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. All right, all right. Welcome to the podcast. I'm going to be talking about how to not give up all the time when you want to quit. And this is important for two things. Well, I mean, I think we all probably know why not quitting is important. But we've got to figure out, well, how do we actually stop quitting when the hard times come, when the challenges happen, that we can actually keep going because

if you don't quit, then you will reach your goals. If you do quit, you won't. But also just how

to have a lot more confidence for yourself so that you have evidence through the way that you

think about quitting and the way that you think about facing challenges that when they arise,

you know that you can

get going. And I think this is going to give a lot of people a lot of assurance in their journey

because if you don't have an understanding of what you're going to do in these challenging

circumstances where you would normally quit, then you're going to constantly live in fear

that there is going to become a day where something is going to be

essentially bad enough or you're going to feel emotional enough where it just all turns to custard

and maybe all the progress that you've been working super hard for just goes. So let's avoid that

and let's think and operationalize how we avoid quitting differently. The first thing to understand is that there's macro quits and then there's micro quits.

So a macro quit is going to be where you quit on a large scale.

This is where you have been dieting for a couple of months and then you maybe have a bit

of a binge or you have a bit of a weekend, maybe you have a holiday and then what that turns

into is another cycle of months or maybe even years. So that would be like a macro quit where you just,

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