Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

I've tried to do like a self psychoanalysis on this and I get to a point where I'm five years old I go to visit my grandparents in Vermont and their reaction to me and if I look at a picture of myself as at five years old today I see just like a normal healthy kid with maybe some chubby cheeks, right?

Their reaction to me was like, oh my God, what are your parents doing to you?

You have gone to crap, right?

This is out of hand.

We need to get this under control.

And my favorite food was lasagna, which my grandpa would always make me yeah and he had it

cooking as I arrived I could smell it and I'm there visiting them for the first time

without my mom or dad in Vermont, like super excited.

Their reaction is this, and then they basically were like,

we're not, you can't have a second helping a lasagna.

So in that day was the first time that I snuck food and it was clearing the table and

eating food off their plates.

At the same time, like clearing it and like, yeah, just stuffing in a few bites because I was not allowed to like I reached

for a second helping and got my hand padded like five yeah that's off limits you

you eat what we tell you to do and then the next day they weighed me first thing in the morning which I've never been on a scale before and I'm being weighed and then it was like okay we're going on a one mile walk that is for your benefit and this did a number of things.

It developed the sneaking food habit that developed the habit of wanting to eat privately and the idea that people

witnessing me eating was not good and it also created a weird barrier to me just naturally wanting to be outside and active because at five

I was very active running around but when it was enforced when it was this point of like a punishment

almost yeah this is we're not consulting how willing you are to do this we're not saying

is there something you'd like to do outside. We're saying you must go march on this. It was like a mile to their mailbox and a mile back and like this is not for fun. this is for because you have gotten so overweight.

That really pushed the idea of physical activity into another punishment type thing where I just didn't want to do it anymore.

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