Beyond The Scale

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0:57 Did you know women represent just three percent of Fortune five hundred CEOs and less than fifteen percent of corporate executives at top companies worldwide? Have you wondered what the secrets are to getting into the top ranks, whether in the private or public sector. Do you want to figure out how to stop being held back in your career? Are passed over for promotion, then you're in the right place. Hi. I'm doctor Matlanane lewis. President and CEO of the Executive Women's Success Institute. I have decades of experience in the military, the federal government, and corporate America, and my mission is to help women succeed and tap into their full potential. I want to reach a million plus women around the world to become the leaders they are meant to be. So if you want to move into a management or executive level position, or maybe you are a female veteran transitioning out of the military into business entrepreneurship, then reach out to the Executive Women's Success Institute at three zero one six nine three three two eight four let us get you on the fast track to success. Well, hello, and welcome to the Success for Women's Show, where you can view us

2:30 on Talk for TV and listen to us on the Women for Women Network. I am doctor Madeline Ann lewis your host, and my mission is to help women accelerate the path to success. Well, today's topic is beyond the Scale, and my guess is none other than Keith Turner. Now, I know you're all familiar with him because he has been on here before. He's talked to us about how to workout and you know, just to get our bodies in shape. But today we're gonna talk to him about something different. But before it gets started, let me just give you a little bit of background on him. Keith Turner is the owner of Keith Turner Weight Loss and Aerobics, located in Clinton, Maryland. A highly experienced personal group fitness trainer, Keith specializes in body shaping, toning, and long term weight management across the DMV region. Recognized as one of the top trainers in the nation, he is known for helping men and women achieve sustainable results through personalized training programs that include aerobics and comprehensive nutritional guidance. With more than thirty three years of experience in the fitness industry, Keith has worked with a range of clients including children, athletes, seniors,

4:05 postpartum individuals. And I'm telling you what he gets results. So I would like to welcome to the Success With Women's show none other than mister Keith Turner. Thank you, thank you, thank you. How you're going about it? I am doing very well. It is so good to have you on the show again today. And I tell you what I know. You've been on here before. You've had the group on here, you've had the You've shown us how to do work our core. You've shown us, you know, some of the things that we need to do to get that stomach flatten. You know, You've just talked about a lot of things the last couple of times that you've been on the show, But today we want to look at it from a different perspective. So I know that you emphasize exercising, eating right, and that both of these things have to be I'm a lifestyle and one of your mantras I know is it's not a game because you have that. I know you have that on your wall at the facility. So tell us how important is the mind in this process compared to a physical workout.

5:19 Well, your mind is key to everything. If you don't if you're not ready mentally, it's not going to happen. Your friends can push you to go work out and come work out, but if you're not one of percent tuned in and you're ready to go, it's not going to happen. As far as a physical workout is concerned, you won't even touch it if you're not mentally there. It'll be something that people start up and about one week later, two weeks later, as soon as something interrupts that work out, it's like as if they were praying for it to happen. Anyway, interrupt they work out, they won't get back to it anyway, So it's kind of it's all mental first starts. Here absolutely in your experience, though, what are the biggest mental are emotional barriers people face when trying to lose weight.

6:05 Discipline, that's it. Discipline, it's because you know the thing about it is, it's not you know. I hear people say, well, I've been this way for thirty years and. Forty years, and I'm like, oh, I hate that statement, because that's let me know that you haven't made any growth in thirty or forty years. This is how I am. I'm never going to change what. At some point, you can change whatever you want to change. They're disciplined enough to save up money to go on a cruise if they want to go on a cruise. You know, I'm telling them truth. They're disciplined enough to do it. In other words, you're disciplined enough to do whatever you want to do. Get your nails done consistently, get their hair done every two weeks. But what about being disciplined on your eating and getting your body right. I see a lot of women with beautiful hair, not theirs, but it's beautiful hair something that you know I see.

6:48 I see the nails done, you know, and in beautiful face, you know, beautiful faces, but the body's jacked up, and I'm like, why would you put that much time and effort into part of your body instead of doing the whole picture? Get your up. So discipline is the key to everything with that. Wow. You know, many people, uh as you said, I know, they start off strong because you know, coming especially like coming at the end of the year, we're going to be going into the new year. People going to be talking about New Year's resolution. The first thing they want to do is say, well, you know, for the new year, I want to lose some weight. So they start off strong, off quickly. What mindset shift helps people stay consistent for the long term.

7:32 One, make make a decision, you know, and stick to it. Make a decision and stick to it. You know. Go to court. What do you mean, go to court, Keith, Go court and get a divorce. Get a divorce, Yeah, get a divorce from laziness. Divorce laziness, divorce excuses. And marry marry commitment, married, dedication, marry self steam. And once you do these things, once you sit up there and say, you know what, I'm gonna put me first, you know, then you'll be successful. You have to set marks in your life that you want to prepare for.

8:12 Here's what I mean. You want to be successful with this, then what you want to do is I'm getting ready. For a wedding. Okay, Because these these quick starts and they quickly fall off. You know they were looking for a quick fix. It's not gonna happen. It's just not gonna happen. You gotta leave the quick fixes alone. Now, let me hold that answer for a second, because you can get a quick fix and go get surgery done to your body. But the one thing that that surgery doesn't do. Two things that it doesn't do. It doesn't change the organs that's in your body. At least when you're working out and you're losing weight on your own. One, you learn how to lose weight. If you don't learn how to lose. It, how are you going to keep it off. You didn't do the work to get it off, So how are you going to keep it off? You don't know how to keep it off.

8:56 Second, all your organs inside still look the same. And the objective in working out and putting that mindset, having your mindset to do the workout long term is this, Your organs are slowly dying out as you get older. They don't get stronger in your fifties and your sixties and your seventies at that point. I mean, you've all heard somebody go to the doctor, somebody's father in the hospital in critical condition, and someone asks, how's your father doing, and they say, well, they say his organs are failing fast. Well, everybody who's listening to us right now, their organs are failing. It's just not fast. So what do you want to do to to try longevity on your life? Now this goes right back into long term working out.

9:39 You don't really have to work out at age. Sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen twenty, unless you're obese or something. Your organs are already strong and getting a little bit stronger. But by the time you hit thirty five, Between thirty five and forty, it's going to a plateau out and then at that point, at some point after that, it's going to start going down. It won't go down like this, but it's going to start going down slowly, gradually, but it's going to showly go down. So now you have to start working out. You have to start being coming one with your organs and your body. If you want to live a little longer, don't put it on God. Well I'm not going till my time comes. You know, God gave you, He wishes you life and life more abundantly. Okay, So he tells you about your eating, so it's up to you, but it gives you freedom of choice. You have two twins, and one of the twins wants to clock his armies up with all the grease and fatty foods and everything else, and the other one does not.

10:31 They want to eat healthy, you know, And you can splurg don't get it wrong. You can splurish every blue moon. You just can't do it every week and every other week. You know one is going to definitely outlive the other. It is a fact, so you have to put that time into working out. Yeah, I mean, and you know what. I know you say that all the time, and you you literally try to just beat it into our heads so that you know we get it. And you know, I think I think on some level we do get it. Some of us get it better than others. And I got and I will be one of those to admit that you know, I get it, but I also know that I tend to fall off the wagon.

11:16 And like you say, I mean, you know, I ain't even need to say what you say. It's okay, fall off the wagon. You know you fall off the wagon sometimes, okay. But the thing about it is you have never given up. It's a difference to somebody who who because so I won't say you fall off the wagon. I'll say you stumble. There's some who stumble and regain their balance and there are some who fall. I fall off the wagon because those who fall have fallen off the wagon. Those who stumble, they regain their balance and they keep going. And that's what you do. So I won't. Let's let's eliminate the fact that you said, just now, I fall off the wagon. Not actually you're dumb. You stumble, but you get back into it because when I get on your case, you're like, I don't want to hear his mouth.

12:02 Let me go ahead and do this, and you come right back. And then when you weigh in there like madden A lost seven pounds, mad At lost five pounds, not to get in doing their stomach is coming down and everything. And I'm never going to give up on you. If you don't give up on yourself. Wow, yeah, you really don't. I have to admit that you don't give up on us, even though I know sometimes we probably frustrate you to no end, but you do not give up on us. So tell me how much does self image or self talk influence someone's weight loss success, because I know that is one of the things that you do a lot. You do a lot of inspirational talk to us. You give us a lot of things too. Like I said, that that's in our heads so and personally me and I'm sure a lot of us that go to that facility will say the same thing. If I go to pick up a cookie, I'm gonna hear Keith turning saying to me, oh, yeah, eat that cookie.

13:02 When you come in money the way in, just have your five dollars ready for. You know, and are you going the store? And you I mean you hear the music, even the music that you play. I mean, I've been in the store and I'll hear that music playing, and I want to start doing me across the chest, okay. Because it's just the way you tend to do it. So tell, like I said, how much does the self image or the self talk influence someone's weight loss success. So you have to love yourself enough to take care of yourself. You have to stop lying to yourself. I tell people when you come out your mouth and say, well I don't look that bad. You the bad, okay, And that's trying to negotiate. Why settle right there when you can look just as good as anybody else, not as provided you get the right trainer. You get it the right trainer, not all these trainers out here. I'm keeping it real. I hate to say this about my colleagues, but it is true. Everybody who has a certificate, who certified as a trainer, it's not a good trainer. That's a piece of paper. Check out there before and afters ask them what have you done? And you got certain questions you want to ask them? And your people that's listening right now can call me and say what questions should I ask these trainers when I'm interviewing them, and I'll tell them to answer the questions they want to ask.

14:26 But you know, once you sit up there and you start, you love yourself enough to take care of yourself. That's what's going to make the big difference right there. That's that's the answer to that question. You got to really care about yourself. You really do, and stop thinking you do. But because your actions are going to show it. You can tell me you care about me all day long, like you hear me say the gym and wake me up by hitting me upside my head with a frying pants. That's not caring about me. But your actions outside of that will show me if you really care about me. So, ladies, gentlemen, that's listening to the program right now? Do you really really care about yourself? It's okay to look out for other people, but if you're not here eventually, you're not gonna look out for anybody. So why not make it so you're here prior tized your life. You're here first, you first, so you can look out for everybody else.

15:13 Absolutely, I remember, you know when I asked about the self image. I remember when I first started with you, and this was years ago. When I came to you, you were doing it at your home then, and you had the mirrors all around the section. And when I first came to you, I weighed two hundred and twelve pounds. You even remember that. I was two hundred and twelve pounds, And when I got on that Florida exercise and I looked in the mirror. I looked at myself. I'm like, oh my god, he must have trick mirrors up in here. I know I'm not that big. I'm serious. That is what I can saying to myself, because when I looked at the mirror at my house, it didn't look like it.

15:58 Was what they call skinny mirrors. Yeah, So I kept standing and I saying, oh, yeah, he got trick mirrors in here. I don't. I'm not I don't look that big. And so the I understand that, you know, with the self image and what you do the self. Talk, we have to have that too. But you instill a lot of that in us too because of the things that you say to us every day, and you know how you inspire, how you encourage, and it's just the things you the examples that you use and different things like that, and that in itself is a big, a big help, a big encouragement for anyone that has been there. And one of the reasons, you know, I can tell you why I still like you say when when I say fall off the wagon, then I'm still there, is because I know now that I look in that mirror, I don't see two hundred and twelve pounds.

16:59 But you know I'm still now, I'm still I know I'm not where I want to be, and I still I know I still need to be there. But when also too, when I first came to you, I couldn't get up and down off the. Floor because of my knees. My knees were so uh you know, they used to hurt so bad, and part of it was because of the weight. And so I know that that sign you have up there about remember your why, that is always my whenever I think to myself, oh he did just that made me man, I'm not going back there. He did just Then I think about that, I'm. Not going back but me, And like that sign says you know that the trainer is not a good trainer is going to get on your nerves.

17:43 Yes, a really good trainer is going to get. On your nerves. Why because he really cares or she really cares. They're going to get on you when you're doing wrong. I mean they're going to get on you when you're doing wrong. Other trainers they want that money. They're going to when you're doing wrong. That's what you're doing wrong. It's no accountability. I can really say much say okay, come on, you went up, Okay, come on, we gotta get it down. That's not caring about you. Let's keep it real and you can put. It in that office and sit down and say what's going on, what's going on? And that's what separates top professional trainers from these average gym trainers. No disrespect to the gym trains, but we keep it in one hundred. There's a reason why they work at a gym for somebody else. And the professional trainers who really get it done have enough people to hold their own personal facility.

18:31 You understand, because they're getting it done. I don't want to hear a train to say, well I work here at so and so Fitness because. My hours I can't. But you're there now. I started out just training two hours a day when I got off of work in my basement. But it became impact because you go out. You guys got results. You saw love, but with love comes tough love too, and you saw it straight and the inspiration of talking to people at the end of class. Trainers don't do. They'll let you out when that class is over, you're out. But when you're speaking to them and you'll let ee know why they're doing what they need to do, what they just accomplished, and getting on their cases too, and then coming back and complimenting them and everything else.

19:17 And you're seeing so many people around you getting it done. It encourages you and motivates you to get it done. You're like, wait a minute, this lady came here at four hundred pounds. She's down one hundred and seventy five pounds now in a matter of one year. Really you understand that's motivation. Absolutely. Yeah, it's tough love, but you know I love you. Absolutely. You don't like it sometime, but we get it. We really do get it. So tell me, Keith, what role does stress, anxiety or even depression play and weight gain or a lack of progress?

19:58 That is very serious. Now, I don't do the stress, I don't do the depression, and I don't do the anxiety. The anxiety may hit that mine is a good anxiety. Anxiety like coming on this show right now, that lets me know when I was in the ring fighting and let me know that anxiety said, that means I'm not taking it for granted. I'm on it again. I dotted every eye and every cross, every t that's fine for anxiety, but depression and stress. Stress is lack of organization. You've got so much on your plate and you're not organized. I don't care if it's stress at work. Organize your day. You know what you're going to come into. Depression will stop you every time because you're now taking time out of your life, valuable time which you will never ever get back. I'm so depressed, I can't I just got to shut it down. Then next thing, you know, you're going to eat the wrong foods because what did you do? First of all, you bought the wrong foods that you shouldn't have and you put them in your pantry.

20:51 So intelligent people, successful people don't set themselves up to fail. If you're serious about your weight loss, if. You're very serious about the project that you're one you're trying to accomplish, don't set it in your pantry, don't bring it in your house. Because the devil. There's a devil, because it shows there's a god. I'm a true god, godly man. There's the Devil's job is to tempt you. He's gonna always try to bring something to you, to you that craving sweets, sugar, alcohol, whatever it is that's going to mess you up. And you had to set right up there in your pantry ready to turn to it. And notice when it comes most of the time, almost all the time at night, and almost every weekend, especially if you make it. Through the weekdays those weekends.

21:31 It's kind of rough, you understand, So that depression, depression will will will have people say this to me, I'm so depressed, you know, I just I just gave up, and I just I just you know, I just shut everything down. And I'm like, you can't do that. You can't do that. That's one of that's not a God. If you sit up there and say God is good all the time and all the time God is said, why people say I never say that God is good period. I don't have to say all of that. But if you're going to say that out your mouth and you're really gonna believe it, then why are you depressed? Why are you depressed? If He's good all the time and everything he's doing is doing for your good. Reason why you didn't get that job is because that's not He got something better for you. Reason why you didn't accomplish.

22:12 This is because whatever, whatever, whatever, but it's all for your good now as far as the stress is concerned. Here's why I message you guys up because you guys give. Me this excuse. I stress eat. That's crap. Okay, if you stress eat, why can't you stress eat on the salad? Why does the stress eat have to always be with a cake. And potato chips and chocolate and alcohol? Why does the stress eat has to all have to always be negative? That lets you know that's not a god. So stress is not a god. I mean you you just they just said it right then and there. So I'm like, no, why are you gonna stress eat? How come you can't stress eat healthy? No one can ever answer that question. You understand what I'm saying.

22:54 I don't think. I think I've been understressed in my younger years. You understand I wasn't as organized, but write out of things to do. Matter of fact, it's right here on my desk. I write up the things to do list. Things to do okay, and then my things to do list. I have a busy day. It's organized so I don't have to stress and think about what I gotta do. If I can't get it done. I prioritize that if I can't get it done, it goes over to the next day. Stop letting it make you use it for an excuse to eat wrong and pick up weeds or somebody. Somebody wrote in the comments that they do because it tastes good. One hundred it does the wrong things always taste good most of the time.

23:36 Sometimes the devil will get you the cheat and eat and you're like, that wasn't even worth it, and I gotta see Keith Monday now I ate that. And then you won't even stop you You'll eat half of it. You're like, well, I'm not so fishy and all of it. Absolutely let it go. Yeah, that's true. You right about that. So tell me when when clients hit a plateau, how do you help them overcome the mental frustration that comes with it, because you know that sometimes that happens. You get to a certain spot and just look like you cannot do anymore. It won't it won't go off. You just can't get it to come off anymore.

24:17 Very easy, that's very easy. I explained to them how the body goes. Now, I don't have time to explain it here, but I explained. Them how God designed the body to shut down in case you're on a desert. You're in a plane crash on the desert, and your body doesn't know whether or not it's it's what's going on, So it's. Going to shut down to save you. So they say, your. Body can go thirty days without food as long as you have water. I've never gone thirty days without food. The max I've gone without any food is ten days. All right, and what's fine. I feel like I can go. I can keep on going. Once I got past day seven, I feel like, okay, so on I can go. Now, you understand, So it's it's I let them know that you haven't plateaued out. Your body is just giving you a freeze markt. At that point, you have to adjust your calorie intake.

25:03 That's one thing you can do. You definitely got to adjust your exercise routine and the adjust the. Intensity of your workout. Now we adjust our That's why if you if you know, you know you can adjust, you can. Cosiund on this. We don't do the same workouts two days in a row. Every day. It's something different. You've been with me for how long? You can't tell anybody what we're going to do tomorrow. And if you know it's going to be a erbics, you still can't tell what a erbics we're gonna do. If I'm gonna put some uh something, especially in our twist in it, what order is going to be in if I'm gonna put catastenics in it, you don't you don't know. I always throw your body off. If I can throw your mind off and have you wonder what we're gonna do, I'm throwing your body off and it will never adjust. So you have to be patient through that little period because it's going to shut down for about a week maybe two, but it's gonna get right back in.

25:57 So you'll come down and wait with us. You'll go like this for a say you've probably experienced that, and then it's gonna go like this straight down. But you got to hang in there through that period that it's going to hold up for a second, right, But it's only for your good hmm. So now you've worked with people from all backgrounds, what do you think separates those who succeed from those who repeatedly struggle with their weight? The mind again, the mindset. The ones who succeed. It's their mindset. The ones who can repeatedly struggle with their weight, it's it's the mindset. They want to hang around the people who come on her. It's always come on her, let's go out to eat yourselthing to eat. You understand, you know, No, no, we don't have to and it's always somebody's coming in town.

26:50 We got to go out and eat. It's always something like that. The ones who are successful prioritize their life. The ones who aren't successful don't prioritize, don't even pod test that day. The ones who prioritize their life. Here's what we say. Let's say the ones. Let's say some of the. Ones who are successful and their sons who are somewhat successful, and there's who failures, the. Failures they had. No, they're not prioritized at all, but somewhat successful prior test that day. The ones who are successful, very successful, prior to hast their life is what I mean. Prioritize my life. I have to come first, not my kids, not my grandkids. I have to come first because if I'm not here, I can't be there for my kids, and I can't see when grandkids grow up. So you have to learn how to prioritize your life. Is in prior testing your life, you have to come first. I am one eight my kids. If I was married, my wife would be one A.

27:47 I'm one. They're one A. They're not B. Don't get it twisted. They're not B. But they're not number one. I have to be number one. You have to make yourself number one above all and everything else. Your job, all the committees you want to be on it at church, and I'm just being totally honest. You can't be on four and five and you all fats. Put some of that time to cut out four of them and stick to one and put the time that you put into four committees, put it into your health. Start getting your body together. Because I'm one of the most unhealthiest places. And like I said, I'm a true man of God. If my church Passagenia's and tell you I love him because he talks about health too. He had a scare, he had to get his fat, he had to get that fat off him. Okay, didn't take you to that point, Okay, But the bottom line is you've got to organize your health.

28:35 And people don't do that. Most people don't but the ones that's very successful, they got that jewing together. They organize their health first, which means they're life top priority. And you see them people going there every day. To make sure they're going there every day. Now you can go every day, Madelin, he come home with the wrong foods. You're defeating the purpose. But at least they're doing something. But while waste time, don't go and work out like they do at a gym. Most people are sucessful at the gym. I was reading before on air. Most people are successful but fail at the gym. And I'm like, Wow, why do they fail at the gym? Because they don't know what they eat? They think they can go because they're working out and eat whatever they want to eat, and you can't do that. You can't do that. Wow, right, tize your life prioritize. Well, that's what we have to start doing.

29:20 You know. How do you get someone to uh, how can someone rebuild that discipline if they fail that weight loss multiple times? Because at that point you're going to start getting frustrated. You are, but who are you hanging around now? I'm a self. I have a lot of friends, a lot of male friends, but I'm still a loner. You know, we get together certain times, but I'm a loner. A loner has to be a strong minded person. If you are a weak minded person, you have to hang around people that's going in the direction that you want to go. If you're a strong minded person, you can pretty much meet by yourself, but you need, you know, have other people that's following you.

30:00 And that's motivation. Like I'll meet some of my clients at the gym at six am in the morning. That motivates me to get my work out in. You understand, even a trainer gets to the point where like we can we can stumble too. We're like, I just don't feel like it. No, you got to get back into it. You got to. You gotta get somebody else that's going to motivate you. So you get around people that's going in the direction that you're going in, and that's much that makes it much easier. What daily habits are routines? Do you recommend to support a person's weight goes? And I know you talk about the discipline part, but what what other habits can would you recommend.

30:43 Learning how to eat even if you're going to eat wrong, let's just keep it real. If you're going to eat wrong, stop eating to your full learn how to eat just enough so you're not hungry. And that's something that people haven't been told by trainers. Most of the trainers, they aren't number one rate of training. They don't have that annoyingty. You got that annoy and God gives. You that wisdom. You roll with it and tell you spread that word around everybody, and then you let your word be backed by action. Look at his clients. This is over twelve thousand clients. What personal trainer do you know that has over twelve thousand clients and they have a ninety eight percent success rate. That's everybody that walks through that door, wheelchairs, four hundred pounders, eighty year olds, and you can verify the eighty My eighty year olds look good, seventy year olds look good, twenty year olds, thirty year olds look good. What are they doing that's getting they're getting it done. We're teaching you how to eat. It's not just about working out. Now, you got to know what to eat, and you have to know how to eat. You can't eat to your stuff that's only for Thanksgiving right now, everybody eats.

31:42 To Therefore Everybody who's not gonna keep tilling it eats to their full. You got to learn how to eat just enough so you're not hungry. So if I gave you, if you were hungry, and I gave you an apple and a bottle of water, you're not gonna be hungry after you drink, eat that apple, drink that bottle of water. You may want some more, but are you hungry? And that's what you have to learn. I don't care if you have. To go back two hours later, because you do get hungry and eat a little bit more. But at least your stomach will start shrinking. If your stomach shrinks, the body shrinks. Remember this one thing, everybody, whatever rises outside your body that's being fixed, it rises outside your but when you eat it, it's gonna rise inside your body. Bread, cookies, It does not matter what it is. Rice and people. I can. My trainer said I can eat white rice and go for it. Popcorn.

32:27 They got something called skinny pop. All right, go ahead with your skinny pop. You're gonna be after you finish that bag of skinny pop. Oh my goodness. But yeah, they do have those skinny pops out there. They just can't they have to. They have to create a habit of doing the eating first. If you don't want to work out and be around people, will make it a habit to go to the gym of personal trainer and then create a habit of how you're gonna eat okay, and that will help you out a lot. A lot won't get it done, but it help you out a lot. And it help fail a lot. Well, I tell you what. One comment came in that says Keith is awesome and has changed my life. So, like I said, you do get results. People do appreciate it, and they you know they they even though sometimes you may think we're not hearing you or we're not listening to you. It's getting in there. It's getting in there.

33:27 Sometimes we don't always act on it, but it's there. It's sinking in. I mean, but you have to have fun when you're doing it. That's another thing I'm going to say. You know, you want to have fun when you're doing it. I don't want people listen to me who don't know me to say, well, he seems like he's pretty tough. I laugh and joke. I laugh and joke, and we cracked jokes all through classic like, sometimes I got. To stop and say, can we can we keep going? Can we get going? We're laughing and joking if I'm not educating you about something almost every day. You gotta have fun doing what you're doing too. I love I would there would not be a day to go by that I won't laugh. Absolutely absolutely, So tell me what role does sleep, mindset, and emotional balance play in weight loss success. There's a lot of people think that the sleep has a lot something to do with it too.

34:13 Sleep, your body can't regroove. Most of the weight loss is going to come when you're sleeping anyway, if you pay attention to most of it. Sometimes you wake up in the one you're like, oh, I did my ads a lot of ad work yesterday, And wake up the next morning you're like, whoa, it looks like it's coming in already, Especially in the back down the lower end where you have your love handles that you understand that's gone in and everything else. Your sleep is so important because your body really does its work right there. But that's why we always tell our clients reactivate your burnoff system at night before you go to bed. How do you reactivate a burnof system? Do your abs. Just do like fifty sit ups and fifty. Leg lists and that's a little bit enough' that'll give you some good results in the morning, contribute to what you did earlier in that day.

34:53 So key, tell me, with all the people that have come through. The facility, what mental or emotional transformations have you witnessed in your clients that has inspired you the most? Oh? Shoot, that's self esteem. Man. That thing is. When you see the y'all, you all coming to wear these big clothes trying to cover all the fat. By the time I finished with you, y'all, everything everything is fit. It's tight as I don't know what, showing every curve and everything else. And I just thought that, I'm like, you all did not come in here like that. Now look at all y'all, y'all want everybody wants to. Wear something that's fit, you understand, except if they cheated that weekend and then they want to and they see that, oh my stomach blowed it out, then they.

35:35 Want to go back to something. That's what gives you, guys away. You know you want to wear something trying to cover up again. But you know that's the stuff that's encouraging to me when I see so many people, so many people. I mean, these trainers have one or two that they're working with at a time. You know, we have I was this personal training. But we're gifted enough by God had that annointy enough that we work with forty fifty people at a time and everybody's getting resolved. Plus we use that momentum from each one of you guys to send to another person. That gets you guys going because you see it. And so that's that's that's that's that makes me really really happy. Wow. Wow, And and I didn't This is another one, uh that I think that's probably important, But you can answer that too.

36:19 How important is it? Uh? Is community support or accountability and staying mentally committed to fitness. But that goes right with the who you hang around? You know, yeah, who you hang around. You hang around people that's going in the same direction you're going in, you're going to be successful. I'm speaking fast now because I know my time is sure. You hanging around the people that's going in the direction you're going in, it's a greater chance you're going to get there. You hanging around people that want to go in the opposite direction. Then it's going to slow you down. Honestly, it says the time to get add new friends. I'm not saying cut them out, but you use your friends for what you need them for. At that time. A group of friends who are great with finances, that's who you want to go to because you want to start saving money and investment. People who want to work out and get healthy, that's who you go to. People want to get to know the Lord even closer, that's who you hang with at that time. You have your peers that you hang around, all these different friends, but you need friends that's going in the directions that you're going in.

37:10 You're going into absolutely Now, I know you've done you know, although you're you have a lot of clients that you work with in the weight loss industry, but you also advocate for different things. I know you've done the no black on black crime things like that. So tell us, is there anything that you want us to know about that might be coming up that you're going to be working on, or is there any programs or any thing that's coming up at the facility that you want our viewers to know about. Yeah, we're doing it. I'm doing January Free. I do every January Free to get back to the community, to get to show people how you want to lose the weight, to show them how much weight I can get off of them in just seven days. What you already know how much way I can get off of them in seven days. And then associatd shows that, Wow, this, this is why he's rated number one. He has a true annointing from God to be able to get this much weight off in a healthy way of people in just seven days one week. I lost that much in one week, and it's not waterweight. I hate when people say that's my time. I hate when people say, what the first ten pounds you lose is waterweight? People, if anybody's ever told you that does a lot. I did a serious research on that and did my study, and I'm a study door.

38:24 That's not true. Well, I heard if you lose weight fast, you pick up I gut fast. That's not true. You stopped doing what you were doing to lose the weight and went back to what gain all that weight? You went back to eating that same way. So you know what we have going on is we're doing January Free no streams attached. You have to register now because we start January tenth, and I'm going to train you for three weeks. That's all I just expected. We're going to have a consultation with you, let you know what I expect of you. And then the other thing that I'm going to I'm working on is the boys to men to gentlemen program. These brothers have to start stepping up to be the men that women need. Half of them don't know how to help a woman with their cold on. That's it. They don't know. Okay, I got a fok, I got three fourths, three spool, three knives?

39:06 Do I eat out the end? What are these knives? A foks? It teaches everything they don't. It teaches finances. Brother, you got to leave the woman financially. If she has to make more money than you, that's ically on a k. But you still got to do your part. These women have to be so strong. Now that you know when you finally me a woman, she's so strong minded because she had to be strong all on life. Be nice, baby, I got you, I got you, Daddy got you. So Keith tell us if someone wanted to reach out to you, find out more about weight laws, UH to to find out where the facility is how they get there, How can they reach you. I'm gonna call my number out, okay, so get ready to pen and paper and then but it's three zero one, just call me directly, three zero one, three six seven one nine eight. I think that's going to go across it the screen anyway, that number down there to screen three zero one, three six seven sixteen ninety eight. You can contact me directly. And that program that we're designing, the Voice to Men to gentlemen, It includes the young youth, the twenty year olds, and the dads, because again the dads, it starts with the pops too. You got to know how to be romantic. We don't even know how to be romantic anymore. So it teaches everything. So if you want to get in touch with me with those things that's that's coming up and find out more what else, what else we have on the plate, then just give me a call.

40:27 I got you. Well, we don't still doing nothing. So before you go, if you had one piece of advice to leave with our viewers and our listeners, what would that piece of advice be? Please start taking care of yourself. It's mentally first. Don't let anybody stress you out. Don't give anybody that much power. When you're gonna be down to press, stressed down, angry, arguing, cursing, they don't give that. Don't give anybody that much power. They're going to change who you are and then start working on you. Once you work on yourself mentally, in your mind, start working on yourself physically, you're gonna feel better about yourself.

41:07 You understand. So it's a. Mental thing and a physical thing that I would like people to start really working on. Don't wait for a new year's resolution. It doesn't have to be New year's stop because. If you're missing it at the beginning of the year, you can say, well I'll start next week. No, you start right stop. It doesn't have to be a new year. It's a resolution to yourself period. It's a life resolution, not a New Year's resolution. So start taking care of yourself mentally and physically. If they don't belong in your life, like God said, it's a time and a season for everything, remove them. I'm not talking all the ones that's married. I't give you. Permission to get a divorced all right, but remove them and keep it moving. There's too many people out here that can make you happy, and even if married, go into your war room, pray, get around your friends who can. Keep you going. You understand because you stuck with that marriage now. But other than that, you know mentally and physically are the most important things.

41:52 Peace of mind at our age is the most important thing right now. Happy as absolutely, Keith, Thank you so much. And I'll just read this last comment that came in and said, Keith gives you the results you want. Do exactly what he says, and you will look and feel amazing. The let's see jumped on me. The accountability, anointing, and facility are second to none. So I just want to thank Keith Turner for joining me today on the Success for Women's Show. It has been a great pleasure having you here yet again. And of course we're going to bring you back. As always because you know, you always have some great nuggets to share with our viewers and our listeners.

42:34 Thank you so much, giving it's a pleasure. Take care too, Okay, So now just to let everyone know about the upcoming events that I have going on that's coming up. One of the things I'm honored to share that I am officially one of the founding women on the empower Her Wall by She Rises Studios in partnership with Phoenix TV, a global movement showcasing two hundred trailblazing women on one powerful digital wall inside the. And I hope I'm pronouncing this correctly the.

43:17 Allegian Allegiance Stadium in Las Vegas. So if I'm pronouncing that wrong, if y'all know what it is, it's in Las Vegas, Nevada. And on February twenty second, twenty twenty six, the empower Her. Wall will be unveiled. And when the lights rise and the cameras roll, the world will witness something extraordinary. It'll witness two hundred women standing together, not in competition, not in division, but in unity, equality and shared prosperity. I want to also personally invite you to join us for the Sisters for Sisters Network, Sparkle and Connect holiday. Addition to a celebration of Sister who Hood, Style and Inspiration, which is Sunday, December fifteenth, it will be from one pm to four point thirty taking place at the Prince Georgia's Sports and Learning Complex in Landover, Maryland. There will be an afternoon of a mini fashion show, a holiday bizaar entertainment by saxophonists. We'll also have a Lutha Vandross I mean a very very white Impressionist tribute to Barry White, and we will have an uplifting message by a guest speaker. The tickets are almost sold out. We have maybe about ten tickets left, so if you do want to get a ticket, you can zell to two four zero six seven eight zero one one seven or you can email me at info

44:48 at EXWSI dot com and I'll get you that information. I will also be taking part in the UJAM Emoja Leaders Award ceremony as one of their recipients on Monday, December fifteenth at two pm. The EMOJA Awards will be honoring a cohort of visionaries, coaches, pastors and change makers who quietly uplift, guide and inspire others through their unwavering love, service and impact, and I am honored to be one of the awardees for that. I'm also excited about the, of course again the successful women radio and TV show making the list of the top one hundred best Career Mindset and Working Women podcasts, and that we are proudly sitting at number sixteen on the list. Which I think, of course is not bad.

45:46 The list highlights podcasts that empower women to build successful careers, navigate workplace challenges, and find true fulfillment in work and life. So I'm honored to be among that number. Make sure that you check out my book Show Up to Rise Up Explore the Transformative Power of a Successful Mindset, which achieves bestseller status on Amazon in the Women and Business category. To purchase the book, you can. Go onto Amazon put my name in the search box doctor Madlein and Lewis, or you can email me at info at EXWSI dot com, or go on my website www dot EXWSI dot com and go on the Success Store and you'll be able to also purchase the book.

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47:22 I share nuggets every month with them on IT Magazine as a resource for personal and professional and business development. So to get your free copy, you can email me at info at ex WSI dot com. Again, I want to thank my guests Keith Turner, and my viewers and my listeners for joining me today. This has been the success for women's show. I am doctor Madlin and Lewis, and of course if you'd like to reach out to me, you can email me at info at EXWSI dot com. Sure that you shared this episode. Like this episode, and don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel and you can subscribe to the Top four TV channel too, but more importantly, make sure you subscribe to the our YouTube channel. Again, this is the success for women's show. We're here every week at two pm. I am your host, Doctor Madeline and Lewis helping women to accelerate the path to success.

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