Hey, this is Leo for Actualize.org, and today I want to tell you the story of how I lost

65 pounds in five months and have been able to keep it off for eight years.

So this sounds like something pretty big, right?

And it was for me because actually where I came from, I started from was that I was a

overweight kid my whole life. Kind of hard to see it on me now but that's because

I've lost 65 pounds. I used to weigh 230 something

pounds so about 234 pounds if I recall correctly and then from there I dropped to about 175. So how did I do that? It was a pretty interesting feat and

I want to trace the story of that and I think there will be some interesting

implications for inner game and also how to how to just get big accomplishments in

your life the kind of stuff that you've always wanted to do but have had difficulty getting done.

So for me, ever since about third grade, I was overweight and right after third grade I was pretty heavily overweight as a kid so I went to elementary school middle school

high school and the beginning couple of years of college I was weight throughout that whole time and it was really a challenge for me because it created a lot of

limiting beliefs within myself about who I was what I was able to do, and how I looked.

Because this is not something,

I never had that sense that I was that skinny kid

and then I just got overweight

and then that I had a chance of turning things around.

What I always thought was that, hey, I grew up fat and I was fat most of my life.

That's how I remember myself.

And so I thought that was that was natural at

least for me so some of the limiting kind of beliefs that I had was that you know

it's all genetic at least in my case and I don't really have any control over it because you know what I've tried I tried going on diets I had some brief stints where I tried going to the gym

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