like, okay, the only thing is I'm not drinking. And she's like, what, you're not drinking.

And I'm probably going to bring my own food. So I'm just putting it out there that I'm getting ready for something and I'm not going to be eating.

What is available unless it's like celery sticks or something, you know, something, something that follows what I'm eating right now.

So she said, well, this one time, don't you have a cheat meal coming up? Don't you have, you know, one day a week where you can do that? Well, she's trying now to decide that that is going to be the reason why I.

Go off the, you know, go off my program where I usually have my day schedule for like a Wednesday. And of course, her thing falls on a weekend day.

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