Hot Topic: Terri's Top Three Takeaways from Atomic Habits
The Fasting Method Podcast
Megan Ramos Nutrition Inc
4.8 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Episode #209
In this week's episode, Terri shares a summary of three, key takeaways from her favorite book about habit change, Atomic Habits by James Clear.
Terri highlights that, by using these three principles of behavior change in approaching your goals, you will be better able to utilize all the fasting and nutrition knowledge you have been learning, and create sustainable success.
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Summary Timestamps
00:00 Intro
02:48 Three of the most important takeaways from Atomic Habits.
04:58 Small, lifestyle changes compound over time.
08:52 We don't rise to the level of our goals, we fall to the level of our systems.
14:49 Habits don't stick unless we alter our identities.
20:35 The problem with being a foodie.
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| 0:00.0 | Around the time that I had just become a coach with Tfm, and I thought, oh my gosh, this book needs to be required reading for everyone who is on this journey of fasting and eating the way that their body functions best. I thought everyone needs to read this book. |
| 0:29.1 | Welcome back to another episode of the fasting method podcast. |
| 0:35.1 | This is Coach Terry Lance, and I am coming to you today with a solo episode. |
| 0:42.0 | Some of you who have listened to the podcast, or if you've ever been a member of Tfm community, |
| 0:47.4 | you know that I am really interested in self-help books. |
| 0:54.1 | Almost any topic we discuss, almost any question that comes up, I often come back to something I have read or more accurately |
| 0:56.9 | have listened to over the past few years. I recently came across something on YouTube, actually. |
| 1:04.6 | It's by an author of a book that I enjoyed. His name is Mark Manson, and some of you may have read his book, The Art of Not |
| 1:12.9 | Giving a Bleep. And I read his book many years ago and I really enjoyed it. So I thought I would |
| 1:19.0 | watch his video. What he does is he summarized 33 of the books that he thinks are the most |
| 1:25.8 | influential and important to read. |
| 1:28.7 | In this video, number one, and I don't know that they're ranked in order, |
| 1:32.6 | but number one is Atomic Habits by James Clear. |
| 1:36.7 | Now, if you have ever listened to me, |
| 1:39.5 | you probably at some point have heard me talk about this book. |
| 1:43.8 | Because it is one of my favorites, |
| 1:46.5 | I found when I first listened to it, I was driving across the island, the big island in Hawaii. |
| 1:53.2 | I had a couple hours on my hands with nothing really to do, but enjoy beautiful scenery. |
| 1:58.2 | And I listened to this book. And every every couple of minutes I just had to kind of |
| 2:03.6 | stop and think oh my gosh yes this was around the time that I had just become a coach with Tfm |
| 2:10.9 | and I thought oh my gosh this book needs to be required reading for everyone who is on this journey of fasting and eating the way that |
| 2:21.0 | their body functions best. I thought everyone needs to read this book. Oh my gosh, we need a book club. |
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