Get all the inside secrets and tools you need to help you develop your intuitive and leadership skills so you are on the path to the highest level of success with ease.  Patsy James shares her journey of weigh loss and emotional recovery from which we can all learn. 

In this episode you will learn:

• Healing begins with self-love
• Mindset Matters
• Simply Daily Habits

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Patsy James, National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach, has released over 120 lbs and kept it off for nearly 30 years. She inspires men and women with hope, anti-shame guidance, and practical strategies to achieve lasting, life-changing weight loss.

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Welcome to Destin for success. I'm your

host, Jennifer Takagi, and I'm so excited. It's pot of Palooza

Day, and I get to meet all kinds of new friends. And this friend

is Patsy James. Patsy's title of her talk, what she likes to

share about is pain to purpose, my 100 pound journey. I can't

wait to hear more about this. Patsy, thank you so much for

being here today.

Oh my goodness, thank you so much for having me.

I am so honored to be here and excited to share my story, and

I'm excited to be on this amazing day with you.

Well, okay, let's jump right in. Tell me

from purpose and how you lost 100 pounds. I might need to know

about that.

Well, my story is a pretty big one, but I've

actually been able to release over 120 pounds. I am four foot

11. I weighed 235 At my heaviest, and today I'm about

110 but to be honest, I don't really care about the number.

That number is just something that tortures us, but that's

just been my journey. This was about 28 years ago, so I've been

able to keep it off for over 28 years. And yeah, a lot of pain,

lot of suffering that happened, but I'm so grateful that I went

through that journey of releasing over 120 pounds, and

now I am a Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, so I

walk alongside my clients, and we figured this journey out

together so that they, too, can release whatever it is and have

lasting results. So that's basically my story in a

nutshell. But there's a lot you know along the journey, what

happened to cause me to gain that much weight, and what I've

done over all these years to keep it off. Which is, which is,

as I look back, it's like, wow, you know, it's pretty amazing.

As I look back, it's like, I can't believe I've been this

far. Have come this far.

Oh, I love that. And that whole idea of the

the pain that you went through that led you to where you are. I

actually was with some people I used to work with last week,

actually, and one of them, when we were talking about what I was

doing these days, I said, I keep being asked, are you so sad that

you didn't get into this sooner and you didn't leave your career

earlier? And I said, Oh no, I wouldn't have good stories and

and it sounds ridiculous at the time, I didn't know how to get

out, how to change my life, but now I can use all those stories

and help another so that that, you know, find the find the joy,

find the purpose in those stories. Is so powerful. So can

you give us a little snippet of, like, how you got to be over 100

pounds over, yeah, wanted to be, needed to be a healthy weight.

Like, give us a little snippet of that.

Okay, this is huge. Everyone got their seat belts

on. So I was raised in a religious cult, and that is a

huge curate in itself. And you know, basically I we live like

Amish people. We wore long prairie dresses. Everything was

about fear and shame, and I was able to literally escaped when

escaped when I was about 25 years old and had no education,

didn't know anything, and, you know, was horribly shunned

during that time, had no support, no education. But you

know, there was something in me that drove me no to know that

there was something bigger for me and something more powerful,

that, you know, I wanted to give to the world, and that I wanted

a better life, and through all of that pain and struggle and

suffering and deprogramming and just so you know, Jennifer, I am

just now in my 50s, starting to talk about my story in my

earlier years, and this is scary, so thank you for giving

me the safe pace, the safe place to share this. But yeah, going

through so much trauma and fear and self doubt, shame that just

pound just I just packed the pounds on and

fighting right, like I need protection. I need

to hide from this. And I think you made a point that I'm sorry

to interrupt, but I had to you said you knew there was more you

weren't exposed to. More you didn't. Seymour, I'm assuming,

being in this cult situation, but you knew there was more. And

I recently had a conversation with a friend about a book that

I read, and this little boy knew at eight years old he was not

living in the right environment, and literally called DHS to get

him out. And I was like, I was raised, fortunately, very, very

liberal Christian religion. My parents adored me. My sisters

and brother tormented me, but that's what right like nothing,

yeah, nothing out of the ordinary. But I told this

friend, I said, How do you know it ate this isn't right. And she

goes, Oh, I knew by eight it wasn't right. And I moved out of

the house at 16, and I was like, Holy crap. Holy like, how do you

do that? So I just want the listeners to grasp when you have

that inner voice, that inner knowing it comes from something

bigger than you, that you're not in the right place and you don't

have to stay there, cuz I think that's just a critical point,

and I'm honored that you're sharing your story with us

today. This is thank you bravery on your part. So thank you. It's

really scary,

but I want to be scared and do things that are

brave to help other people, and it helps me too. You know,

people ask me all the time, how did you do it? How did you leave

that situation and be where you're at today? And honestly,

Jennifer, my answer is, I don't know. There was just something

deep down, like you were just sharing that, you know, spurred

me on to like there is something better. And so I literally just

left. I babysat during the day, I waited tables at night, and I

figured it out one day at a time. You know, it literally

took me a good 20 years to detox from that situation, but the

weight was the most visible thing that I needed to detox

from was the weight, because everyone can see that, right?

And so I literally drew the line in the sand and said, I am

never, ever going to live like this, ever again. So I did

something very drastic. Jennifer, I went and visited a

surgeon, and I'm like, help. I need help. I want gastric

bypass. I want to conquer this problem for the and be done for

the rest of my life and move forward and upward. And you know

what? I didn't have enough money. Oh, I barely had

insurance that would cover, you know, an antibiotic for a cold

or whatever, like, I didn't have in my insurance was barely

enough to do anything, and I didn't have money. But you know

what? He saw something in me, and he said to me, he said, You

know what, I'm going to make sure you get this, and I don't

care about the money part. He's like, I see something in you,

and I want you to have this. And I'm getting emotional here, you

know, I couldn't believe it. I was just like, really? So we, we

did the surgery. I was in the hospital for five days. I had

the most aggressive surgery that I could possibly get, because I

drew that line in the sand. I do not want to go to go back to the

old me, and I knew that to get to the new me, I had to make all

these drastic and hard changes. So we had the surgery, I

recovered, and then I did everything wrong. We can go on

and on, but I literally lost. I went from 235 pounds girlfriend

to 100 pounds in six months. My hair fell out. I was

malnourished, but you know what, for darn sake, that number on

the scale said 100 pounds. And so I was like, I have lost 135

pounds. But you know what, I was sick. I was unhealthy, and that

is where my story basically begins, of my journey of now I'm

a national board certified health and wellness coach. You

know my goal was to not turn 30 at that weight. Well, my

birthday is this month. I'm turning 55 5% of the people who

do what I did keep their weight off. So I am standing on this

platform and yelling as loud as I can for anyone that can hear

me and wants to hear me and see me that you know what? Oh, my

goodness. Shame keeps you stuck. Shame but self cap, self

compassion, you know, pivots you forward in your goals. So now,

Jennifer, I'm happy to say I'm a national board certified health

and wellness coach. I walk alongside people on their health

and wellness journey, and it's not about the number on the

scale. It's not about what you eat or don't eat. It's not about

how you torture yourself. It's more about. Loving yourself,

figuring it all out, and continue going on this journey

of health and wellness.

It's so impressive. I'm just, I mean,

just in awe. And I'm just going to say not that, not that the

audio people can hear, but my video just went out. I think my

cat walked by and turned I

know I was like, I was thinking that maybe it was

me.

I think my cat turned it off. I think my cat

turned it off

when he maybe it scared your kitty. Who's that

girl yelling from her

her soapbox? Oh my gosh, no, I love it. And so

so much that you've said was so, so powerful. Because, thank you.

I've heard of people going to surgeons for gastric bypass, and

they literally were told, you have to lose 50 pounds before we

do the surgery. And their response was, if I could lose 50

pounds, I would have lost 50 pounds. So I'm sure there's a

whole lot of psychology behind that, like, How committed are

you to making this work? So, like, part of me kind of gets

it. Part of me is like, wait what I don't really understand.

But the fact that you lost it so quickly and you became unhealthy

like that is a story in and of itself, that there are lots of

medical advancements that can help us, but we really do need

to read the label, whatever that label is, like the self care

instructions after a gastric bypass or if I'm going to take a

pill or have a shot or whatever, there are really good

nutritional things that must go with it to be healthy. So you're

you're down to 100 pounds, your hair is falling out. You're

really not healthy. I'm just going to guess you didn't really

have energy to live the life you dreamed of anyway. Oh no, at

that point, did you decide I might need to eat a vegetable

and some protein so that I can live and be healthy. Like, was

that a hard transition of, I weigh 100 pounds and I'm

unhealthy to I could weigh 110 or 120 but be healthy. Like,

how? How did that process come about?

Jennifer, that's an awesome question. That's a

perfect question for this. So I was so focused on the number on

the scale, and I had it in my mind that as soon as I hit that

magic number, the skies run apart. The angels were going to

sing, and I would meet my dream man, and I would have millions

of dollars in the bank, and my life would be roses and

cherries. Well, you know what? That's not what happened to me,

girlfriend, you know, I every I lost friends, I wasn't healthy.

I did it all wrong, and so I had to, like, change everything my

mindset. I had to love myself. I had to have self compassion. I

had to realize that health truly is wealth, and just because you

are certain size doesn't mean that your life is going to be

better? No, no. So that is why that I'm sorry, but that's why

my clients love me, because I literally walk beside them, and

we figured out it's not about the number, it's not about

dieting, it's not about going these crazy exercise programs

that kill us. It's about finding out what we need to do to

literally release what's holding us back. Release we don't want

to find it ever again. So yes, I had to learn how to eat again,

how to learn nutrition. But the main thing was learning to love

myself and learning to get rid of all the shame, the self

doubt, the negative thoughts, that was the true key in my

journey of bouncing back from literally being a malnourished

human being. I looked like I had cancer. I mean, it was not

pretty, but the number said 100 you know, but I had to learn the

hard way, and that is why I'm so passionate about what I do.

Jennifer, like I literally see people's lives change, and I am

right there with you, by the way. Can I share real quick if

you are curious about who I am, I'm on Instagram, and it's Patsy

James fit over 50, and I am launching a new signature

program. January 2 is when it's going live, and I only have a

limited number of spots, and it's going to be life changing.

It's not about dieting, it's not about killing yourself with

marathons. It's about loving ourselves, having Compassion,

releasing what's holding us back, and just getting rid of

the fear and the shame.

I love that. So what I'm taking from this

conversation is working with you. You help with the mindset.

Because those crazy stories going through our mind, they

keep us in the stories going through our mind, and don't get

us out of them. But that plus nutrition. So do clients you

work with also have gastric bypass? Or is it exercise, diet

and mindset?

You know, they're all everybody's on their own

journey. I mean, I use the surgery as a tool. And so I

preach that like crazy. You know, if you need a tool, I can

help you get the right tool for you, if it's GLP ones, if it's

surgery, if it's just the extra support of whatever it is. So

everybody's so different. Everyone's on their own journey.

And what works for me may not work for you, so I like to

figure it out together. It's so much better when you have

someone on your team, isn't

it? Well, you have to, it's like coaches have

to have coaches, right? Like, we can't do this on our own. And I

have a friend who recently had, I don't know if it's the right

term, gastric sleeve, gastric band. Oh, yeah, different. I

don't know if they're the same. But she said, like, the hardest

thing was on with that you can't have any carbonated beverages.

And she said giving up my diet coke every day was really hard,

but in giving that up, then I was able to give up the sugars

and give up the carbs and some of the other things that had

kind of led to the weight gain. And she had lost it. I don't

know, it had been five or six months, and she had lost like,

40 pounds, and was already feeling better. So I love that

you say it's all tools, and we can all heal ourselves. I'm an

energy healer also, and so like we can heal ourselves, but we

need support. We need help. We need the tools. We need the

things so that we can move forward in that so powerful,

powerful stuff, so as a newbie in this world with you, Miss

Patty James. I'm find John. Instagram, I wrote that down.

Thank you. Like,

if, if I wanted to make one small change towards

having a healthier journey physically, the the eating

nutrition piece, do you have like one thing that would be

beneficial to start making a change in my life?

This may sound silly to you, but this is one of

my favorite things to do, to like incorporate into your daily

life, drink water. Drink water. You know, the first thing I do

when I wake up is, well, let me back up. So before I go to bed

at night, I put a glass of water in my next to my bed, as full as

I can get it, have some electrolytes in it that I like,

and it's room temperature. The first thing I do is I I set up

in bed before I do anything, and I enjoy that precious glass of

room temperature electrolyte water. And boy, I tell you, that

will get you bouncing. So, you know, drink, drink. Drink that.

And then if you want to take it a depth, a step farther, have a

have another glass before your meal. You know that's going to

help you get hydrated. It's going to increase your energy,

and it's going to help you not to overeat. It'll help you slow

down a little bit. And we can go on and on about this, but you

know, I I want my clients and you listeners, everyone who's

watching us, to be grateful for our food and enjoy it, and, you

know, use it for what it is. It's to nourish and fuel our

bodies, you know, and we can do other things to fill our hearts

with so just, you know, being grateful. Sorry you asked for

one, but I keep going, being grateful for the water, our

healthy food that we have, and being grateful for one another.

Imma. Share one more thing, if that's okay. Of course, I have

created in my daily habit a gratitude walk. So after I've

had my water, I get up, I do some quick things, and then I

head out for 1015, 30, minute gratitude walk, and it's not to

go out there and, you know, burn calories and work up a sweat.

It's basically go out there and do breathing exercises, become

aligned, think about the day and be grateful. And if it if you

can be grateful for just one thing. I know life's tough, it

could be just you're grateful for your legs that move, you

know our eyes that can see, or whatever it is that's to me,

will definitely set you on a great path for your day and for

your life. It's those small little things

i i love this and I love the water thing

because I had a friend and we were traveling to. Other, and

she got just a little under the weather, not full blown sick,

but under the weather. And I was like, You need to drink more

water. And she was like, oh, yeah, I've been drinking a lot.

And I was like, no, like, I've been watching you. Like, 12

ounces a day is not sufficient. I'm sorry. You're just like, you

need more than that. So that drinking water, we take it for

granted, because those of us who live in first world countries

where clean water is available, we take it for granted. Other

places they wish they could have a cup of water a day. So this

has been amazing, Patsy. I'm so happy to have met you today, and

as we wrap up, the podcast is destined for success, closing

thoughts on your success journey for the audience, you

know what small little changes move that needle

in either way you're going to be go the one way to become

healthier towards your goals, or the other way to where you're

not so just take tiny little steps each day. It doesn't have

to be anything huge, and you know, just love yourself, love

yourself, give yourself Self Compassion, and you know life is

good.

Thank you so much. I'm Jennifer Takagi with

Dustin for success, and I look forward to connecting with you

soon. Bye.