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Losing weight should't be expensive or complicated. The ideal process would reduce our stress while driving results. Dr. Z weaves together his perspective on physical and mental health and the powerful way that fasting can connect these two spheres of our lives. Let's move toward total wellness and a holistic vision of health and healing. Learn more at SimpleFasting.com
Taking a little time out of our day to center ourselves on some good thinking.
Help us walk on our health path we are
lagging in toward the end of 2025.
We're talking yesterday. Got to make that
the best memories we can. We're going to remember at 2025, a big part of it. How did it end? Actually. So we want to create the best memories through the holidays and then also
build up some really good thinking about
health and wellness,
helping ourselves to be,
walking that line that we are heading toward, whatever, whatever it looks like.
So one of the,
video ideas, you know, I got a little notebook. I write this down, video ideas, thoughts that we could discuss. And one of the things that has been on my, you know, pile of, of ideas
is, what I would call the Seinfeld diet. Have you watched Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld?
I watched a lot of Seinfeld.
Always like that. So, if you're familiar with the show, it's a show about nothing.
in the show,
Jerry Seinfeld is trying to pitch NBC to run a show about nothing. So the the whole thing is so funny.
It's a show pitching a show about nothing. And so I thought, well, I'm doing a show about nothing, like there's got to be a connection.
Fasting space is a show about nothing, because fasting is nothing is open space.
If you look at Seinfeld because the show is about nothing, it could it could actually be about anything. And and they took this idea of nothing, and they turn it into everything and relationships and work and filling your car with gas and just every simple thing that makes up life. And that's part of why the show is so good, because,
you know, it really wasn't about nothing.
You know, they sold it is nothing. But it's kind of about everything. And, this is what fasting is like to me. If I was funny, if I was a comedian, I'm sure I could do something better with it. But this is what fasting is to me. It is the nothing that opens the space for at least so much, if not everything, then so much.
And this was flowing out of my thinking yesterday, where we're we have come out of this era in health,
where
we say the only thing that matters is a calorie, you know, and it doesn't even matter if that is calorie is a broccoli or an ice cream. This is a whole lot of people think if you hit your calorie target, everything's going to work out and you're going to be healthy.
And and that obviously isn't true. I'll just tell you, it obviously isn't true.
you can see if it's true. And in your lived experience, if you do that, does it matter what you eat? You know, everybody who's actually tried to keep their weight in a normal place knows, okay, it matters the types of food that you eat matters. And so then I was thinking out of it like, actually everything matters.
We have an open space of fasting. Fasting matters. I tell you, people in our society with self fasting does not matter.
Fasting is not something that you need. We know you just need to hit your calorie target. And then people say food doesn't matter, you just got to hit the calorie target.
So when I say everything matters, I'm looking at it from the standpoint of like Seinfeld, which is pretty low pressure, right?
It's a comedy, right?
It's about nothing and nothing that can open, space, for everything. And so I want people to develop a total health practice, total wellness. I don't want us to have a limited vision or to get dialed in and say like,
we have fasting. Now, that's the thing, you know, now, I don't need to do anything else, and I don't want to take this and bring it into any kind of pressure.
Like, oh, you have to do everything.
Everything I want to do on this channel is about finding balance in our life,
fasting, the type of thing that can help to bring so many things into balance. And I will say that it is enough to do one thing at a time. And as we're practicing on it, not that we don't see that anything else exists,
but this is the balance that we want to bring.
Here is some balance. Absolutely. Being able to distinguish what is real hunger and then what the rest is. Nothing. Absolutely. There is absolutely a line there.
And that's interfacing with such a good place to try to distinguish. Because I love this word I've been using that is intentional intensity.
We can bring some intensity into a situation that spot where there's a hunger, where it's nothing, where it's not a real hunger. That line is about,
how are you feeling it? How is it interacting with the emotional state? Because we don't want to ever be pushing ourselves through a space that has real hunger, that is taking us a space where we're really in distress, where we don't feel in control of it, or positive or happy about it.
Remember fasting always supposed to be a process of openness that is approached with curiosity, joy, exploration, positivity. And so that's part of that line. If you're getting into that sort of space,
if it's nothing and we just keep with it, and if it's real, then we go and we see this path. Fasting isn't the only tool.
Healthy eating is like the next line of defense, right?
If we've got hunger, we kind of have flowed through our fasting space. We've used that tool to the extent we want, you know, next in line of the health practices. When we're eating, we want to be eating healthy foods. We talked yesterday in that interesting,
study that I gotta pull up and, share with you, like they try to do a fasting study where they tell people, just eat whatever you want in this window.
But I would define more strictly as time restricted eating, but not fasting because we're not creating a calorie deficit.
If you're practicing fasting, you're cutting something back. You're opening space to use stored energy in the body so that you can lose weight. You don't want to take that space and then, you know, jam all that energy back in another space.
It's still we'll say we'll have the hormonal benefit, but we say everything matters. It's not that calories don't matter. When I say, okay, we've been through this calorie era. Not saying that calories are wrong or they're not real, like calorie is a real thing. It's a measure of energy.
It's just more variables to the process than we have been led to believe.
And actually, everything matters is what I say. The calories matter, yes, but the hormonal state of the body matters. The times that we're eating matter and what we eat matters.
You know, in that paper they're trying to say, could you could you do fasting and just eat junk all the time? And could it still work? Well, you would have some effect. It would eating, eating things that are unhealthy some of the time better than eating unhealthy things all the time, you know, obviously, but the effect is going to be much less what I was describing yesterday.
We want a synergistic effect where we bring everything together in a holistic practice that gives us the most powerful effect that we can, helps us to harness the most powerful energy and experience that ultimately is going to help us to feel the best,
help us to have the best health experience. And so we want to train all that.
So, like I was saying, flow through the fasting space and then when you get to the space say, this is a time I want to be eating now and then we enjoy it. We say we've done the hard work, we're not dieting in that space. We can have a nice meal when it is or it can be a snack.
You say you don't have to eat any more than you want. Some people practicing like trying to learn to do an omad, for example, say that's an intense thing to do to only eat once in a day. Say, now I'm eating twice, maybe one of those meals you can practice. Make it kind of a baby. Me? I'll say it's just it's going to be lighter, you know, and then maybe you work on marching that out, having less.
That's okay as a practice to learn to do it. If you feel called to do it.
So whatever that is. But when you're eating, make it the healthiest choices. That doesn't matter.
It does matter.
I filmed a whole video, once
where I was cutting up clips of the of this discussion between these doctors that is on YouTube, and they're arguing.
And the one doctor was trying to argue that only a calorie matters. You can eat ice cream all day, as long as it's only 1400 calories of it. It's the most impractical idea. Now, ultimately, I didn't I didn't post it for a few reasons. The audio was really bad trying to learn to use this stuff, but then I don't know,
I'm I, I hate controversy, maybe maybe I should get over it.
I want I want to get out on YouTube. I should make something controversial and not my style. So.
But, we talk about it. The ice cream diet. It's not going to work out well for you. It's an esoteric academic exercise. Nobody in practice could ever do it more than you know. They get you're getting paid in some research study for a couple of weeks,
you're going to feel terrible.
Not a path to wellness.
I want to share
wonderful quote with you from Jerry Seinfeld. Check this out.
This is very interesting. I say,
If you're efficient, you're doing it the wrong way. I don't have a Jerry Seinfeld, okay?
I don't I couldn't do it. I thought about trying to practice. Well,
the right way is the hard way.
The show is successful because I micromanage it. Every word, every line, every take, every edit, every casting. That is my way of life. Jerry Seinfeld now, this is so fascinating to think of. Seinfeld, think of the show. Think of a show of nothing, and think of the attitude of the guy that's creating it.
Everything matters. Can you? I just couldn't believe it when I read that, like you, you watch Seinfeld and you think like, these are just people joking around. They're having a great time. They're just recording this takes. So then screwing around in the kitchen or an
outside of Kramer's door or whatever, you know? But like, they brought so much intensity to it.
And then you can watch interviews of Seinfeld talk about how they made it. They spent hours and hours writing it and practicing it.
How interesting is that?
A show about nothing where the people who are running say everything matters. Every detail we are are just pouring and pouring themselves into it, to craft it into this experience where the person who is then watching and just be like this, just, you know, it's just light and fun and like, it's like nothing, you know?
So I thought this was a really fascinating,
thought for us to explore in this space. We've got a show about nothing, which is a show that is trying to give us a mirror,
for our own life, about the value of nothing, the open space of nothingness that can create a canvas that can be everything. As far as health.
And we want to walk a line. And one of the. The big things that I love about a fasting practice, it is nothing you don't actually have to do anything.
So we can kind of juxtapose these spaces and these ideas. You don't actually have to do anything other than
sit in a space
doing a mental work, bring every wellness practice into it, whether that's just a distraction, using it as a tool,
using work as a tool, anything you got to do, get your work done, distract yourself so you flow through a space.
That'd be one of the simplest ways to do it. Or if you're using that space to more intentionally just sit in a space to do some reflection.
Bringing every wellness practice into it. Our journaling, the meditation, using it as a space to dive deep into our psychological process.
But this is what I like. You know, we can we have a superficial layer. We have a deep layer on the surface. You don't even have to learn them anything about fasting in order to do it. You just didn't learn like, oh, it's something you could do.
You open some space, body will use the access and you can flow through a space. If that was the only thing you ever knew and you just did it, the
couldn't get much more simple than that.
So the you know, Seinfeld here, he's not talking about a dietary process in talking about, a creative process, making a
national
television show.
But like, we can dial in, I think we can dial in some thoughts from that, you know, like things that really resonate with me on this quote for, you know, a food dietary process, a health practice of any kind.
I mean, I'm all about efficiency, fasting, all about efficiency. But like the spirit of what he's saying is, like, we aren't about cutting corners. You know, we're not about trying to find the easy way out of a situation just to get the work done. We're about having the most quality experience possible, like to do things the right way
that builds something in is something truly valuable.
I mean, that's obviously what Seinfeld created, something immensely valuable. And millions and millions of people, you know, people be talking about Seinfeld, you know, forever. I think, like what's so great.
Because they poured themselves into it. They did it the right way. They didn't cut any corners.
This this phrase, like the right way is the hard way is like when we think we have obstacles in our life, this is the big thing that we're trying to do here. See, we're trying to go down a weight loss path to say the whole thing is like an obstacle. It's hard to do in general on most people in society.
Unfortunately, not finding a lot of long term success with it. So we're saying we're not trying to close our eyes to any of that. We're not trying to find a shortcut. We're trying to say, okay, what is the hard way? To me, that means the obstacle. And I love that book. I've shared so much. The obstacle is the way that the the process of learning and overcoming the obstacle is actually the path that we move through.
That once and for all, helps us to understand and fully integrate the process into our life so that it can become sustainable
and doing it in a way that is not forced, that there's not pressure, so that it's not something that we're hanging on to, that it's like if we just lose our grip for a second, we fall back on
it.
It's a much more peaceful, open and sustainable process. This is what the fasting way is that someone would say, oh, is that a difficult way to do it? In my experience, there's no real shortcuts, there's no easy path. If there was, I would tell you I guarantee if you know what it is, share it with me. We we, we lean into it, but there is no what we would call easy path or magical path.
But there are real paths, and there are paths that we can learn and practice and gain skill at that are
real, honest processes that move us forward. This is the type of thing that resonates with this quote to me.
Micromanager. Not, not a word I really resonate with,
but I do resonate with the spirit of taking things seriously,
making sure that the details are handled in the appropriate fashion. So, like we are saying, flowing through a fasting space and then making the best food choices, these are the details that matter.
Thinking about when and how we eat and what our mindset is.
There's another thing that matters mindset. To me, probably the most important thing. How is our mental health? How is our our frame of reference? And this is something that is, you know, totally discarded in modern weight loss, counseling for many, many people, they just say you just got to hit your calorie target. But what your mindset is doesn't matter.
But, you know, when we take a step back from it, does anyone believe that? Does anyone believe that our mental state and our mindset is is irrelevant to the situation,
that it's the very most relevant as far as I can see? And then that, you know, my favorite, talk that we did the on the inflammation is showing us the pathway and the connection, the chronic stress, the inflammation, the mental state.
All these things are connected. And that is, directly interacting with the hormonal state of the in, in the environment, in the body that is determining
in everything, right? From insulin resistance. That's what's so amazing to think that these pathways can flow directly into insulin resistance. And insulin. I was describing yesterday. Right. Like the cell insulin is blocking access to body fat.
This is what is setting up conflict in the body. Someone is stressed out,
they're having a traumatic experience, or they are reliving trauma from the past that hasn't been processed. Stress is happening and inflammation in the body, insulin resistance is happening. Cells are blocked from accessing energy. Then we're trying to diet on top of it. And this is how we can get into this really conflicted internal state where our energy level is low because we're not eating energy and we're blocking ourselves from a lot of our own internal energy.
But people feel like, have you ever had it? You're trying to lose weight and you're just dragging,
like, where is the energy is like, it's it's locked up in the body.
And we described yesterday this fasting physiology a path out of that. Because when we open up a food free space, we let the insulin levels drop. That's part of it. And we see everything matters. We want to use that fasting space to help us also
burn through the emotional distress, so that we can bring both sides of this together.
That's why I say everything matters. The fasting space, the food choices, the emotional state, the mental practice, and then the movement which I would, bring into it such an incredible health, practice that also matters.
You have described, on the channel before, some wonderful, people that I've been able to work with in my medical practice.
Paralyzed, debilitated in,
nursing home. Not really. Are barely able to move. Okay. Still able to use a fasting practice so as to to lose weight and bring a benefit to their life. So whatever our situation, you know, life is not fair. Life has. We were all delta different hand.
But,
Within the hand that we are dealt, we want to be able to use every, tool.
So I say
movement practice. Also part of it of everything matters. And it it's not like okay, we do fasting now I don't have to exercise. It's true. And I tell people that you don't have to
always have people start with a progression.
And this is kind of the flow. Start learning how to open up a fasting space might be the first place to start because it's the easiest. Nothing to do, no special shopping trips, no new menus. Someone else says, I want to move in a health space. They're not in a good place. Like I say, maybe you just start making some healthier food decisions, and once that is getting better, then you start practicing some fasting space.
Either those are fine ways to start moving that direction flowing through the mental health space. But if you're looking for a boost and you can do it.
So some people will just take only exercise. So we're saying everything matters. Some people say, okay, only exercise matters. People gonna come in here on New Year's. They're going to say, I want to get healthy. They're going to get a gym membership. They're going to they're going to go bonkers in the gym,
and it's going to work for them for a little while.
Right. Or January, February, and some small percentage of those people are going to be able to get on an exercise path for a long time, and they'll sustain it for quite a while. But it's just going to be a fraction.
The way I like to do it is to say, hey, open up the fasting space first. Take the pressure off. Because if you're going to go full on exercise only without changing a food path, you're going to have to exercise all the way through all that food consumption, which is huge. Have you ever watched a calorie meter on a treadmill or something?
And you've gone for an hour and you just got to 700 calories?
And I was like, maybe that just burned through dinner. You know, you didn't actually get down into that deeper layer like you, and then you just feel like literally on a treadmill all the life, like you are going, going, going take so much work. It just shows you in that scenario how incredibly efficient the body is. That body is so efficient.
We can go so far. We can do so much just and even a little bit of food.
So I say take the pressure off that whole situation. Open up the fasting space first. You minus down with that food. You opened up the space. You put it right in the hormonal structure where we're letting the insulin level drop so the cells aren't blocked by the insulin, and the body says, hey, we can actually access this energy now.
Now your energy level can be higher. Any and that energy can be available to you. And then you can put the exercise into that space slowly and gently. I always tell people exercising in a fasting space the hardest way to exercise if you're not used to it, that's why you got to start slow. You got to walk before you can run, and then you build it up.
But a fasting exercise? Absolutely the most intense and powerful way to exercise when you train for it. And now, if I'm exercising, I always prefer to do that way because we're not shunting any blood flow down into the stomach. We're not lugging around a meal, we're lighter. We have all of our energy and resources available to bring intensity to exercise.
You don't have to bring intensity to exercise. You can bring gentleness to exercise. Just walking. I say the world's most healthy exercise, but the sky is the limit. People I am always trying to describe to people how fasting can be so empowering, meaning, giving power to our life. And people say I have this perspective like oh, fasting would be like weakness.
I'm hungry, my energy is low. And what I want to inspire you and show you and just tell you about my experience and many people I've worked with. The fasting is giving us access to energy in the body in a very powerful way, and you can actually bring greater intensity to exercise and do more and have more energy.
That's what I want for people. I want people empowered and and just feeling the energy of the body flowing.
And, the fact that you can get into that state through a fasting to me, is totally, totally incredible.
So dialing in on this Seinfeld just a little bit more. Everything matters. Think of the show, every line.
Think of every take. Say, that's my way of life. A way of life, of of quality and and a holistic vision of making sure that everything is supporting what we're trying to do. This is what we want to, be doing in our life, with our practice.
Taking a big picture approach, doing everything we thoughtfully cannot in any way that is overwhelming to us. But just in each domain, everything coming into alignment to support us,
in every, good way that we can. To me, fasting like the base layer of all that and then we stack every other good thing on top of it.
It's like we're building up this health practice.
Like we've said, I've used that analogy, quite a lot
of us being artists or builders or creators for creating our health experience.
And so I like that idea, like each of these things, like bricks that we're stacking up on this
structure of health that we are building
every day, that we are doing that. And it's not just like one thing like every day we get an opportunity to stack more bricks on that foundation that we're building.
Everything matters is like every time we're taking a walk, every time we're choosing the healthy food, every time we're opening up the fasting space, every time that we're taking a moment to kind of decompress and process stress and get that parasympathetic flow flowing, all of these good things there, like stacking up the things in the health structure we're building or I said in that structure or in that talk, fasting wealth, we're talking about building fasting wealth, just building up health for ourselves in general.
Just like I like the financial analogy, like we're trying to store wealth, like, but if if you're storing up gold coins or something, you could see like, well, you, you got actually a pile. The more of them you get, the bigger it gets.
Harder to visualize when it's health, when we're storing up good health for ourselves, it's not like a pile of money sitting there, but it's something that is more valuable. You would spend money to get it, you know, if you could just spend money to just manifest health in your life. I mean.
Who wouldn't spend a lot of it? I know I would. I mean, I want the best health.
The only way is we can do it. We can invest in ourselves by buying the healthiest foods
we can invest in ourselves, by giving ourselves the resources and opportunities. Maybe it is a gym membership, especially if it's negative nine like it was on Saturday.
Say I can get inside, you know, and be active. You know, that's a huge investment.
Maybe it's a therapist, you know, maybe it is some sort of process that helps us people to come on our journey with us, help us with the mental health situation. We get stuck in our own head having someone else
unbiased, you know, not a family member, not anyone we know. Just someone that we can help. Amir. The thoughts so valuable.
And then the fasting space. You say invest in that literally nothing you can buy. No amount of money can buy anything really, to help you with fasting is a process that you have to do. So we said in that, talk fasting wealth,
maybe get yourself some little monopoly money, some fake coins. What if every time you were doing it, you stacked up like a little something, just a little visual to make it more tangible?
Were you seeing. Oh, I am building up this process. It's like, look, look. When we started the sessions every day, weekdays, we had 82 days and then all of a sudden it feels like, just know time's gone by now, we're 16 days until 2026. Just floated through this I picture. Like if we had a little coin for every one of those, we say, whoa, where we stacked up, you know, all of these days between, we would have a little pile.
Does that give you like a tangible I love ways of making things more tangible. That's why I did. I started out the the weekday things with my story of a fasting stone, something that we imbue with meaning, something we can hang on to that really connects us to something
we have. Something that is nothing. We say, how do we hang on to it?
Well, we give ourselves a tangible reminder, help us really focus physically in the body so that we can, stay connected to it.
Build ourselves up. This fasting wealth
means.
The body is coming back into balance. Body is gaining skill at using the energy that is within it. We're feeling our energy increase. You know how valuable is that? This is like sometimes you say, oh, is nothing. I'm flowing through this space. Am I getting the results I want? Well, are you feeling better?
You know, are you seeing the weight coming down? Is blood sugar blood pressure better? These are the things that we are looking for.
We want to be leaning into those things. So those are tangible,
less tangible, though, than,
a pile of tokens or something. So giving ourselves reminders, I did a video. I think it was a year ago.
Warren Buffet weight loss plan. Did you see that about this Buffett quote?
And I made little punch cards where it's like little simple fasting punch cards. If you haven't seen it, I got a PDF on the site. There's something tangible a meal punch card so you can go through the week and you can stack up the tickets.
And then you could see, look at these weeks that I've gone through, and look where you can actually see the eating in a tangible form. And it's like not just seeing the eating, but like seeing the fasting.
Even when we're doing something, you know, it's hard to really visualize, you know, what our experience over the last couple months have been
here.
We have a tangible, physical punch card where it's like we can actually see it, like, oh, here's what the eating actually looks like. And you can lay those out on the table. You can see them, you can stack them up on a pile. That would be another way to do that.
If you do a swing back through Warren Buffett weight loss plan the video on the channel. Make sure, to go to the comments
I left a comment of, that's a link to a video of Warren Buffett playing the ukulele, singing about singing about Coca Cola, and it's one of the funniest, funniest things I've seen.
You can find it. Yeah, it's down there. Warren Buffett, you know,
is an enigma. I say he's like 90 whatever years old, incredibly, wealthy and successful. A big a big part of his financial success came from buying into Coca Cola,
which is like a nemesis. I say,
Coca Cola, not, taking our society in a healthier direction.
And so I think sometimes I think, you know, I mean, I don't have any problem with people having a treat. If people had a soda every once in a while, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world.
But the addiction and the, the amount of trouble, you know, by age 65, in this country, it's over two thirds of people either diabetic or pre-diabetic.
And,
the the processed sugar and the efectos corn sirup and this unnatural sort of stuff is a big part in the fact that we actually subsidize this stuff in our society through corn subsidies and programs is terrible. And we've manipulated the lives of farmers and so many farmers these days are getting killed by tariffs and these insane policies, the most insane policy underlying this, as we subsidize people to grow things that are making everybody sick
and, wealthy and powerful people have their
finger on those policies because they get rich off it.
So that that bothers me quite a lot. So I think, you know, I like Buffett a lot. He's got a lot of really great quotes that,
are helpful on investing in life. But it does bother me a bit that, so much of his wealth has come from creating products that make people sick and give them diseases.
So I want to be mindful of that. Okay, so all that's there, but it is really funny watching, Buffett play the ukulele and sing about how much he loves coke.
What a joke.
Think on the day about some Seinfeld, quote, I'm going to think more about Seinfeld and maybe I'll find a way to do it. Make, the Seinfeld diet video. What would it look like, a diet video about nothing. We got to communicate ideas of fasting
in a way that it's like. Like this metaphor we've been doing
the idea of nothingness, just giving us a blank canvas
where we can create something of value.
This is what we are rolling toward, especially in 2026. Create a health experience for ourselves. Let's do a little visioning. Now. You know,
we've been following through here on the space.
Whatever it's been the last couple months, really, to trying to dive deep. We've gone deep and psychology of human thinking. We've, looked through a lot of really great stuff
and,
creativity and both looking outside to nature. And though the wisdom and beauty of the natural world and then looking inside, we did was that just earlier this week, looking inside for weight loss wisdom,
finding the connections between these two things?
But I'm really thinking about these days as we head into January,
how do we take all of these processes
take all these thoughts that we've been trying to build and, and harness, over the fall here as we're heading into our winter season, into the new year.
Want to take them
and channel them into the most, powerful process. So I would encourage you take some space and try to create a vision
for 2026.
What does your perfect health year look like and how does it start?
This is what we're trying to do. We've said in this stream everything matters. And and we're flowing into a fasting space using it a tool to help boost and encourage every other good part of our life, our mental, physical health, so that we can have total health and wellness.
We can be feeling
at peace, mental space of peace and contentment, a physical space of strength and resilience.
All of this coming together. I have a few ideas and what I'm thinking about. Let's see. Have all my books here.
Maybe I'll share a few with you. Now, of that, I'm thinking about.
Here, here has been the top idea that I've had so far. Have you? Has anyone read this book, Atomic Habits? I've, I've been paging through this one,
and. And this one right now is at the top of my list to say, okay,
we've built out this collection of
knowledge and health experiences and perspectives on opening our mind to things.
How do we actualize it? And of course, this is something, you know, that that I want to do myself. And so I've, you know, I've got a huge list of books I want to read. And so as I'm thinking about,
I want to personally shape my,
Process of both health and life.
I love just on the inside cover of this book. I love how it starts. No matter what your goals are, Atomic Habits offers a proven okay, that's a a word I would like to, but into has people run studies on this book?
I don't know, I would like to know though, a proven framework for getting 1% better every day.
So I love that I've used that framework a lot, 1% better every day.
Yeah, that's what it says here. Tiny changes, remarkable results. See, I really resonate with that. This is a process that I would love for us all to dive in on that I want to dive in on this is how you make big changes without getting overwhelmed 1% every day.
You can barely notice, right? It's just a tiny little bit. But that compounds
talk about compounding. Buffett big on compounding, talking about this metaphor, building our
fasting wealth, our health, accumulating health. Or we want something that compounds. We want to be getting interest on what we are doing,
get easier and easier. Have you seen a chart of compounding where like 1% better every day?
It's not just 300% better, like every day it compounds and it just goes totally parabolic by a year later, say we're in a totally different place. And so that's the type of vision I want you to have for your year. You say, there's a another quote that I should find,
people,
people underestimate is people overestimate what they can do
in a month, but underestimate what they can do in a year.
Greatly. Is that some quote like that? It's a better than that. But, but that's the idea. We say, oh, we think we're going to get so much done right tomorrow. Like that's what I think. Like I start a house project and it's like, I think I'll do this project in the morning, in that one in the afternoon.
And as I two weeks later, I finally finished my, you know, house project, like so many things are like that
we overestimate in the short term what we can do, but we underestimate in the long term, because I think Einstein's got a quote like that. That is like how,
compounding is like the
the least understood thing, like I what is it, Einstein?
And compounding. He's got a quote like he's like, basically people just don't get
compounding.
Because if we can get ourselves on a path like that,
Okay, that's one idea.
And I bought a second book that is like that one, Doctor Chatterjee making Change that lasts.
I get that to focus. This is, this is what I super want for us to.
Nine simple ways to break free from the habits that hold you back.
I got another personal recommendation for this book, and that sounds good to me. Do you have habits that are holding you back? It's like we've got all this,
all these practices we've built up.
We've, you know, we are all in different situations, but we have the same tools, right? This is what I've been going through. We want to move on a health path. We've got the same
tools and and the the puzzle. I did that session. Clues to the weight loss puzzle is like, how do we take our unique situation experiences, perspectives?
How do we use these health tools to unlock a process, move through the barriers that we are facing in our life?
So, you know, just paging through these things, wake up to what's tying you down. I mean, we should do,
definitely something on that.
Meet your invisible resilience. That's very positive. I want to meet it. I want to do it.
Yeah. See, this is this is way up my line inside versus outside. That's that's real nice. That's kind of mirroring these things. We've been doing, looking to nature for wisdom versus looking inside reflection. So I can tell that this is going to be a very thoughtful book.
I personally like, like doing this in real time. You know, I thought when I was starting this out, I was I felt this pressure that I was like, oh, I need to read these books off first and then,
and then, like, fully understand it all in order to do a show on it.
But like, as I've been going through it.
With our last book at least just felt very natural and organic to just step through it in real time and, and think through it with everybody. You tell me if you like
that or not.
Chapter one trusting yourself.
See, I want to help us do that. I want to do that more of myself, more trust of myself.
I want to help you have more trust in yourself
when you have more trust in ourself. This is how we protect ourselves from all the influences, all the people trying to push us around so they can sell us stuff, leave us confused so that we are more likely to buy products to solve our confusion.
I love this chapter.
Be yourself. Yeah.
Oh, and then chapter four Embracing Discomfort. We have to approach that in a real thoughtful way, something I'm very open to. Another book on my list.
To check out the Comfort Crisis. Have you ever seen, that comfort crisis in society? This is taking us to a real interesting edge with that sort of discussion on fasting, because to me, a fasting space would be
I mean, my general assessment, most people coming to it would say, oh, fasting, uncomfortable, but then, okay, you're hanging with me here on the channel or leaning into it, we realize, or we've been sold a lot of things that aren't really true.
Fasting can come to be very comfortable, very pleasant, focused, calm space where it's like the GI system just off, like it's not bothering. Like right now. I don't know what your experience is if you're new to fasting, if you're in that space, I get it right. I described it yesterday, like hanging on the roller coaster. Get through the hunger wave.
But there's a process that brings things into the balance. When you set the new pattern, you teach the body. Like,
like, actually, we don't even have to turn the system on. And when the system doesn't turn on, then there's no struggle, there's no hunger. And so when we tighten up our eating window and we practice it, we start to program into the body
that, hey, actually, we're just a human being that eats at noon and six, and you don't even have to turn this system on.
Body's like, okay, we won't do it. And you do. This is how we create a flow state for ourselves where we don't have to struggle at all. We put in the hard work
and we program the system, and we used every good practice to help normalize that. Then you just flow through the space. No struggle. This is what I want for people.
So I like this, embrace discomfort. Okay. Not from some masochistic perspective that that that suffering in and of itself. It just brings some good thing. I don't believe that. But sometimes we have to go through most things of value in life. Do you think this is true? Most things of value in life take some amount of effort or discomfort of something to get toward, and so say hunger can feel like a discomfort.
Sometimes we have to move through a barrier or a process to get to somewhere very valuable and better. And I'll tell you what is a valuable space to be able to sit down and have a coffee in the morning, feel completely comfortable content, good energy, be able to do anything that you want, exercise, you know, all this sort of stuff.
Get all your work done and not struggle with any hunger. This is the the potential that fasting offers. Like how valuable is that? But not something you can buy. That's something you can price.
Okay, so I'm just saying, you know, that's why I ordered this book because I can see that that there is an endless amount of information we can get here.
Chapter six expected adversity.
Most things of value in life, most processes, there are barriers and obstacles. This is part of the process. This is why people in general, at least one of the reasons, as I'm thinking about it,
why so few people have long term success because there are barriers and obstacles. We have to expect it. So I try to program this and I try to have this perspective.
You have to expect adversity,
and you have to realize the path of having adversity and the path of overcoming. It is the process of learning how to do it so that it can become sustainable. If we're not expecting adversity, if we're running away from it, if we're trying to pretend it doesn't exist, then we don't gain the skills, the experience, the understanding to be able to handle it without struggling with it.
We have to overcome it in order to conquer it.
Chapter seven Let go and move on to I love this. Okay, so here's two, books Atomic Habits and Making Change. That last. These feel like a type of thing that would really, help us dive deep in the New year. And
Psychology of Money. Did you read that? I read, I read through half this book again just after that. So many great analogies of building up health.
That one I might put out. So I might, I'm down something in on this, like atomic habits starting in,
January.
And once we flow through that, then I might dive deeper on that Psychology of Money book, build up some more
health for us. Do you have ideas of things you want? I have books, open books. I got this one too.
The myth of normal.
This is an incredible book I'm going to pull out, you know, some good stuff out of this for us. This is the book where I got that concept of disease as teacher, which is one of the most powerful, concepts that I've come across in medicine. Wow. Can that take us to a different place of thinking of, like, really,
getting health on a deeper level than, than most people would think are possible?
If you have ideas, though,
I want this to be your show. I want it to be your experience. Other concepts, books like ways of thinking that you think would be a value. I'm very open to exploring it with you.
Share, perspective. We can really make it your show.
That way.