Podcast Transcription: Unstoppable in 2025: Your Ultimate Blueprint to Master Weight Loss, Build a 40+ Body That Thrives, and Crush Your Health Goals in Record Time

Ted Ryce: As the year comes to an end, it's natural to start reflecting. Maybe you're thinking about the goals you set in January, the ones you crushed, the ones you let slip, or maybe the ones you never even started. And if you're like most people, you'll notice a pattern, especially with your health and fitness. 

Common myth mistakes are you start strong, but burn out before you get the results you want, or you make progress, but then lose momentum and you slip backwards. And you know, your health should be a priority, but it's so hard to stay consistent when work, family, and everything else demand your attention. 

Does that sound familiar? Well, you're obviously not alone because losing weight, getting healthier. They're always top of the list for the resolutions that people set for themselves. And it's so funny because people set the same resolutions every year and they never really accomplished them. Or again, if they do accomplish some sum of what they set out to do, they end up slipping back. 

And I want to, before I go on, I want to say something that's not a bad thing. I love the, I don't want to call it aggressiveness, but like the, the hope, the, the assertiveness, the, the, this time of year, people are like, you know what? I'm going to go for it again. I love that. And I think it's great. However, I don't want you to fall into the same patterns. 

And that's exactly why I've created. this series for you. And if you're not familiar with this show, you're in for a treat because I'm not about setting unsustainable resolutions or chasing quick fixes. I am all about breaking through the patterns that have kept you stuck so that you can close out 2024 with clarity, momentum and a real plan for 2025. 

So I want to talk about what to expect in this series. Okay. The first thing is I want you to break free from the mindset traps and excuses that hold you back. Even if you are a high performing professional, that's exactly who I work with. I work with people running businesses. I work with people who are high powered executives and professionals like doctors, attorneys, CPAs, auditors. 

Coaches, consultants. So I want to also teach the strategies that work for busy professionals like you, because it's very different if you have a lot of time on your hands versus if you're running a business or you're an executive or, you know, you're running a law firm or you have a CPA firm, it's just, or accounting firm, it, you, you're going to need different strategies because the problem is you start making money. 

You go on vacations, you go out to dinner, wine starts tasting better and you start getting into, you know, things like wine and classes or whatever the, uh, choice of spirit you might like personally, it's red wine for me. And then the last thing is, I want to create a step by step plan to help you finally transform your health. 

But why does this matter? Because I believe your health is the foundation for everything. You may say, no, my, my family, or maybe God is the foundation for everything or your family. But the reality is you're not going to church. If you, if you can't walk, you're not going to church. If you're in bed recovering from a heart attack. 

You're not going to be there for your family either. So health is the foundation for everything. It is everything that you want to do in your life. Health is the foundation that makes it happen. It's what allows you to have the energy. It's what allows you to have the literal mobility to go and do things. 

And one of my goals is to create a connection. When one of my goals, not just with this series, but in coaching clients is to create a connection. So you start to feel that. So you start to tie these things together because people tell me it, I don't like lifting weights. It's like, well, I don't like lifting weights either, but you know what I do? 

Like, I liked, let me see if I can think as I, well, I liked being in Lisbon for a couple of months and walking around and seeing all the sites that Europe is an incredible place. To go sightseeing and I like the ability to walk for hours and not have my feet hurt or not get tired or not feeling wiped out the next day or not getting injured because I went from 0 steps per day or more like 5, 000 to, um, you know, 20, 000 and I and I was okay with it. 

So we're going to be jumping into the mind, uh, the topics of mindset. For example, if you're waiting for the perfect time, or you constantly quit, when things get too busy, you have a mindset issue. We're going to talk about exercise. We're going to have to talk about how to make fitness a habit, even with a busy schedule. 

We're going to be diving into nutrition. So we're going to be talking about simple, effective strategies for fat loss and eating better. We'll be going over sleep and stress so that you can learn recovery tools to optimize your energy and focus. We'll be discussing health optimization. So advanced tools and testing to uncover hidden risks and maximize results. 

Lastly, we'll be putting it all together in a practical blueprint for action and momentum. So I want to ask you, what's stopping you from finally making this your breakthrough year in 2025? What's stopping you or more specifically, what stopped you this year? And what is going to be different in 2025? And if you need a little bit more prompting, I want to ask you to reflect. 

What worked for you in the past? And I don't mean, oh, I really lost a lot of weight with keto. If I could only go back to doing that, that's not what I'm talking about. Because if it really worked for you in the past, you'd still be doing keto. I'm talking about what were the practices that really made you feel and look your best. 

And I also want you to reflect on what didn't work. For example, if you did keto and lose weight, why didn't you keep it up? Oh, lack of discipline. No, I want you to really ask because I was never keto by the way, but I was low carb for over 10 years. For example, I stopped doing it because I learned the science. 

And then I realized that, that there is no reason to do low carb. The reason before that though, was that I felt tired all the time. I looked, I was lean, but I wasn't performing well. And more importantly, I really like eating carbohydrates. Carbohydrates. I feel better when I eat them. I don't have an issue with my blood work. 

So that's an example. And I also want you to think about the opportunity to take real action here. And if you're good on your own, fantastic. But if you're a person and you've been listening to this show, or maybe you just stumbled on this show recently, but you like my approach, how I talk about fitness, health, and fitness. 

I want you to book a call so that you can learn more about my transformation programs can do that by going to legendary life program. com slash apply, but we'll be talking about that more. And so I want you to think this is your chance to make 2025 the year you finally take control of your health without falling into the same patterns as before. 

And no more waiting for the perfect time and no more quitting. Don't quit. It's the number one thing. You will figure this out. If you just learn to push through the pain and don't quit, because here's the thing you didn't quit anyway. You just took a long break. And I want to, I want to finish off by saying one more thing here. 

One of my clients. Sargon shout out to you. If you're listening, told me when I asked him, what has been the most profound effect working together has had for you in my transformation program, he said, Ted, when I first started working with you, I thought that you were always perfect with your exercise, with your nutrition, I can barely keep a straight face as well and say that. 

He's like, I thought you were perfect with your, your exercise and your nutrition. And now I realize that it's not about the perfection. You make mistakes, you eat things that you shouldn't eat. You eat, you overeat sometimes, but really what it's about is you get back on track fast. You don't spend time beating yourself up. 

You don't spend time, um, you know, making excuses about how it's not the right time. You just get back on track and now I do that too. And that's what I really want to create for you. So I hope you're excited for this. I just wanted to do a brief intro here and without further ado, let's step in to the new year, new you series for 2025.  

One of the most common excuses that I hear from high performing entrepreneurs, high performing executives, high, high level professionals, like doctors, attorneys, when I get them on a call and they can afford my program. They want to join my program. They feel like I'm the person to help them, but then they take, let's say a day to think about it. 

And then they come up with this. It's not the right time. And today I want to talk to you about why there is no such thing as the right time. Actually, there is. Probably 10 years ago was the right time, maybe even 20 years ago, if you've been really putting your health on the back burner. So in today's episode, today's first session of the new year, new year, new you for 2025, we're going to be talking about mindset. 

Because mindset is the foundation for lasting change. So the first thing I want to talk about here is what we started with the myth of the perfect time. Alex Hermosi said this perfectly. He said the, he had the perfect perception of this idea, this excuse, really. What he said was this. He said, if you're waiting for the perfect time to get in shape, you're telling yourself that when it's not the perfect time, you can't get in shape. 

So in other words, and I'm paraphrasing here, forgive me, Alex, although I'm probably doesn't listen to my show is in quite good shape. However, what he was basically saying is that Oh, there's periods of the year that are the right time. And then I take, uh, then I do things during the right time, but there's also periods of the year that are the wrong time. 

And so during those periods, I won't start anything. And if I have started something, I'm probably going to give up because it's not the right time to focus on this. So before I tell you why it's complete bullshit, I also want to get you clear on something. Some of us have good genetics when it comes to longevity and disease or susceptibility to disease, but there's going to be differing levels to that. 

And most of us are probably not that genetically blessed. I know I'm not, which means they're the right time in terms of like your biggest ROI on your health. It, that boat has sailed. For example, when we start losing somewhere in the neighborhood of three to 8 percent of our muscle mass every decade after we hit 30. 

So let's say you didn't do much in your thirties and now you're 40, you've lost three to 8 percent of your muscle. Then let's say you're 50 and you know what forties were quite busy with work and family and, you know, taking the kids to soccer practice and the ballet, wherever else you were taking them, health got put on the back burner. 

It's not that you didn't work out at all. It just wasn't consistent. Guess what? You lost another three to 8 percent of your muscle mass. Even if your weight hasn't changed at all, you've put on more fat because you've been losing muscle. So many people this happens to and they don't understand like my weight hasn't changed, but my body, my weight hasn't changed much, maybe 5 or 10 pounds, but my body looks so different. 

That's because your muscle disappeared and you have way more body fat than you think. So if we're talking about the best benefits. That's already, that ship has already sailed, especially like in terms of building VO two max, the best time to build VO two max was when you were like a teenager. Okay. In your twenties, in your teens, in your twenties, and even if you, with muscle mass, you can change your habits and start building it back and get your muscle back. 

Maybe even put on more muscle than you ever have, especially if you weren't that active earlier in life. But VO2max, even if you were an Olympic champion, meaning you won the gold medal for cross country skiing, and let's say you never took a year off, you never took, uh, breaks, you're losing VO2max. Anyway, even though you're super consistent. 

So there's things that happen that just, it's not about, it's like the ship has sailed. Another thing is heart disease. Do you have that in your family? Well, guess what researchers think about heart disease now is like time of exposure, meaning heart disease starts when we're a lot younger and it rears its head as we get older. 

So again, it comes back to this thing. You know, you're costing yourself. You've already cost yourself. If you've been in a place of inaction with your health. Now, of course, the good news is you can change things dramatically, but you need to start. And that's why there is no right moment. There's three big areas in life, three non negotiable areas. 

There's relationships. Try putting your marriage on the side. See that you see how that works. Try not paying attention to your kids. What happens is, You end up getting slapped with a divorce and a big settlement worked with a lot of clients who've been through that, or your kids end up in jail, right? So you have to pay attention to relationships. 

You have to pay attention to your, to how you generate wealth. Or generate income, right? We live in a society where we have to pay for stuff unless you're going to move to some remote island somewhere or, uh, you're going to move to the woods and just get out of society. You need to figure out how am I going to make money? 

How am I going to manage my money? How am I going to spend my money? Got to figure that out. If you don't, you're going to, you're in trouble. And of course, lastly, there's health. It's a non negotiable. Your health will ultimately be the number one thing you end up focusing on. It will always be the most important thing. 

And if you disagree with me, ask, If you had sick parents like I did, ask them what was, what do they regret most or ask them about their thoughts on health now that they're past the point where they could do much about it and ask them how it relates to the other important areas of life because once we lose our health, we're dependent on other people. 

We need to go to the doctors. We've got to take medications that have side effects. Then we take other medications to deal with the side effects of the medications we started taking because we had problems. Created by our lifestyle. You're going to have to go through tests and exams. You may have to do all types of things. 

You may have to end up in an assisted living facility. And, um, that's all preventable, or at least it's preventable. At the age where it happens to most people. So I want you to understand there is no right time. This is about your health. This is one of the most, one of the three key areas in life that you must pay attention to. 

And again, you can not pay attention to it until you come down with a chronic disease. And now you have to pay attention to it. Oh, did I take my diabetes medication? Cause I'm a type two diabetic now. Oh, let me check what my glucose is. And then you might really have to go on a low carb diet. Okay. Not making jokes about if you deal with diabetes, I think health is super serious. 

But what I'm laughing about is like, listen, time to change that because you can reverse type two diabetes. Type one diabetes is a totally different thing. Type two diabetes we develop and you can reverse it. So forget about the perfect time. The perfect time is now. So the next thing I want to talk about is motivation. 

Well, I'm just not motivated. No kidding. I'm not motivated to do a lot of things. I'm not motivated to take out the garbage. I'm not motivated to take a shower and brush my teeth every day. I mean, sometimes I am, sometimes I'm not. I'm not motivated to do my laundry, but you know, we do those things. I'm not motivated to brush my teeth, but I do them anyway. 

Don't be thinking, Oh, Ted doesn't brush his teeth. No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying I do it anyway, regardless. Of whether I'm motivated to do it or not. And the point I'm trying to make here is you, you do a lot of things because their habits, regardless of if you're motivated to do them or not. 

And sometimes they're not even necessarily habits, but you have a story. About why you brush your teeth and take a shower and take out the garbage and clean the house, whatever it is for you. So this isn't about motivation. This is about making a commitment, understanding its importance to what you want to do in life and sticking with it. 

And I also want to talk about this, a huge thing that happens. With clients is that they, again, they get too busy or they lose motivation. It's like, well, guess what? You can get your motivation back. You don't just sit there twiddling your thumbs and go, let's move motivation. I guess I'll just stop now. No, you start asking yourself, how do I get the motivation back? 

I want to say two things about motivation. One is that people get mad at me sometimes, but I'm always talking To the type of client who I work with. So I'm talking right now, if you're running a business, if you're a high performing professional, if you're an executive, I'm talking to you. Now, let's say that you're, I don't know, a single dad and you're working two jobs and taking care of the kids and you're driving your kids everywhere and, or you're a single mom. 

And most of our clients are men these days, although I do have a couple of women, but it's really mostly men. So, okay. I got it. And you're not making that much money and you're stressed and you're overworked. I get it. I'm not talking to you though. Your problem is different. Your problem probably has to do with how do you, how do you ask for help and make more money? 

That's not what this podcast is about. This is a podcast for people who figured that part of their life out. And why I'm bringing that up is because I want you to understand sometimes people aren't motivated because they're crushed by life, but the type of clients I work with, they're not crushed by life. 

I mean, they might have gone or will, or are going through a crushing divorce or maybe a crushing business change, but, or some, they lost a crushing deal or whatever it is, but they're not being crushed by life, not financially speaking, So motivation is going to come and go. Motivation is going to feel less during certain times of the year. 

And it's going to feel, you're going to have more motivation. Like right now we're talking about this. You're probably all fired up because it's the end of the year. In other words, it's a temporal landmark at a new client sign up with me into my Mastermind, my transformation mastermind. So that's like the group of people he just turned 40. 

He's super fired up. So he just turned 40 it's the end of the year. He's super fired up. He's already cutting good results. And I love situations like that because it's like, wow, I really didn't have to do much work. I just needed to teach these guys, teach this guy, um, better strategies than what he did before, and then also coach him through. 

You know how to implement them and, and the sticking points, but he's going to be an incredible transformation story for us. But if, and maybe I'll ask him this just to get clear, it's like, well, what was the, what was the, the, you know, what was the big point for you? What was, what made you so fired up? And it was two things. 

He turned 40 and it was the end of the year. And of course he wasn't where he wanted to be. You felt like. He didn't want to be in his forties complaining about his weight with a belly, not wanting to tuck in his shirt because it would clearly outline the growing bulge in his midsection. So motivation is going to come and go and you can get it back. 

Why do you think I put on a retreat in Miami? Which was kind of funny because the most motivated clients showed up, but I had some clients who weren't as motivated and it took them to the next level. The clients who showed up to that retreat in person, they're on fire. So motivation comes and goes. 

Motivation will be there for you in those temporal landmarks, but it's not what you want to rely on. You want to learn how to create motivation. And one of the ways to do that, oh, I should say this. One thing that motivates her clients is they keep losing weight. They keep losing weight and it's not the most terrible program they've ever been on. 

In fact, it's the easiest program. It's not easy, but it's the easiest program they've been on. And one of the reasons why that is is because I start small and then I build up because motivation increases with results. I don't give my clients a ton of stuff. And they're like, man, I'm getting results, but, uh, Like the 75 hard two workouts a day, two 45 minute workouts every day. 

Imagine doing that. I don't do that. I'm in great shape. I don't do that. Not that I wouldn't, but you know, I wouldn't do that now. It's okay. If you've done the 75 hard or you like, whatever his name is, I forget his name already. Andy for Scylla. And, uh, even though he's not, he's not as lean as you would think from, uh, following that program, but story for another time, that is not what that that's not how we approach it. 

I give my clients something that they're almost like, well, I can definitely do this. It almost feels like too easy. And I'm like, good, come back. When you get some results and we'll bump up your workouts. I start my clients around four 30 minute workouts per week. And if they want to work out at home, they're working out at home. 

So I guess what I'm saying is make it easy for you to get started and build from there because what a lot of people do is they bite off more than they can chew because it feels, feels great. To make that big commitment, but if you end up not doing it, then you've screwed yourself. You've done it wrong. 

You've done it wrong. You did it wrong. You did it the wrong way. Because if you can't be consistent, consistency is the key to anything, right? You want to make money. You better show up and build your business five days a week or whatever it is. Or if you're an employee or, you know, you don't take time off from your relationship either. 

Well, maybe you do, but the point being, you have to be there consistently enough. You have to show up consistently enough and a great. Let's say test or litmus test. I use, it's like, I call it the 10 year test. If you're doing something right now, like let's say you're doing the whole 30 or you're doing paleo or keto, ask yourself, can you see yourself doing this 10 years from now? 

Can you see yourself doing it 10 years from now? It doesn't mean that you need to give up completely if the answer is no. But you better have an exit strata or not an exit strategy, but yet a transition plan where you're going to switch to something else because you will give it up because eventually the results will stop coming. 

People don't talk about that enough. Oh, I need to lose 30 pounds. Yay. I lost 30 pounds. Okay. How'd you maintain it? Well, I gained it all back. Why was that the case? Well, I mean, it was just really hard to keep up with keto. So what I want you to know is sustainability beats intensity for long term success. 

Another way of saying that consistency beats intensity for long term success. One of my favorite clients, favorite transformation stories, Dan Gray, when I asked him what was the most important thing after working with me for a year, losing, I think, 40 over 40 pounds, completely transforming his body, getting leaner than he ever has in his entire life in his early fifties. 

And he said, you know what? It was just that consistency. I just needed to show up even on the days where I couldn't do full workouts or couldn't track everything, or couldn't, you know, eat perfectly. Couldn't follow the plan perfectly. And you know what? We started Dan with 20 minute for 20 minute workouts, consistency beats intensity for long term success, because it's not how hard you go. 

It's like, well, how many times can you show up during the year? So let's talk a little bit about what cognitive behavioral or cognitive science calls cognitive distortions. What's an example? All or nothing thinking if I can't do it perfectly, why bother? This is so common. If you consider yourself a perfectionist, so common in even common with the clients. 

Oh, well I couldn't do the whole workout. So I skipped it. I'm like, you didn't do anything. Well, no, I couldn't do it perfectly. Why bother like next time, don't do that next time do one set of everything because the all or nothing thinking it's self sabotage mean, gosh, imagine you applying that to work or like, well, I couldn't be the perfect parent that day. 

So I decided to just ignore my family completely. In fact, I didn't show up at home. Oh, you show up and do your best, right? Well, this is no different. It was so funny is. You already have the mindset and the skills. You just have it in other areas and you haven't connected the dots yet. It's not entirely your fault. 

Some of it's your fault, or I should say more accurately, it's your responsibility, whether it's your fault or not, but it's also the narrative in the health and fitness industry. Uh, there's also, so that's all or nothing thinking, Oh yeah, I couldn't stick with my diet. I ended up kind of screwing up for breakfast. 

So I just say whatever I wanted today. I said, screw it. Another thing is catastrophizing. Oh gosh, I missed a workout. Now my progress is ruined. Oh gosh, I ate this meal that I wasn't planning on. It wasn't part of the plan. Blowing something up. It's not a big deal. Just get back on track. You know, you have to learn how to reframe those, those distortions. 

One missed day isn't a failure. It's a chance to learn and adjust. That's what it is. It's a chance. It's a learning opportunity. Like why did you miss the day? What got in the way? What can you do differently thinking about it? What should you have done differently if there was anything at all? And sometimes there is nothing differently to do. 

I was on a flight all day, whatever it is. And again, I want to talk a little bit about temporal landmarks again. So Temporal landmarks are these points in time that boost our motivation. There's even research on this. And so what I want to tell you is instead of using moments like new year's birthdays and other miles milestones as, as a, uh, motivation to do the same ineffective strategies that you've tried in the past, didn't keep up. 

Turn these moments into starting points for sustainable habits. Start shifting your perspective and ask yourself, what can I be consistent with? What is going to be sustainable for me over a 10 year period? That's what I want you to think about. This is what we mean when we're talking about mindset. Do you have a growth mindset where it's not about failure? 

It's not about success. It's, Or in other words, it's not about, it's not a personal thing. If you didn't achieve success, it's not a personal failure. It doesn't mean that you're a bad person or not worthy or too dumb or whatever the story is. That's not it. It's just, you need more skills. I mean, imagine if your children, most of my clients have children, you probably have children. 

I don't, but want one, at least one. Story for another time, but imagine if your, your children or you, in case you don't have children, what if your children fell off the bike while you're trying to teach them to ride? And they said, you know, riding a bike's just not for me. You wouldn't accept that. And if you don't have children, what if your parents let you get away with that? 

But they didn't, did they? I said, get back on the bike and try again, get back on the bike and try again. Everyone learns how to ride a bike. Pretty much. So it's the same thing here. So same thing here. So what I want to leave you with is this. I want you to answer this question. What what's one mindset shift you can make today? 

Is it to get rid of the all or nothing thinking? Is it to stop catastrophizing? Is it to stop procrastinating, waiting for that perfect time? And if you are waiting for January 1st to roll around, And to save you, right? Or for you to get started. I don't want you to do that. I want you to start now small. 

And then when you have more space, more room, more time, more energy, more motivation, whatever it is, Then you ramp it up, but start taking action now and hold yourself to it. Even if you end up skipping a day, fine, get back onto it. So what can you do? Because mindset patterns, they've held you back and breaking free is the key to lasting change. 

That is it for today. Hope you got a lot out of this and I will talk to you on the next episode where we're going to talk about exercise.