Cold plunge stopped. So about 4 months after going to the going to the personal trainer, I was like starting to feel something. And what I was feeling was a love for my body and it was really interesting because I didn't really think that I didn't love my body before then. But I noticed that I did start to not love my body many years ago upon reflection. And so, I decided that one of the most important things for me to do was to love my body and so I started just focusing and thinking about that. End. The workouts didn't really matter. What I was eating didn't really matter.

What mattered is that I just decided that I needed to love my body and that's really kind of weird for a guy to say and it felt weird to say it. But what I realized is that by loving my body, I would start treating my body differently or at least that's what I thought. And so for 2 more months, I just focused on loving my body no matter what shape it was, no matter what size it was, no matter what was wrong with it. And I basically just tell myself in the mirror each day, I love my body. This body is great. And after a couple of months of doing that, my mindset and my desire to change started kicking in. And it was about this time that my brother-in-law and sister were losing a bunch of weight themselves and were looking a lot better and feeling better and having more energy, and so I decided to make some changes. Now this was 6 months of going to a personal trainer every week and what I finally got to was, I just need to love my body.

And that mindset is where everything else started. So tomorrow, I'll share what I did to lose my first 40 pounds