 You know, it's funny, the limiting belief for the kind of mental running commentary I had in my head, ever since I got into dating and pickup and even before that, actually, when I was in high school and college, I never would want to put myself out there because the fear, I guess the baseline fear was that a girl would think I was too fat to be worthy of her or something. I mean, I was never even that fat. I was like, you know, 5, 10, 2, 15 am I heaviest, right? So no one would look at me and be like, that guy is fat, but you look like what they call a healthy American. Exactly. Healthy middle American, right? Um, but that was kind of always my, uh, my mental chatter. So I held myself back from really kind of going after women the way I wanted to because of this, you know, oh, she's going to think of that. Um, so that was kind of my main motivation because I knew that if I could change that and if I could look in the mirror and really see a guy who was fit, I wouldn't have that excuse anymore. Um, but that alone didn't really help me lose away because I was trying for like seven, eight years to lose away unsuccessfully. Um, the first main motivator was a really good friend of mine moved in and, uh, he didn't have a place to crash. So he crashed on my couch for a few weeks and he just started losing weight and he was my buddy who I had done a lot of pickup with as well. And we would always joke with each other like, you're the fat one. No, you're the fat one. And, um, she started losing weight. I'm like, shit, I'm going to actually be the fat one this time. Like for sure I'm going to be the fat one. So at first I just basically put myself on his exact diet and his exact plan, we'd work out together, play tennis together, go to the gym, right, eat healthy. And it was really easy because I had that buddy with me and that's how I lost the first 20 pounds. But then, you know, he went back home. That's when I was right around 195 and without him there, it became a lot tougher to stay motivated, right? Because the other people in my life, you know, whatever they'd go to drink, they'd go out to eat Mexican food late at night and you tend to basically, you know, you're a victim of your surroundings, right? If you're out at the bars and five year friends are like, let's get Mexican food at the food truck, it's really hard to say no to that. You know, at 2.30 in the morning when you're starving. So that's why I knew I needed to put myself on this bet because I knew that my own motivation or willpower wouldn't be enough. So that was kind of the turning point there.