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Hello and welcome to Episode 89< of the Internet’s only clothing-optional low-carb podcast, “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore!”
Hey! Have you heard our host Jimmy’s new Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb infomercial? YEPPERS! It is, perhaps, the only diet infomercial that offers a totally free solution to the growing obesity epidemic in the United States and around the world. You’ll just have to hear it to believe it!
Listen in for a bit of silliness with a lot of wisdom and great advice at its heart in today’s installment on the benefits of employing incremental weight loss goals on your way to weight loss success. If you haven’t tried this technique before, it may be just the ticket you need to keep on track and motivated as you shed the pounds and get healthy!
LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 89
– E-mail Jimmy Moore
– Low-Carb Discussion forum
Did you miss anything Jimmy said? Are you still on dial-up? Well, that’s OK, we have a complete transcript of Episode 89 available right after the jump!
TRANSCRIPT of Episode 89
This is Episode 89 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore.” It’s a true honor to come here week after week sharing with you wonderful listeners how my life was changed forever for the better because of the healthy low-carb lifestyle. Quite literally, thousands upon thousands of people are joining the revolution and finding out for themselves that low-carb isn’t just some passing fad diet, but rather a delicious, nutritious, and healthy way to eat today, tomorrow, and for the rest of their lives. That’s why I’ll keep on sharing the positive message of livin’ la vida low-carb in the years and decades to come. THANK YOU for being a part of my ever-growing audience and I hope you are educated, encouraged, and inspired each and every time you listen to this podcast show. Let me know what you think about the show by sending me an e-mail at livinlowcarbman@charter.net and by leaving your comments in the show notes section at TheLivinLowCarbShow.com.
Today, right here in this podcast, I’m going to reveal the secret to lasting and permanent weight loss success. That’s right, you’ve always wanted to know what you need to do to shed those pounds for good, so listen closely as I share this explosive piece of information with you that will change your life. Yessiree, this is the great “magic pill” that the world has been sitting on pins and needles for years regarding the battle of the bulge and it is sure to turn the world of dieting and weight loss completely on its head. What people need to do to bring about a real change in their weight and health is…..
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Do you ever get the feeling that life can sometimes be like that little mock informercial I just shared with you? Just when you think you are hearing something so amazing, so unbelievable and so fantastic about the wonderful world of weight loss, you get an interruption in your life or current circumstance that robs you of the thrill of seeing those real results that you so desperately seek and have been seeking for most of your life. Sigh. If only weight loss were as easy as a simple 1-2-3 formula, but it’s not. This is the real world and it takes a little more than a pill or wacky plan to lose weight in a healthy and permanent way.
With that said, though, I want to share with you something that I did during my 180-pound low-carb weight loss in 2004 that may help you become a HUGE success at it as well, especially if you have lots of weight to lose like I did. There’s nothing fancy or special about what I’m about to share, but many may find it is exactly what they need to reach their ultimate weight loss and health goals. I can’t believe I didn’t think to put this in my book, but I guess it became so automatic to me that I didn’t have to think about it. I just did it.
Here’s what it involves: Take your goal weight and break it down into many small goals.
For example, if you have 100 pounds to lose and you weigh 310 pounds, then you will want to set a goal to reach various mini-goals all along the way. In this example, your first goal is to reach 300 pounds (or better yet, 299, because nothing is more thrilling than to see that scale drop down to the next century of pounds! It was that way for me going from the 400s to the 300s and then the 300s to the 200s. Just once, I’d love to be in the 100s again, even if it’s just 199. Maybe someday after my tummy tuck! We’ll see). Okay, so once you reach 300, your next goal would be 290, then 280, 270, 260…so forth and so on. Breaking up your 100-pound weight loss goal into 10-pound increments will allow you to focus on a much smaller weight loss rather than having a huge number stare you in the face all the time. That makes a lot of sense, doesn’t it?
Had I known when I started livin’ la vida low-carb on January 1, 2004 that I would go on to lose 180 pounds in one year and I tried to lose all 180 pounds in one swell foop, then I do believe I would have had a mental breakdown in the process. But having a series of smaller weight loss goals enabled me to live in the present and enjoy the unbridled joy that comes with all those little victories along the way to my ultimate prize of a 180-pound weight loss. People always ask me how I lost 180 pounds and I generally tell them, “I didn’t. I actually lost 10 pounds EIGHTEEN times!” After they give me a funny look, you can see the understanding begin to sink in. It’s amazing to share this little “secret” with people because they think there’s something magical about what I did. Not really. I just set forth this plan of having lots of small goals on my way to the BIG ONE and it worked.
I suppose you can say I had at least 18 winning moments during my journey from 410 pounds down to 230 pounds in 2004 and each one became more and more significant as the weight kept melting away and I got closer to my ultimate BIG goal. Hitting 299 was a special moment for me because it happened right after an increasingly frustrating 10-week weight loss stall in the midst of my weight loss. But the drive to get below 300 was what kept me going because it was the first time in a VERY long time that I was in the 200s again. Yeah! And I’ve not been out of the 200s ever since! WOO HOO!
So what is your weight loss goal? 200 pounds? 100 pounds? Regardless of how much you need to lose, I encourage you to break it up into bite-sized chunks that are well within your grasp. If all you need to lose is 20 pounds, then make it your first goal to lose 5 pounds. Once that is reached, begin on losing another 5 pounds. Before you know it, you’ll lose that 20 pounds and feel the overwhelming sense of accomplishment for rewarding yourself with small weight loss goals all along the way. If you struggle with being overwhelmed by a large weight loss goal that stares you right between the eyeballs, then why don’t you try my little trick for helping you bring about that weight loss slowly but surely? A 5-pound or 10-pound goal is easier to conceptualize than a 100-pound or 200-pound one, don’t ya think?
Go ahead, start with that first small goal beginning RIGHT NOW and pat yourself on the back when you make it to that first goal. Then set another and another and another. Before you know it, you’ll have that weight loss goal licked and you’ll look and feel more fantastic than you have been in your entire life. YOU CAN DO IT!!!
Before I go today, I wanted to personally invite you to visit my brand new low-carb forum which has exploded in growth in the less than two months it has been online. In only a matter of weeks, the membership already numbers in the hundreds and the total views will reach a half million this week. Unbelievable! And what an incredibly supportive, caring, and loving group of people we have there who will give you the positive reinforcement that you need to lose weight and get healthy the low-carb way. I cannot say enough good things about what is happening there, so you’ll just have to check it out for yourself. Go to LowCarbDiscussion.com and browse around the various forum rooms. I’m sure after a few clicks you’ll be as hooked on it as we are and will want to sign up and join. And yes, it’s absolutely FREE, so why not take advantage of this new resource in your low-carb lifestyle? You’ll be glad you did.
That’s it for Episode 89 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore.” Do you use a small goal strategy in your weight loss efforts? If so, then how has it worked for you in accomplishing your ultimate goal? If not, then are you successful just looking at the BIG goal? Discuss what’s worked for you in the show notes section of Episode 89 at TheLivinLowCarbShow.com. THANKS as always for tuning in to the #1 low-carb podcast show on the Internet today. So, until next time, keep on livin’ la vida low-carb!