Fasting Space

Today we are looking at what

A sustainable weight loss progress really looks like.

Here's how I wrote it. In the description today.

So we have an idea of easy weight loss.

Fed to us from social feeds and advertisements.

The reality of even the most successful health program,
which hopefully.

We're on track toward it. That's the goal.

It's both slower and more exciting than the promises.

Love that.

Bring it together.

Sustainable success takes time, but

is well worth the investment,
especially when you are finding joy on the journey.

That's the goal
we're here together in the fasting space program.

Spending some time centering ourselves

and, the best thinking,
at least the best thinking I can come up with,

hopefully the best thinking we can come up
with putting our minds and our experiences together

so that we can, encourage, support each other.

Walking forward in health, wellness, flourishing,

that we would be experiencing such a grand vision.

So these are the two sides of the coin

that I really like to explore.

Things like a grand vision, things that are exciting,

big words like flourishing and excitement.

Okay, but also grounded in reality
one of the very first videos

I put on the channel, if you, saw it,
if you scroll back on the, the non life side.

Of the channel.

I think it's titled something like avoid hype.

You know, no hype.

way the world in general is just,
it's like a hype machine these days, right?

Everything hyped,
everything sold in a way that is bigger and better.

And then, Can leave you a little, a little disappointed.

I've also got another video on there back in the early days.

And lowering expectations.

Lose more weight by lowering expectations.

A part of lowering our expectations,
which is the idea behind it,

bring things down to a really stable, sustainable level.

We're going to be looking today at,

some more insight from this book, Atomic Habits.

All right.

And Atomic Habits.

The thing that is so encouraging to me
as I've been reading through it, I'm like, man, sometimes.

Do you ever get a little cynical?

Do you look at the world and you say, oh, so many things

I say are not the way we wish, they were,
and then we can get overwhelmed by it.

But as I'm diving into this book, even the first steps,

I'm just encountering so many positive, things.

And I'm like, this book is popular.

You know, like, people are leaning into this and

it has just been building a lot of good, vibes

for me that like, no, there are so many people out there
who are trying to move

in the healthiest, stable direction,
not trying to, hype things.

So I hope people would say that that's,
what I'm doing with this channel.

I want to build enthusiasm and encouragement,
but not hyping anything and not call anything easy.

Fasting.

You know, we're trying to sustainably learn
something, really thoughtful.

That's to me, fasting is very, very thoughtful practice.

Something very strong can be very intense,

but we approach it in a very thoughtful way

so that we can flow through,

the space and accomplish, yes, a weight loss goal.

If we're moving in a weight loss direction,
say we want to be seeing progress.

We want to be moving in that direction,
but then also to expand it

bigger to, oh, this is a practice that is simple.

It is simple.

It's bringing a simplification into my life
that is helping to take off pressure,

that is helping improve mental health.

As much as fasting
is about giving physical space in the body

so that we can burn through excess, refresh,
rejuvenate the system.

It's about giving space, to the mind,

to our being so, bringing openness.

I like to say openness in one area of our life
can flow through,

and create openness in other areas of our life.

So let's grab some more,

wisdom, hopefully from this.

Atomic habits
and this section that we're going to look at today.

The little subchapter called What Progress is really like

now I love this okay I love it
because like we're saying yesterday,

we're trying to take concepts
like this, filter them through this sort of lens.

Simple fasting.

How do we bring, you know, small amounts of fasting.

Just the amount that feels good.

We're not pushing ourself in a direction
where it's like we feel overwhelmed in any way.

This is how you move towards something in a sustainable way.

You realize the value in it.

You see, hopefully with fasting, the physiology,

okay, the body is saving this energy
for me to use it in a fasting space.

So we practice opening up that fasting space.

The body's getting better at it day by day
as we're stepping forward together with it.

The body is getting stronger.

The body's like, oh, I know how to do this.

I'm getting better at accessing that energy. Okay.

Here he's describing progress of anything.

This book isn't a weight
loss book. It's just a generic book.

You can apply it to any type of habit or process
that you're trying to do.

We're trying to channel it into our purpose.

Listen to how he describes this. I love this analogy.

Imagine you have an ice cube
sitting on the table in front of you.

The room is cold. You can see your breath.

It is 25 degrees.

Ever so slowly, the room begins to heat up

26 degrees, 2728.

The process is happening.

The temperature is turning up to you see it,
but the ice cube

is still sitting there and the table in front of you.

Nothing is happening, can't see anything happening,
but the whole room is heating up.

2930 31 still nothing is happening.

Think of all the work that is being done,
the energy that is going into the system.

You know, whether you just turn the furnace on
or whatever's happening, you're heating up the room.

All this work is being done.

The foundation is being laid.

Then 32, the ice begins to melt, a one degree shift

seeming no different from the changes
before it unlocked a huge change.

It's not amazing phase change in the ice.

All of a sudden we have been working, working, working.

We're laying the foundation, doing the work,
building the habits.

The progress that we seek.

We don't always see what is happening
because life is full of these complex systems.

Things can be happening under the surface.

Things can be changing.

And we looked at yesterday in this session
that the compounding.

You can't see it at first.

The beginning of a parabolic curve.

This looks like a flat line right.

It's just going along before it bends.

And then we see this take off.

This is like the phase change of the ice cube.

Breakthrough moments.

This is what I want for you is one for anybody listening to

this program is saying, oh, we are trying to breakthrough.

We are trying to have a serious success.

So like we said at the beginning, right, real success,

sustainable long term processes,
both more slow and more exciting.

Because when we start something new, we're excited.

We want it.

We say, I want, I want that, I want, I like take

the inverse of the curve
and we want all the success right away.

And then okay, but that's the curve that we're on

for pretty much anything of value that we want in life.

You've got to lay a strong foundation.

You've got to build the systems and processes
that help to make it sustainable.

You can't do it in a way that you burn out, so you quit.

Otherwise you are in a process here
and then you just stop saying this.

Very common on a weight loss process.

People initially riding in on some sort of emotional high.

It's something very hard seeing some initial results

because they're hitting it so hard at a level
that isn't sustainable.

And then they burn out
and then they they're back to square one.

They atomic habits I like it start small right.

Can't start smaller than an atom. Right.

We're bringing things down into this root raval

building the habits, the processes, the systems.

This is what I'm talking about.

What a fasting process is.

Is a system that you bring into your life
a habit, a pattern, a routine.

I talk a lot about making a template.

De what is your ideal health day look like?

We're building the practices and processes
that help you design it so that it fits with your lifestyle.

It's not something that somebody told you
what to do when you're forcing your whole life into it.

No, you're taking your life, your situation.

And we're saying, look at this, set of tools that I have

and how do I craft them and use them in a way

that is open to just make my life better

so that I can both be experiencing more joy,

positivity, health, wellness,
wholeness, and be accomplishing,

you know, a health goal that I'm seeking,

we're seeking ultimately, right?

You say I have a number on a scale
that is going to make me really happy.

Okay, well, I want you to hit that right.

But like before we do that, if we just make everything
a number, we say, let's bring things back on.

Just a bigger picture level.

What is the way of being in the world? I love that so much.

What is the way of being that when we are replicating that

and walking through this like that is going to be the path.

He says here, breakthrough moments are often
the result of many previous actions

which build up the potential required
to unleash a major change.

This pattern, he says, shows up anywhere, everywhere.

And he uses this analogy I have
I used before that I love so much.

Maybe it came from here.

Bamboo can barely be seen for five years

as it builds extensive root systems under the ground

before exploding 90ft into the air within six weeks.

I love that analogy I was looking at yesterday.

I was like, does it really grow 90ft?

Like there's
turns out there's many different types of bamboo.

Some are tiny little ones that only grow a few feet,
and some are these, you know,

huge varieties that do grow over 100ft
and they can grow in size.

Yeah, in six weeks you can basically watch them growing.

I was looking at bamboo, time

lapses to just watch these things, growing.

I love that bamboo mindset.

One of the most difficult places to be in,
if you're on a weight loss path, is to start on a process

and be moving toward it
and see you're seeing everything stable.

You see how come I made this change?

How come I am doing something different
and I'm not seeing something change?

This ice cube analogy is the most incredible
because he is just showing you.

Here's an example a real world physical example.

The room temperature is changing
and you cannot see any change in the desired outcome.

It's like we are trying to melt the ice cube.

I think we're trying to melt away the body fat.

Right. Great analogy.

Okay, we're turning up
the temperature means we're opening up some fasting space.

We're changing the food in.

We're like,
we did the session the other day, eat real foods,

were getting the processed foods out.

We're moving our bodies in healthy ways, right.

These are all the tools.

Very common pattern in weight loss.

You make a change of some kind,
you get initial sort of results, say a couple pounds,

go quick, especially if you're getting processed foods out

because we retain so much water.

Because of that, you say, okay, we can shift

some water weight, start doing some fasting.

It's like less actual food
transitioning through the bodily system.

Okay.

You lose a few pounds
quick dish with some of these kind of technicalities.

And then sometimes we hit a place like this plateau
sort of phase,

kind of terrifying from a standard weight loss process,

because most people have been through a process,
they go on a weight

loss process,
they lose some weight, then plateau, then regain.

Let's say that is a cycle
many people have experience that say, we don't want that

recognizing, okay, weight loss of any kind
through any mechanism, rarely a linear process.

Okay.

Straight lines, rare sometimes that I have
I have seen some some things like it,

but usually it's kind of like this is like waves that kind

go and we want the drifting of the waves

to be flowing in the right direction,

over time, because this is a long term path and a process.

And, That is sustainable. Yeah.

That is what we want. Sustainable.

We're trying to create an environment.

I've said this, I got a video,
I think in the Hunger series on the channel

create your ideal weight loss environment I love that one.

It's like how do we create the environment
that melts the ice cube, right?

You think of this analogy
turning up the temperature in the room.

So making the conditions so that the ice cube will melt.

I think we're not directly melting the ice cube here.

So we're creating an environment in our body.

We're saying we're creating the perfect health environment.

See where everything is coming together
so that when we're creating

that environment, like the goal is happening on its own,
do you see it?

This is why I say let fasting do the work.

It's like when we
we have an idea of weight loss, like, okay,

we have to work so hard for it
and then that can be overwhelming.

So now look at this space that we're opening
up, fasting space.

Where is like the body is always running.

The body never stops.

Heart always beating, for example. Right.

Always working, always requiring energy.

Now we're opening up the fasting space.

We don't have to be in the gym.

Body keeps working.

You can go to a gym if it feels good.

I'm a big exerciser.

I want to inspire everyone.

Be as active
as you comfortably want to be, but take the pressure off

and we're all about create the environment.

So that's the thing we want.

Want the number on the scale going down
if that's the goal, okay, well,

we can just open up some space to do that.

That is something that can happen without any physical work.

It's what's amazing about fasting.

The potential just open space.

You say fasting is nothing.

The work of doing fasting is just the work of doing nothing.

And this is like such a cool paradox,
something just incredible to think about.

Okay, that we can float toward weight loss
without really working.

Like we're creating an environment
more than like doing something.

We're just opening up space. Love it.

He goes on here in this section similarly.

Similarly, habits often appear to make no difference
until you cross a critical threshold

and unlock a new level of performance
in the early and middle middle.

In the early and middle stages of any quest,

it is often what he calls a valley of disappointment.

Have you ever experienced anything like that?

You started on a weight loss process,
you had some initial success,

and then we're in this zone
where it's like, is this working?

Is this happening? What is going on?

You expect to make progress in a linear fashion.

This. Yeah, this is what we were saying.

And then it's frustrating if your changes seem ineffective

for days, weeks,
even months, doesn't feel like you're going anywhere.

Okay.

This pattern, he says, is a hallmark of

any compounding process.

The most powerful outcomes are delayed.

This is the thing I'm talking about in this situation
grounding in reality,

lowering our short term expectations

to open up the potential for something
even better in the long term.

That's compounding.

If you're familiar with compounding from finances,

I did this the session fasting wealth.

When we're thinking about building up health for ourselves,
building up fasting.

So when we think of it as a thing, I suggested
get yourself some fake, you know, tokens.

And as you're doing it,
because fasting is nothing, it's intangible.

You can't see it.

And so you think when you're if you're building up
wealth, you say, oh, the bank account is getting bigger.

You know, if we were in old timey days and we were
accumulating gold coins, you could stack them up, right?

And and you would see your little pile growing bigger

in a fasting space and in a health space.

You say, well, what what is it like to accumulate health?

I really like thinking of that because it's like

trying to have a concept
that is making health more tangible.

You say, I want to be healthier by next year.

Say, well, what would that look like?

You say, you know, maybe I feel better.

You say, I want the number on the scale
to be different in some fashion.

Okay.

But thinking as a process of compounding,

collecting health for ourself,
I think is a really nice analogy.

Let's just take all these financial sort of metaphors
of like saving,

like think, okay, saving money,
being thoughtful, not spending so much.

Okay, bring that into the body.

Not eating so much.

They I think saving that sort of concept
if we're accumulating fasting

is like helping us to measure out

our eating periods is like an inversion of it.

Like when we are not eating,
we are saving up fasting wealth for ourselves.

It's got to do a little mental
thinking to get into that space, but it feels good.

That's the way you can get into this process of compounding,
because in the short term, like we said yesterday,

Warren Buffett's like just a unimaginably wealthy person,

but like something like 80% of his wealth accumulated.

After he was 65, he started investing when he was like 15.

And so it's like he went he went through a curve like this,
like we're trying to do with our weight

loss success, a compounding in in for years.

He went along.

So like it doesn't really seem like it's
moving the needle so much.

But then the compounding is happening to all of these

analogies doing the same thing,
the bamboo growing through the ground.

You can't see it, but it's alive.

It's working. It's building the network.

The process that's gonna lead to this

incredible flourishing, that incredible flourishing.

You say bamboo growing 90ft in six weeks.

People look at it.

They say, oh, bamboo is such a fast growing thing.

Like, look at how easily it does it.

They don't see the work that it did underground
for five years

to lay the foundation for that.

So that's what I really want for us in this space here,
that we would be like the bamboo

that we would be like the thoughtful money manager

who is trying to take advantage of compounding.

We're not focused.

Like we would be like the ice Cube, right?

That we can be working on the process,

warming up the room, creating the environment

that is going to lead to this phase change
and our breakthrough.

This is what we want,
because I want you to see it and believe it.

You know, to understand, to say, oh,
the human body is not broken.

And this is what I mean by believing it.

You are here. You are in a process.

You are a human being.

You have physiology happening in the body society.

We did the the session.

Was it back in the fall?

You know, is obesity really a disease?

And we went through the pros and cons of it, different ways
to think about it.

But the more I thought about it, my my default perspective,

I think both perspectives have potential to help people.

Okay.

But my default perspective obesity is not a disease.

Okay.

Oh wait. Body fat.

What it is. It's the physiology of the body.

The body cares for us.

The body is trying to keep us alive.

Human beings have existed for a long period of time

in an incredible struggle against scarcity and.

We're just survival machines, you know, you
we encounter periods of time of abundance.

We have more food than we need.

It's like a good thing you take that with you.

No refrigerators, no convenience stores.

You take that food and make it a part of us.

That's how the body works.

The body says, you know,
like the great fortune has happened.

More energy has come. We can take it with us.

Maybe you don't need it for ten years. The body.

Hang on to that for ten years.

And then the famine strikes and then we don't die.

We're able to carry on.

That is an incredible physiology in the body.

We've not appreciated that profound part of it.

Now we are in this time of abundance

and we are here and
and we can think about much bigger things.

Now we are here in this space
and we can think about these incredible things like.

What is my 30 year cardiovascular mortality rate?

You know, it's like, okay,
we can really dial in on optimizing health.

Wellness is here says I'm about a month in no weight loss
but better digestion.

Hey, this is an awesome space to be in.

Thank you for sharing that.

Better digestion.

See, this is making life better.

That is something really, to be grateful for.

And then I hope you are liking this ice cube analogy.

You are in a space, you're moving forward in a direction,
creating the environment.

Where you hearing this process, the ice cube is

there is 26 degrees, 2728.

You can't see it.

But behind the scenes it's building up the process,
getting ready for the phase change.

3031 you're not seeing it, but you're building the momentum.

32 then it is melting.

I think it's very likely 2026 this is what,

I would have the mind, set for anyone
who's in a space like that.

You're laying a table,
setting the table, building the foundation,

creating the environment for this phase change,
this breakthrough.

You start practicing these processes,

and, really good things going to happen
because we're in powerful spaces.

And here is the powerful spaces, bringing real,

whole healthy foods into the body,
eliminating processed foods.

You know, nobody becomes overweight eating carrots,

tomatoes, make chicken, you know, just whole natural foods.

An egg that, you cook yourself in an anything.

These are things that the body understands.

You can't really overeat them.

Nobody binge eats carrots, right?

Nobody binge eats peppers like the body has natural systems
to regulate our satiety

based on the consumption of whole healthy foods like to eat.

You can eat almost as much as you want of vegetables
for sure.

Protein sources like meats, and eggs.

And then plant based protein sources, even a tofu beans.

Nobody, I think it's fair to say, can really binge

those sorts of things,
because you will just feel so full from it.

So you start building your diet
around all those sorts of things.

All the processed foods are gone.

All the extra sugar sauce is gone.

Okay.

When we do that, we are balancing out hormones in our body.

We're keeping our insulin from spiking up.

We're giving greater access to the counter
regulatory hormones, all the complex stuff that we don't

really have to know about that the body uses to say, hey,
we don't have, so much energy here.

Now it's time to grab, the energy out of the body fat
and use it.

Okay.

Like, well, that's just an environment, that one thing.

Just focusing on getting the processed foods out.

An incredibly powerful thing.

You can walk a long way down a health path
just by doing that.

And you say maybe somebody
that's the only thing they ever had to do.

What if you say, I'm gonna make 2026 the year
I strip out all the,

processed foods or the greatest amount that I can

without causing stress to myself?

What if that's the only change you, ever had to make?

And you say, well,
I just felt great, and I accomplish everything I want.

I never had to do any fasting. Well,
of course I wouldn't care.

That would be fine. Now, there's.

But there's many benefits to fasting
also beyond weight loss.

But I will tell you, I've worked with, you know,
I don't know the number hundreds,

thousands of people
trying to lose weight to get into a space.

Then they start eating the healthy foods.

They're changing the diet.

And you say, well, I want more power to it.

This is kind of the
the process I would go through change the diet

first,
you know, get that what might be one way to go about it.

Then we start adding in the other things.

You know, adding in movement.

Such a beautiful thing to do.

I say just getting in a habit of walking.

If you hadn't done it,
I say walking the healthiest, activity for the human body.

Human body really just built to what?

Be walking through the world.

Okay, so good for the mental health.

So good for the body getting more active, always burning.

More energy muscles.

Your musculature is just big energy sponges.

We start using them. They.

It takes energy to work is so beautiful.

But you take all those things you say I want more power.

We're talking this session.

What a sustainable process is really like.

Okay.

Adding in the fasting space to any other weight loss process
all these things is,

is adding in so much, power to it.

Fasting actually feels easier than the diet.

Yeah. This is like, such an incredible observation.

This is what I am trying to share with people, too.

I'm trying to give everybody the tool kit,

and to just show that nothing is forced is an open space.

Nobody has to practice fasting.

I always say that this is a fasting based channel. Fasting.

Such an incredible opportunity, so powerful,

so underappreciated in our society. Like.

But nobody ever has to do it. Totally voluntary.

But look at the potential of it like you're saying,
you want to try to overhaul

your entire diet to get all the processed foods out.

You say, oh, well, now I have all these healthy meals
that I have to, be working on.

Say, does that feel overwhelming?

Look at how fasting can take the pressure off of that.

Look how we say, oh, I don't have to,
you know, say three meals

plus two snacks, five eating, periods in a day.

This is kind of overwhelming.

Well, you don't need five, you know what I mean?

You see, if we're going to go to two, to me, two

is like the magic number in weight loss.

For just eat twice in a day.

This is like the place that takes every other weight loss
process,

filters it through a lens,
and helps to make it into something sustainable,

which is that five times of eating in a day
is just too much in general.

Like constant consumption is like the societal perspective.

We're told we need to do that from my.

That's the habits of most people.

There's certain benefits to it
in that eating is enjoyable and and certainly it is.

And so if we could eat three times,
why not four and say we enjoy it?

Okay.

But like also that culture is shaped
so much by financial interests

that trying to sell us all this stuff and you say, well,
how is that pattern working for us?

Like the pattern isn't really working very well,
even when the answer is healthy food.

Like to eat healthy food five times a day.

It's just too much food for most people.

It's like always energy is flowing into the body.

You think, what is a weight loss process?

A weight loss process by by any way you're doing it,
whether it's exercise, focus,

healthy food, focus, fasting, focus, whatever
it is, we're trying to create an environment

where more energy is flowing out of the body
than is flowing into it.

Like in some level, either we're trying to exercise it out
or we're trying to keep it

from coming in in the first place.

My big argument, that I'm making

is that the fasting space is the easiest.

And this is kind of what Melissa saying in the comment

is that, it's easier actually

to say if I can just fast in this space,

it's less shopping, less cooking, cleaning
dishes, organizing,

the less time to actually do it, more time
to just get on with my day, do this other stuff.

It's like simplifying everything.

And then when you come to see to eat twice in a day,

most people see what you're experiences.

You don't have to agree with it.

Most people can come to find that to be pretty sustainable.

The goal would be that it's easy, so it isn't easy at first.

The first times I actually tried to do it, it was not easy.

Okay.

Very clear, but you can train yourself, you can practice it.

The body is incredibly adaptable,
especially in our dietary, practice.

We can change it by thoughtfully moving toward it
and practicing it,

being very gracious toward the body, giving it tons of space

so that it is able to adjust and get stronger.

Fasting. The way I see it is a strength.

We have different types of strength.

People get aerobic strength, right.

How far you go jogging?

How long are far, can you jog and people get?

We have anaerobic strength with like our muscular strength.

How much can I lift?

I go to the gym, you know I can I what?

Wait, can I pick up? You know that is a type of strength.

Fasting is its own type of strength.

It's a metabolic strength.

It's like how trained?

How strong is the body at at accessing

the energy inside of itself
instead of the food that we are dependent on.

Do you see that strength?

It's like if you never went to the gym,
you never did the curls.

You say the bicep isn't very strong, then you go to do it,
you got to lift a smaller weight.

But if you made it your life mission, you say,
you know, four times a week I'm in there lifting the thing.

Well, you your body would adapt, it would get stronger

and you would be better at it
and you would increase your capacity to do it.

This is what fasting is about to me,
says, I never practice fasting.

I'm just, you know, one month in, I've been bringing it in
that is like

we're just starting to create that environment.

We've given the body a little window.

Body is like adjusting to it. It can do it.

And that is increasing our capacity.

And what we're trying to do.

Like our ice cube analogy that this beautiful book
is showing us we're creating the environment.

When we open up, we go five times of eating to four.

Okay,
that's like we turn things up from 26 now or 27 degrees.

Then we go 43, 28, 29.

We get down to two times of eating per day, 30, 31.

Does that get us to 32?

Some people it does. Some people maybe it doesn't.

You know, it's like that.

But that is really getting on the line
when you get to two times of eating per day.

I do in a 6 to 8 hour window.

That is creating the environment
where a lot of people start losing weight

is it's over half, you know, will

slowly, steadily
lose some weight eating two healthy meals in a day.

But not everybody and not right away.

Just like the ice cube, right?

It takes a little bit of time
for that environment to heat up.

This is what we're trying to do.

Heat up the room, create the environment
that is helping this

to, to get the result that we want.

Like we said in the beginning.

Slower, but more exciting.

See, this is the thing about compounding
takes a little bit of time to kick in.

Not as exciting as some commercial that is saying,
you know, 20 pounds the first month

and then 20 more and then and then it's all done
because remember, weight loss isn't an event.

It's a process.

Even if it was an event, you would still.

Have to maintain it. Right.

So the process of learning
how to do it, of building the systems

that help you actually accomplish
the goal is like the accomplishing.

That's just one point on a whole curve,
which is say, okay, after I accomplish this,

think of how many people have an unsustainable approach.

They hit something so hard
and they actually accomplish like a goal,

but they're so burned out they can't maintain it.

And then they bounce all the way back.

So this is what I mean by slower, but more exciting,
because when you take the slow,

sustainable path
that isn't forced, where you're actually learning

how to, you know, operate your human system in this world

in a way that is balancing every factor

in your life so that you can find joy in the journey

so that the mental space is positive and you understand it,

and you're not getting pulled this way
and that by every stressful thing that we're encountering.

You see, you've built a system,
you've built a way of being in the world to.

That's what's more exciting, because look, what happens
is this compounding happens

like the compounding, like we're going along,
we're like the ice cube changes.

We hit this point now we hit our goal, okay.

But now we keep going okay.

Now things are way better.

It's not just hitting like one goal. It's like.

Super health, this sort of thing that we want.

That's the vitality, the flourishing that we're building.

A system that is so powerful.

Yes, we do the hard work, we lay the foundation,

we practice these things and we go through it

and then open up the potential of significant health,
significant health.

It says here,
this is one of the reasons why it can be so hard

to build habits that last,
because you make a few small changes.

You don't see the results right away.

You think, I've been running every day for a month.

Why can't I see the change yet?

So people stop.

So it's like it's not working for me.

Okay, once this kind of thinking takes over, he says, it's

easy to let good habits fall by the wayside.

But in order to make a meaningful difference,

habits may mean to persist
long enough to break through the plateau.

What he calls the plateau of latent potential.

Like that.

Oh, he's got a picture coming in here.

And then I forgot to take it for you.

I'll explain it.

But I like that. The plateau of latent potential.

Think of.

Think of that. Just the idea of it.

Before you see the picture,
think of your latent potential. 2026

the year where we're going to release the latent potential,

going to build a strong, stable, powerful foundation.

This is what it takes to to have a sustainable process.

What it really looks like.

That's what we're trying to dial in on this program.

What does it really look like?

The process of sustainable weight loss

is the process of building a powerful, solid, stable

foundation of habits that drive

the process forward, that melt the ice cube.

We got to heat up the room till we get there.

If you find yourself struggling to build a good habit
or break a bad one, it's

not because you've lost your ability to improve, it's
because you haven't crossed the plateau of latent potential.

Complaining about not achieving success
despite working hard.

It's like complaining about an ice cube not melting it

when you heated it from 25 to 31,

you have to see that your work was not wasted,
it is just being stored.

All the action happens at 32.

Such a powerful perspective.

You can picture bamboo complaining, right?

It's year three on bamboo.

It's like I've been growing for three years here, right?

Three years I've been growing, building the roots.

Like where? Where are we?

Okay, what if it quit? Then it's done.

Okay, but then the breakthrough is coming.

This is.

This is a type of idea
that, the way I have always framed it for people.

Because a weight loss space is a long term space.

People treat it like a short term space.

I try to help people say, open the mind.

Treat this as a long term space.

And, these sort of analogies, I think really help us do it.

People feel, oh, I have tried things before
and I have failed.

I have worked on these things, I have failed.

People feel like they have wasted time.

And this analogy is showing us you have not wasted time.

You are building up and storing up experiences for yourself.

History, knowledge, experience.

Look at this analogy.

You have turned up the temperature in the room.

You just haven't hit the phase change yet.

You have heated all the way up.

Maybe from minus ten.

You've gone all the way from negative
ten all the way up to 31, all right.

And all that energy is still there.

You don't have to have regrets.

Remember, we did the session letting go of regret.

He ends this section. Mastery requires patience.

So to me, fasting is a big,

exercise in patience.

I'm going to save this plateau of latent potential
for maybe tomorrow or then next session.

Then I can show it to you.

Fasting is about building patience, okay?

And that on the first level.

It's about patience with food, of course.

And that's a practice, right?

To say I'm going to practice contentment
without food in this space for just a couple hours.

Hey, or just one hour whenever you feel comfortable with

maybe just a few minutes, that would be the atomic habit.

Break it down into the smallest section.

I'm just going to avoid a snack
where I was going to have one.

I'm going to practice contentment without food.

That's a beautiful, idea of a fasting space.

Okay.

And then that model of patience.

That practicing of patience in our life. Okay.

We can model it in a day with food, and then we model

that in a broader fashion in our life and recognize,

okay, this is a path we are trying to make it sustainable.

We are trying to build the most powerful long term process.

And we are seeing now that the most powerful long term
processes can start small.

If so, we don't always get the most sensational results
right away.

Sometimes, you know, I see people get remarkable results,
even just going to two meals a day.

But that's the tail out on the curve.
Sometimes you have that.

Most people experiencing things that are, you know,

that's why I say lower the expectations in the short term

so that you can build the foundation and process
to make something really extraordinary.

And this is the way that I balance it.

You want to build excitement for yourself
without hype and pressure

in the short term,
to realize something like the comment said.

Like, hey, I've been leaning into this for a month.

Starting to feel better scale, not moving so much.

It's like incredible.

Okay.

Feeling better? See, this is how it can be sustainable.

Nobody burning themselves out. I totally love that.

This is what it looks like building the process

so that you can sustain it and maintain it,

and then grow it and expand from that

so it it can evolve and grow into something very,
very powerful.

I'll just tell you from my experience
working with people on a fasting process,

I don't even over a decade ever, probably 12 years now, seen

people had the best results of anything that I have seen.

Better results than any kind of

pharmaceutical process, surgical process.

Anything else is hard.

You know, the natural paths to me, the exercise,
the healthy eating is all the same thing.

So it's hard. It's hard to tease that out.

I've seen people who've dialed in so hard core
because they loved it

on an exercise process
and have incredible health transformation.

It, yes, but that also inspired them to start eating better.

And then they got into a thing.
So it's all in the same space.

But, a fasting space so powerful

it's rare you find someone that is going to turn themselves,

you know, at age 67, into a, an, a power athlete,
you know what I mean?

And it's like that.

And a lot of people think that that has to happen.

If you somehow hit the bag and you can do it
without hurting yourself, I mean, do it, okay.

But the more practical space and the reason

fasting has been such a joy and gift, to me
and people I've been able to work with,

you don't have to turn yourself into a power athlete.

You don't have to work out for 13 hours a day
and and all this sort of stuff, okay?

You actually don't have to do very much at all.

And that is why this process can become
so powerful and sustainable.

Because it can just open up more space in life
instead of having to be at the gyms

like I can't see my family,
I'm on the super athlete track like, no, no, no.

Bringing everything into balance in a culture in a society
where,

everybody is strung out and overwhelmed by pressure
and people trying to sell you stuff

and you know where budgets can be tight to say,
hey, look at fasting here.

Nobody trying to sell you anything. It's nothing.

You couldn't buy it even if you wanted to.

It's just a process of openness.

It's to save you money and then, bring health

into balance in such a joyful, positive, sustainable way.

That's what it can look like. Powerful long term process.

Where is the last program or process you'll ever need?

Okay, we're off this train of the next thing.

The next thing. Nothing to buy.

Just Island. With me here. Simple fasting channel.

I help you to stay on track.

We do this, every weekday now since,
since the fall, we've been doing it.

I am really enjoying it.

I'm finding it helpful for me personally.

Center the thinking for myself as I head out on my day.

I hope you find that, to be the case.

I will be back sharing more,
thoughts and thinking tomorrow.

Hope you have a beautiful, powerful,
thoughtful, day of health.

And I will look forward to chatting with you again soon.

Have a great day everybody.