Hey folks, I'm just coming back online (literally and figuratively) after a couple of weeks off due to recently becoming a dad. Both wife and son are doing well and I'm feeling very grateful and blessed. Having said that, it's time to get back to work into it and I've got renewed energy and motivation for helping men reclaim their physical power and autonomy. Which is why I want the next video to come from you. Here are the topics you can vote on:

Hey, glad you're in. Here's exactly what to do now: - Step 1: Introduce yourself Drop a comment below. Keep it simple: → Where you're based → What your week looks like (work, travel, family) → The one thing that keeps derailing you No need to write an essay. Just enough so we know who you are. - Step 2: Head to the Classroom I'm building this out as we go. New training on lifting, fasting, and nutrition keep being added. Head in, start with what's there, and it'll keep growing around you. - Step 3: Upgrade to Premium (optional) If you want the full system, not just pieces of it, the Premium tier is $7/month at founding member price. That includes the Get Consistent course and everything added from here. Price goes up as more people join. Upgrade here: https://www.skool.com/forge-lift-fast/plans - Step 4: Work with me directly I'm currently looking for a small number of people I can work with personally. Full 1-on-1 coaching, tailored to your schedule and your life. I only take 5 clients at this price to keep the quality high, and spots go when they go. If that sounds like you, book a call or reply to the DM I just sent you. Any questions, message me directly. I reply to everything. I'll go first: I'm based in Amsterdam, train 4x week on average, fast 16:8 on most days but do longer multi-day fasts on occasion. My first kid is due in a few weeks! What keeps derailing me? Finding the right balance between building my business, training, and managing my recovery in between :) Onwards. 🔥 /George P.S. What's your biggest obstacle right now?

Longer fasts have taught me one thing I didn't expect: I couldn't tell the difference between being hungry and being stressed. Not until I had no choice but to sit with it long enough to find out which was which. I didn't used to question hunger if I’m being honest. My approach was something along the lines of: I feel hungry → I eat. Waiting felt… unnecessary. If food was there, if the feeling was there, done. The realization came during my very first 3-day fast back in 2022. At the time it felt like I was embarking on some really bizarre niche experiment. Who doesn’t eat for 3 full days?! My culture (Lebanese) is so food-focused I didn’t dare mention the experiment to any of my friends for fear of being subjected to an intervention (flatbread included). Back to that first fast: by day three a significant portion of what I had been registering as hunger in the days before had just gone quiet. Not suppressed, just registered. Noted. Moving on. When that happened I didn't know what to make of it. If I was genuinely hungry on day one, how was I less hungry on day three? And then gradually it started to make sense, because what dropped away wasn't actual physical hunger. It was everything else I had been calling hunger that wasn't. The expectation of eating at a certain time. The habit and association between a particular hour and food appearing. The reach for a snack when I was stressed, tired, or when some task felt harder than I wanted it to feel. All of that had been arriving in the same package as real hunger, with the same feeling (kind of) and the same urgency. And I had been treating all of it as the same signal requiring the same response. Fasting forced me to sit with the sensation long enough to actually tell them apart because then there was no other option. The discomfort was there but the food wasn't, and eventually the discomfort started to reveal itself for what it truly was. The bastard. On most normal eating days now I can notice the difference. Reaching for something because I'm genuinely hungry feels different from reaching for something because I'm bored, or avoiding something I don't want to think about.

Been meaning to ask this for a while. Curious where people are stuck, whether with your workouts, fat loss, or juggling both at once. Cast your vote below, and drop a comment if it's something more specific than the options cover. Might turn into next week's post.

Every day you wake up and have to decide whether you're training, you've already started a negotiation with yourself. And that manifests at the worst possible time: When you're tired, when the week has already taken something from you, when the couch is right there and tomorrow genuinely exists as an option. The decision being open is the problem. Not your willpower, not your schedule, not how busy things have been. But here's the thing, your brain likes slots. Try this: make the decision once, in advance, and take it off the table entirely. That means booking your sessions at the start of the week the same way you'd book a client call or a meeting. Not as a reminder. Not as a rough intention. Make it a fixed appointment that has a time and a place attached to it. When Monday morning comes around and the week starts pulling at you, the decision is already made. There's nothing left to negotiate with. The practical version of this is simple: 1. pick your days 2. pick your times 3. put them in your calendar 4. treat a clash as a scheduling problem to solve rather than a reason to cancel. If something genuinely moves the session, you reschedule it, you don't drop it. This week, before you do anything else, open your calendar and book next week's sessions right now. Not the week after, not when things settle down. Now, while the intention is still there. That one action will do more for your consistency than anything else I could tell you. Onwards.