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Hi, I'm Corinne. After a lifetime of obesity being bullied for being the fattest kid in the class and losing and gaining weight like it was my job, I finally got my shit together and I lost 100 pounds each week. I'll teach you no bullshit weight loss advice you can use to overcome your battle with weight. I keep it simple. You'll learn how to quit eating and thinking like an asshole. You stop that and weight loss becomes easy. My goal is to help you lose weight the way you want to live your life. If you are ready to figure out weight loss, then let's go. We're going to be talking about how to make planning easy. The way I like to think about my daily plan, I was making it this morning, I was thinking about how can I set myself up today, future me for success. 

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One thing that I've really been considering and thinking about lately is when I'm making my plan, just how much is going on for me in that day and how is the best way for me to set myself up for the different versions of Corrine all day. So morning, Corrine is probably the most calm, the most centered. She's got the most investment in her future self, let's put it that way. I just want you to think about when you first wake up, and I know not all of us have leisurely mornings. I mean if you've got small kids and things like that. But I do encourage you to carve out just five to 10 minutes a day. And seriously, if you can't find five to 10 minutes a day to just think through your day, think through things. We really need to take a look at what all's going on in your life. 

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Let's make sure that there's not a five to 10 minute window for you. Very often, a lot of us who are caught up in what we call, I call it religious busy, where it's just become your religion. You actually feel selfish, lazy, something's wrong if you're not. Just all the time. We get kind of addicted to our modes. And if you think about how the brain works, it's like if you're always frazzled and whatever, then your brain is like, that should be the habit. I should always feel this way. And if I'm not feeling frazzled, worried, pressured and stuff, something must be wrong. Instead of what most of us do is we say like, oh, I just wish I didn't feel this way. And yet in the moments when you're like, you know what? I'm going to find 10 minutes for myself today where I'm going to do something. 

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Then in that 10 minutes, all we're doing is sitting there thinking, I should be doing that. I should be doing this. You lazy bitch, you could get this done. We don't have time for this. The world's going to fall apart if you take 10 minutes for yourself. That kind of stuff. So what I like to think about is first it literally for me, for my coach right now, I have a spreadsheet. It's got two whole columns. One column is the time of day, and the other column is, what am I doing? And I am taking this little laptop everywhere with me around the house, and then I know I'm going to be on call. So I went ahead and plugged in. During this time, I'll be on this call. During this time, I'll be on this call. She wanted me to just track my entire day from the moment I wake up until the moment I go to bed, so we can really see where am I spending my time, who am I spending it on? 

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Is this the time I want to be spending? So we're doing a whole seven day window of this, and it's been really eyeopening. I've only been doing it. Let's see, today's Wednesday. I started tracking. I started tracking Monday at two 15. So I'm not a perfectionist. When she said, let's track for a week, I was like, okay, I'm not starting tomorrow. I'm starting right now. The second the call got off, I created a spreadsheet of two columns. So there was not a lot of creation. So I think us figuring out how we spend our time and all that kind of stuff's important. But when it comes to planning, I looked at it this morning and I got up and was drinking coffee by five o'clock and I started planning my day. By five 30, I was onto my first work task, and I will just tell you, I had the 30 minutes. 

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I don't always take 30 minutes. Some days it's five to 10 minutes. This morning I wasn't just planning my food, I was planning my workday. I was organizing my calendar to make sure that I was going to be in the right places. I made sure that if I had a meeting that my Zoom links were ready so that when I really was planning my day, making my entire day easy for me so I could just go from thing to thing. For all of you, my version of me first thing in the morning, her mindset about Corinne the rest of the day is probably the best. She is the one who's the most for me personally. In the mornings, I'm too tired and not woke up enough yet to have too much anxiety, to have too much worry, to have too much, too much going on in my brain. 

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It's like I'm dusting out the cobwebs. That is one of the things that I like to do when I plan first thing in the morning. It's just because if I just think about my day, I'm just like, fuck me. There's so much to do. I'll never get it done. And then I start going into the, I just can't wait for this day to be over. And this dawned on me a while ago. This was a year or two ago. I was like, I do not want to spend my entire life saying I can't wait for this day to be over. What a sad way to die. There will be a day when I will wish I had one more day. And so that was such a big aha for me because someone who's the queen of their life doesn't sit around and wish every day was already over. 

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That's called taking it in the butt of your life, being at the effect of your life. So more Than Me is usually the version of me that can really think through all of my needs and all the different versions of me. Then she sets us up. So she takes the food plan and she thinks about commitments, how tired we're going to be. She looks at her aura ring. She does all the things. Like this morning, my aura ring is jacked. I did not sleep well last night. I have not slept well. It's been a long time since I've had a bad night's sleep. I only got five hours. I normally get over eight to nine. I was wired for sound last night. I was watching Chopped. I was scrolling a Facebook group. I I could not unwind last night. And Chris, of course fell asleep at seven 30. 

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So I know that morning me has to set the very tired version of Corrine up today for success. So guess what went on My plan today, Uber Eats. I know that the version of me this afternoon, I have too much experience with Corinne when she is really tired. Wednesdays are my big call day. I do not have a break until three o'clock today. So it's like if I'm lucky, I end a call with two minutes in between so I can pee pee because I'm all about women deserve to take a piss. So for all of you, I have to think about, alright, I have a really, really busy day. I'm going to want Uber Eats tonight. I'm going to want the most convenient thing When everything's said and done, I'm going to want to collapse in my bed. I won't even want to walk into the kitchen to get a microwave dinner. 

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So I planned for Uber Eats and knowing that I went ahead and picked the restaurant and picked the food so that me in bed, who is just like, fuck me. I'm so tired. I didn't sleep good last night, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. What should we eat? That is the last version of Corinne that needs that kind of pressure and needs. There's so many versions of me. There's the Corinne who likes to maintain her weight. There's the Corinne who needs a really good day tomorrow. There's the Corinne who's really tired in the afternoons. There's all these versions of Corrine and we're all living together. And so somebody's got to be thinking about her, all of them. And so when I think about planning, I think about, alright, I don't want to put the most tired, wore out, likely to feel really bad version of me in a position to decide what we're going to eat. 

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She's the last fucking person who should be making that decision because you know what? She's only going to be concerned with her immediate needs. She does not give a shit about weight loss. She does not care what she looks like. She doesn't give a shit that she runs a weight loss company. She don't care about any of that stuff. Tired. Corinne only cares about comfort. How do we take care of us right now? Because right now feels like a fucking emergency. We are too tired. So you all have to think about that when you're planning. And I don't think You'all do that part. I think you only think about weight loss goals. I think that's great. I think we should. But the best way for us to lose weight is to set her up for success. What does she need tonight? She probably needs a really good plan. 

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She needs something that would be easy. She needs something that she can say, I'm so glad I took care of myself this morning. And so that in that moment, if I'm looking at what I want to order from Uber Eats, which if you're curious, we're going Greek. I like the big chicken salad with hummus. It's called, it's like grilled chicken and hummus salad, but it's got a big wad of hummus and I use the hummus as my dressing. I don't really like my favorite dressing in the world. If y'all really want to know is Thousand Island. I mean, I'm a thousand island girl. Chris and I, he loves ranch. I love Thousand Island, and we both like French. So a good French or no Catalina. We actually like Catalina, but we go through in a crazy amount of thousand island dressing and ranch dressing. So I want to make sure that I know that she will be fine with that salad because somebody else made it. 

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It's really tasty. It's got the hummus, it's got some pita bread in it. The only thing nighttime cor now has to do is focus on stopping at enough when it comes to losing weight. That's all she's got to do. Now I have made everything else on her. I fucking simple because I know evening me wants simplicity. So for all of you when you're planning, if you want to think about how do I best stay on plan, make plans that aren't just based only solely in weight loss, the best way to lose weight is to address your real needs. If you are addressing your real needs, guess what happens? You start feeling cared for. You start feeling comforted. You start feeling loved. You start feeling like somebody's fucking got my back. You start feeling supported by the one person in the world whose job it is, which is yours. 

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It ain't your husband, it ain't your wife, it's not your kids, it's not your mama, it's not your siblings. It ain't your bestie, it ain't your boss. No one's fucking job in this world is to take care of you. When you turn to 18, you got the keys to the castle handed to you. And when we all grow up and realize it is nice when other people support us, but it is imperative that we support ourselves first. I love this meme that goes around all the time, which is I like me, you liken me. It's just icing on the cake. It's like I approve of me. Your approval is just icing on the cake. It's not, oh my God, I don't like me, I don't feel good enough, blah, blah, blah. So I need you to set aside your worries, your problems, your needs and your desires. 

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And you should be taking care of me, especially when I need it the most. Because when I'm at my lowest, this is where most of us get in trouble with all the relationships in our life, whether that is bosses or whatever. When we feel our most insecure, we don't turn inward to fill it. We immediately look outward. And when we feel our worst guess what's usually happening? Other people are busy or they're having their own emotional crisis or they're having their own bad day. Or the biggest mistake we make is we look to people who fucking suck at it. They're like, I just don't understand. Chris is like that. Oh my gosh, my husband is the worst at taking care of my emotional needs. Now if I ask him, if I go to Chris and I say, I'm really tired today, blah, blah, blah, he'll be like, okay, well why don't you take a break? 

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That's about the most advice I'm going to get from Chris. He'll just give me the most boring ass bottom line. But fucking obvious thing. It's like, well, if taking a break was so easy, I would've just done that. That's usually what I say. That is not my husband's skillset. His skillset is not reading my moods. His skillset is not trying to figure out what I need emotionally. That's my job. I am not feeling so great because I didn't sleep good. And I go, he's making coffee. I hadn't seen him all day. And I just was like, whew. I said, I'm tired. I was like, I didn't sleep good last night. And he said, well, you probably should go to bed early tonight. And I was like, okay. And I said, I'm feeling kind of down. And he said, well, I hope your calls go good. 

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That's all I got out of him. There wasn't no light. I love you baby. You're so good at what you do. There was no cheerleading, there was none of that stuff. The only thing I could do was pull up my big girl panties and click play and no girl you can deliver no matter what. Let's just go. That's what I needed to hear. I needed support and I needed from me. So for all of you, your plan each day is the way you advocate for yourself with you. Your plan each day is how you take care of your needs. And I strongly believe this because if you think about all of us, all of us are here because we're emotional eaters. You're eating to be happy, you're eating to be comforted, you're eating to pass time, you're eating to just not waste money. You're eating to clean your plate. 

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You're eating because everybody else is. You're eating to fit in. You're eating because it's your transition time you're eating because you don't take care of yourself. We eat for a thousand reasons emotionally, and I think the plan is the best way to take care of our emotional needs. It makes us think about here's what we're going to eat today. And I've thought about every version of you. So my plan today started with, you need to eat breakfast early today. I know you're not hungry, but you've got to eat breakfast because we can't go till three o'clock. If you don't eat before your first call, you're going to be hating life at about 11 or 12. And then you're going to be so busy that you'll roll through it and then when three hits, you'll have a headache, you'll have a crash. You'll be wanting to eat everything in the house. 

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You'll be wanting to preet before the Uber eats arrives. I don't need a warmup meal, but I know that if I don't sit there and think through the day, that's what's going to happen. So I looked at the lunchtime and I was like, that had one meeting that I was like, alright, I could end this 10 minutes early. What could I eat in that 10 minutes? Because I know I'm going to need nutrition because I do not want to end a very stressful day. Back to back meetings, all the things starting at 5:00 AM I do not want to roll into my delicious Greek salad. Really, really hungry. That does not set Corin up. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to have a nutritious little lunch. So I'm going to have one of those white watcher dinners that I like. I like that Ling cuisine. 

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It's not a Weight watcher dinner. It's Ling Cuisine dinner, Vermont white cheddar for all of those who are curious. And I put cottage cheese in it. 50% of you're like, fuck yeah, I love me some cottage cheese. It's a new way to use it. I do it because I like protein and I love cottage cheese. I have love cottage cheese and salads of small chop. I have put it on my salad since I was a little half of you are just like chunky. No, that sounds disgusting gross. The nice thing about cottage cheese is it will beef up a meal real quick and it takes on the flavor everything. It absorbs. It's like cauliflower. It's like the, I don't know what it is with the white foods, but white foods could absorb the flavor of everything. Like white bread. It's like, yeah, white bread, you put enough shit on it that everything tastes like that. 

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But I feel the same way about the cottage cheese. It's a vehicle. So I took care of my meat today and I say all of that because a lot of you are struggling with, well, what happens if I don't follow my plan? What do I do in those moments? Because I will tell you corrine's not perfect with her plans either, but I have more days that are on plan because I'm thinking through what I need. I'm not just only planning strictly from a diet weight loss mindset because to me, none of you are here because you have a problem losing weight. No one's here because of that. You're all here because you've got to fix what's going on in your head around weight loss standing in your way. It's the attitude we have about it. It's the way that we're reasoning through things. It's the way that we're thinking through things. You clean up how you're thinking through all of it. Plant offs becomes a no brainer. 

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So that's why I want to talk about this is the attitude in which we go into planning. This is the way we take care of ourselves. This is the way we make sure that a quick five to 10 minutes a day, whether that's at the end of your day or the first thing in the morning whenever it is that you want to plan. I mean, if you want to plan from, let's say that the most amount of time you have every day is your lunch hour, well then make your plan from lunch to lunch the next day. That's still 24 fucking hours. You can plan like, all right, I'm going to plan now, dinner, breakfast, lunch for tomorrow. What we could do that, if your biggest break of the day is when you're fucking bored in the afternoons at work, instead of sitting there grabbing a snicker, then how about you grabbing that planner and say like, I'm going to start planning my next 24 hours every day at three o'clock instead of hitting that fucking vending machine. That's what I'm going to do. So now I make a plan for dinner, breakfast, lunch, all the way through that next snack the next day or whatever you're doing, your 24 hours can start in that pocket of time that is most beneficial to you. 

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So don't be sitting there some kind of clutch my pearls and think it's always got to be first thing in the morning or it's a no, or it's got to be in the evening or it's a no. It's when it works best for you. So now we have a good attitude about planning. It's how we care for ourselves. And lemme just say this one last thing about planning, because I think this is important too. If you struggle with what to put on the plan, ask yourself why do I struggle with what to put on the plan? And really ask yourself that demand that you give yourself 10 reasons, 10 reasons why planning food is hard for you. And then when you look at those 10 reasons, there'll be some that you're like, nah, that's all right. Now, that's just kind of some bullshit. But there'll be a few where you'll be like, well, no wonder. 

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Because a lot of times what I think ends up happening is you'll think, well, it's hard for me to plan because I just don't know what I'm going to want in the moment. It's like, okay, what's another reason? Well, if you kind of go deeper, it's like, well, I really just can't have the things that I want. Bingo. Now we know why planning's really hard for you. It's not because you won't know what you want in the moment. It's because deep underneath that is this fear that you're not allowed to put what you truly want on the plan. And that's where we need to do the work. Remember I said weight loss is the shit between your ears. It's not as much as what goes on in your mouth, it's what goes on in your ears. What's happening in the six inches between your ears has total control over what goes in the, I don't know, the circumference of thy mouth. 

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So if we can find those things and we can understand, oh my gosh, I'm still hanging on to this idea that the foods I want can't go onto the plan, even though Corinne keeps telling me over and over and over, that's not true. Maybe I should try it for three weeks and let's just see what happens. If I'm planning foods, I think I shouldn't be, lemme just see if that works. One of the things I tell people all the time is if your thought is I'm afraid that won't work, that probably won't work. I don't think that will work. You don't have the right to decide not to do it. At that point you have to say, then that's not a good reason. You know why? You don't fucking know you're taking pot shots. You're guessing from insecurity and you're like, well, I'm going to take a wild guess from insecurity and hope this works out for my life. You would not raise your children that way. So do not plan the rest of your life that way. 

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So we are going to talk about now what happens if you don't follow your plan? Because even if you go into it with a great attitude, even if you're just like, that's the way I would take care of myself, you do all the things, I follow plan every day. I don't, I mean, I would say two to three days a week, I don't, but that's not a problem. Until we investigate, we don't know. This is what I want to argue. This is something else I've been coaching on. I've coached two people on this week in the Facebook group. I quit planning because I don't follow it. It just makes me feel bad. And when I don't get my check mark, I feel like a failure. I'm sure this person's probably going to hear this. I'll be like, that was me and that's okay. Well, so glad she said this because it was so important for her to say, because I said, and then another person had very similar spin. 

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She was saying, I don't not feeling in control of my life and when I can't get my check marks, I feel out of control. And I was like, so you think you are out of control? This means something's wrong with you. And I was like, how are you ever going to take control of your life if you don't have information about where you're abdicating your control? Because when you're overeating and eating like a jackass, something else in your life is out of control and you won't be working on it and you won't know it because you're over here overeating over it. You'll never take control. Your overeats very often are the signal. It's the smoke signal going up. Something in life is off kilter. Would you like to look at it? It could be your interpretation. It could be actually something we need to solve, whatever it is. But your over eats are usually literally laying the path to a better life. They're like, Hey, just letting you know something's wrong here. 

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And we want to figure out what those things are. So I don't follow my plans every day, but I always look at my reasons why. And it's not until I understand why I'm not following my plans. Do I know is this a good reason to not follow a plan or is this like, this is not exactly the habit I want to be forming, so I want to catch this early. I want to investigate this. I want to figure out what's happening in my life to cause it. Because if I really want to lose weight, and I think all of you are here because the one thing that I know all of you want is to lose your weight, don't tell me. It's like, well, I'm going to follow my plan. I must not really want to do it. Well, I'm not using the basics. I must not really want to do it. 

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That has nothing to do with it. All of you really want to lose weight, so I don't ever kid yourself. That is not the problem. It is not a lack of desire for weight loss. What it usually means is that it's not that I don't want to lose weight. It's like right now I'm having a problem over here and that problem is making my weight loss hard. So I really need to address the problem so my weight loss can get back on track and easy. That's what we're really happening here. I want everyone in here to be like, you know what? That planning thing, not nearly as bad as I've been making it out to be. All right, y'all have a good week. Bye. Thank you so much for listening today. Make sure you head on over to no bs freecourse.com and sign up for my free weight loss training on what you need to know to start losing your weight right now. You'll also find lots of notes and resources from our past podcast help you lose your weight without all the bullshit diet advice. I'll see you next week.