Mental Discipline: How 75Hard Will Change Your Life

Today, Lauren discusses how to complete the 75Hard Program the way it was designed and how completing the program will impact your life. She outlines the rules of 75Hard and discusses personal experiences she had while completing the program, not once, but twice! Learn how to win the war in your mind by completing 75Hard! You can do this!

Transcript

This one's for the milfs, cause you're so fucking hot. Just kidding, last night guys I went to karaoke, I sang a few songs with some co-workers, we had our company party. I was really expecting it to get kind of wild. It didn't, that's fine, I still had so much fun and I am so excited right now. My daughter is asleep, I have the house to myself and here we are. Welcome back to MILF season. I'm trying to not start off this episode being so quiet because I always get a little self-conscious at the beginning. I'm like, oh my daughter's asleep, like I've got to be quiet and everyone's like, Lauren, like I listened to the episode in the beginning you were so quiet and then by the end you were like, ow ow, like talking normally. But anyway ignore my singing. I am so ready. I'm ready to talk about today's topic. At the end of every episode I'm like this is what I'm gonna talk about next week and then I literally change my mind and I don't talk about that topic at all. And I wanted to talk about what I started doing for New Year's and then we're gonna talk about 75 hard. So welcome back to Milk Season this week and let's get right into it. Also classic having a sick daughter again I have a cold once again hoping this one doesn't knock me on my ass like the last time but sorry if I sound a little nasally I just had to get that out there. Alright so I don't have TikTok but I have been informed by some friends that 75 hard is once again trending on TikTok. If you don't know what 75 hard is, I don't know what they say it is on social media, in the TikTok world, but I know a lot of people aren't doing it right. Hate to be an asshole, but I'm just gonna speak the truth here about what Andy Frisella, the creator of 75 hard says about how to complete this program. So first and foremost everyone thinks 75 hard is a challenge. What most people don't know is that 75 hard is actually part of a year-long program. So you have 75 hard, then you have phase one, phase two, and phase three, and all of those are designed to be completed in a year for like optimal mental discipline and like just defeating what Andy calls your bitch voice. So 75 hard is essentially the boot camp to the live hard program which is that phase one, phase two, and phase three. And each section of phase one, phase two, and phase three adds like different components to 75 hard. So 75 hard is for 75 days straight. If you fail any of these following tasks, you have to start over which is so critical. You have to do two 45 workouts a day and they have to be at least three hours apart. A lot of people don't know that unless you either read his book 75 hard or if you listen to his podcast but that is a crucial component 75 hard you can't just say well I'm gonna do you know 45 minutes of cardio and then 45 minutes of lifting back to back. That does not count. That's not the point. The point is that this is difficult. You have to find the time in your day to do these tasks. And one of them must be outdoors no matter the weather. Obviously you need to take this, you know, take it at your own discretion. If it's lightning and thunder outside, don't be walking around outside. But thankfully, I feel like it's very rare where the weather really will prevent you from being outside and you just have to get up and go baby. The third component of 75 hard is you need to take a progress picture every single day. Personally when I did it, I like to take it in the same bathing suit every single day. That way I can really see the changes in my body.

You have to read 10 pages of a non-fiction book every day. So that could be a business book, that could be a mental discipline book, a self-help book, whatever type of book that's going to help you grow as a human being and as a person and it just cannot be fiction. You need to drink one gallon of water every day. You need to follow a specific diet and you cannot have any cheap meals or any alcohol. So those are the tasks that make up 75 hard and like I said, as the name states, it's for 75 days and if you fail a single one of those tasks you must start over from day one. So I have completed 75 hard twice and I have started my way into the Live Hard program. Now at this point I would have to start 75 hard over because I won't be able to complete the full Live Hard program within that year time frame, which is also just another component of Live Hard, is that you have to complete it in that all those phase one, phase two, phase three, and 75 hard within that year. So next round that I do, I have to start over from 75 hard, which I like to do anyway, because it really is like a reset for my brain. Like if I haven't done 75 hard or phase one in a while, like it takes a second for me to get back into that routine. But I wanted to kind of talk about how much 75 hard impacted my life because when I found 75 hard it was actually through a friend. I didn't find it on TikTok, it wasn't like a trending thing. I wanted to try my friend Louie who's a first form athlete. Actually you guys should go follow him on Instagram. So Louis holds the world record for skating across America. He skated from California to New York City. He did that entire way, was on skates and he did this to raise awareness for a disease that almost killed him as a child. I knew him through college and we've stayed in touch since then and he's playing pro hockey in France now which is freaking unreal but I found 75 hard through him. I had heard of it through my parents trainer, like they were kind of doing it, I had heard of it, but it never caught my attention and then when he did it I looked it up and I was like, okay, wow, this is crazy, this is intense, and yeah, probably not for me. But he was who I learned really about 75 hard through and if you guys also want to go follow Louis on social media, you totally should. His Instagram is l-o-u-i-s c-h-a-i-x. Give him a follow, he's really inspirational. He posts a lot of good videos.

Anyway, so I learned about 75 Hard really through him. It caught my attention. I was like, okay, I've seen this, I've heard about this through some other people, and I knew that Louis was involved with FirstForm. So I started looking into FirstForm and I found that Andy Frisella owns FirstForm along with many other businesses and that he had a podcast. So I've always really liked FirstForm and their company and the mission and that everyone loves going to work there. I love their content so I was like, who is Andy Frisella? He clearly created a business that people enjoy going to work. And I started listening to Andy Frusella's podcast which has been the most eye-opening podcast I think I have yet to hear. He is an incredibly smart entrepreneur, businessman, mental discipline, freaking guru. Like, yeah, I could go on and on about how much I love Andy Frusella and some of you that follow me on Instagram know for like the past two years I've been like screaming from the rooftops like, listen to Andy Frisella for so many different reasons.

So I had just had my daughter and I got cleared to work out because I had a cesarean and so I couldn't work out for a while and I was like dying to work out again and like get my body back and just be feel healthy again and feel good about myself and I started listening to Andy Frisella's podcast and was like, wow Wow, this guy is aggressive. This is not for me. But seeing through Louis all these positive benefits that 75 Hard had, so I was like, I'm just going to keep listening.

And then like I said, I knew some coaches from the gym that my parents go to that had done it too and they were all just talking about it as well. So I was like, hmm, okay, I'm going to keep listening to Andy Frisella. And it really started to click with everything that he was saying.

So he has this big kind of idea that we all have this bitch voice and that's the voice in your head that many of us don't have control of that, oh just eat one more cookie, take one more bite, have one more drink. You don't need to do that extra, you know, workout, you don't need to do that extra set. No, you're good, you're good, like you don't need to do that.

It's almost like devil and angel on your shoulder but we all have this bitch voice that keeps us lazy, it keeps us down, it keeps us unmotivated, it just keeps us average. And 75 Hard is designed to kill that and it does. If you do the program correctly, it will teach you how to become the master over that bitch voice that we all have. Something that I loved about 75 Hard 2 is that the idea of doing two workouts, especially I just had my daughter, I was like Okay, wow, there's just like no way I can do that right you just immediately start coming up with excuses There's no way I can do to work out She's napping then we're breastfeeding and I'm tired and blah blah blah and you just come up with this whole long line of excuses and I was kind of doing some research because I want to do this program, but I want to do it correctly and Annie and Priscilla says if you're going outside for a walk a 45-minute walk, obviously, you don't want to be super slow But like that's a workout. You're moving your body. So I was like, okay, so I would do I started off doing yoga in the mornings inside and that was Either right before my daughter woke up or she was young enough at that point where I like stuck her in a seat Or I stuck her on the floor and she was fine and I would do yoga and then in the afternoon I would plan our a walk and I would put her in her little bassinet stroller and we'd go for a 45-minute walk and And as the walk became easier for me, I added on a weighted vest.

And before I knew it, that weighted vest felt easy. And if you know me, I hate running. I don't...

I have leg issues, I had surgery, two different surgeries done at the same time on both of my legs in high school. Like I... It hurts to run really badly.

And I had a desire to start running. And I would like have the vest on and I'd be pushing my daughter in the stroller and sometimes I would just do a quick sprint. And this is with a 25 pound weighted vest on and for me that's like holy crap.

It was wild. It just started to get easier and easier as each day went by. And it was such a great feeling.

And I think something that's important about 75 hard is that 75 days is a long time. So the first week, alright, it was kind of brutal. My complete change of routine, complete change of habits, complete change of diet.

My body freaked out. This is rough. 75 days, oh my god, it's only day 2.

And if I remember correctly, oh no, you know what, this is when I did phase 1. I had to start over on phase one. For each time I've done 75 hard, I did not have to start over.

That was like a big thing. Really didn't want to have to start over. So I was very, very diligent about getting my daily tasks done.

And I downloaded the 75 hard app, which if you're going to do 75 hard, I highly recommend downloading the app because you can set alarms through the app, like reminders. Like in bed, there were so many times I'd crawl into bed and then I would get a reminder on my phone at whatever time and it was like, don't forget to take your progress picture, jump out of bed. I'm like, holy shit, I almost forgot to take my progress picture. Like, that would have been a terrible way to fail today. Um, wow, just like side tangent right there and I totally forgot what I was talking about before. This is so classic when you talk to me. I'm like a squirrel half the time, plus I'm drinking a Celsius, so I'm probably talking like 100 miles an hour. Okay, I just had to scroll back to see what train of thought I was on because like I lost it that bad. Talk about mom brain. So I was saying that 75 days is like a long time. It feels like a really long time and so you know you're in that first week and you're like kind of excited. You're kind of like oh god what am I setting myself up for? And then you get into it and you get into a routine and then by like week two you're so excited and you seriously start noticing changes. I love taking the progress pictures every day because when you make such a drastic change to your diet and then you're adding in those workouts like even if it is just like two walks a day you're gonna start noticing like crazy changes in your body like probably really quickly and I was personally and so I was like all jazzed up. Week two let's freaking go I got this hell yeah. Week three, week four and then I hit that like month mark and I was like wow this is boring like I'm doing the same things every single day I'm basically eating the same foods every single day and I'm bored and it wasn't exciting anymore I really hit this like low if you will low point the excitement has worn off and I think that's really important to know that when you do this because is that like two and a half months 75 days it's really really exciting and you're like noticing these changes and then it gets boring and that's when you really have to make the choice to complete your tasks every single day and that's the point of this program is that it's not just to have that amazing body afterwards or just learn how to eat better food. Yes those things are like side benefits of it but when it gets boring is when oh I'll just I'll just skip a workout. Oh, you know, it's raining today. It's snowing. I don't want to go outside.

Oh, you know, I would really love to have that bite of brownie. Let me tell you, wow, this thought just came back to me. There were times in 75 hard towards the end, because I was not having sugar. I was having like, I would put a couple drops of Stevia in my coffee, And then there's always like your little sugars and like protein powder. I was using first form products and I was using uh trying to use mostly the natural, their like natural line of protein powder because their products do have a lot of like sucralose in them and some other sugars.

I obviously wasn't eating like brownies, cookies, like I wasn't eating like sweets like that. So I started having dreams about sugar. I remember distinctly one dream that I had about I was like in my driveway getting out of my car and one of my parents came out and was like had a little like container of cupcakes and they were like these are for you and I was like I can't eat them and they were like you need to eat that when I was like I'm doing 75 hard like I can't eat this sugar and they were like, you can eat it. It's fine. Like I had multiple sugar dreams which is really crazy but it just shows you like how like addicted we are to sugar by the end of 75 hard. I mean that like blew my mind. I was like I can't believe I'm literally dreaming about fucking cupcakes. I don't even eat cupcakes normally. Like it's not like I love cupcakes. Like that it was just so crazy But once you get into it, like you're really in the thick of it You're like in the middle and it's boring you have to make those choices For when you do go to that birthday party, you don't eat the cupcake. You don't eat the cake You have to eat the veggie platter that no one's touching. Guess what baby? It's all for you Like you don't get to have the pizza or whatever else they're eating the pasta if that's part of your diet You don't get to have those things. Oh Ugh, yeah, I mean, it was hard and it is hard and that's the point.

And so many people have messaged me on Instagram being like, hey, I had a question about 75 hard. I want to do it, but I don't know how to drink a full gallon of water or I don't understand. Does it have to be 45 minutes to the dot?

Yes. You need to drink a full gallon of water. If you miss a sip, you need to start over.

That's the point because asking those questions, that's the bitch voice coming in. That's what this whole program is designed to eliminate. When I did 75 Hard the first time, I was like, I seriously don't know if I can do this mentally.

I don't know if I have the fucking motivation to do this all the way through. So every morning until I really affirmed it with myself and was like, I am going to finish this the right way as intended, I started watching YouTube videos and I would search people doing 75 hard and when I would get ready in the morning, I would watch their YouTube videos while I did my makeup. About how they did it, what they ate, what their daily schedule was like.

And they also like, people give advice in those videos about how to get through parts of it or what was hard for them because everyone's experience with it is going to be so different. me, drinking a gallon of water at first was like, oh my god, so much water and then it became like the easiest task for me. Well taking the progress picture was is like technically like the easiest task, like you can forget about that so easily. So yeah, for me drinking the gallon of water was really easy. It was planning the time around my daughter to get workouts in that was hard or around work and that's the point. Something else too that Andy talks about on his podcast, if you especially listen to his 75 hard specific episodes. He he talks about 75 soft. I've had some people ask me about this too being like I'm not sure if I have time to do 75 hard because of my job and I think I might do 75 soft. Again I'm not trying to sound like an asshole but Andy talks about the program is designed the way it is for a reason. I highly suggest that if you're considering doing 75 hard, don't think about it any longer. Just start today. If you, you know, it's the morning and you haven't eaten any sugar or anything like that, start today. Don't think about it. That was one of my biggest mistakes was I was like, should I do it? Should I not? Should I? I'll just start tomorrow. I'll just start tomorrow. No, I'll just start tomorrow. And he talks about that. Oh, I'll just push it off. Like you're never going to do it and this is why like you can't keep promises to yourself because you're just gonna do it tomorrow and then you don't and then you let yourself down then you feel like shit and then you feel like shit so now you're not gonna work out and you feel like shit so you're gonna cover it with junk food to make yourself feel better and then junk food makes you feel worse and it's all a freaking cycle. So 75 soft. I've seen like kind of pictures online of like printouts for like the daily tasks. All I'm gonna say is that if you want to do 75 hard you need to do 75 hard because 75 soft is exactly what 75 hard is trying to defeat in you in terms of mental toughness and mental discipline. 75 soft is a soft version because you don't want to do the task of 75 hard which is exactly the point of the program. So you're saying, oh I don't want to do, you know, I don't even remember what the tasks for 75 soft are.

I think it's like one workout a day because you don't want to do two So then why are you doing 75 soft at all because there's literally no point because you're not defeating that bitch voice That's telling you. I just want to do one workout today like well Like that is what I don't think people get about the program is that that program is to defeat that bitch voice So you say I want to do 75 soft because I don't want to do two workouts a day day, well, you know, that sucks because that's your bitch voice now winning over in your brain and now you're just going to do the easier thing.

Where this program teaches you how to do the harder thing. And the kind of like overarching theme of 75 Hard is that mental discipline because if you learn to defeat that bitch voice and do the harder thing all of the time, or as Ed Milet says like the power of one more doing one more set like doing one more report like at work like whatever that is for you you're gonna be able to persevere through hard times in your life way better than anybody else and you're gonna be one step ahead of everybody else or multiple steps ahead you know 75 hard relates to not only or physical fitness and like being in like peak performance shape and your emotional well-building because you're gonna feel like a fucking badass when you do this. Like when I was like height of doing 75 hard, I would go into therapy every Friday and he'd be like, how are you doing today? I'm like, I'm fucking amazing.

I've already done my workout, my first workout. It's only 11 o'clock. I've already got a half a gallon down. I don't know why I'm so good at doing the gallon of water, but you just already feel so accomplished because normally at that time in the morning I have made breakfast for my daughter, maybe we watch some TV and maybe I like did some laundry. Wow like whoopty frickin' do. No but then you do 75 hard and you're like it's literally 11 a.m. and I have already done my reading I've done this I've done this I've done this and you feel already accomplished and now you're ready to like go and attack the day. Like, I, I freaking love this program. It just like whips you back into being a top competitor. Like, I don't know that I don't even know how else to to describe it. And I think I mentioned this like in my last podcast episode, this might be a little all over the place because I'm really trying to do these podcasts like just me talking like I don't want to have to read off a script. So I'm really just talking about this as it comes to mind and remembering things that I did during 75 hard.

Just the questions I get in my DMs about it, I just wanted to address those and be like, Nah babe, if you didn't finish that gallon of water, you gotta start over. Or you're gonna get to the end of 75 hard and you're gonna know that you cheated yourself. You're gonna get down to the end of it and be like, damn, I actually didn't do the program correctly.

which reminds me that if you are gonna do 75 hard right now,

take out your phone unless you're driving, go into your podcast app or Spotify app, whatever it is, hit your search button, type in 75 hard, and then you're gonna scroll down. Well, first of all, you'll see shows and you'll see Relay F with Annie Frisella. Hit follow, start listening to that shit immediately because it will open your eyes and change your life and open up your perspective of the world.

And also he has an older podcast that he's bringing back called MFCEO, stands for motherfucking CEO. And that's all entrepreneur based. It was like the number one entrepreneur podcast for like a very long time.

And then he changed his show format and they started talking about like 75 hard. So they do 75 hard versus whoever episodes, are always so amazing to listen to. And he does rant talks which are always, whoo, they hit you hard. They, I mean, he doesn't hold back. And some of those episodes really point out like things that you're like not doing well in your life and like how to change it. And then he does CTI, which is Cruisy Internet, where they talk about things going on in the world and how we can solve those problems. And those episodes are like, wow, this man is smart. He can connect the dots about the bullshit going on in the world. Anywho, you're going to follow his podcast and then you're going to scroll down to episodes and you're going to see 75 Hard, a 75 day tactical guide for winning the war with yourself and you're going to listen to that podcast. If you want to do 75 Hard and you want to actually commit to it and do it correctly, you need to listen to his podcast because he's going to explain every single task in great detail and he's going to explain like why each task is important and any time that I do 75 hard I re-listen to this episode and he also has um right below it 75 hard and live hard winning the war within yourself um that explains the entire program of 75 hard and a live hard program phase one, phase two, and phase three. I seriously can't kind of urge you enough to try doing this program. When I started doing it, originally I was like, like I said, I had just had my daughter and I was like, wow, I really want to get back into shape.

And I had seen like all the transformation pictures from people and I was like, holy crap, like that alone is enough to convince me to do this program. And also at that time, I think I might have mentioned this that I'm paying off my student loans and that I'm almost done, but I was still at that time around like $40,000 in debt of student loan debt. And when I had my daughter, I was getting like gifts in the mail and before I had her for her baby shower, like people were sending like the Amazon gifts like to my house and so I had this pretty long stretch packages were just coming to my house in my name and I knew that they were for the baby shower that they like weren't really like for me but I was like oh I like this like I'm like getting gifts it feels like every day in the mail and after I had my daughter I was like well I obviously have to get her XYZ product I saw on Instagram. Like I obviously have to get her this, you know, weighted sippy cup that is open mouth so she can learn how to like swallow correctly. All the stupid shit you see on Instagram. As a mom, first time mom, you're like, Oh my God, I need this. I need this. Or she's like, we're not going to develop correctly. And then you are you get into it. You're like, yeah, that was a fucking waste of my fucking money. But I started buying stuff off the rails. I just started buying myself things off Amazon. I going shopping all the time. It was definitely a way of like coping as well to make myself feel better about everything that was going on in my life because at that point I was like kind of trying sobriety but like I honestly wasn't putting any really effort into it and this shopping made me feel good. It gave me such a good dopamine hit and then I had something new and it was exciting until it wasn't like a week later and then I was like well I guess I need something new and the the cycle was just kind of going on and on. Meanwhile, I had this goal of paying off my loans and so while a lot of the reason why I like really got interested in 75 hard was because I'm like I'm gonna be snatched after I do this I was also like holy shit like I realized that I had no control over my spending and that alone like was enough to make me be like all right like I'm out of control And if I'm out of control in this area of my life, I wasn't really working out hard.

I was doing little workouts. What else am I out of control in? And I wanted to be in control.

I want to be in control of my reaction in situations to everything going on around me. No matter what's going on around me, I should say, I want to be able to be level-headed and in control in that situation. So something that a lot of people ask me about 75 Hard or they say when they're inquiring about it is well like I don't have the time like I work X you know shifts a week and I work 13 hour shifts however however long the time frame however many shifts a week but you have to find the time and that's something that is really really challenging about this program so when I was finishing one of my rounds I can't even remember I think it was yeah it was phase one because I had like basically just started the bar and I was like this is gonna be fucking brutal.

I have to wake up early to get a workout done. I need to obviously take care of my daughter and then I need to go to work and I'm gonna be at work from depending on my in time 4 p.m. until I didn't even know at first but until 3 30 a.m. or 2 30 a.m. depending on how busy we got that weekend and how long it took us to clean which then meant that I if I couldn't get my two workouts done especially the outdoors one. I always try to get the outdoors one done first that way it's just out of the way. But there were so many nights where I went home after work and I did a workout at 2 30 a.m. 3 30 a.m. and then I went to bed and I'm not gonna sugarcoat it those nights fucking suck but I did it and that's the awesome thing about this program is that it like sucks and you're getting through it but then you like you did it and you accomplished it and you did the harder thing and you're like holy shit like I feel like a badass like I just actually did a good ass workout at 3 a.m. after my 8 9 10 however long hour long shift or whatever your certain circumstances within your life and you're like you just feel like such a badass cuz you did it and you told yourself you were gonna do it and you stuck to those promises and I just don't really think that there's anything like there's no better feeling than that than knowing that you're gonna make this promise to yourself and that you're gonna keep it.

Another thing that I learned through this program was that there were just certain things I was going to have to say no to. Certain birthday parties. I just can't go. Some of my friends are going out to celebrate a birthday. Like I'm not gonna go. I'm gonna be too tempted to drink. I'm gonna stay up late. I'm not gonna be able to get a workout done. Like you know I just you got to learn to say no to certain things and those lessons can carry on in so many different aspects of your life. There's always going to be things that you should say no to that you're telling yourself and you know you should say no to and maybe right now you're not.

And this program will force you and teaches you to say no even in those hard instances. But what's so rewarding is that you're saying no and then you're going and you're eating healthy or you're going to bed early or you're getting those workouts done and once again you're just you're accomplishing a goal that you set for yourself. And to me, that feels so much better, like accomplishing those goals and just sticking to your promises than going out with your friends or going to that birthday party and having that slice of cake.

It's so much more rewarding to have control over yourself and your own life, rather than kind of coasting behind just doing what everybody else does. With that being said too, I learned by doing 75 hard that I needed to meal prep because food was one of the hardest things for me just because I do enjoy like sweets and I crave sweets a lot but also because it's so easy to forget especially if you're at work like when I started it I was working in a restaurant and then I transferred over to the bar but it would have just been so easy to order oh my god like the pasta dish that dessert dish like you really want it and also you're seeing it as like a waitress like you're seeing it go out every like that specialty pasta dish you know you're seeing it go out because everyone's ordering it because it's a special it looks so good and you want it and you're hungry and you're working and everyone else is eating it and trying bites of it but you can't and it would just be so much easier to just order order that meal but then you really have to think to yourself like nope I'm gonna commit to this and that's when I learned that I needed to meal prep and even though I like meal prepping I kind of enjoyed doing it like in bulk but you know eating the same thing every day can get kind of boring. I basically would make a stir-fry like a chicken stir-fry and then I would have different sauces I would mix in so I wouldn't like if I made a chicken stir-fry I left it plain obviously like seasoned but then I would leave it plain so I could one day if I wanted like soy sauce I could add in soy sauce or I can't remember some of the other like sauces that I use because you have to be careful because a lot of the sauce is full of sugar but yeah I would use like different sauces or some days I might just want something kind of plain and that kind of allowed me to change up what I was eating in a sense even though I wasn't changing what I was eating it felt like I was changing my diet and my food every day. You just gotta kind of find ways to make it like fun for yourself but I also found that I really enjoyed being in a routine so I ended up just kind of naturally eating the same thing especially for like breakfast and lunch every day and I wouldn't get too bored of it. It was really dinner that I needed to like change things up especially being at work and really when I was working at the restaurant because it's really really tempting seeing some of those meals go out and you're dying for that pasta but girly girl or all the guys that might be listening like don't have it you got this don't do it you're gonna feel so much better if you don't do yourself. So Speaking of food when I finished 75 hard I made myself. It was like the next morning. I made the Kodiak like Pancakes with the chocolate chips in them. I never had them before and I didn't realize that they like really turned chocolatey but I think I had two and I like lightly dip them in some maple syrup and I Thought I was going to throw up, but then like not even 10 minutes after eating them I actually almost ran to the bathroom because I thought I was gonna be sick because my body was so not used to after 75 days eating something so sugary and what's crazy is that when you think about that it's not even that much sugar compared to like maybe like certain cereals or other things that we eat throughout the day. Two pancakes with a few chocolate chips in them like a chocolate chip mix and a little bit of syrup because I'm not an overboard syrup girl. I thought I was gonna throw up. So that just goes to show like after you've done this program, like your diet has drastically changed and your body has grown accustomed to that healthy change. It was honestly really crazy and that reminds me that during this time was Easter so I actually had to go through Easter without eating any candy, any junk food. Oh my god I remember that was so hard and my mom was so sweet and she saved a piece of chocolate cream pie Which is my absolute favorite she saved a piece and froze it for me, and we forgot about it for months It was like months after I finished 75 hard We were like going through the freezer, and I was like oh my god. What is this and she was like?

Oh, it's the chocolate cream pie And so it was like months and months after that I actually did unfreeze this pie I had some and it was still pretty good, which is I don't know if that's disgusting or what but But yeah, I went through Easter and I made it through on eating egg omelette and some ham and no sugar. I didn't have any peeps, which are just obviously so good. So yeah, that was definitely hard.

But it also felt really good, like not shoving my face full of shit. And I didn't feel tired. I didn't have any like sugar crash.

So once again, positives and negatives. Your body, you're just gonna feel so much better. your body's gonna feel better, your mind's gonna feel more clear when you're not eating all that shit that we eat every day.

I mean, Easter, obviously we don't eat shit every day like that, but yeah. Seriously, Antepriscilla changed my life. 75 Hard changed my life.

Anytime if I'm not on the program, I'm starting to feel out of control or just, I won't even say out of control because especially with sobriety, there are very few instances where I feel extremely out of control. But if I just start to feel uneasy about what's going on or the habits that I'm getting into, whether it's like eating more junk food, like snacking more, like I just start the program over. And that's something that's really important about 75 Heart as well is that, you know, Annie talks a lot about how we kind of just believe that that person who makes all that money and is so fit, well, they're just bored that way.

can't be me. Like they have something special about them. They were set up by their parents or, you know, whatever. They just have so much more time than I do. When in reality, we all have 24 hours in a day. We all have our jobs, we have our kids, we have our dogs or cats, whatever, like our family issues, we all have our baggage and our shit that we have to do every single day. But like, what are you going to do with your time? How are you going to optimize your time to become that best version of yourself that can withstand a storm no matter what that is or seriously just being able to go to a party, a birthday party, whatever and not be the one that shoves their face with cake or you're just in control.

You're like I don't need that and that's what this program teaches you and I can no longer tolerate when people are like victim culture, poor me, blah blah blah. Like it seriously pisses me off and it's because of Andy Priscilla and 75 Hard and just that I know that I can be in control of my life and that every decision I make is my decision and if you don't like it you can change it. And that sounds really simple but you know it's hard to execute sometimes. And yeah, Andy Frusella really, really instilled in me that I am where I am because of the circumstance that I'm putting myself in or how I'm taking care of myself or lack thereof.

Things don't just happen to you. So he and his podcast continue to teach me that and remind me of that. So anyway, I think that's all I wanted to say on 75 Hard and I hope that you guys are having a really good second week of your New Year's and that you're killing your goals.

Oh yeah, that was what I wanted to say is you know a lot of people decide to like work out for New Year's whatever and not whatever that's really good obviously I'm proud of you and I'm happy that you're making a healthy choice for yourself. Something that I decided to do for New Year's was I got, I won actually my friend Louie uses these like journaling cards and this company in Texas called Forwards Movement was giving like a giveaway away and I entered it and I won and I hardly won anything so I was like all excited and I got them in the mail two weeks ago yeah I think it was two weeks ago now when I was like down bad with that sickness and my goal has been to every day while my daughter is sleeping or just like just once a day whenever I have that time I take out a card and I answer the drilling prompt and I didn't set any goal for myself of like it has to be a page long or anything. Like I think the first question was like if you knew you're gonna like die soon like what would you want to do and could you do it tomorrow? The second card was like what was your favorite game to play as a kid?

So I'm really curious to see the cards are in a specific order so I'm really curious to see like how the questions are gonna progress because the third card was also about your childhood so I'm really excited to kind of see what comes out because even on the second card of like what was your favorite thing to play as a child, like it's not a thought I think about often but it like came to my mind and I was like wow I like loved playing at the end of the driveway with like my sister and our cousins.

Like that was so much fun. We would like make up all these games and I kind of like had forgotten about that memory. So I'm really excited to see where these cards lead and like what thoughts come out because you know people always say like if you want to know what you're thinking, write it down.

writing because your thoughts will come out and you'll be like, holy shit, where did that thought come from? But it's stuck in your brain. And the second thing that I have been doing for New Year's is I downloaded the Holo app because I have been wanting to grow in my faith and I have this awesome Bible study and it's specific for women, but it takes me so long.

I am the type of person, if I am reading, I really want to read a chapter and finish the chapter. When I'm doing this Bible study, I just want to like sit down and I want to do the whole thing, but it always takes me like 45 minutes to an hour. Like these Bible studies are long and you know you have to like find the scripture and then you reflect on it and it's just really time-consuming. And there are days where my daughter only naps for an hour, so I'm like, man, like it it's one of those kind of like, I really want to do this for myself but I also like need to get laundry done, I want to pick up our rooms." Like, you know, it's one of those things that you just kind of... I've tossed aside for so long now and I downloaded the Holo app and I am doing the Bible in a Year study right now and it's great because they're usually like 20 minutes long and I just hit play and I don't have to... I like to do it while I'm driving. I usually listen to podcasts while I drive. So I've got this Bible in a Year app. I've been listening to it.

It's great. So yeah, those are two little things that I'm doing for New Year's quote unquote resolutions. I'm just going to call it habits.

And I'm excited about them. I set up my little wall with my podcast picture and all of your guys' messages and little reviews. Seriously, like every time I get a review from you guys or just like a thoughtful message, It means so much to me.

I'm so happy that you guys are liking this so far. And I hope that you continue listening. I hope the content is like relative to you.

And don't forget to hit follow on Spotify. And if you're feeling generous and you wanna leave me like a five or four star review, I mean, I'm not gonna complain. Seriously though, I seriously, seriously, wow, Lauren, Can you think of any other different word to say?

I love you guys so much. I am so proud of you for how you're doing with your New Year's resolution so far. And I cannot wait to talk to you next week.

And thank you for tuning in to Milk Season this week.