
Shut Up And Choose
The No-BS Weight Loss Podcast
I Lost Over 140 lbs Without Dieting, Without Exercise, and Without Giving Up the Foods I Love—And You Can Too.
If you’re sick of dieting and done wasting money on weight loss gimmicks that never work long-term, you’re in the right place.
For years, I was just like you. I was the ultimate yo-yo dieter, jumping from one fad diet to the next—keto, low-fat, no-carb, meal plans, shakes, you name it. I’d lose some weight, gain it back, then beat myself up for “failing.”
I was stuck in the cycle. Every Monday, I’d swear, This is it! This time, I’m really going to lose the weight. And by Friday? I’d be back to old habits, feeling like a failure. Sound familiar?
Then, I finally cracked the code.
I figured out how to lose 140 lbs and keep it off—without giving up my favorite foods, without spending even one minute in the gym, and without turning my life upside down. And now, I’m sharing everything I’ve learned with you.
Now, I’m a bestselling author on Amazon for my book Shut Up and Choose and a keynote speaker, helping thousands of people finally break free from the diet industry’s lies and lose weight the right way. No gimmicks, no nonsense—just real, practical strategies that actually work in real life.
If I could do it—while juggling a busy life, eating the foods I love, and without ever stepping foot in a gym—so can you.
What You’ll Learn in This Podcast:
✔️ How to lose weight without starving yourself – No more crash diets or miserable meal plans.
✔️ Why 85% of weight loss happens in the kitchen, not the gym – You don’t need grueling workouts to see results.
✔️ The easiest ways to cut calories without tracking every bite – Because nobody wants to live with a food diary forever.
✔️ How to break the yo-yo dieting cycle for good – Finally lose the weight and actually keep it off.
✔️ Why motivation is overrated—and what actually works – Willpower won’t save you, but the right strategies will.
✔️ The exact steps I took to lose 140 lbs and maintain it – No fads, just real habits that work.
No More Excuses. No More Waiting.
Listen, I get it. Life is busy. You don’t have time to meal prep like a bodybuilder, count every calorie, or spend hours in the gym. Neither did I.
But here’s the truth:
Nobody is coming to rescue you—not your doctor, not a $500-a-month weight loss coach, and definitely not another diet plan.
If you want to lose weight, you have to start making better choices.
But that doesn’t mean you have to eat like a rabbit or give up your favorite foods.
🚫 No meal plans.
🚫 No shakes.
🚫 No gimmicks.
Just real, practical, no-BS strategies that actually work—even if you’re busy, stressed, or have failed 100 times before.
Who This Podcast Is For:
🔹 You’re sick of dieting and want real, sustainable weight loss.
🔹 You want to lose weight without giving up your favorite foods.
🔹 You don’t have time for hour-long workouts but still want results.
🔹 You’ve tried everything—and nothing has worked long-term.
🔹 You’re finally ready to take control and make it happen.
Shut Up And Choose
Your Family Tree Isn’t Fat—Your Family Habits Are
Ever found yourself saying, "I've always been big, it's just in my genes"? That seemingly innocent explanation might be the very thing keeping you stuck in a cycle of weight struggles and failed attempts at change.
In this raw, unfiltered episode, we tear down the myth of the "fat gene" and expose the truth that most people don't want to hear: what we blame on genetics is actually inherited behavior. You didn't inherit obesity—you inherited portion sizes, late-night snacking, sedentary evenings, and using food as your universal emotional response tool.
The revelation hit me at 411 pounds when I finally recognized I wasn't living my own life; I was repeating patterns I'd absorbed since childhood. Cleaning my plate no matter how full I felt. Eating when bored, stressed, or celebrating. Using food as both punishment and reward. These weren't biological imperatives—they were scripts I'd been handed that I never thought to question.
But here's the liberating truth: patterns can be rewritten. Using what I call the 3R Method—Recognize the inherited habit, Replace it with a better option, and Repeat until it becomes your new normal—I lost over 130 pounds without diets, gyms, or gimmicks. Not by fighting my supposed genetic destiny, but by consciously choosing different routines.
The power of this approach lies in its simplicity. You don't need to overhaul your entire life overnight. Start with just one habit this week. Maybe it's leaving two bites on your plate to break the "clean plate club" conditioning. Perhaps it's waiting 10 minutes before getting seconds. Small changes, consistently repeated, create massive transformation over time.
Ready to stop blaming your DNA and start rewriting your story? Listen now to discover exactly how to identify the habits you didn't choose but are still living by—and more importantly, how to replace them with choices that serve the life you actually want. Your genes aren't your destiny. Your daily decisions are.
Lose Weight Without Starving or Obsessing! Learn the simple, no-BS system that helped me lose 140 pounds naturally—no extreme diets, no endless gym hours, just real, sustainable fat loss for real people.
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If you're a whiny snowflake that can't handle the truth, is offended by the word fuck and about 37 uses of it in different forms gets ass hurt. When you hear someone speak the absolute, real and raw truth, you should leave Like right now. This is Shut Up and Choose, the podcast where we cut through the shit and get real about weight loss, life and everything in between. We get into the nitty gritty of making small, smart choices that add up to big results. From what's on your plate to how you approach life's challenges. We'll explore how the simple act of choosing differently can transform your health, your mindset and your entire freaking life. So if you're ready to cut through the bullshit and start making some real changes, then buckle up and shut up, because we're about to choose our way to a healthier, happier life. This is Shut Up and Choose. Let's do this Now. Your host, jonathan Ressler.
Speaker 2:Welcome back to Shut Up and Choose the podcast where we cover the noise, the nonsense, all the bullshit that the internet and Instagram gurus and other jerk-offs are out there telling you how to lose weight, telling you eat this, don't eat that. Then the next week they're wait. Wait, we were wrong. Don't eat that, eat this. It's all a bunch of shit. You know what to do, you know how to lose the weight. You know how to do it all.
Speaker 2:So, anyway, the other day I was talking to a new client of mine and he said something. This is a guy he said was I've always been big, it's just in my genes that line. Well, I've heard it before dozens, maybe hundreds of times, I've said it myself, but for some reason that day it just hit me differently. Maybe it's just how resigned he sounded, like the case was closed, like there was no point in even trying, because his biology had already written the ending to his story. And, to be honest, like I said, I've used that line myself a lot of times, even though I know it's not true. It was just an easy way out for me.
Speaker 2:My mother was fit. My brothers are both fit. My father, well, him not so much. He was also the king of diets. He did all the diets and all the fads. He lost a ton of weight. Then he put it right back on and I idolized my father. So by default I kind of did what he did. I looked just like him, I act like him. Literally. When I would walk down the street people go oh you must be Sandy's son. What should I expect? I guess I did everything that he did, and that includes all the same weight issues that he had. I had inherited his fat gene and that got me thinking like how many people are walking around carrying that belief like it's a death sentence? How many people have convinced themselves that they are locked into their current body, their current habits, their current life, not because of their choices but because of some mythical fat gene?
Speaker 2:I'm not here to tell you that genetics don't play a role in body type. Of course they do. Some people have a faster metabolism, a naturally smaller frame, a different set point. But let's not kid ourselves. What most people call genetics is really just inherited behavior. You didn't inherit obesity, and neither did I. We inherited portion sizes. We inherited late night snacking. We inherited a sedentary lifestyle, a stressed out eating pattern, a tendency to eat for comfort instead of fuel. And, most importantly, we inherited a mindset, one that told us this is just who you are.
Speaker 2:And here's the truth. Most of what we chalk up to DNA is actually just repetition. It's a tradition disguised as biology. Your parents didn't meal prep Certainly mine didn't, so I never meal prep. I still don't. By the way, in my house we never talked about nutrition, so, as I got older, I never talked or thought about nutrition. In my house, we skipped breakfast. We we inhale our dinner in front of the TV. So that's what I do.
Speaker 2:So, congratulations, you probably do it too, but that's not a gene, it's a routine, and the good news is, routines can be changed. That's what this episode is about rewriting the story that you've inherited. If you've always been big, always struggled with food, always felt like it was out of your control, I want to challenge you today, not to blame your past, but to take ownership of your future. You're not a victim of genetics. You're the result of your patterns, and those patterns can absolutely be replaced. So I'm going to break down how to separate biology from belief and show you exactly how to identify the habits you didn't choose, but you're still living by and, more importantly, I'll walk you through how to start making different choices, stacking new habits and building a new story, one that isn't limited by what you were handed down. Because here's the thing if you inherited it, it wasn't your choice, but if you're still doing it now it is, so let's get into it.
Speaker 2:So look, you did not inherit the fat gene, you just inherited your family's routines. You were not born broken. This isn't some rogue gene inside of you that said let's make this one fat, slow and destined to fail. That's just not how biology works. But we've been conditioned to believe that if we've always been big, it must be our genetics. I hear it all the time my whole family's bigger. I've always had a slow metabolism. It just runs in my blood and I get it. Believe me, I get it. That belief is comforting. It gives you an out. If it's genetic, then it's not your fault. If it's inherited, then nothing you do really matters. So you can stop trying, you can stop failing and just accept this is your lot in life.
Speaker 2:But here's the truth. What most people call genetics is actually just generational habits. You didn't inherit a fat gene, you inherited a way of living, and just because your family passed it down doesn't mean you have to keep carrying it. So first let me say yes, of course, genetics are real. Some people are more prone to storing fat. Some people are naturally leaner. Some people gain weight faster, some lose it more easily. That's all true. But your genetics are not your destiny. They're just your default setting, basically your starting point. Are not your destiny. They're just your default setting, basically your starting point. The rest is built by your choices, your behaviors and, to some extent, your environment. So what actually runs in the family? For most people, it's not a faulty gene, it's a lifestyle template. We probably grew up in a house where most people were running late, stressed, and we didn't prioritize meals. Breakfast just grab a granola bar, some Pop-Tarts or just skip it all together, and now you start your day with caffeine, no protein and a blood sugar crash by 11 am. That's not a gene, that's a habit you absorb because no one taught you any different.
Speaker 2:Another one is cleaning your plate right. Raise your hand. If you heard this growing up. Don't waste food. Now ask yourself how many times you've eaten past fullness not because you were hungry, but because it felt wrong to leave something behind. That's not metabolism, that's conditioning, that's being taught to associate in finishing your plate with being a good kid and not being wasteful. Another one and we're all guilty of this you want to know what?
Speaker 2:One of the most common family traditions that leads to slow, steady weight gain over time, that's sedentary evenings. If you eat dinner, then you sit, you watch TV, you have some snacks, you do a little scrolling on your phone, drink some wine, have a drink, whatever it is. The rhythm becomes a norm. You didn't choose it, you absorbed it. Another one is using food to cope. This is a big one.
Speaker 2:If you grew up in a home where food was how you dealt with stress or sadness or boredom or even celebration, guess what? You learned? That food equals comfort. Bad day, eat something. Long week, let's order in Big win, let's celebrate with cake. It's not your body's biology craving that dopamine hit, it's your emotional wiring built from childhood. And this is a big one. This is the biggest one. This is probably the most normalized dysfunction Sugar as celebration and food as therapy. Birthday let's have cake. Graduate and I'm not saying you shouldn't have cake on a birthday, but graduation cake Got promoted Dinner out, feeling down Pizza and ice cream this ritual gets baked in so deeply by the time you're an adult you don't even realize you're reenacting every time something happens, good or bad. But the real point is what you inherited was repetition, and that's the key point that I want to drive home.
Speaker 2:Most of what we label as genetic is actually just repeated behavior. You've done something so many times for so many years in the same situations with the same responses, that it feels like it's who you are, but it's not identity and it's definitely not DNA. It's just repetition. And repetition becomes your story, your autopilot, basically your comfort zone. It becomes easier to believe you're just built this way than to face the discomfort of change. But let me remind you something Repetition can work for you just as easily as it's worked against you.
Speaker 2:If you can repeat late-night snacking for 15, 20, 30 years, you can repeat walking after dinner. It's that easy. If you can repeat self-loathing, diet cycling over and over, you can repeat small wins and stacked habits. You don't have to keep repeating what you didn't choose and you don't have to carry the habits that were handed to you like a family heirloom. You can break the cycle that were handed to you. Like a family heirloom, you can break the cycle. It's not just possible, it's powerful, because once you see that your bad genes are just bad programming, you realize that you're the one holding the pen and you can rewrite that story.
Speaker 2:So let me give you an example, or paint a little picture for you. You're out at a restaurant or walking through an amusement park, wherever, and you see it, that family, every member of it, is overweight or obese Parents, kids, sometimes even the grandparents, all carrying excess weight. And here's the question that most people are too polite or too afraid to ask out loud Do you really think they all got the fat gene? Is that what we're going with? Four people, three generations, all lost the genetic lottery. Come on, give me a fucking break. There's something else at play here, and you know it. And I'm not here to shame anybody. I'm definitely not here to shame anybody, but I'm here to tell the truth, and the truth is this isn't about biology, it's about behavior.
Speaker 2:Family didn't inherit some chromosome mutation. They inherited a lifestyle. They inherited skipping breakfast, grabbing fast food for dinner, living on snacks and sodas, binging on Netflix instead of walking the dog, using food to celebrate, I don't know, to grieve, to avoid and basically to soothe. They inherited routines, not genes. If you followed that family home which I didn't, which I never have because I'm not a stalker but if you did follow them and take a look at their daily habits, you'd probably see no meal planning, no water, no structured movement, shit, loads of mindless eating, a lot of stress, probably not a lot of sleep and absolutely no boundaries around food screens or self-care. That is not a genetic code, that's a household culture. And guess what? That culture is learned, it's repeated and it's passed down like a family recipe and it produces the same result every single time.
Speaker 2:So when someone looks at a family like that and shrug and said, well, I guess it just runs in the family, what they're really saying is we never questioned how we live. But here's the good news and the bad news, depending on how honest you're willing to be. If it's a gene, you're totally fucked, you're fucked. But if it's a habit, you can change it. And that's the part that people resist, because changing habits is uncomfortable. It forces you to confront everything you've normalized and maybe even challenge your family's entire way of living. That's some heavy shit. But let me tell you, breaking that cycle is one of the most powerful things you can do for yourself, for your kids and for the people watching, you can actually choose not to pass it on.
Speaker 2:So let's talk about the part of the story that comes after awareness, because once you see the fat gene probably isn't a gene at all. Once you realize that you may have inherited your family's routines, not their DNA, you're left with a powerful question what do I do with that truth? Well, that's kind of where the work begins, because here's the thing Many of us grew up in households where certain behaviors were sacred and unquestioned as religion. This is how my mother did it, this is how my grandmother did it, and now it's just me. I'm not being malicious, it's not intentional. In most cases it's not even conscious, it's just normal. You grew up watching your parents eat a certain way, handle stress a certain way, talk about food and weight in a certain way, and then, whether you realize it or not, you absorb those behaviors like background noise. You didn't choose them, you inherited them.
Speaker 2:And now, as an adult, you might look in the mirror and feel frustrated. You might wonder why it feels so hard to change. You might feel like there's something broken in you, like you're missing discipline or the willpower or the fit gene. But let me offer you a little different perspective, one that takes guilt and shame out of the equation and replaces it with truth and power. You're not broken, you're patterned. That and power. You're not broken, you're patterned. That's right. You are not broken, you just have patterns, and patterns can change when you realize the current habits aren't your fault but they are your responsibility. It opens the door to real, sustainable change. Not the crash diet, new year, new me kind of bullshit, but the kind that rewires your day-to-day decisions until they become your new normal. Let me give you a framework that I use with my clients. It's something that I call the 3R method.
Speaker 2:The first one step one is recognize the inherited habit. Before you can change anything, you have to see it clearly, and that means taking a hard, honest look at the patterns you've absorbed. So ask yourself when do I eat the most? What foods do I reach for when I'm stressed or bored or sad or whatever? What did my family do around meals and snacks and celebration? What messages did I get growing up about body size, exercise or hunger? I can tell you I got all the wrong messages. It was always okay for me to be the fat kid. It was always okay. Those are the wrong messages. Look, maybe your parents skipped breakfast. Maybe food was always tied to guilt. You should be grateful, don't waste it. Maybe there's always soda in the house. There was always soda and snacks in my house. Maybe eating out was your family's version of bonding. Those aren't just quirks, they're scripts. They shape how you respond to the world around you and until you recognize them, you'll keep living them on autopilot.
Speaker 2:The second step is replace that with a new pattern. Once you see the pattern, you can't just rip it out, but you can replace it. People don't do well with empty spaces, with voids. If you just try to stop something cold turkey with no substitute, you'll fall right back into the old groove and life gets hard. So here's a couple examples. If you want to skip breakfast, start by adding something small. It could be like a hard-boiled egg, a protein-shady piece, just something small, but eat breakfast. If your family use food to celebrate, create new rituals, take a walk, light a candle, call a friend, it doesn't matter. Do some yoga, whatever it is. And if stress equals snacks, try. Stress equals movement, even if it's just a few stretches or walking up and down your hallway. The key is to make it small, doable and easy to repeat. And then the third step in the three R's is repeat it until it's the new normal.
Speaker 2:Here's the magic that nobody wants to hear because it doesn't sound sexy. Change happens through boring, consistent repetition. Not overnight, not after a detox or a 30-day challenge, but if you keep choosing new behavior, even imperfectly, it actually starts to stick. The neurons rewirewire. The trigger that once led to chips now leads to a glass of water. The default slowly changes and that's when it gets exciting, because suddenly the thing that used to feel hard doesn't anymore. It's just what you do.
Speaker 2:Changing generational habits isn't just about weight loss. It's's about liberation. It's about choosing what stays and what stops with you. You're not disarming your family. By evolving, you're building a healthier legacy. So if you always believed you were doomed by your genetics, I want you to hear this. You didn't choose the patterns you were handed, but you do get to choose which ones you keep. And every small, quiet, consistent choice you make is breaking the cycle, not with drama, not with shame, but with power. So let me tell you something that I know about firsthand Breaking habits is not about willpower, it's about awareness.
Speaker 2:When I was 400 pounds. I told myself all the same stories I hear from my clients today. I've always been a big guy. Food is just my thing. Hey, it's in my family. And you know what the truth is? I believed it. I believed it so deeply that I stopped questioning the way I was living, because if you think it's just who you are, why even bother trying to change? But one day and I mean that literally I made a decision, not a wish, not a maybe someday, a decision. I was going to lose the weight, not because I had a vacation coming up, not because I hated the way I looked in pictures, but because I was on the brink of death. I was over 400 pounds, my body was giving up and I couldn't keep pretending this was sustainable because I knew it wasn't.
Speaker 2:And before I made a single change to what I ate or how I moved, I sat down and asked myself one question how the fuck did I get here? And I didn't let myself off the hook with excuses. I didn't blame my genetics or my stress or my age or my metabolism or anything else. I got real. I got honest and I realized something that changed everything. I wasn't broken. I was stuck in a pattern. I'd been living out a script that I didn't write, a set of behaviors passed down from my family, never once questioned until now. And I'm not blaming my family, it's my fault, I just didn't see it. So I'm not passing the blame here, but I did start seeing all the little things I did on autopilot and where they came from.
Speaker 2:Like I've always finished my plate, no matter how full I was, I've always used food to celebrate or reward myself. I always cleaned up whatever was left over. If you didn't finish it, I would. I ate when I was stressed, when I was bored, when I was happy, when I was sad, you name it. I ate why? Because that's what I saw growing up. That was my normal In my house. Leaving food on your plate was practically a crime, we heard. Don't waste food, clean your plate. There's starving kids somewhere.
Speaker 2:I was trained to ignore my body and finish what was in front of me, whether I was hungry or not, and food. To ignore my body and finish what was in front of me, whether I was hungry or not. And food, it wasn't just fuel, it was emotionally loaded. You got good grades. Let's go get pizza. Had a bad day? Ice cream will fix it Got promoted, let's celebrate and let's go out and eat a big dessert, have dinner and a big dessert. Even my mother, she had a habit of making twice as much food as we needed, just in case. And guess who always finished the leftovers? Me, not because I was hungry, not because I needed it, just because it was there and because I've been trained that finishing food was some kind of virtue. And here's the kicker.
Speaker 2:I used to joke about saying things, just crazy thoughts, like I'd say, things like I'm just a big eater, that's just who I am. And suddenly it hit me I didn't invent this, I inherited it. I wasn't naturally a big eater, I was just playing out a routine that I'd watched my whole life. And once I saw it, I knew I had a choice. I could keep blaming my past or I could start building a future, not with willpower, not with punishment, but by reprogramming my defaults.
Speaker 2:So I started rewriting my habits. I stopped finishing my plate just because I could and I'm not saying I didn't eat, but I always tried to leave a couple bites over. I asked myself whether I was actually hungry before eating. That was a huge one for me. I was eating four or five big meals a day. So I asked myself am I really hungry or am I just eating? I stopped using food as a reward and started using action instead. When something good happened, I'd go out for a walk, I'd call somebody that wanted to hear it, I'd just sit there in silence. But I stopped using food as a reward and I definitely replaced automatic eating with intentional awareness. And the change didn't happen overnight. It happened through repetition. It was stuff that I had to repeat over and over again, through stacking habits, one on top of another, until the old ones didn't feel automatic anymore. Because once you realize that your identity was actually just repetition, you get your power back.
Speaker 2:That's what I want you to take from this. You're not doomed, you're not broken and you're not genetically cursed. You're just running on outdated programming and you have the right and the ability and, honestly, the obligation of your family to update it. This isn't about blaming your parents or your past. It's about understanding the script that you were handed so you can decide whether or not you still want to live by it. For me, I took that script and burned it to the fucking ground. I threw it out, I shredded it, I did all kinds of stuff, and I wrote a new one, one small, smart choice at a time, and if I can do it, so can you.
Speaker 2:So your takeaway here is your identity isn't fixed, it's trained, and you can retrain it. So, now that you know that truth, you didn't inherit a fat gene. You inherited routines, beliefs, behaviors and coping mechanism. You inherited what was modeled for you. Most of it wasn't healthy, but here's the most important part of everything I said so far you are not stuck, your identity isn't set in stone, your patterns aren't permanent and your normal can definitely be rewritten. I did it. I'm telling you, I did it. Normal can definitely be rewritten. I did it, I'm telling you, I did it. Your normal can be rewritten. Now comes the part that separates listeners from action takers, and, believe me, I was a listener and a watcher for a long time until I finally decided to take action. But this is where you take your story off autopilot and put your hands back on the wheel.
Speaker 2:So first thing you do is you got to spot the inherited habit. Ask yourself right now what's one food behavior that you learned is normal growing up that you now realize is harmful. Maybe it's always having dessert after dinner. I literally cut dessert out of my diet for the first year. I stopped eating dessert because I didn't need it. I didn't want it and I would eat dessert no matter how full I was. But maybe it's not eating all day and then binging at night I'm guilty of that. Maybe it's treating fast food as the default dinner plan multiple times a week For me it wasn't as much of a dinner plan as it was a late night snack plan. Or maybe it's the belief that it's your job to finish everything on your plate, even if you're stuffed. I believed all that shit, but your job this week is to spot that thing. Don't try to fix it yet. Don't judge it, just notice it.
Speaker 2:I want you to become for lack of a better term a pattern detective in your own life. Look at your meals, look at your portions, look at how you talk to yourself about food, look at how often you eat from habit, boredom or emotion rather than true hunger. I think you'll be shocked. What you uncover might actually surprise you. Then the second step in that is you got to create a better version. Once you've identified and spotted that inherited habit. Don't just try to remove it. Replace it. So let me give you a couple ideas here.
Speaker 2:So instead of eating dinner on the couch in front of the TV, try eating at the table, even just once this week. No phone, no distractions, just you and the food. Be mindful. Why should you do that? Because eating with awareness gives your body time to register fullness and it helps break that binge and scroll cycle. So, instead of always finishing what's on your plate, try what I just said before. Leave me over just one or two bites just to prove that you can do it. You'll find that it becomes very easy. Why do you want to do that? Because you need to rewire the belief that leaving food equals failure. It doesn't. It means you listen to your body, not your conditioning. So here's another big one for me Instead of defaulting to seconds out of habit, try waiting 10 minutes after your first plate.
Speaker 2:Drink a glass of water and ask yourself am I really still hungry? I think you'll find that most times you'll say you're not. Why should you do that? Because that pause gives your hormones time to signal that you're satisfied, that you're full, something most of us override every single day. I know I did. I would eat and eat and eat, and then after dinner I'd always oh man, I'm nauseous. It's crazy when you start to notice the patterns. So here's another one. Instead of using food as a reward, try a non-food reward. So take a walk. That may not be a reward to you it was not a reward to me but I could listen to music or I called somebody who I enjoyed talking to. That was a reward. So expand your kind of reward toolbox.
Speaker 2:And then the third step in all this is repeat it until it feels natural. Here's the truth that'll make or break your progress. Nothing becomes easy until it becomes familiar. You're not going to feel comfortable eating differently. At first, you might feel anxious about leaving food on the plate. You might feel awkward eating at the table if you've never done it before. I don't know anybody who's never eaten at the table before. But who knows? If you're a TV eater, you might don't turn. If you watch TV in your kitchen, turn the TV off. Your brain might scream at you hey, this isn't enough, even when your body is saying it is. But that's not failure, that's pattern breaking.
Speaker 2:You didn't build those old habits overnight. Certainly. You built them over a lifetime. And you won't build the new ones overnight either. But if you repeat them. Even inconsistently, they'll stick.
Speaker 2:Progress comes from repetition, not perfection. That's the mistake most people make. They try something once it feels weird and they let it go. See, I can't change Wrong, you just haven't repeated enough. So your challenge this week? This is all I want you to do no apps, no trackers, no complicated system. Just do this. Spot one of those inherited habits, create one better version of it, repeat it for seven days and write down how you felt at the end of the seven days, and not just physically, but emotionally.
Speaker 2:That's how the change starts. Not with a full overhaul, not with changing your life in one minute, not with a 30-day challenge, but one small, smart, conscious choice that becomes your new normal. You didn't choose the habits that raise you, but you do get to choose the habits that shape you now. So if you're still holding on to that idea that this is just how you are, I'm calling bullshit on you because I've been there. I was 411 fucking pounds. I lived on autopilot, telling myself I was just born that way. I wasn't, and neither are you.
Speaker 2:The difference between the life you have and the life you want? A series of small, repeated, better choices. Again, I'm living proof of that. Start with just one this week, then stack another, then keep going. If you do that, I promise one day you'll look back and realize you didn't change your body by fighting your genes. You changed it by rewriting your routines, and that's what it's all about.
Speaker 2:So I guess let me wrap this all up in a nice little boat. You've been told a lie that your weight is locked into your DNA, that your body is some kind of genetic trap that you can't escape. But the truth is you don't need new genes, you just need new choices. So I want to reiterate this episode is not about blame it never is but it's about ownership, about looking at the habits you inherited with clear eyes and deciding what stays and what ends with you. Because here's the truth that nobody's going to tell you If you inherited it, you didn't choose it. But if you're still doing it now you are. That's not a call out, that's a fucking wake up call. You're not powerless, you're not doomed and you're not stuck. You're simply running a script that somebody else wrote. But today, like right now, you get to decide if you want to keep reading from that page or flip to a new chapter. So take one habit, replace it and repeat it and remember your story isn't over, but it won't change unless you do. I'll be out here every step of the way. So now go, make one small, smart choice today and let that be the beginning.
Speaker 2:All right, so if you want to know how I did it, how I lost over 100 pounds in the first year without any diets, gyms, shots, pills, anything fancy I have a book on Amazon. It's called Shut Up and Choose, same as this podcast. We're an Amazon bestseller. I get emails all the time from people telling me they read it in a day or so and it completely changed their life, completely changed the way they looked at weight loss. They also say it helps in other areas of their life. But that's not what I wrote the book for.
Speaker 2:If you're more of a visual learner, I have a video course called the Effortless Weight Loss Academy and that's 23 short videos, probably about five to seven minutes each. You can watch the whole course in two hours and it really digs into the mindset and gives you tips and tricks on how to get your mind into the weight loss thing. Because the truth is, if your mind is not in the right frame of mind, you ain't going to lose the weight. It's just not going to happen. Your mind is the first thing that has to happen. Again, that's called the Effortless Weight Loss Academy. It's available at learnshutupandchoosecom. That's learnshutupandcho? Choosecom. So those are my commercials. Hopefully you pulled something away from this. If you just remember one thing, remember that you didn't inherit a fat gene. You inherited somebody else's routines and you always have the choice to fix them. You always have the choice to make yourself a better life. Now, the only thing left to do is to shut up and choose.
Speaker 1:You've been listening to Shut Up and Choose. Jonathan's passion is to share his journey of shedding 130 pounds in less than a year without any of the usual gimmicks no diets, no pills and we'll let you in on a little secret no fucking gym. And we'll let you in on a little secret no fucking gym. And guess what? You can do it too. We hope you enjoyed the show. We had a fucking blast. If you did, make sure to like, rate and review. We'll be back soon, but in the meantime, find Jonathan on Instagram at JonathanWrestlerBocaRaton. Until next time, shut up and choose.