Mike Needs a Plan

A Q&A episode from the members of my Instagram Broadcast channel. Insight on a bunch of great topics, like how to achieve your fitness goals with a busy life, how to make tracking less stressful, strategies and mindsets to work on negative self talk, and more.

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1. Are your goals attractive?

2. Are your methods attractive?

3. Is your maintenance plan attractive?

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I'll never be overweight again. I'm very confident in that.

You aren't just yet. That's ok! Let's talk about how to get you confident, too.

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How to beat procrastination, impostor syndrome, negative self talk, motivation burnout, a lying scale, the mirror, & more in this Discord Q&A episode.

I take questions from out Discord Community and read them for the first time on the show, so that I don't have time to prepare, and you can see my process in giving an answer. I feel that the method by which I get my answer is just as important for you to hear as the answer itself, so that you might be able to solve your own question next time. But I'm always glad to answer!

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In this very experimental episode of Mike Needs A Plan, I pull an unreleased episode from the vault -- a year after it was recorded -- to see just how far I've come in the time since.

Who better to do that with than my friend & mentor Chris, a guy who lost 125 pounds and has helped thousands of others do the same for good. He has informed a lot of the way I think about weight loss & the mindset behind it, and it was fantastic getting to go back and revisit the beginning of our friendship a year later.

Join the guild to meet us both! https://chris-terrell.mykajabi.com/a/2147751468/6Hz8hxJY

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Today I'm discussing Sophia's question from the Discord about finding motivation in spite of the fear of failure, and recalling everything it took to complete my first 5K this past weekend to illustrate what progress truly looks like.

Shout out to Gloria & Michael!

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This one's going to piss a few of you off. But I wouldn't be serving you properly if all I did was affirm you. You know we do REAL positivity here -- none of that toxic positivity.

This is also not meant to be accusatory, or demeaning. These are tough conversations I had to have with MYSELF if I wanted to keep my 110 pounds off for good. I wasn't going to make progress I was happy with until these things were properly addressed.

You won't, either.

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Some of us wouldn't eat as much as we do if it wasn't for someone in our lives always suggesting food, and the suggested deciding "sure, I could eat." Sometimes you're the suggested. Sometimes you're the suggestor.

We explore the topic of friends and family with invitations bigger than our appetites, Sean's question from the Discord group regarding how to stay accountable when you want to eat *everything,* and several other hopefully relevant tangents on today's episode.

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How to do things you don't want to do, the things that will surprise you when you lose all of the weight you want to lose, how to maintain new lifestyle changes, and much more on this first Q&A episode of the podcast.

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I quit my job a year ago. It was the first time in recent memory that I truly, genuinely hoped for something. Without shooting myself down, anyway.

My mantra of "No hopes!" kept me safe for a long time. But what was it keeping me safe *from*? Failure? Or success?

In this episode, I talk about my hope journey, and why it was vital to complete it to maintain the work I'd done on my weight loss journey. What will you hope for this week?

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We need to talk.

Don't worry, I'm not about to tell you to"eat less and move more." What more are you going to gain from a skinny guy telling you that again?

Weight. That's what you'll gain. Because it changes absolutely nothing for you to hear that again. You know how the biological process worked, but nobody ever made an attempt to explain howyouas a human being fit into the equation.

That being said,we need to talk about a few things. And hopefully, one or two of them will humanize your journey.

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We're always talking about what we CAN do on a weight loss journey, which I'm very grateful for. It's a much-needed shift in the weight loss conversation that has for years been bogged down with everything you can't and shouldn't do.

However, there are SOME things you really can't do anymore if you want to lose 100 pounds and keep it off for good. In this episode, I'll cover 6 of the unexpected things that actually might be slowing down your progress, and you're probably doing a few of them.

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Charlotte Skanes lost 200 pounds, and knows how to enjoy every step of the process. Now she helps others to do the same, and sat down with me today to share some of her secrets. Thanks Charlotte!

Find her here!

https://disruptingobesity.com/

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Looking for some low-calorie food swaps and a grocery list that can help you trim off some extra pounds & extra worry? Noah Tanner, "The Biggest Fella," lost 110 pounds and now helps others to do the same. He joins me today for part 2 of a special debut two-part episode.

Find him here!

https://beacons.ai/bigfellafitness

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Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and you need a plan. All of your common questions and concerns are answered in this neat little last-minute guide.

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Friends mentioned in this show:

Morgan Woodruff: https://www.tiktok.com/@morgan_wood_help

Chris Terrell: http://www.linktr.ee/ogchristerrell

Laura "LARK" Knaak: http://www.linktr.ee/knaakwell

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Noah Tanner, "The Biggest Fella," lost 110 pounds and now helps others to do the same. He joins me today for a special debut two-part episode.

Find him here!

https://beacons.ai/bigfellafitness

Find me & join the free Discord here!

https://linktr.ee/mikepridgen

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IG @cooklin_comics

Show Scheduling by Sarah