S1E1: The Start: Real Talk on Discipline, Food, and Getting Back on Track

Okay, so I want to start a video podcast. And I keep recording clips and then not posting any of them and then wanting to do it. then I just don’t do it. So I’m going to do probably the shittiest video ever here, and use it as my first video.

But, I really want to be serious about my nutrition again. I’ve been really lazy since Christmas and it’s almost the middle of August. and I just have gained so much weight in how much ever time. And I’ve let myself get back up to where I can feel it in my joints and I can feel it, when I work out, it’s hard to do burpees and it’s hard to do pull ups, and it’s hard to do things that had become easy for me to do and me to have the ability to do them.

And I’m just taking the time to meal prep again, and I’m going to the gym again. And I’m doing all the things that I need to do for myself to be healthy. because ultimately, I do want skin removal surgery. I want to get this excess skin off of my body so that I can work out even better and I can be healthy. And then when I get into my fifties and sixties and seventies and Eighties and nineties and hopefully hit one hundred, that I can move and function and be fine. So that’s a huge goal of mine.

And I was thinking a lot about motivation, and I think I was like, oh, I’m not motivated to go. And when I was really, really disciplined, I never relied on motivation. It didn’t matter whether I felt like going or I didn’t feel like going to the gym or whether I felt like meal prepping or didn’t. I always did it. I just did it. It became a habit that I had for myself, and it was part of my routine. And it’s something that I kind of let go of and I need to get back.

So yesterday, which I wanted to film a video yesterday, I didn’t do it. Yesterday I meal prepped my food. I went to the gym and I did everything and honestly so I did not eat sugar yesterday. I did not drink soda yesterday. And the difference in the scale three pounds, three entire pounds. Now is that fat? No, but that tells you how much inflammation is in my body. I’m not eating shitty things from the gas station or drinking a soda or two sodas.

I was kind of falling back into the habits that I had when I was three hundred and ten pounds, and I don’t want that. I don’t want that life. There was a reason why I made a shift in twenty twenty. And I’m going to get back to that promise that I made myself of being healthy.

I’ll tell you, sometimes I get really scared. I’m like, I like sugar, I like donuts, I like sweets, I like soda, I like all that kind of stuff. I like the way it tastes. I like the way that it makes me feel because it gives you a dopamine hit. When I get back to eating healthy foods, it’s going to be so bland. I’m gonna hate it. It’s gonna suck. I’m gonna be miserable.

Let me tell you, yesterday I had eggs, I had chicken, I had ground beef, I had red potatoes. That’s what I had yesterday. I had all of those foods and kind of made and made my meals out of it, right? It was fucking delicious. I don’t give a shit. I was full all day long. Didn’t have hunger cravings, didn’t have sugar cravings. Didn’t even have a headache. That is insane. No caffeine headache, anything.

I know, there’s other people out there like me that are scared that are like, uh, being healthy boring. Being healthy sucks. That’s not delicious, right? Okay. It can be like, throw a little garlic, throw a little rosemary, throw a little salt, pepper, dried onions, all that kind of stuff. Throw that in the food and oh my God, it’s delicious.

When you up your protein level, it ups your longevity of satiety. You’re fuller longer when you eat protein. I’m not talking and here’s this is another rule that I have no fucking protein shakes. No protein bars. None of that health food marketing bullshit. Okay, we’re doing whole food. We are doing real food. We are doing animal proteins. We are doing actual shit from the grocery store that needs to be cooked.

Now am I cooking my chicken? No, I’m buying the rotisserie chicken that is already in the store because it’s easy just to pull it off and meal prep that way. Totally fine. It’s a real food. Ground beef is super easy for me because I can just ground it up and. And then I throw it in with potatoes, and, I add jalapenos. Oh, my gosh, the ones that are tamed. So they’re not super hot. For those of you that don’t like spicy foods, it’s delicious. It adds so much flavor, let me tell you. Add so much flavor.

But anyway, I digress. I got off on food. I like food.

Anyway, talking about motivation. Motivation is not going to come. It’s not going to come save you. It’s not gonna wake you up. It’s not going to get you out the door. It’s not gonna get you dressed. It’s not gonna get you lifting weights. It’s not gonna get you eating right, right? None of it.

Discipline and momentum are the two things that you need to focus on. The two things you need to focus on. Right. Discipline. Because you have to make yourself do it whether you want to or not. Just get up and fucking do it. Okay, then momentum. The discipline things don’t have to be huge. It can be tiny little itty bitty steps. Okay. And then it’s just one step on top of another step on top of another step. Okay. Then those little steps make a giant fucking staircase.

That’s really what helped me be successful in the first place, and what is going to help me get back to being successful this time.

So, anyway, that’s all I got. This is a long video again. I told you it’s gonna be a shitty video the first time until I figure out what I’m doing, because I really want to do this, but I don’t know how. So we’re gonna just take it one step at a time.

All right, guys, thank you. Bye. Adios.