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. If you're struggling to make weight loss long term, if you're wondering how can you do something for the rest of your life, how do you even think about weight loss in a way that is going to help you to stay consistent?

Lifelong, then this episode is for you. What we're going to do is we're going to listen to a replay of a live event that I did recently with the Lena Plant's clients. And I think that this was

super helpful for a lot of people on that replay just in terms of how to think about weight loss.

So I know that it is going to be helpful for you as well. So buckle up, take some notes and let's do

this. Thank you so much for joining us for today. I'm in my new, like, final kind of destination for Austin for the next nine months, which is really, really nice. We're in a house that we've got here, and it's, like, fully furnished, so this is, like, not all my stuff that I've collected in two months. Thank the Lord. I'm not that much of a hoarder. I actually really don't like clutter, so this is going to be interesting. All right. So we're going to get started. Thank you so much, everyone, for being here.

What we're going to do today is we're just going to talk about a few, like, little habits, things, and share like a little bit of a teaching, things that have been on my mind, and then we're going to open up for some questions. Something that we have been, Like I've been really, really thinking about a lot recently as core habits.

And there's this quote that I love from Alex. Something that we have been, like I've been really, really thinking about a lot recently as core habits.

And there's this quote that I love from Alex Walmosey, which is never don't do the basics.

Because consistently what happens with people who don't lose weight and keep it off is that they spiral from some kind of consistent habit routine

into less consistency. We think about weight loss about achieving some kind of destination.

Like, I want to lose 40 pounds. But realistically, long-term weight loss is much more about

just not gaining weight. And I've talked about this concept a lot before, but I'm going to just kind of go into a bit more as well. If we can just think about weight loss, like I don't want to gain, what are the habits of not gaining, then you're always going to achieve your goals and you're going to be able to stay there because that becomes part of your identity. Because if you think about right now, like if you're trying

to lose weight, why? It's because at some point you gained. The reason that you're trying to

lose is because you don't have a habit of not gaining. Does that make sense? So it's kind of

inverting a little bit in that we're not thinking about how do you necessarily achieve a result.

We're doing what Charlie Munger talks about.

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