Turtle Method Explained
Good morning, everybody. So today's podcast, I just wanna cover a few things about what turtle method actually is. So for you listening, newbies listening, what is turtle? Why are you talking about Buddhism? Why you talking about stoicism?
Speaker 1:Why are talking about relationships and all that stuff? I wanna say that health and fitness is one part of total health. Right? You can't improve your health and fitness and then just assume that the rest of your life is gonna be sound and that nothing else matters, nothing will impact it. So, like, you could be training five, six times a week, but your mental health could be shot.
Speaker 1:You could be losing fat, but you're not even understanding that your relationships with other people and the community feel you haven't got that, you feel lonely, and no matter how fit and healthy you get, you're feeling worse. There's a lot of people who have lost a lot of weight, but they still feel there's something missing. It's another ultimate failure where we think what we need to do is we get a high paying job, then we think we're going to be happy, then we're not. We lose the weight, then we're still not happy with ourselves. We do all these things and still there's something missing.
Speaker 1:The reason for this is because we're not looking at it as a full picture, total health. If you're always looking at stuff in fragments, there's always gonna be problems. So we at Turtle understand that for us to truly help you long term full, you know, the full spectrum of your life, we can't just talk about losing fat. I mean, I can do it easily. I could talk every day about losing fat.
Speaker 1:Losing fat. Losing fat. Okay? Thing is, you look at pictures a few years ago maybe when you were lighter, and you go, oh my god. Well, I I wish I looked like that today.
Speaker 1:But I guarantee you, if you went back in time into your mindset then, you still wouldn't have been happy. So losing weight isn't always the answer. Losing weight is part of the answer if you're overweight, right over overweight and above. Of course, it's gonna improve your health. We're not we're not saying that losing weight isn't part of the process.
Speaker 1:It is. You know, we're to train for mental health. Going to train for strength and performance, that's part of it. Right? But putting everything together into a big picture is more important, much more important.
Speaker 1:I'd rather you all move slower in the direction of total health than move at blitz speed losing fat. So we're never gonna say you're gonna lose fat faster, turtle, because it doesn't work. Listen to my, yo yo dieting podcast about the dangers of yo yo dieting absolutely terrifying how bad yo yo dieting is for your health. And if you truly saw the danger of it, like putting your hand in fire, you wouldn't touch it, but we don't. You don't see the danger of it.
Speaker 1:You join a fitness plan and you think, this is it. I'm gonna lose weight fast. If I don't lose weight in seven hours, I'm gonna quit. Right? This is the mindset we have.
Speaker 1:It's very irrational. It's the cause of all problems because we want quick, instant results because people promise it across social media with fasting, with keto, all this stuff, and you believe them because you want to believe them. You want that to be true because you want results now. That is the problem. You cannot get results now.
Speaker 1:Nothing in nature is instant. Nature, the most powerful thing we know, this universe think about nature. Nothing in nature is instant. It takes time, a seed into a plant. Trees take ages to grow.
Speaker 1:We nine months in the womb. Everything takes time. You have to nurture it, look after it in the right way totally. And then it'll grow. And it's the same with fat loss and total health.
Speaker 1:It doesn't happen now. It can't. It's impossible. We part of nature. We think we're apart from nature.
Speaker 1:We are nature. This is us. Think about it. So when you come to your sick of gaining weight, trying diet, you've got a bad relationship with food, you're always thinking there's good food and bad food, You're buying plans over and over and over, you are buying another plan, another plan, another plan, you never complete the plan. You go to another coach and they give you a template meal plan and you six weeks you've lost weight, you feel amazing before and after, oh, come here, let me put a before and after the view on Facebook as one of our clients.
Speaker 1:You're like, yeah, I feel amazing. Three weeks later, putting weight on. And then what do you think? You think, well, I've lost weight eating just chicken and veg, so I think that's the only way I can lose weight. So then you go back into eating about 10% of the foods you used to eat, that's the way you're miserable, you don't understand what's going on, you think this entire health thing is for people who aren't elite dedicated.
Speaker 1:And then you've created such a bad relationship with food and yourself and your body and your self image, you're in such a hole that you're always going to act irrationally. You're stressed out. You're going to go for quick diet plans over and over and over for years and years and years and years. Doctor tells you one day, fatty liver disease, whatever's going to happen, and then you go up back and say, My body's been up and down for years. All I've done is stress about food.
Speaker 1:All I've done is diet. All I've done is talk to myself like the worst person on this planet. All I've done is take this out on my friends and family. All I've done is become a slave to my emotions, all I've done, I've even looked into my mind, I haven't even inquired into what happens in my mind. I don't even know the chain reaction that happens when I feel emotion and then that emotion wants me to seek comfort and in that comfort I go for food.
Speaker 1:You haven't haven't seen the process, because you don't want to see the process, you just want quick results. And then you wonder, What's happened to me ten years down the line? Why is my health shot? Why do I feel out of control? Because you're always going down that route.
Speaker 1:And now what I'm saying to you is we don't go down that route, and it's not sexy. It's not a sexy route. Hey. Come to Turtle. We're gonna talk about life.
Speaker 1:We're gonna go deep into the mind. We're gonna help you lose weight slowly, but that's only part of the problem. We speak about fat loss, of course. We speak about myths. We have weekly nutrition Q and As to cover that.
Speaker 1:But the vast majority of problems come from how do I handle stress eating? Why am I always emotionally eating? Me and my partner arguing all the time and I'm turning to food. What should I do? I'm in a highly stressful job.
Speaker 1:I haven't got time. What should I do? I haven't got enough money. I'm I'm struggling financially. I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1:Well, how can I how can I how can I eat all these unprocessed foods? And the answer is you don't have to eat unprocessed foods all the time. You can have a mix of foods. We're not gonna tell you you're gonna eat this meal plan asset. That's why we want you to be self sufficient.
Speaker 1:Like, you know, one review here, I'll go over it. The workouts are on the app. Right? We never the thing is, guys, please read the what we say on the pages and go through everything. Now it's not just for us, but absolutely anything you buy, you know, manuals, explanations, instructions.
Speaker 1:Just read them. The answers are there most of the time. We don't we don't we literally don't spend time reading stuff. Podcasts are odd. Podcasts are odd, although the guy is likable.
Speaker 1:Well, suppose that's a compliment. But they're not really linked. That's what I'm saying. You look at it fragmentary, if you look at me talking about Buddhism and how the Buddha was talking about moderation in eating, moderation in everything is the way to stop our suffering, you might think, What are you on about? I'm here to lose fat and meat.
Speaker 1:What should I eat right now? Superfood would make me lose weight. Right? It might take time to understand that we're always talking total health. So we're gonna talk about Buddhism.
Speaker 1:They've got many answers. Many, many answers. Can we observe it with thoughts without judging them? That's a big part of this entire solution. Can we bring clear comprehension into our living, which is what the Buddhist would do.
Speaker 1:Can I think without my past experiences, without the blurred vision of diet culture that's ingrained into us? Can I see facts as facts? And can I act rationally without acting on emotion and impulsiveness? Can I see how a sensation turns into an emotion and an emotion turns into an action? Can I see that chain reaction?
Speaker 1:Because if you start noticing these, you might stop those binge eating episodes from feeling sad. You might stop stress eating at work when you say you're going to speak to the boss tomorrow. Between now and speaking to the boss, you're eating all sorts of foods. All of this connects. There's been answers many, many, many years ago.
Speaker 1:Then you look at stoicism, which is a blueprint that they come up with back in the day on what happens to us isn't the problem, it's how what we think of the thing that happens to us, so a perception of it, the story we tell ourselves. This is a big part of data collection. The Buddhists wanted you to look at yourself as a scientist. Scientists collect data, they don't go, Oh my God, that's 1.4 meters, that's terrible. Oh my that's 100 degrees Celsius burned, oh my God.
Speaker 1:They just go, 1.4 meters, write it down. 100 degrees Celsius, write it down. That burned for thirty seconds. That burned for thirty seven seconds. That burned for ninety two seconds.
Speaker 1:There's nothing more on top of that, it's just facts of the data. That's how you should see your data. You collect your weight. There's nothing on top of the weight. There's not I am fifteen stone, and I'm a terrible human being.
Speaker 1:It is I am fifteen stone. Next day, I am fifteen stone one. Next day, I'm fourteen stone eleven. Let's look at data over four weeks. Okay, the average of my weight is on the way down.
Speaker 1:Let's have a look at my menstrual cycle stuff, symptoms, all this stuff. Let's have a look at my calorie intake. Am I guest tracking anything? Am I being honest? And we look at all this without judging, and that will tell us the truth.
Speaker 1:And if we base our actions of truth and honest data, we can't go wrong. Abide by the laws of nature. The laws of energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred from one form to another. So what that means is fat cannot be just created out of thin air, and for us to lose fat it's got to be transferred into other forms which goes into the bloodstream, broken down glucose, then we use that energy and it gets burned as we say, and then we breathe it out or whatever happens. Well that's what does happen.
Speaker 1:So energy is always going if you think about everything, we can't go against this law of nature everything abides by the law of thermodynamics energy wise. So when we look at data and we know that's a law and we look at truth in data, we can see there's more energy going in than is coming out over time. And that more energy going in, it doesn't just go to nothing, it gets stored. And that stored energy is waiting to be used. And if we use more of that stored energy than we put in, we're going to lose fat.
Speaker 1:That's the basic of the law of thermodynamics. But however, the MAP, the calorie deficit you've got to get into, we have to get into calorie deficit, that's the principle, that's the law of losing weight, losing fat more specifically. That's not the method. Saying calorie deficit isn't a method, it's just the fact. It's the map, the map is not the journey.
Speaker 1:The journey from A to B isn't the A to B on the map, it looks easy on the map, A to B. Me going to London on foot, from Wales, Easy on the map. Just go straight east, man. Straight to space. It's got a straight line east.
Speaker 1:Easy. From west to Wales to east. But then when you do the path yourself and you're walking there, oh my god. It's a mountain. Gotta get on the hill.
Speaker 1:Gotta go up your sail down the hill. Oh my god. There's a wild Welsh tribe after me, bow and arrows after me. Not really back in the day if the English came into our lands, we have a long bow going on. But it's important to realise that to get into a deficit, to maintain us, difficult task.
Speaker 1:And that's where we are trying to go to. We're trying to say look, these are the facts of science. Now then, what's stopping you getting into a deficit over time? If you know you have to get into deficit, know these are carry targets, if it was that easy, we wouldn't have a problem. But it's not easy because more people are stressed than ever, emotional whirlwinds, all this stuff's happening, and that's why we're coming in.
Speaker 1:So if we were to look at what total health looks like, we have to look at it in the form of relational. You have to be you have to be connected, and you have to be authentic. You have to be yourself, and you have to be connecting with others, feel supported, and you feel like you belong. That's a big part of the journey, and that's what we offer a turtle. Like how many of your friends literally roll their eyes at you if you say you want to lose weight to go on a diet?
Speaker 1:Of course, they just don't care, don't want to hear it, your family don't want hear it. At turtle, we create a space for you to come. You can talk about all aspects of your life judgment free, and we have such great deep chats that really, really help people. So you have to look at that. That's part of this total health package.
Speaker 1:Another one is you need to have a sense of meaning, purpose in your life. How many people in Turtle have changed like, Melanie Chandler, for example. She's changed her job to come work in a charity, and I'm not saying it's directly because of Turtle, but she said it's influenced the decision, speaking to others, mindset stuff, becoming better herself physically, she wants to put good into the world. She wants to go for charity. Those types of moments when you speak to people, people doing so many runs for charity, Emma Bain's doing a lot of her stuff for her friend that passed away.
Speaker 1:She's really putting it in there. She's inspired other people. There's so many stories. I can't cover everyone, but this meaning that comes from being part of a community. Humans have been part of communities since the start.
Speaker 1:That is why we survived. We outdid the Neanderthals back in the day because we were social. We helped each other out. That's what we did. That's what we who we are.
Speaker 1:We are community driven social beings, and there's always a role for someone in the community. There's always a part to play. And if you're authentically yourself, you are that's the part you play. And you help others, and we help and we are helping each other. That's a big part of this journey.
Speaker 1:How many of you were doing this new people listening to this? How many of you have been trying to lose weight on your own for years? You feel lonely. You feel tired. You feel manipulated by the media.
Speaker 1:You've manipulated by online coaches. Lords of you. You come to Turtle, a slower process of fat loss, but we're talking about everything. Mental health is the next part. Feeling alert, focused, competent, clear mind, thinking, thoughtful, learning, remembering stuff, solving problems while critically thinking, understanding research, not being pulled in by the media, all this stuff, the mental aspect of it, mental health.
Speaker 1:We call mental health sessions for Laxus members. We talk about it. That's that's a big part of total health. You know? You can't ignore that.
Speaker 1:Physical. This is a big part. Feeling vibrant, energetic, energized, waking up every day going and feeling stronger, performing well, being able to do basic daily tasks, picking up your child, feeling stronger doing that, being able to go for more steps. When you're on holiday, can do more can do more walking. When I was doing my trip across Europe, I was looking at lot of people who are really overweight and really struggling to walk around the cities.
Speaker 1:You know, I could see them struggling, and I felt then, wow, you know, being healthy isn't really all about looks. It's about being able to just walk around a city, away, being able to walk on the beach for ten minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes, being able to walk with your kids for a walk, dog walk, all this stuff. You don't think about it deeply, but these are big things. Another factor is emotional. Being able to experience all the emotions and being able to express them in a judgment free zone, which is what turtle is.
Speaker 1:How big of an a factor is this? Huge. Amy Nevis morning. Trouble at home in terms of just, you know, the, you know, arguing, couples. We we know everyone who goes through these moments, and then being on your own.
Speaker 1:What you do when that's bottled up causes more stress. So there's an outlet for stress, which is the community, and we're all here to listen. I'm not judging anyone. We're here to listen, and I can help people. Just being a listening a lot of people listening.
Speaker 1:A lot of people going through the same stuff. Another part, environmental. You know, looking at your environment, looking at what's shaping it. You know, you might have never been involved in a community before. You only see your friends here and there.
Speaker 1:You go to work. You come home. You see the news. You hate there. It makes you feel terrible.
Speaker 1:When you come into the turtle environment, we suggest you read books, we give them suggestions of reading books, podcasts, we're talking to people, we're talking about stuff you've never spoke about to other friends, deeper stuff, we're talking about that, we're having a laugh, we do events. You know? All this stuff, this all plays a role. And I might be ranting around rambling about this stuff now, but, like, if you're listening to this and you feel like all you want is to lose far quick, then you, you know, cancel your membership. It's not for you.
Speaker 1:And, hopefully, one day, you'll realize it is more than that. And then that and maybe it'll take you more you're yours to do it, and I just tell you the dangers of that. Maybe you stop to a nurse. You know, don't do it. All this is in combined.
Speaker 1:And then you look at the tools we provide for this. It's not that we do the app. We know it's not that we create the turtle method nutrition app and then the things on top. We have created this community first. Right, manually helping people over email spreadsheets, and now we're creating tools to make it easier than ever before.
Speaker 1:I wish the people who have downloaded the app would have seen the previous version, which was fill out the Google form, we then send you macros in a few days and then every week you send you a spreadsheet in and we have a look at it and reply. Us, looking at numbers can be done better by a smart algorithm. It's been programmed, it's got all the data we've ever had, it's very smart, it will make changes to your numbers and we also collect how accurate or how honest your tracking is so it plays into consideration as well. It looks at all this and makes decisions on a weekly basis on your macros app. When you track your food, you put your weight and your measurements, every week it reviews it and it will change your targets to make sure you're on track.
Speaker 1:MyFitnessPal does not do this. MyFitnessPal is just a tracker. MyFitnessPal has probably done more damage than has helped people for the average person. For athletes and stuff, fine, they understand it. For the average person going on there, given low calories, lose weight for a bit, but then weight loss stops, then what?
Speaker 1:You go and read it, MyFitnessPal read it, and you get some user 129376453. It tells you go low carb, or squirrel ninety four tells you to go high fat and keto, and then what you do? God knows. You're in you're in trouble. So we're automatically doing these changes for you, which is a difference, right?
Speaker 1:But the app we've done has enabled us, has given us a tool, not from a business perspective, but also for you guys. You've got a tool in your hand that's got an auto adjuster. It will automatically reduce your calories every day or increase them based on your previous day. If you overeat today, it reduces it in other days. If you under eat, it'll add those to the rest of the days.
Speaker 1:You can automatically plan this in as well or manually do it, more calories on weekends. It's a tool that can make it much easier. You just track and let it do its work. But it's also enabled us as a business to focus more on the human side. Daily audio chats in the morning, we call turtle radio, right?
Speaker 1:More sessions than ever. One to one email access with Adriana, our nutritionists, and other people so you can ask them human questions. We can look into it. As opposed to the numbers only, we say, let the app do the numbers. Let's talk human.
Speaker 1:And that's why we don't have a corporate customer service way. You see the Trustpilot replies to me talking as a human being to other human beings. Believe it or not, I'm not gonna get customer service agents to talk like robots. No way. No way.
Speaker 1:We don't wanna work our way. We don't wanna work as a big corporation. I wanna help people. I wanna speak to people. I wanna know you by your name.
Speaker 1:I wanna know what you do. I wanna know you as a person, then we can help. Personalities, different personalities, have a laugh, have a joke. That's what it's all about. I don't want to put this nonsense customer service stuff in between and act like that type of company because if we think something's alright, if we think something's unfair, we say it and I want you to say it to me if you think something's genuinely unfair.
Speaker 1:That's how honest communication works. At Turtle, we ask for feedback all the time. We've improved the app tremendously from honest feedback. But when there's dishonest feedback or feedback done in an emotional way because there's no instant results, that doesn't help anyone. Not only does that not help the person leaving the review because they're to go down that rabbit hole more quick results, it doesn't help another person reading the review because this could be exactly what they need, they get turned off by a dishonest review and it just doesn't help overall the business, us to help more people.
Speaker 1:Our mission, it doesn't help our mission and that's an unfair way of going about things. So that's Turtle. We've got a full access membership which includes mental health, mindset, book club, live workouts, dance sessions, yoga, all that stuff. And then we've got the Turtle Method Academy which is the app only, but that still gives you access to daily radio chats in the morning. You can listen to on a weekly nutrition Q and A with Doctor P, right?
Speaker 1:Doctor Paul, nutrition, PhD, all this stuff. So you've got a lot there. Please use it. Please go slowly. We're here to help.
Speaker 1:We're not here to rip off. We're not here to stake or take money. Just hope you never message us. We want to help real people. That's our purpose.
Speaker 1:That's my purpose. I feel alive when I'm helping as many people as I can. So that's our mission. If it sounds good, stick around. Join the radio.
Speaker 1:I would love to get to know you. Have a chat. Get involved with the community. Turn up to meetups when we do them. But if you want quick results and you don't care about anything I just said, you don't care about mindset, relationships, stoicism, Buddhism, my thoughts, why we think about stuff, just want fat loss and that's it, that's all you care about, I can't help you.
Speaker 1:Not yet, anyway. Maybe one day when you do realize that that's not the route to go down, we can help you. But other than that, listen. Go and enjoy your day. Enjoy your day, and hopefully catch you on the radio.
Speaker 1:If not, my email is always open for honest feedback. Scott@TurtleMethod.com. Whatever we can do to improve. We've got so many improvements coming. I can't wait to show them, but, always open for feedback.
Speaker 1:Right? So let me know if you're feeling down, you've want you feel help, you feel emotional, you feel stressed. Write something up first in an email. Send it to me, and let's chat, and that's it. We can go from there.
Speaker 1:But use this now as a prompt to go and do something. We got something called the one big thing in the app or the OBT. What's that one thing you can do today that moves the needle forward? Not, you know, tiny task. What's that one thing today that's gonna make you feel better?
Speaker 1:Is it a success? Is it a workout? Is it tracking? Is it going for a long walk? Whatever it is, use this prompt to get moving on that, and I'll speak to you all tomorrow.
