Hi, I'm Ethan Sopli, welcome to American Blood. Outside of acting, my two favorite things

to do are diet and eat. I have a very complicated relationship with food and on this podcast,

we're going to talk about all of it. Food is entertainment, food is sport, food as fuel.

I'll talk to experts and the average person, just like you and me.

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Today I'm talking to Joanna Grover. She is a board-certified coach and a member of the

International Coaching Federation and the Harvard Institute of Coaching. We're talking about her

new book, The Choice Point, and more specifically about functional imagery training.

Joanna Grover, welcome to the American Glutton podcast.

Thank you, Ethan. I'm delighted to be with you today.

So I have lost a lot of weight and I've kept it off and I think that for sure the biggest obstacle,

because many times in the past I lost weight and I found that actually losing weight was not that

hard. It was keeping weight off that seemed to be the hardest part. And then there were also

many times where whatever amount of weight I was looking to lose or whatever kind of idea vaguely,

because I didn't often delineate this quite thoroughly in my mind that I had of like where I wanted

to get. Sure. The motivation to get there was almost impossible. And I think that the way you

think about things and the way you frame things in your mind, play, take up the lion's share of

the actual work. And so I'm so excited to talk to you because your book sounds fantastic and

write up my alley. Oh good. Well, we're going to make sure and get you a copy because it's not out yet,

but you'll get an advanced copy, Ethan. I can't wait. Oh, I'm excited for you to read it.

Well, you said it's so true. The biggest mountains are between our ears, you know, the biggest hurdles

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