Three Key Things People Do to Keep Weight Off Consistently

Dhru Purohit Show

Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Branch Basics and AquaTru. Losing weight is often easier than keeping it off. Crash diets and trendy programs might help you drop pounds quickly, but experts know those clickbait tips don’t last. Today’s guest shares the key traits of people who successfully reach and maintain their weight loss goals. Today on The Dhru Purohit Show, we’re revisiting one of our most talked-about moments with certified personal trainer, nutritionist, and bodybuilding coach Dr. Allan Bacon. Dr. Bacon breaks down the three common traits shared by people who lose weight and keep it off long term and why they work. He also explains how to shift from a restrictive approach to a goal-setting mindset, and how our ability to lose weight changes as we age. Dr. Allan Bacon, who holds a Doctorate in Dental Surgery from the University of Maryland. He is a certified personal trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine, a certified nutritionist and physique/bodybuilding coach, a USA Powerlifting coach, and has over 15 years of experience formulating for leading dietary supplement companies. His work has been featured in Muscle & Fitness, Sci-Fit, the Alan Aragon Research Review, and The Personal Trainer Development Center. Dr. Bacon specializes in helping working adults master their physique, performance, mindset, and habits to achieve sustainable, lifelong results. In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Bacon dive into: Best and worst ways to lose 10 lbs (1:29) Three common characteristics of lifelong, sustained weight loss (2:07) Optimal mindset for maintaining weight loss(11:15) Why weight loss becomes more challenging as we age (17:41) Final thoughts (24:31) Also mentioned: Full episode with Dr. Allan Bacon This episode is brought to you by Branch Basics and Air Doctor. Right now, Branch Basics is offering 15% off the Premium Starter Kit; just go to branchbasics.com and use the coupon code DHRU. Make 2025 your cleanest, healthiest year yet with Branch Basics! Right now, AquaTru is offering my community $50 off their new shower filter. Ready to upgrade your shower? Visit dhrupurohit.com/shower to experience the AquaTru Shower difference. Sign up for Dhru’s Try This Newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone, Drew Brod here.
0:01.5	Today, we're talking about three commonalities between people who lose weight and keep it off.
0:07.8	And this is an important conversation for anyone that's ever felt stuck with stubborn weight that just won't budge.
0:13.9	Or maybe, like so many, for the folks that are listening, you've lost weight before only to regain it back again, which is incredibly, incredibly common.
0:22.6	It's actually easy to lose weight. It's hard to keep it off for the long term. So that's why in
0:26.4	today's episode, I'm sharing a powerful segment for my conversation with Dr. Alan Bacon about,
0:30.9	again, the three commonalities of people who lose weight and keep it off long term. Now, a little
0:36.6	bit about Dr. Alan Bacon. He holds
0:39.0	a doctorate in dental surgery from the University of Maryland. He's a certified personal
0:43.3	trainer through the National Academy of Sports Medicine and a certified nutritionist and physique
0:48.1	bodybuilding coach and a USA powerlifting coach. Dr. Bacon specializes in helping adults master their physique,
0:56.2	their performance, their mindset, and habits to achieve sustainable. That's the key to we're here.
1:01.5	Sustainable lifelong results. In our conversation, you'll hear highly actionable tips for
1:06.6	achieving long-term results when it comes to weight loss and your overall health. Again, this is a
1:11.6	clip from a full-length conversation with Dr. Allen Bacon, but we clip this because there's some
1:16.2	gems in here. And even if you're a regular listener of this podcast, you might have missed these
1:20.6	gems. So let's dive into my conversation with Dr. Allen Bacon.
1:36.0	What would you say are the best ways and the worst ways to lose 10 pounds for the person who's listening today?
1:37.0	I mean, the biggest thing that we need to focus on is starting to realize that this is a
1:39.9	long-term journey, right?
1:40.9	And so if we're looking at this as a very short term, I just need to lose 10 pounds in a couple months, it can be a very difficult thing because one of two things happens.
1:48.0	Either you reach that goal and then you lose the drive that you had before because that was your
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