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When I was 250 pounds, I never ate breakfast. I'd skip it to "save calories" for my inevitable nighttime faceplant into food.

I never drank water, just soda, sweet tea, and those gas station cappuccinos.

And exercise? The closest I came was marching in place to Jane Fonda videos a few times in my 20's.

I've changed a lot since losing 100 pounds. Today, I'm telling you "My Honest Thoughts About What Changes When You Lose a Lot of Weight."

Listen now for:

• The simple changes I made that finally stuck
• How I went from no water to about a gallon a day (and exactly what I put in my water to make it drinkable)
• The ONE realization that finally broke my cycle

I didn't wait for the "perfect time" to lose weight. I started when my life felt completely out of control.

And it was the best gift I ever gave myself.

The biggest difference between 250-pound Corinne and Corinne today isn't the food I eat or even how I move. Tune in for the truth I had to accept to finally lose my weight for the last damn time.

Also, after you listen, this is what I drink everyday if you want to give it a try.

Xtend: https://amzn.to/47iciKs

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Subject: What ACTUALLY changed when I lost 100 pounds (it wasn't what I expected)

When I was 250 pounds, I never ate breakfast. I'd skip it to "save calories" for my inevitable nighttime faceplant into food.

I never drank water, just soda, sweet tea, and those gas station cappuccinos.

And exercise? The closest I came was marching in place to Jane Fonda videos a few times in my 20's.

I've changed a lot since losing 100 pounds. Today, I'm telling you "My Honest Thoughts About What Changes When You Lose a Lot of Weight." Listen in for:

• The simple changes I made that finally stuck
• How I went from no water to about a gallon a day (and exactly what I put in my water to make it drinkable)
• The ONE realization that finally broke my cycle

I didn't wait for the "perfect time" to lose weight. I started when my life felt completely out of control.

And it was the best gift I ever gave myself.

Want to know what really changes when you lose a lot of weight?

LISTEN NOW

The biggest difference between 250-pound Corinne and Corinne today isn't the food I eat or even how I move. Tune in for the truth I had to accept to finally lose my weight for the last damn time.

Until next week,

Corinne

P.S. In No BS, we focus on small, doable changes that add up to big results (like the ones that helped me lose 100 pounds). Ready to take that first step into your brand-new life? Become a No BS Woman today.

Welcome back everybody. So I thought we would do a fun podcast today. I get asked this all the time about what is different now than when I was overweight. How are you different? People are always so curious about me and how I've changed over the years and things like that. So I did a couple of things. Number one is back in the day I used to blog and I still have access to some of those old, old blogs. They're not on the internet anymore. I since retired them, but I kind of took a look back. I will tell all of you, I have always been some form of a journaler. So when I was nine years old, I remember walking into the Hallmark store at the Crescent Plaza Shopping Center in Nashville, Tennessee on Murfreesboro Road. And my mom at the time, she had remarried and this was her second husband, my stepfather at the time, and he bought me a diary. 

I got to pick anything I wanted in the Hallmark store, and the one thing I wanted was this little diary that, a lock on it, I still have the motherfucker. It was literally in my memorabilia box. I'm not one to save a lot of stuff, but that got saved. And so I've always been a writer and especially after I lost my weight, right as I had just lost it, I started writing about everything that was going on for me. It was also new, and that's how I got a lot of people who started reading and following me. In fact, I still have clients to this day. This started in 2007. I still have clients in my no BS weight loss membership who still belong, and they started with me way back when. They've just followed me all these years. So I looked at all of that and then I sat and did my own reflection about what was different for me. 

And I thought today I would share it with you because I think it's really helpful for us to talk about what is the difference between 250 pound version Corrine versus a hundred and honestly between one 40 and one 50 pound Corin. And I don't know, I'm excited to share this with you today. I rarely get super giddy about a podcast, but I'm super giddy about this one because I feel like y'all are going to get some good nuggets. Alright, number one, these are not in order at all. These are just literally things I came up with that I noticed over the years from looking at blogs and thinking about. Now the number one. One is I eat breakfast. So when I struggled with my weight, I rarely ate breakfast. If I ate breakfast, it was because I was already having a bad day. I never ate breakfast because I was actually hungry. 

It was just like, ugh, I hated going to work or I hated going to school. And so I would stop and get donuts or some kind of McGriddle or something just so I wouldn't feel so on edge about my workday or my school day. I remember never eating any kind of a breakfast for any reason other than that. Otherwise I did right the opposite. I didn't eat breakfast because I would think you're likely to fuck up tonight. And so I would try to save calories thinking like, well, then I'll be able to eat a little extra as if evening Corrine was ever going to come home and not just eat her face off because I just was a depressed kind of person. I was depressed, I was anxious. I worried what people thought about me all the time. I lived on the edge. I often stayed up way too late. 

I didn't get enough sleep. I didn't take good care of myself. I drank too much in my twenties because I was overweight and I worried I was never going to get married. I had bull shit going on. And so I'd come home at night and I'd want to eat my face off. And for some reason I would think that not eating breakfast was somehow going to make the version of me who was stressed out and tired all day long have what? 300 extra calories to eat. I was like, I could blow through that with a smell of McDonald's. And so now what's different, and I do this especially now at 50, is I eat breakfast every day. Most days I'm not hungry when I first wake up in the morning, but I get up between four 30 and five by about seven or eight o'clock I'm ready to eat. 

And so I do eat breakfast and I just didn't do that. I was too busy saving calories for nighttime free falls all the time. And I just didn't realize back then that that was one of the big key components that set me up to eat my face off at night if my body didn't get what it needed during the day. And I was sitting around beating myself up over worrying, overworking, trying to please everyone not rock the boat. I was always on edge. I'd go home and I'd not only my body was in physical threat. Like, girl, if you're not feeding us, I'm going to have to get food. And then second, being so emotionally drained, it's no wonder I ate my face off every night. So when I decided to lose weight, that was one of the first things to change was I was going to make sure that I started eating breakfast. 

Now, number two is I became a water drinker. I look back now on my life and I just laugh my ass off because I don't ever remember drinking water as a child. I just don't. I mean, we drink soda, we drink juice, we drink anything but water, Kool-Aid, sweet tea. I mean, I'm from the south, we drink everything, but if I ever drank water, I was probably standing outside hot as fuck, drinking out of a water hose. And I remember in high school when I started band, one of the first things that they told us was because our practices were, they were always in the middle of the damn summer. So we would sweat our asses off, but they would tell us to bring a bottle of water. I was like, what are you even talking about? So I started bringing water. That was the first time that I had ever really heard that we should drink water. 

So I don't throw shade on my mama or anything like that. I grew up in the eighties and we just weren't thinking about that stuff. You didn't buy water. Nobody was carrying around water jugs and stuff. Hell, I would bet you if you looked back at road races where people did half marathons and stuff, they probably didn't even carry water. They might've had water stations, but you weren't going to get but that little paper cup every couple of miles. So when I started losing weight, one of the first things I did was I started doubling down on water. I didn't like it. I hated water. I used crystal light for a long time. To this day, I still like to drink the stuff called xtend. It's X-T-E-N-D. We'll put a link to it in the show notes. It's got branch chain amino acids in it, but I'll just tell you it is like a fitness version of Kool-Aid for adults, for lack of a better way to explain it. 

But when I was overweight, I drank lots of diet sodas, lots of juice, a lot of cappuccino from the gas station. I drank everything but water. I don't remember drinking a lot of water. And so when I started losing weight, I would drink water before I drank. The other stuff I got really good at, if I was drinking sweet tea, I would drink half sweet half water. If I was going to have juice, I would have half juice, half water. I just started kind of sneaking up on drinking more water and now I drink a gallon a day. I literally drink a gallon of water almost every day of my life. Another thing that changed is I actually exercise in ways that I love. So I remember most of my life I didn't exercise at all. I didn't play sports, I was in band. That was the closest exercise I got. 

I remember a couple of times when I was young doing some Jane Fonda tapes. I remember there was this one exercise where you stood and you marched in place, and then you did these arm circles where you held your hands straight out. You did these little circles and you would do them for what felt like fucking forever and about the time they were burning off, you would reverse course. So if anybody is a Jane Fonda fan, you probably remember that damn tape. So I did that for a little bit and that was the closest I ever came to being an exerciser. In my twenties, I had a couple of fits and starts at an all ladies gym, but I really didn't get into exercise until my thirties. And so I remember when I first started, I knew that I wanted to be an exerciser. My brother had played sports, he was athletic, and I just had this dream of being an athlete. 

And so when I first started losing weight, I started going the gym and walking. Now I was also very ashamed and very nervous and all the things. So I started with some walking. I didn't do things too gung-ho because in the past, every time I tried to start working out, I would get so sore that I would stop. So when I started this time, I started with walking, and then as I got to walking, I wanted to try other machines. Then as I tried other cardio machines, I wanted to try the weights. Then I got into a body pump class and I made an agreement on my first body pump class that I would go to the back and I would do as much as I could and then I would be able to sneak out easily because I would be in the back closest to where all the equipment was kept in the first few weeks. 

I couldn't make it all the way through class, but I just kept showing up. It was really hard though. It wasn't hard physically as much as it was hard mentally because I had to sit there and tell myself, you are not a failure. You're figuring this out. I know people can see you leaving. They probably have all kinds of thoughts, but this is what we need to do. You just have to keep going. I just remember encouraging myself so much when I was losing weight about I know you're worried about this. I know you're afraid of this. I hear you. I remember telling myself, I hear you. I get it. You're all these things, but we're going to figure it out, but we're going to survive, but it might get better. I would always be pivoting. I tell my clients all the time now that we can't wait to be motivated. 

We can't wait for the day that our brain just says the right things to get us to do things. If we waited for that moment, we would all still be sitting in a drive-through somewhere. If I had waited, I'd be at Dairy Queen right now. I would not be on a podcast teaching women how to lose weight. So we don't wait for that. What we do is we pivot to it. So when your brain is bitching, moaning, complaining, griping at you, I tell my members all the time, you are playing Olympic level ping pong now on one side is your Olympian level competitor and they are just hitting that little ping pong at you, and that's a thought. You can't do it. You're too big. Everybody sees you. Whatever it is, your job is to hit it back and you are going to play ping pong with your brain millions of times over the course of your lifetime and probably at least 500,000 this year, you were going to serve back thoughts that you can't lose weight, thoughts that this is too hard, thoughts that you shouldn't do, this thoughts that this is wrong. 

You name it, your brain will throw it at you. Your job is to hit it back every single time and say, I get that. You think that, but we're going to figure it out. I get that you think that, but that's not a good enough excuse to stop. So for me, when it came to exercise, I had to be really good at telling myself that the way that I was doing it was okay, but I did not need to go to the gym six days a week that I did not need to do all the things I was going to do some of the things until I figured it out. So that was a big deal for me. I still did the stay workout. I work out five to six days a week. I lift weights usually at least twice, if not four to five times a week. 

Right now, I'm currently following what they call the four day split. I do upper body two days a week, lower body, two days a week. I'm trying to teach myself how to do pull-ups at 50 years old, I'm trying to figure out how to do a pullup or a chin up. And so I say all this because one of the reasons why I was able to lose weight and able to keep it off is because I figured out how to move my body in the way that I loved, not in a way to just lose weight because once the weight was gone, if I didn't love the exercise, guess what? I'd have to let that go too, because when you lose weight, what I figured out was you have to lose weight and do things that it's going to be easy to do once the weight is gone. 

Because once the weight is gone now you don't have a motivator anymore. So you better like what you're doing, otherwise you're not going to keep doing it. And that's why so many people end up regaining weight. Another thing that I did while I was losing weight, and I think it's been probably one of the biggest reasons why I've been able to keep my weight off, is I started blogging and now it's on social media. I share my story a lot. This podcast very often has my personal stories. I talk about what's going on in my life for me, sharing with you in the podcast, showing up in my membership, my members, they see the real me a lot. There's hardly a week that goes by where I don't do a call or something where I don't cry or I don't talk to them about something that's going on for me, something that I'm personally struggling with that has really helped me. 

So I think that when I think about before I lost weight, I didn't share my struggles at all. I didn't realize how not talking about what was going on kept me really stuck in this inability to lose weight. And so when I look at it now, I'm like, yeah, being able to talk about it, normalize it, share with other people has been a huge part of not just weight loss, but a huge part in keeping my weight off too. Another thing that was different was I used to think I needed to know a lot of stuff to lose weight, and when I finally decided to lose my a hundred pounds, there wasn't a day where I was like, today's the day I lose a hundred pounds. There was just a day where I was like, I'm fucking tired. I'm going to figure this out. I didn't know how much weight I was going to lose. 

I didn't know if I'd lose 10 pounds, a hundred pounds. I didn't know what was going to happen, but I just knew I was going to get started and I made an agreement with myself right then and there is that I didn't need to know everything. All I needed to know was what I was going to do that day and all I needed to know about that day was change. Some obvious shit. I quit trying to change everything at once. I just went for obvious shit. Like me eating four to five servings of ice cream every night was never going to help me lose weight. Eating a little bit less was a good start. Figuring out why I needed to eat ice cream every single night was going to solve my nighttime eating problem. One of the other things was like, if I go and order fast food, don't do fuck it eats. 

Don't say like, well, because you're eating fast food, that must mean there's nothing you can do about it, which is bullshit. Most of us tell ourselves, well, I've screwed up so I might as well. I told myself I was never doing that again. I was just like, that makes zero sense. It makes zero sense to might as well eat nowhere in any diet in any, there's no one listening to this that is probably sitting there. You know what I should do? Should do more. Fuck it eating. If I just did more fuck it eating, I bet I'd lose weight. Said no woman ever. So what I decided was that I am not fucking eating. If I mess up, fine, but I'm not going to make it worse. That is a step in the right direction and it made sense to me and then it made sense to me. 

It's like if I'm so tempted and I'm going to go to McDonald's, then I'm not going to order McDonald's like I always do. What can I do? I remember when I first started, I loved a number two with mayonnaise instead of mustard, a supersized fry diet, Dr. Pepper, pepper and a McFlurry on the side. That was my big ass order and my McFlurry was not a little one. It was the big one. And I would order that. And I remember one day going, alright, you said you were going to do McDonald's different. And I remember ordering my number two with mustard, no substituting mayo. I was like step in the right direction. I eventually got to where I could get one cheeseburger. I eventually got to where I wasn't super sizing. I got to wear an ice cream cone was now what I was going to do instead of the jumbo McFlurry that I was getting. 

It just made sense to me that if I wanted to lose weight, there was going to be a million changes that had to be made. And the thing that screwed me over every single time, time when I tried to lose weight was trying to make all 1 million changes on day one. And this time I was like, no, that can't happen. And that is the biggest difference between Corrine at two 50 and Corrine at one 40. I now really appreciate and everything that I do in my life, just like when I'm training myself to do these pull-ups, I'm not going to be able to do pull-ups every single day and I'm not even going to be able to do the same amount all the time. But if I'm eventually going to be someone that does pullups, that means I got to do little things until I get the strength to be able to do the bigger things. 

It just makes sense. So for me, I lost a lot of my weight just deciding that the small changes were going to be good enough because whenever I tried to make all 1 million changes, I rarely made it more than three weeks. I didn't realize I was working against my own mind. I just thought I was weak. I just thought I was lazy or lacked willpower. What I didn't realize is that our brain only has a capacity to change so many things at one time. Otherwise we end up frying it. Essentially, we fry our nervous system, we fry our brain, and we can't do that if we're going to be successful. So I really appreciated the idea of, okay, the best way to keep going is to not freak myself out. So we're going to start small. And then I just had to deal with the version of me that just thought it wasn't good enough. 

I just had to ping pong her ass all the time. I just always had to tell her like, no, what's not good enough is doing it the way you've always done it. That's the very definition of not good enough. Now we're going to do it this way and we're going to figure it out. The other thing is I eventually lost enough weight to know the foods that I didn't want to keep in my house anymore. So this is always a slippery slope with a lot of people is we think that if we remove certain foods from the house, that must be diet mentality. That must be restriction, that must be bad. Some people, they do remove the foods from their house because they think they're weak or they think that they're addicted and all this other stuff. Here's my opinion on this and this is what's different between pre two 50 and what I weigh now. 

I love to have a house that feels safe. It's why I lock my doors at night. It's why we set our alarm. It's why we lock windows. I don't just sit and think like, well, that's being some kind of scarcity mentality. If you think somebody might break in all the time, I don't lock everything down out of fear. I lock everything down because it makes sense. It seems smart. It protects me. So when it comes to certain foods, if I feel like I am routinely going to overeat them, especially during high stress seasons of my life, I just get 'em out of the house as a way to feel safe in my house as a way to force myself into rather than eating my way through tough times, making myself be in a position to where I can't eat through them, where I have to deal with them, where I have to actually solve them for myself. 

There are just some foods that also, even now I don't necessarily want to emotionally eat because I have a bad day. They're just really tempting. If I had raw cookie, I'd never keep raw cookie dough in my house because for years and years and years, I ate raw cookie dough for dinner because it felt good and it was cheap and I would eat a whole roll and I don't keep it in the house now, not because I think I'm weak, because I'm addicted or something's wrong with me, I don't keep it in my house because I know that if I had raw cookie dough in the house, my brain would fixate on it. It would want to think about it. It would want it, even though I wasn't even craving it. I don't want to do that. I'm like, I just want to have nights where I don't have to think about shit like that. 

So I don't keep certain foods in my house anymore. Now, there are some foods that I have to keep in my house. I love donuts. Guess what we got in the house right now? Donuts. You know why my son wanted donuts? He went out and bought him some and he's been keeping 'em in the pantry with those foods. I just make them harder to find. I told him, I was like, I don't care if you want to have donuts in the house, but do mama a favor. Will you keep 'em in the cabinet, in the top shelf that we don't have to see them? And that is not because there's something wrong with me or anything. It's just knowing I have got years and years and years where I ate stuff like that. And when I see it, my brain naturally lights up and says, Ooh, that looks good. 

One won't hurt, and I know one won't hurt. But I also know that I don't want to deal with that stuff. So the next thing is that I really had to do differently than I did when I was at two 50. And what I do now is just talk nicer to myself. I've talked about this a million times in the podcast, but if I didn't change how I talked to myself, I was just never going to be able to lose weight. I could not keep berating myself. I could not keep hating myself to lose weight. I had tried it for 30 something years and for 30 years, dog piling bullshit on me never worked. And when I really started thinking about it, I started realizing that the harder I was on myself, the more I actually ended up quitting. Eventually, I could only take so much yelling at myself. 

Sometimes if you think about it, if you yell at someone, you might get an immediate improvement, but over the long haul they don't change. And so I started thinking about God, all I do is yell at myself all day long about how overweight I am and blah, blah, blah, blah. What if I just started talking a little bit nicer to myself saying things like, can you just do this today? Maybe that'll help you feel better. Can we just try to do this? And if it's too hard, we don't have to do that tomorrow. Opening up some negotiating and compassion was so different than what I did before I lost my weight. Now, when I got into my maintenance years, I also realized something else had happened. I did talk very different to myself and I had changed a lot, but when the thrill of weight loss was gone, when my body wasn't changing all the time, I was kind of normalizing and getting used to what my loose skin looked like. 

This is what we got. I realized that the next level of self-love was going to have to come. I was so excited about the weight loss that once I got used to being thin and people weren't noticing anymore, and the external validation wasn't coming all the time, I realized what level of bullshit thoughts I still had. And so it took me a few years, even in maintenance, to get grounded, I had to really start telling myself nice things. When I would look in the mirror, I noticed I did a lot of body critiquing. It was like I was fine while I was losing weight. I was still excited about all of that and I was still accomplishing things and I could get excited about the scale going down, but when it was like six months later and I was just at my goal weight and there was no thrill with the scale anymore, it was just like, oh, great, I weigh the same again. 

It just got boring. There was nothing exciting. So then when I would weigh, then I would think then all of a sudden every fear that I had about, oh, I hope you don't gain it back. I hope you don't regain your weight. You know, always have that stuff got loud. And so I had to notice like, okay, this is another area where I have to stop scaring myself or I have to stop berating myself. I had to start telling myself, Corinne, it's normal to think you're going to regain weight, but here's everything you're doing and this is the reasons why you won't. And if for some reason you gain a little weight, we know what to do. So for me, the biggest difference between two 50 and now is I have the ability to talk to myself instead of just letting whatever thoughts come up. 

It's like if the thought isn't a quality thought, then I don't just accept it because it's there. I'm really good at being like, man, I don't think that's the story I want to be telling. This is also true, and I use that statement a lot. I tell myself all the time, this is also true. So if I'm sitting there right now, looking at my arms is a good example. I've always had great arms after I lost weight. Now that I'm at 50, I'm getting a lot of crepey skin. What loose skin I have really shows up on them now. And so I notice I want to body pick them. I want to think like, oh, you're getting old and blah, blah, blah. I always tell myself, Corrine, it is true that you're getting older. Corrine, it is true that your arms don't look as good as they used to, but here's what's also true. 

You still look damn good. Here's what's also true. It's better to have crepey arms at 140 pounds than it is to be sitting there at two 50 and my arm's not fitting in things. It's better to be sitting here disappointed that your legs have scars from plastic surgery. It's better to be sitting here disappointed that your legs will never look the way you want and still have loose skin, but be able to walk into any store you want and buy really good jeans like Conway Twitty top fit and jeans and wear 'em like a boss. I'm always trying to tell myself this is also true. I don't like gaslighting myself. I don't like acting like my own thoughts about my body. There's just things I don't like. And I think that that's the other thing that's a big difference between two 50 Corrine and one 40 Corrine is that back in the day, I only had negative body thoughts. 

Now I have positive and negative, and I think that that's just normal. Back in the day, my negative body thoughts ran the show. Now I can hear them. I can say it's normal to be disappointed. In some areas it's normal to judge your body. That's just the way society is. But we also think these things and these things are also true, and that is a huge game changer for me. Another big difference between two 50 and where I'm at now is I plan food. I used to never plan my food ever. I mean, I would plan to go out to eat, but I would never plan what I was going to eat. I would just always be like, well, we're going out to eat. We might as well eat what we want. Nowadays, I prepare ahead of time. For years, we did food prep on Sundays. 

Every Sunday it was a ritual. I'd get up in the morning, I couldn't wait. I would make a menu for the week for me, ask the boys what they wanted to eat. I'd go to the grocery store, I'd come home, I'd unload, and I would immediately cook everything we were going to eat in a week. And I was cooking for three people. I'd cook what I was going to eat that week. I would cook what Chris wanted to eat that week. And then little Logan ate differently than me and Chris. And so I prepared basically three families worth of food every Sunday. And I loved it. I loved it for a lot of reasons. One, it was simple. It just made the week go by so much simpler. I did not want to be obsessed about food. I did not want to be thinking about it all the time. 

I loved having it all prepared and I don't mind leftovers. The other thing is I always felt like it was such a nurturing thing to do for me, but also for my boys to be like, what do you want? I want to cook that for you. They just felt like mommying and wiping for me. I know how everybody feels that way, but for me it was really important. Now I actually hire my sister-in-law to do all the cooking. Why? I work on the weekends now. I run two businesses and I just one day said, I don't want to give up the idea of having my food planned. I just can't do it anymore because I'm running two businesses and I'm working most days of the week every single day for at least eight hours a day. I asked her if she would like to do it. 

She wanted to make a little extra money. So now I tell my sister-in-law, here's what we're going to eat for the week. I even ask Chris, I'll ask Logan and Logan's 22. And I'll be like, what do you want aunt JJ making this week? And so we do that and it just is, it's just easier for us. It's not for everybody, but for me, I like having the food decisions made. Now we still have a couple nights a week that we'll order Uber Eats and we get to decide those whenever we want. And the way that I do that now, we didn't have Uber Eats back in the day. We went through drive-throughs, but I did the same technique back then as I do now. I predecide. So I know the four or five restaurants that we routinely Uber eat from, I know exactly the things that I like from those restaurants because usually if we're uber eating, I am exhausted, I am tired. 

I don't even feel like microwaving something. So I need to have those foods preselected. Otherwise I'm doom scrolling in, ordering what sounds good instead of here's what sounded good to Corinne, the version of her who knew what I liked and the version of her who likes keeping her weight off. And we're just going to trust her opinion. And so it makes it easy. My husband also has the Uber Eats app on his phone. So sometimes if I feel like I'm going to be tempted to eat like a donkey butt, I'll just say, you order and you know what I ordered last time, and he just punches it right on in there. So I do a lot of thinking about, I would say a bonus point here that's different is the 250 pound version of me didn't take care of me very well. She was always just flying by the seat of her pants, not realizing how low her self-esteem was, that she wasn't the best person to make her food decisions all the time because she was tired, a lot hard on herself, wasn't moving. 

I think about now it's like if there was one stark difference between me and her, and this is probably the biggest point of all, is I know now how important it is that I take care of me. It is nobody else's job. It is only my job. I don't need other people to do things, act a certain way and say things in order for me to do the job of caring for Corin. It's really my job. And when I took full ownership of that, when I stopped blaming my past for not being raised a certain way, when I stopped waiting for my husband to say the right things, when I stopped waiting on my son to act certain ways, when I quit wanting bosses and stuff to recognize me, when I just stopped doing that part and started thinking, how are you recognizing you? How are you talking to you? 

Are you acknowledging you? Are you taking care of you? Are you acting in a way that you want for you? When I took that, that was the piece I could control. I noticed that I cared for myself more. It was a lot easier to figure all that out. So if I leave you with anything today, I know you learned a lot. And just like how do you kind of start the exercise and do you keep foods in your house and do you drink water? Blah, blah, blah. I think the main thing is it all started with this one fundamental thing of I know you're sick, tired, and depressed, and I'm ready to take care of us. We will figure this out as bad as you feel in this moment. We're just going to figure this out. And I started with the little changes, little changes in my mind, little changes about what I put in my mouth, little changes around what I did with my body, and it added up to a hundred pounds gone in 15 plus years of maintaining teaching millions of women now how to lose weight. 

This podcast, nearly 60 million people have listened to it at this point, and I hope that every week you get something out of it. If nothing else, I just want you to know it's all going to start with you. Please don't wait on your mood to change. Don't wait to be motivated. Don't wait for somebody to change. Don't wait for your life to have this perfect moment where everything dies down. I will tell you, I started losing weight when my life felt the most out of control, the most hectic, what I would've thought would be the worst time ever to try to start losing weight. It was the best gift I gave myself. Because if you can't lose weight during the hard times, the easy times aren't going to be any easier. And the hard times are always going to be with us for the rest of our life. You might as well start right now. Alright, y'all have a good.