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. I'm really excited to talk about the paradox of wanting to create sustainability and your lifestyle

and having habits that stand the test of time while also doing really, really damn hard things.

And I mean, thinking about this, because a lot of people will talk about how they want things

to be sustainable. And quite often when they talk about how they want things to be sustainable and quite often when they

talk about that process and you can apply it to anything this is not just weight loss this could be

work it could be exercise it could be any number of things but they'll talk about wanting to

have an element of their lifestyle now that then gets bought into what they're going to have in the future.

And so we quantify sustainability by saying, well, you know what, I'm going to still be able

to go out to eat or I'm going to still want to have treats.

So I don't want to have to work out like really, really hard every single week.

Or I still want to have my weekends.

So if we're talking about business, growing a business or having a career, when we talk about

sustainability, we're adding in elements that we currently find comfortable and we're saying,

well, sustainability means that I maintain and I have some of those comfortable elements that I

have now. What I want to propose to you is that what sustainability

actually means is that we get really, really good at doing a certain set of activities and we

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