#114 Jacqueline Lost 33.7kg... Without Ever Feeling Hungry

If you think losing weight means giving up your favourite foods or relying on willpower forever, this episode will change the way you think. Jacqueline lost an incredible 33.7kg (5 stone 4lbs)—and says she's never been hungry throughout the process.

In this follow-up conversation, six months after her first appearance on the podcast, Jacqueline shares what has happened since joining Live360. After decades of trying every diet imaginable—from Weight Watchers and Slimming World to cabbage soup diets and cutting carbs—she finally found the missing piece that helped her break free from emotional eating and endless yo-yo dieting.

Before starting the programme, Jacqueline struggled with everyday movement. Tying her shoes was difficult, walking caused pain, and she worried she wouldn't be able to enjoy a planned trip to Japan with her family. Fast forward to today, and she's walking for miles, taking the stairs instead of escalators, running to fitness classes, and enjoying a level of freedom she never thought possible.

In this episode, you'll discover:

• Why traditional diets kept failing—even when they worked in the short term.
• The mindset shift that helped Jacqueline stop emotional eating for good.
• How she learned to enjoy holidays, restaurants, and social events without gaining weight.
• Why she no longer feels controlled by sugar cravings, crisps, or food noise.
• The difference between eating for comfort and eating for fuel.
• How changing her environment made healthy choices feel effortless.
• Why lasting weight loss isn't about more willpower—it's about changing your identity and habits.

One of the most powerful moments in this conversation is hearing Jacqueline explain how food no longer controls her life. Instead of constantly thinking about snacks or using food to cope with stress or boredom, she now enjoys balanced, protein-focused meals, feels satisfied between meals, and makes conscious decisions without feeling deprived.

If you're a woman over 40 struggling with emotional eating, menopause weight gain, or the frustration of losing weight only to regain it, this episode offers real hope. Jacqueline's story proves that sustainable weight loss isn't about finding the next diet—it's about changing the way you think, building healthier habits, and creating a lifestyle you can actually maintain.

If you're ready to stop dieting and finally create lasting food freedom, book a Food Freedom Breakthrough Call to learn how Live360 can help you. And if you're not quite ready yet, be sure to listen to the full episode—you might just hear the mindset shift you've been missing.

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Transcript

From Yo-Yo Dieting To Freedom

Max Lowery 0:00

If you've spent years jumping from one diet to the next, if you've lost weight only to put it all back on, if every holiday, birthday, weekend, or stressful day seems to undo all your hard work, then I think this could be one of the most important episodes that you ever listened to. Today I'm speaking to another one of our amazing clients, Jacqueline, a woman who spent decades dieting, weight watchers, slimming world, low carb, meal replacements, cabbage soup, pretty much every diet you can imagine. And they all worked until they didn't. She'd lose weight, put it back on, and then gain even more. By the time she found us, her weight had got so bad that she was struggling to tie her shoelaces. She had a real fear she wouldn't be able to enjoy a trip to see her daughter who's living in Japan. Fast forward to today, and she's lost 75 pounds. And she did go to Japan and she walked everywhere pain free. And she actually lost weight on that holiday. And perhaps the most unbelievable part is that she says she hasn't been hungry throughout this entire process. Not because she's got incredible willpower, not because she's more disciplined than you, but because she finally addressed the root cause of her weight gain. So if you ever wondered why you can lose weight but you can't keep it off, listen to this episode. How do you create a life that allows you to lose weight, eat the foods that you love, and sustain the results? Over the last 10 years, I've helped thousands of people do exactly that. I'm Max Lowry. I'm an author, personal trainer, and weight loss coach. In this podcast, I'm going to share my top tips and tricks from within my one-on-one coaching program. It's my goal to give you the tools and understanding so that you never diet again. Hello, welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today I'm joined by Jacqueline, one of our amazing clients. And this is actually the second appearance that Jacqueline has had on this podcast. And we're doing a kind of a check-in six months later. But you know, if you're just listening to the podcast for the first time, you never heard of Jacqueline. I would love for you, Jacqueline, to give a bit of an introduction. Who are you, where you live, and what got you into joining the Live360 in the first place?

SPEAKER_00 1:55

Hi, yep. So I'm Jacqueline. I live in a town called Coat Bridge, which is just outside Glasgow. And the main reason for joining the Live360 programme was to lose weight.

Decades Of Diets And Regain

Max Lowery 2:07

Well, thanks for sharing, Jacqueline. And why don't you just give a bit of a background? Could you kind of do a brief history of your kind of dieting history and weight loss history? Like what did it look like before starting with us?

SPEAKER_00 2:16

Yeah, sure. Um before starting with the programme, I think I'd done just about every diet that there was on the market. I had done Sullenworld, Weight Watchers, Shake Diets, Cabbage Soup diets, cutting out carb diets, cutting out meat diets, you name it, I'd done it. Um all of which were successful briefly. And then any weight that I had lost, I gained plus at least half again. And it was a constant yo-yo cycling of losing weight and gaining more than I had lost, which brought me to the point of poor health, poor mobility, and really down mentally.

Max Lowery 3:00

Thanks for sharing, Jacqueline. Like over how many years was that happening?

SPEAKER_00 3:04

Oh, decades. Decades indeed. More than half my adult life. In fact, more of half my life. Uh I would say I probably started dieting when I was late teens, early twenties, and I'm now 56. So yeah, many, many years.

The Japan Trip Fear Factor

Max Lowery 3:21

So, Jacqueline, you said that your kind of mobility and your confidence was being impacted. Um, I remember when we first chatted before you started, the big motivation for you was going to visit your daughter in Japan. Could you tell us a bit more about like what your thoughts were about that trip um at that moment in time?

SPEAKER_00 3:36

Yeah, um, we were going over to see Eve in March, and uh I knew my mobility wasn't good, and my fear was not being able to keep up with all the walking. Japan is very much a walking holiday. Um I was concerned that I would be holding the family back. Um, my mobility was so poor. Tying shoelacies was a problem. Um, yeah, just getting steps in was not something I could do.

Max Lowery 4:06

We're gonna come back to that because obviously you've been since been to Japan and I want to hear about that, how that went and what the difference would have been. You know, before you started working with us, like you tried and failed, you know, lost weight, put it back on repeatedly. What did you think? Like, why did you think you were still stuck? Like, what were the thoughts and feelings going through your head about why you weren't able to do this?

SPEAKER_00 4:27

I don't know, to be honest. I just felt there had to be another diet out there that would suit me because all the ones I tried hadn't worked, but then I was hopeful there was still another diet out there. I was looking for something simple and something that that didn't take much thought process. I don't think there is such a thing.

Max Lowery 4:49

So we were kind of looking for uh an easy quick fix kind of thing.

SPEAKER_00 4:53

Yeah. Yeah, something that you didn't need to try harder at. Just a miracle, a magic wand is really what I was looking for. But yeah, it doesn't exist.

Finding Coaching And Trusting It

Max Lowery 5:02

And do you remember how you came across what we do?

SPEAKER_00 5:05

Yeah, you popped up in Facebook um just in my feed, and I was curious, so I clicked a link and I listened to what you had to say, so I pressed the button for a call, and I'm so glad I did.

Max Lowery 5:20

Well, we'll go into that. Um did you have any uh skepticism about what this was and how it worked?

SPEAKER_00 5:28

Yeah, well, obviously, prior to your popping up on Facebook, I had personally never heard of you. So straight away you just wonder is this a B spam thing that has appeared? If I click this link, am I going to lose money out of my bank? Who are you? So yeah, I did some Googling, realized you were real, and felt a lot better about the phone call that we had booked in.

Max Lowery 5:53

Yeah, I think a lot of women, rightly so, you know, sometimes do you think I'm AI or actually these conversations that we have on the podcast are paid actors. Um, so you know, potentially you, Jacqueline, are a paid actor, which yeah, obviously we laugh at, but I think if you think of it, you know, if I try and put myself in, you know, your head, Jacqueline, you know, six or nine months ago, whatever it was, then yeah, I think there's there's so much noise on social media. There's lots of people saying the right things, but you know, can they actually help you? And it can be very difficult to have that trust. And that's ultimately why I love having these conversations, is because it's quite difficult to argue. You know, we've got, I think we've had th over 30 women speak on this podcast, and a lot of those women initially started off listening to the podcast and then it ended up becoming clients and changing their lives, becoming guests uh on the podcast, um, which is amazing. Yeah. So

33.7 Kilos Down And Moving Free

Max Lowery 6:44

last time we spoke, I think you just finished our initial 90-day program and you'd lost 18 kilos in that 90 days, which is incredible progress. Yeah. We're now six months after that conversation. And do you want to share some insights about what the current results are?

SPEAKER_00 7:04

Yes, so my total weight loss is uh now 33.7 kilos, which I believe is five stone four or thereabouts, which I'm super proud of. Uh but it wasn't only weight that I've lost, it's the whole it's the mindset in this programme that is uh what was missing for me. I didn't know at the time, but I now know the mindset is huge. Everything in the program that that is uh mainly driven towards mindset is what really resonates with me and what has really helped me. Not so much you can't eat this, you can't eat that, that was in other diets. Yeah, the programme as a whole just works.

Max Lowery 7:50

That's great to hear. So you know, another 15 kilos basically in in six months, which is incredible progress. So that's yeah, 33 kilos in total.

SPEAKER_00 8:00

Um 0.7, 33 points.

Max Lowery 8:03

33.7. You know what's that? If we just we'll we'll go, I want to talk about mindset for sure, but just like what's it like on a day-to-day basis carrying 33 or 33.7 kilos less, Jacqueline.

SPEAKER_00 8:17

Freedom, total freedom. See the way that I can now move. It's night and day. When I walk, I don't waddle. I didn't realise I waddled until I stopped waddling, if that makes sense. Um I can if I need to, I don't often want to, but if I had to, I can now run, as I found out because I was running late for a uh a gym class one day and I got out of the car and I ran into the building. And when I got inside, I realized, oh my goodness, I just ran for the first time in how many years? So it's total mobility freedom for me.

Max Lowery 8:54

And what was that trip to Japan like then?

SPEAKER_00 8:56

Oh, it was amazing, absolutely amazing. I was I walked my feet off, I didn't stop, I didn't use escalators, um I always took the stairs. I was out walking the kids because they took the escalators. I didn't.

Max Lowery 9:13

And how would that have tripped have looked if you hadn't started this process?

SPEAKER_00 9:17

I'd have been miserable. I know I would have been. I'd have been lagging at the back. I'd have been constantly looking for places to stop and not getting to see the whole of Japan that I saw. I wouldn't have seen anywhere near as much as I'd seen. We were away to islands, we were up the top of towers, I wouldn't have got to do all that. I'd have been looking for an open top bus tour or similar something where you're sitting down moving rather than getting out and about.

Max Lowery 9:49

Yeah, and I imagine, you know, what we see with clients is when they start before working with us, they're kind of stuck in this vicious cycle where they've got weight to lose, which means it's harder to move, um, which means it's then more likely that, you know, harder to lose weight. And, you know, in situations like that, if maybe the rest of your family were doing something you couldn't do, I mean, do you think maybe you would have been probably in a restaurant eating or doing something along those lines, which means, you know, the rest of the family is getting out and being active and moving, you're not moving and eating more because there's nothing else to do in that vicious cycle. Whereas you get yourself into that virtuous cycle where things are just gradually improving over time. Like you lose weight, moving becomes easier, therefore you move more, therefore, losing weight becomes easier. Not everything has to be revolved around food. Um, so that's incredible. On that subject, you know, I we did our honeymoon in Japan. And what was crazy about Japan is I've never seen more restaurants in my life, like every other shop, every other building, and no matter where you go, is basically a restaurant or serving food. People don't really cook their own food. There's not really a culture of staying in and cooking. People go out. What did you notice about this trip about when you compare it to previous trips? Were you enjoying food more? Like what did that look like?

SPEAKER_00 10:57

Yeah, the food in Japan's just amazing. Um, their sushi is oh, chef's kiss. It's just delicious. Um yeah, I ate. I ate my three meals a day. Um, I didn't skip any, I enjoyed everything I had to eat. Probably easier to be healthy in Japan, I would say. Um but it's the first holiday I've been on where I came back and I had lost weight. Wow. I've never done that before in my life. And it wasn't because I wasn't eating. I was eating every meal and enjoying it.

Holidays Without Snacking Or Guilt

Max Lowery 11:33

So what do you think the difference was then? So why like how do you if you could, you know, let's say someone's listening, they're like, well, how does that happen? Like, how can you enjoy food and lose weight on holiday? Like, what do you think the difference is, Jacqueline?

SPEAKER_00 11:45

Probably the biggest difference is I wasn't snacking in between meals. Normally, a normal holiday or a previous normal holiday for me would have been it probably would start in the airport before we left. There would be something eaten, something drank, and something for the bag for the plane, in the terms of uh crisps and sweets. Um then whatever country we land in, oh, I'd need to try their crisps because they're different from our crisps. And there was a whole load of crisps involved. Um in Japan, I didn't have any crisps, I didn't have any snacks in between meals because I I'm not hungry in between meals, and I wasn't hungry over there either. But as I said, their food is healthier, it's a lot of fish, vegetables, rice, but in between meals, I think, is where the um real gain was.

Max Lowery 12:37

It's really interesting you talk about that because this is one thing that I very much notice about going to, especially a British airport. You don't see this in any other country, is as you just described, it doesn't matter what time it is, if you've got a five o'clock in the morning flight, people are eating or drinking, they'll be having pints. It's like time doesn't, when you're in an airport, time doesn't really uh have any impact, right? That kind of five o'clock, not having a drink till 5 p.m. goes out the window. And what is interesting is for a lot of people that's just normal. For me, and especially my family and kind of most of my a lot of the people I hang out with, what's normal is no, I don't eat plain food. I don't eat this food because it's horrible, right? It is cheap, it's been microwaved in a plastic wrapper, which God knows you know, talking about micro microplastics and things like this. And I think what I've noticed with clients, maybe you can tell me, Jacqueline, is um is I think what has to happen is a bit of a shift of what's normal for you and questioning just because I've done this for most of my life and maybe my family do it, my friends do it. Like, do I actually want to do that? Do I need to have the beer at five o'clock in the morning? Do I need to have the snack on the plane? Is that something that you kind of you've noticed and and questioned for yourself then, Jacqueline?

SPEAKER_00 13:52

Yeah, definitely. Plain food, eat a plain food that is is pretty much disgusting. Um previously I'd have eaten it because I would unfortunately I ate anything and everything. Um food wasn't fuel before, food was uh comfort, it was um soothing, it was habit, but not anymore now. It's pretty much I eat for fuel and I stop when I'm hut when I'm no longer hungry. As for uh alcohol, yep, I would have been the person in the airport lounge who, no matter what time the flight was, would have headed and had a gin and tonic. Maybe just one, but I would still have gone and had a gin and tonic. But I wouldn't do that now. In fact, I'm going on holiday in August with friends who I know will be looking to do that with as soon as we get to the airport, but they've already they're fully aware that I wouldn't be joining them. I mean, I'll sit with them obviously, but I won't be joining in and having alcohol.

Max Lowery 15:51

Yeah, and I think for anyone listening, I want to make something very clear, right? It's not that that gin and tonic is banned because you're dieting and you're trying to lose weight. It's just that I think what I see, especially with holidays or Christmas and things like this, it's the issue is that at some point before the holiday, a decision is made that, right, I'm in holiday mode now, so I'm just gonna eat everything, I'm gonna drink everything because I'm on holiday. And so what we teach our clients and what you know Jacqueline has learned to do is instead of just blanket saying, Yes, I'm on a holiday, therefore I'm gonna eat the thing, it's just starting to take a pause and ask yourself, do I actually want that ginna tonic in five o'clock in the morning? Um, how am I gonna feel if I do? Uh, what's that gonna like what's that gonna how's that gonna impact my sleep on a long haul flight? Uh, how's that gonna impact my digestions? And sometimes, you know, you might get to the airport as a nice airport lounge at six o'clock in the afternoon, you're like, actually, yeah, I really would like a gin of tonic right now. But it's just like being able to differentiate between the two, make conscious, informed, mindful decisions as an adult instead of oh, holiday mode, therefore I'm gonna have everything, I'm gonna chuck it in the fucking bucket and I'm gonna start when I get back.

SPEAKER_00 17:00

Yeah, when I go on holiday, I will definitely be having wine with dinner, and I'll definitely be having an occasional gin and tonic, but I won't be starting at the airport. I'll be having it when I would like to have one and not just because.

Max Lowery 17:16

Yeah. And this is ultimately how you can because this is definitely, I would say, something I put across social media and I say, look, all our clients go on holiday and they still lose weight. And people think it sounds too good to be true. I mean, did you think maybe that was too good to be true for joining Jacqueline?

SPEAKER_00 17:32

Absolutely.

Max Lowery 17:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:34

Yeah.

Max Lowery 17:35

Because, and that's because usually the women that book in calls and are listening to this podcast have a belief that in order to lose weight, you have to restrict yourself, you have to deprive yourself. And don't get me wrong, that works for short-term weight loss. And if your goal is short-term weight loss, then crack on. But if you actually want to lose weight and keep it off, you need a very different approach. And that is basically what we're talking about right now. It's being mindful, it's being intentional, it's create, it's pausing instead of reacting. It's asking yourself questions do I really want to eat that snack right now? Am I actually hungry? Am I about to eat a nice meal? Uh and it's going through this process, which initially can be challenging, but the more you practice, then it just becomes the norm. And then when it becomes the norm, it becomes part of who you are. And then, you know, like for me, for example, I'm someone that doesn't, I don't think I've of course I've eaten on long haul flights, but in terms of like short haul flights, I have never eaten a snack on a short full flight. I fly in between France and England all the time, and obviously they bring the snack drawer out. Not once have I eaten that. And I'm not, it's not because I'm like, oh, will power motivation of trying to lose weight. I'm like, I'm not someone who eats on planes uh because of that. And I think that's what I'm definitely seeing in you, Jacqueline, is that identity shift. Really quick one for me, guys. I don't run ads on this podcast, and I do aim to give you as many high-value tips and tricks as I can for free. All

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Max Lowery 19:01

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SPEAKER_00 19:20

Definitely. Yeah. I was a total snack a holic before the programme, and now I think I could count in one hand the amount of snacks I've had.

Max Lowery 19:30

Yeah, and I think you make a good very good point as well there, because you're fuelling yourself properly, you don't need to snack, right? You're not hungry.

SPEAKER_00 19:36

I'm never hungry between meals, never ever.

Hunger Cues Protein Meals Food Neutrality

SPEAKER_00 19:38

All my meals are protein-centred and filled out with carbs and veg. Uh, and because of what I'm eating, and I'm I've got about four hours and roughly four hours between each meal, and then the four hours between each meal, I honestly don't think I've ever been hungry. I've lost 33 kilos and I've never been hungry.

Max Lowery 20:01

And that, you know, for those of you listening, probably sounds too good to be true. But think of it this way: if the goal is long-term weight loss, then this is the only way to actually actually achieve that long-term weight loss. If you are starving all the time, if you're and restricting and depriving yourself, you're never going to get that long-term success. And I think part of it is also beginning to understand the difference between what we call perceived hunger, which is habit, boredom, routine, uh, stress, you know, all those things that you described earlier, and real physical hang hunger. You tell me, Jacqueline, like before you started, did you know the difference between the two?

SPEAKER_00 20:34

No, I didn't know the difference between the two. I was aware that I ate when I was bored, but I never thought of that as being a hunger. I thought of it as more as a habit.

Max Lowery 20:43

Yeah, bad habit.

SPEAKER_00 20:44

Yeah.

Max Lowery 20:45

So you I want to take you back to something you said earlier as well. You said that before food was uh, you know, boredom, it was uh comfort, it was a reward. What's that like for you now?

SPEAKER_00 20:55

Food is still enjoyable. I enjoy every meal I eat. I still go out and socialize with food, but it is very much fuel.

Max Lowery 21:05

Yeah, and I think this is a this has to happen ultimately, because if food does serve an emotional need, if you need it for a relief at the end of the day, if you need it for comfort, if you need it for joy, then you're gonna have cravings, you're gonna have food noise. So stay in control of your calorie intake, stay in control of your portions is gonna be next to impossible. And so, you know, you raise a good point. It's not about food not being fun and not, you know, and and and um completely taking the enjoyment out of food. Like I love food, so that's all my wife and I do is we go in Japan, that's pretty much all we did, right? But equally, I don't need food to have fun, I don't need food to to comfort myself, I don't need food to to for relief. And whilst that's going on, it's going to be next to impossible to be consistent with anything. And this is a process we go through with our clients where you shift that association with those emotional needs, and therefore you just eat for fuel, you eat when you're hungry, and ultimately achieve what we call food neutrality, where yeah, you you like food, but actually, if for whatever reason uh you can't have what you set out to have, it doesn't ruin your day.

SPEAKER_00 22:10

Yeah, twistling.

Max Lowery 22:11

Would you say that's what it is like for you at the moment, Jacqueline?

SPEAKER_00 22:14

Oh, yeah, 100%. Um my meals are pretty pretty, they're all planned for the week ahead. They're all planned. I know what I'm having in advance. I love toasted eggs, so I have toast and eggs. I like salads in the summer, so I have salads in the summer, and I have soups and those kind of warmer lunches in the winter. Um, my main meals are all around protein, and it's not it's not fancy cooking, but it's not plain boring cooking either. I'll still have a chili con carne spaghetti bolognese. It's not it's not. Like diet food, it's just food. It's just home cooked meals.

Max Lowery 22:57

Which is amazing. And so take us back to what you were talking about mindset. Um, what would you say is the number

Mindset Shift From Willpower To Flow

Max Lowery 23:04

one difference between the mindset of Jacqueline before working with us and the mindset of Jacqueline now?

SPEAKER_00 23:11

The old Jacqueline didn't think she would ever shift weight. The new Jacqueline knows she will 100% get to goal. That's it in a nutshell.

Max Lowery 23:21

That's huge. I think the the your choice of language is very important there. There was no like belief she could or might. It's will uh achieve end result, which is amazing. And how about in terms of mindset with your relationship with food? Uh like what's the biggest difference between that then and now?

SPEAKER_00 23:40

Food's no longer used to curb boredom. I know what I'm feeling when I feel things, and I don't turn to food for it. I stop, I think about what it is that I'm feeling, I acknowledge what it is I'm feeling, and I move on without turning to a big shearing bag of crisps and a bottle of wine.

Max Lowery 23:58

So, Chris was the kryptonite for you before, was it?

SPEAKER_00 24:00

Definitely. Yeah, the bigger the bag, and it was all for me. I wasn't shearing the shearing bag, the bigger the bag, the better.

Max Lowery 24:08

And do you feel like you're using willpower and hard work not to have the crisps?

SPEAKER_00 24:12

No, I don't. It doesn't feel like willpower. It just feels like normal to not eat crisps. It's like it's who I am, it's what I do.

Max Lowery 24:20

Yeah, and that again is the only reason it actually lasts, is because if there's a huge misconception with the women I speak to on a daily basis who are thinking of joining the program. And even at the start of the program, there's still this belief that it's about willpower and force and trying harder and using more discipline and motivation. And don't get me wrong, use those things where they're there. But long-term success isn't about pushing against all that resistance and forcing, it's about flow. And the only way that you're going to create flow is actually if you address the root cause of why you are overeating, why you felt out of control, why you would snack, pick, and graze, why you would head to the crisps. And once you address those things, then suddenly things happen. Then there's that flow without that resistance. And it's been great to see you experience that, Jacqueline. What would you say to anyone who's listening to this who is still skeptical?

SPEAKER_00 25:08

I would say book in a call with yourself, listen to what you have to say, and go for it. If you like what you hear, go for it. If you think it's going to be a walk in the park, it actually it isn't. There is hard work to be done, but within four weeks, I would say personally, within four weeks, I was in the flow. It wasn't as difficult after four weeks. It became easier with every passing week until it became automatic and normal.

Max Lowery 25:40

Yeah, and I think you raise a good point there as well, because in what in one respect, this is easy in terms of the nutrition aspect. You know, it's not restriction, it's not deprivation, it's not force, it's not willpower, but it's difficult in a different way. And it's difficult to reform new thinking patterns, new new reactions, new neural pathways to address how you process your emotions, to address any ego resistance and self-sabotage. These things are hard, but in different ways to kind of traditional diets and restriction and deprivation. Is that something you've noticed?

SPEAKER_00 26:13

100%. The the food side of it is easy. It is easy peasy. It's the other work that we do that makes you stop and think and really think. And without stopping and thinking, you'll never progress.

Max Lowery 26:26

Before starting, did you realize that that other work, that deeper work you just described, did you realize that was even a thing? And did you realize that's what you needed?

SPEAKER_00 26:34

So I always thought the big thing for me was mindset, but I had no idea how to go about changing it. So although I knew what to do, I didn't know how to do it.

Max Lowery 26:44

Yeah, and I think that probably sums up a lot of what the women speak listening to this podcast uh are like they're surrounded by information, like, yeah, eat more protein, you know, eat less, move more, shift your mindset, stop emotional eating. They know what they need to do, but they have no idea how they do it. Um, and that's ultimately you know why getting help and support can be uh very useful. So if there's one thing you want the listeners to take away from today's conversation, Jacqueline, what would it be?

Set Your Environment Up To Win

SPEAKER_00 27:12

I would say book in with yourself, get a call booked. If you're not going to do that, check out Max's socials. And I think one tip from me would be set up your environment for success. That's the another big thing for me. Uh my son is not allowed to keep any snacks in the kitchen anymore, he keeps them in his own room. And that setting up your environment in the kitchen is a great way forward.

Max Lowery 27:40

Yeah, you've done very well at that. And you know, because if you look at the most successful people in the world, they have ultimately, they don't necessarily have more willpower, more discipline than the average person. It's just they've set their lives up in a way where success is inevitable. Again, where they have that flow instead of pushing against loads of resistance. And there's a whole load of different ways you can kind of hack your environment and address that. One is yeah, what's going on with you in your kitchen? Like, do you have loads of really highly palatable, um, like crunchy, sweet snacks in the house, or have you made it difficult for you to access those kinds of things? Uh, who are you spending your time with? You know, like all that kind of stuff has a huge impact. And I think you've done very well of that, Jacqueline. Cool. Well, Jacqueline, thank you very much for coming on the podcast for the second time. I think we should probably do another check in in six months, see where you're at, because you know, things are happening quite quickly. And uh see you soon.

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Magic.