There are many, many virtues and lessons that I learned on my weight loss journey.

Some of them have been just really powerful.

I learned more about myself on my weight loss journey

than I learned the previous 10 years.

Because for the first time ever, I had set out to lose weight with just as much emphasis on keeping it off as I had with getting it off, getting the fat off of my body.

That was new.

That was new.

I had said before that I wanted to keep it off, but I got to be honest. I was just saying that. I didn't mean it. I didn't

like mean it down in my bones. But this last time, the final time when I lost weight, I, um, I set out with the intention to keep it off.

And I looked at maintenance as equal in value and importance as getting the fat off of my body.

And because of that, I had to solve things in a different way.

I had to look at this differently.

I learned a couple of things, though,

that really, really helped me.

And I had to learn them, I had to learn them the hard way, the really hard way, the way that I never let myself do.

There's a, a part of weight loss.

I don't, I don't talk about it enough because, because it hurts.

It's going to hurt you. You're going to feel some pain.

You're going to feel some discomfort. In my case, and in the case for so many, my weight, my fat on my body was the physical manifestation of my unwillingness to experience discomfort and pain.

Emotional discomfort and pain. I was unwilling to feel it. And so I would eat it. I would not move. I would escape into a video game.

I would work myself to death to not let myself feel anything.

I know where I learned that from. In my early 20s, I had a pretty, well, I don't want to get into it too much, but let's just say part. A lot of my personal life really had some really

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