Eat When Hungry: My Journey into Shadows, Episode 2

This episode is posted on my Transform Shadows YouTube channel.

Mindset is everything and nothing.

Mindset and the mental processes around my personal changes are shadows of my transformation.

Mindset plays a starring role in every change I have made. Yet, mindset alone would never be enough to succeed in losing half my weight.

The processes of my mind are inextricably tied to every aspect of my journey: success, failure, and everything in between. These shadows exist everywhere in this journey, yet they cannot exist alone anywhere in my transformation.

My mindset and mental processes are always conjoined with something else: action, information, knowledge, science, time, resources, and energy. Understanding these connections reveals more about the complexity of such a journey for personal change.

In the past, I have tried losing weight in ways that relied almost entirely on mindset. I failed because I did not know enough about myself, about food, about the hunger drive, about my hunger drive, about the science and art of personal change.

I have also tried changing myself without understanding mindset and my own mental processes. I failed, of course. I needed to understand facets of mindset and use mental processes to maneuver myself around change.

Understanding mindset and my mental processes have been an integral part of my success. Success would not be possible with these understandings.

Dr. Lisle and I discuss mindset in Eat When Hungry: My Journey into Shadows.

In this episode, Dr. Lisle continues his interview with me around the mental processes that helped me transform my shadows to lose more than half my weight. Mindset helps me override who I am, who I have been, so I can live in healthier ways.

Our interview highlights some of my mental processes around my transformation: my reasons, processes, decisions, successes, failures, and even a few strategies that have helped succeed in my health, wellness, and weight loss journey.

Many of these ideas transcend my story and apply to self-improvement journeys of all kinds, to other situations where we have to face our own fallibility, often through deeply humbling experiences.

Dr. Lisle and I will return together soon for the third episode of Eat When Hungry, which will be released in November. Then, we will focus on the addictive nature of modern foods and how I override the pull of these foods to succeed over time.

Eat When Hungry: Story and Syllabus in My Venn Diagram

The two diagrams below are central to all my work: one chart is an overview and the other brings in more specific concepts. Both convey my personal journey and the many pieces necessary to succeed.

Designing these diagrams helped me understand the 97% failure rate around sustaining long-term weight loss. And, it helped me understand why I failed for decades.

This diagram also helps me understand who I am and my potential to fail again in the future. And, it helps me not take my current success for granted, emphasizing that when I fail, I need to recover in a timely manner.

Losing half my weight has been one of the most complex series of mental processes that I have done in my life. Most sources of information oversimplify the processes of making and sustaining personal changes, at least for me.

The visuals below summarize my story and share my syllabus for the content I am creating around my personal story of change, around what I did to transform shadows.

Transform Shadows is a processed-based approach to personal changes and self-improvement. While Transform Shadows centers my personal story, Transform Shadows encompasses broader stories and possibilities around self-improvement.

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