It's a crime this channel isn't bigger, Lamont. It's always great to hear from you anyway, but how you include things that aren't ONLY language learning is excellent. For my own selfish wants, I hope your channel gets big enough that you ONLY have time for family, language learning, and KZfaq because I want more of your insights on things more often. And congratulations on the weight loss. Anyone who thinks it isn't significant either doesn't have a weight problem or hasn't lost that much themselves! Well done. 🤘

Phenomenal video! I've been watching your videos for a while but didn't realise until this one how similar our lives and lifestyles are - and I could not have found this video at a better time, as I'm just starting my own wait loss / junk food addiction journey. Keep up the excellent work my dude, and congratulations on the transformation! I hope you're still going strong and feeling good.

Inspiring stuff. I've been getting lazy lately and these mindset tips are helpful. Would be interested to hear more about your food choices and muscle-building routine, maybe on your members channel.

This is brilliant, almost like creating an alter ego/persona to accomplish your tasks. I think I’m going to try this!

Great video and the transformation is a night and day difference! I quite liked the method acting style approach of adopting a different mindset - certain niche natural bodybuilders also use (on purpose) fictional characters as a source of inspiration and of something to aim towards, but I haven't really thought of it in the style of already becoming that character and adopting their habits and habits from day 0. It does make a lot of sense though considering how our beliefs about ourselves aka the stories we believe are essentially self fulfilling prophesies and I see no reason why not to adopt a story that already has the desired ideals integrated and adopting the behaviors from that mindset. I think its an especially interesting practice as it can almost be a type of window from which you can peek to a potential different lifestyle immediately without having to first build a level of self belief that would allow one to improve. Ironically though, seeing it actualized in reality through said window can be exactly what it might take for many people to start building that confidence in the first place. After all, they don't need confidence to peek through that window at first, as its "not them", but instead someone else who's shoes you get to try on for a day.

It’s so hot here in Perth that I’ve been living off Cornettos and ice cold beer. I need to change that. Lol. Inspirational stuff Lamont, you’ve given me kick up the ass to try and be better!

Alternate title: "I learned Swedish and now I am literally Dolph Lundgren"

Absolute insane transformation bro!!! So proud of one of my favourite creators, great job man honestly 💪

This is really good insight. I started running about 6 weeks ago after quitting my job (to start a business). I needed a way to get out more, so I bought a gym membership, and have really enjoyed running and doing some lifting. I’m on the thinner side, and have a fast metabolism so I’ve never had any weight issues. People seem to think being skinny solves your problems, but it doesn’t. After realizing I was anemic, I also started taking an iron supplement, and with working out about 3x a week I already have more energy to complete basic tasks (I.e., DISHES and LAUNDRY, which were such a burden before!). I need to start thinking about food and language learning in the ways you’ve mentioned. Although I don’t over eat, the foods I eat are not going to help me! I need to cook more whole foods. I’m learning Hindi, and I think saying, “I’m going to listen to Hindi stories and run,” vs, “I’m going to run, and maybe listen to some Hindi,” will help improve my learning. It can be hard because since getting familiar with a new language, it feels like my head is exploding with ideas of what I could say, but my vocabulary simply isn’t there. Great video, I will be thinking about this more.

Great video cheers Lamont. I would love to combine exercise with language learning. I haven't yet managed to listen while I exercise though, as I feel like I need music motivation to get through the jog. My compromise was to listen to music in my target language though haha. but you're not really paying attention to the words anyway. I think some people also struggle with attention, me personally I am really bad at passively listening to something whilst I do something esle. eg. jogging, cleaning, driving, and listening to something, I kind of need to be sitting down and 100% focussed on the content. one thing that has helped me though to stay somewhat focussed on audio content whilst doing somthing else is the shadowing technique, ie. just repeating what you hear immediately after you hear it. this at least forces me to stay with the content a bit

You are one of the most cerative and imaginative and interesting persons I learned to know thanks to KZfaq and thanks to the language learning interest! This video is so fresh in its approach! Your three-year old is such a typical Swedish kid, so you actually must have Swedish genes! Probably your wife has, too! I'm glad you dared to show us your charming kids! Your genes might be Swedish for a fact, via Scotland, but who cares, you are now a Swede by choice and merit, no doubt about it! Well done if you colonize Australia a bit! 🙂Remember "lördags-godis" which should be a small amount of treats for the kids only on Saturdays. I usually made a mixture of chocolate, gummy-bears (?), raisins, peanuts, and home-made popcorn. These are the things I eat (in southern Sweden, mainly vegetarian, preferably organic and fair-trade, "foraged" at the local store. I don't eat too much often, but never want to be too hungry, either): Breakfast: two pieces of home baked bread (a scones recipe with whole grain - dinkel and oats - and with added this and that for health) and non-dairy cheese; a huge cup of dairy-free cocoa, stevia sweetened. Lunch: a bowl of blueberries, banana, lots of fiber (husk, oats), a spoonfull of pumpkin protein, a cup of Greek youghurt (dairy, fatty), apple-sauce (organic/local, homemade, unpeeled, cooked, mixed, light sweetened). Dinner: a veggie soup or salad - with sandwich if I'm extra hungry. I make my meals out of 3-4 veggies (varying them), and I prefer the recipes to be quick to prepare. What is Swedish about this? That we preferably use organic/local apples, potatoes, carrots, kales, flour, eggs, virgin oils of rape-seed, and almost always we can find that. Many are often more expensive than the imported and unhealthier variants, but then we just take simpler ingredients. Apples are cheaper than kiwi, local organic potatoes+carrots are cheaper than imported sweet potatoes, conserved organic tomatoes (for soups) are cheaper than organic when out of season, Swedish leek is always cheap and endures a few (centi)grades of frost really well and the green parts are good to eat, too, etc. I think it is very Swedish to consider health all the time, reading the list of ingredients, keeping up with official recommendations, and being generally fuzzy about health and environmental issues. For example we have the traditional Nordic pattern of healthy eating (Nordisk kost) which is scientifically claimed to be as healthy as the Mediterranean. It is high-lighted everywhere, also at the doctor's (and we have almost free health services compared to the USA). Additionally we have "Nordic walking" with poles (my hubby's poles have a bungy function, that enhances the training for upperbody muscles). Generally we get all kinds of health information. So keep it up, you are doing great, Swedish Lamont! Your exercise is visible on the photos. Congrats to your healthy, imaginative approach, it fits your personality perfectly! And thank you very much for sharing!

Fantastic concept! I gotta say, this doesn't have to be a particular "healthier" nation, like, if I have no affinity with Sweden, thinking of myself as Swedish probably wouldn't do anything. I bet this is tied to our linguistic sub-personalities. I've not experimented with exercising, but i do know that my native language personality (Russian) is full of insecurities and childhood trauma and all the bad shit that's ever happened to me. My English sub-personality is confident, funny, outgoing, etc, because she's never been through all that horrible stuff that my Russian self has been through. My French sub-personality for some weird reason is super into history and politics, which I don't even know where it came from, lol. If you convince yourself you're your own alter ego, there's no stopping!

I recently moved into a city, and this has reminded me that I can use this to my advantage. When I was out in the boonies, winter means all my walking trails are covered with deep enough snow that the slog is unappealing, amd the snowbanks narrow the roads dangerously. Now, the closest library is almost an hour walk away (less for others because I amble), and there's parks relatively nearby, too. Winter is my time for doing things because I have time and energy because summer is high season for my trade. Nu kör vi!

I’m a very big fan of this KZfaq channel.

This is so interesting. I am learning norwegian and want to get outside the house more. I think of norwegian people as really outsidy, this video will definately help on both levels. I am also working on « recalling » my german language. Do you have a video about recalling or on how you manage to learn/pratice different languages at the same time? Thank you.

I know this is not your "typical" language learning type of video, but I think this is a great idea to help shift mindset ! I'm a German language learner, and I keep thinking to myself lately, in regards to my own fitness/well-being journey, that I would like to adopt Spaizergang. (I mean hey, if I get to stay in Germany again, even just for short holiday, I don't want to be the American who can't walk for more than a mile before getting winded 😅) But I'd like to imagine that while I'm walking around here in my small, car-reliant city and neighborhood (which you get weird looks for walking to the nearby supermarket which isn't even more than a 20 minute walk away), that I am simply a Deutscher and it's a perfectly normal thing to do. Great video man :^)

I have a similar story to tell. As a kid I was often ill and skipped a lot of PE classes. Compared to other children, I was complete trash, and my skills got even worse. Everyone hated to be in the same team with me, so my hatred to PE classes grew larger. I attended every class I could, but I was convinced, that I am unable to become better at it. As a university student, I started learning Chinese. I was lucky enough to get a semester of studying abroad. My Chinese university had some optional courses, and I ended up taking wushu class (despite being really scared, but I would never forgive myself missing this chance). This experience turned out to be great. I got the worst grades in my group, but it was absolutely fun. A year and a half ago I realized, that my energy level was really low, because I lacked exercise and movement. I started looking for a sports club. I wanted it to be something martial arts related. I have always been a martial arts admirer, but I had a strong disbelief in myself. However, this positive experience in China changed my perspective. Now I am a fencer in historic european martial arts. It's been a year and a half since my first training session. Since september, I go to gym regularly. Everything is possible if you believe in it

great job i can really see a difference great job telling yourself you were swedish you look slightly happier now

Doubling energy levels is legit the best selling point for exercise that I've ever heard! You may have convinced me to go back to the gym consistently

Great video as always, and on the physical fitness part you might find that doing Resistance Training (weights) can be very helpful alongside your Running training. Not only does it improve body composition but help avoid injuries and muscle atrophy as you age (assuming you don’t do any type of resistance training)

Another good video. Having sub-personas is definitely a thing. I become much more extraverted when I switch into Spanish, and even sometimes use my hands to talk. LOL. What watch is that where you can put MP3 files or whatever on them to listen to as you do stuff? It's been decades since I've worn a watch, but that could be useful.

Oh man, drinking 5 cups of coffee every morning did that?! Great job! As a person that has struggled for a decade with diet and exercise and keeping it up, I really just had to accept future me is a person and I need to care about. It was -10 here yesterday and I ran 8km, it's -7 right now and I'm going to run 15 after finishing this video. Last year I ran a 5K where a 66 year old ran it in 24 minutes and I want to be that guy. The net energy increase you get from staying active is so counterintuitive that I think it only makes sense when people see it. We had Thanksgiving here on Thursday and I ran my daily 8K and then cooked for 8 hours and I think it was eye opening for some in my family. Again, great job!

You’re right about your stories analogy. We tell ourselves all kinds of stories about ourselves, most of them untrue. You might as well make up a good one and run with it.

I am not going for a walk or a run, i am heading out the door for my language session.

The timing of this video is crazy. I don’t exercise much but I recently got into roller blading and I was wondering if the exercise would help me comprehend learning spanish, or just make my head function better. I can just listen to a spanish book while bladin’ around. Great video brother. PS: I recently started learning another language and your videos helped me immensely with how to learn. Keep it up dude!

I'm an American learning Spanish and that's almost exactly how I lost weight

I learnt Spanish and gained weight because of manchego 🙏

How long does it take you the write a script? The wording is always spot on. A few rewrites or are you pretty good at nailing it first time? What i retained: - think of exercise as a byproduct/simultaneous activity to language time. - use how you want to feel in the near future i.e. a few hours from now as a way to push you to eat healthy now and resist that treat. - you and i are the same age - we have different lives and metabolisms but also a habit of eating what we shouldn't ;) Do you have a tip for finding comprehensible input as a beginner that fits in with this combining of sport and language learning? Since i cant read listen and workout to increase comprehensibility. I'm doing Danish every day with LingQ mini stories in the morning, then passively listening to the radio while i work. Passive may be a good supplement but its active immersion thats where most progress is at, right??

Congratulations!!! That's fantastic!! I love what you said about exercise giving you more time than it takes. That's so true! I'm gonna try that mindset shift, fingers crossed! So many good take-aways from this video, thank you so much!

13:00 love your facial expressions of a criminal on those "before and after" photos.

I've been following you for years now, the same for KZfaq in general. Nonetheless, I sincerely don't understand how come you're still under 100k subscribers. This is amazing. Your videos are well-cut, innovative, interesting, hell, really, I don't get it. Keep up the good work, mate.

Working on my Spanish persona. At heart I’m a good German. As a child, I was Tri lingual with a strong programming that French was la plus belle langue du monde. After 3 years of Spanish reeducation it’s time to learn German.

I've been waiting for this video! Thanks for sharing. I struggle with junk food, but your reset /different identity idea is awesome. Years ago i started a new job and my officemate thought i said i didnt eat chocolate. At the work potluck i was offered cake and he said, she doesn't eat chocolate. I embraced the new identity for 6 months, but then felk back into my old ways. Definitely going to give this a try again.

Great video mate. Incredible achievement too. Keep us updated!

Thank you. I needed to hear this.

love the low-progress progress pics (even though i see a ton of progress!) slow and sustainable change is the way forward. keep going, lamont!

Your transformation is pretty significant, anyone who is knowledgeable about fitness would say so.

I was really prepared to think this video would be contrived and unhelpful. I’ve been wrong before and glad you made me wrong again.

I'm interested

I've consistently failed to make the kind of permanent changes to my diet and lifestyle that I need to make. I'm starting to think I need to give it another try. I am painfully aware that I tend to eat my emotions. I'm a very anxious person and it seems like I attempt to eat it away with bad food and lots of it. Despite the cliché that admitting it is the first step to change, admitting it has never made much difference to me. I always end up falling back into old habits when I'm tired or stressed or just craving something that tastes good.

Great video! Really inspiring, since as a junk food/food addict that just started a 3 month program, it really resonated with me, well done!

i just discovered your channel, and honestly your videos are super well put together !! this is a very interesting way of applying a sort of general life discipline to combine sports and language learning (which are coincidentally my two main hobbies lol) the two have way more in common than it may seem initially keep up the good work and good luck with this fitness journey 💪¡tú puedes!

really big fan of these tips! the narrative shift is really useful, there's often this feedback loop of "i'm not the sort of person who does X, small steps to do X more often or more easily are for the sort of people who do X -> i won't take those small steps -> i end up not doing X -> i'm not the sort of person who does X", rinse and repeat so finding a way to short-circuit that and reverse it, even if it's with a silly little story you tell yourself, can help a lot! it sounds like another benefit of tying exercise and language learning like you did was that even if your motivation and focus on one started to fade and shift to the other, it still wouldn't fall by the wayside

You’re absolutely right. As a language learner (Swedish also) it is so important to have mental energy which can only come through being physically well. Managing family life, full time work and language learning is hard. So this video is wonderful and very inspiring.

If placebos can cure and kill, then what if you could be your own placebo without the tricks? I love the journey of "this is about languages" to "This is what I do to be the best version of me"

Du kan göra en uppföljare där du äter svensk mat, exempelvis Frukost- kaffe Fika- kaffe Lunch- kaffe Kvällsmat- kaffe Dessert- snus

You look absolutely shredded now.

I'm so happy for you!

Everything is mental and I think you’re right about the fast food. I picture myself as an American and most of us eat too much junk food. I want to get back to my weight when I was in Japan so I guess it’s time to think of what mental image of myself can get me there. I could go Japanese but I don’t know how to cook any Japanese food 😂.

Another great video Lamont. If you’ve ever read Atomic Habits by James Clear, much of what you’ve said aligns with his advice. Instead of being someone who wishes they could learn languages, identify as a person who is a language learner. As soon as you identify as that person, you can easier do the kind of things a language learner does, because now you are one. Similarly, instead of being someone who wants to lose weight or get fitter, identify as a person who actively looks after themselves, and start to do the things that kind of person does. I’ve never been able to language learn whilst running though. How do you do it? I always walk and listen simultaneously, and walk to listen and listen to walk, just as you describe doing for running. I can also do this for weight lifting. But I’ve always needed music to run… and it needs to be epic music, the kind of music where I can imagine myself running in order to do some heroic event, or running from something extremely dangerous. 😂 I suppose I need to identify as the sort of person who language learns whilst running and see what that does… Something you touched on slightly, but I wonder if you have plans to expand on… did you find your ‘active’ language study (or any other kind of mental activity) improved when done immediately after running? Anecdotally, I believe my study sessions are better and I’m able to retain more information if I do that session after some strenuous exercise like a run. Anyway. Great video, as ever.

Everytime I start losing weight I start learning a new language

I’m so glad I found your channel, I love the way you think.

What an interesting idea! Its really made me think, its like an extension of how some people seem to have different personalities in different languages, why shouldn't it extend to a persons habits

So, I've started finally making health gains when I started taking an anti-depressant cocktail. It's not stimulant and has helped my un-diagnosed ADHD-I. I felt like I was addicted to food, and in a real sense I was. I would get the happy chemical hit that others get just through living. I'm not offering medical advice, but stating that this is a thing to look into/

Looking good my guy, love your vids

What watch is that? My sister has the Apple Watch and loves it but omg it’s $400

I'm not always pairing my activities and I am often distracted by shiny things in English, but when I can kill two birds with one stone is when I make most progress, even when I am killing one or both of the birds less efficiently than I otherwise would. I really think that for my almost certainly ADHD brain it is one of the only ways not to wander off and do something else entirely. Like if I'm listening to a podcast while painting, I will inevitably zone out of one at some point as I get more focused on the other, but that's always better than not doing it at all. And languages really do give you different personalities/idealised selves that you can tap into as a resource.

Me, who is learning Latin: _sharpens sword with intent._

Nice video. Now as a native Spanish speaker I'm always a bit confused about your farewell because "lo quiero" means "I want it" whereas "los quiero" means "I love you (all)". I haven't realized before how this tiny phonetic difference has a big difference in meaning. However it would be understandable if you have a Cuban friend or something similar, because Caribbean Spanish speakers sometimes omit some "s" sounds in their speech. But as I know you were in Mexico recently it strikes me as an odd pronunciation to choose.

From now on I am Dylan: Brazilian jigalo

Have you heard the old podcast piskan och moroten? Its an unfit swedish comedian and her extreamly fit and healthy friend. Its not about diet at all just fitness and how to change your identity to a fit person. that are going to try to get Ina in shape but she is struggleing alot. I make it sound a bit boring but its a very very fun podcast. Its what made me start jogging. I highly recomend it its one of my favorite podcasts. 😊

"You can't satisfy your past hungry self." This is why I've gained weight quickly after recovering from every serious illness I've had. It then takes a long time to get my weight back to normal. It makes sense now.

You should see the candy stores in Sweden. Some of them are the size of a fairly good-sized grocery store, but it’s all candy! I think even Willy Wonka would be impressed. Of course, I’m only familiar with the parts of Sweden that are near the Norwegian border, and those stores probably cater mostly to Norwegians. So maybe the rest of Sweden is all vegetables and health food stores.

Swedish viking gigachad

You mentioning memetics caught me off guard!

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9:31 Lol Dude calm down

seems like great work. but the funny thing is, it's weird that you consider 85kg to be fat. like in the US, that's thin. i'm about 82kg and people regularly call me too skinny and tell me i need to gain weight.

The classic principle of "fake it till you make it"

Well this is impressive Well when you experience a country not made of fast food and other things, then this is more likely to live healthier

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Lamont, the worlds most relatable life coach.

now he's going to America

Oh look atomic habits

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I feel like the progress picture is cheating if you breath in your belly, flex your muscles and have hard lighting in the better one, but you do look skinnier so that’s definitely something to be proud of. No need to fake your progress. Will only lead to unnecessary insecurity and lower self-respect.

Hey Lamont, not sure if you've ever read it but there is a great book called Atomic Habits. The reverse book of that, which I also enjoyed, was The Biology of Desire which is sorta like how bad habits get built, but if you've read Atomic Habits first it makes a lot of sense on the smaller levels.

You calling yourself overweight at as little as 86 kilos should be a wakeup call for me ngl lol

I guess English must be bad for my health. I have to use it in moderation.

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Hi Lamont. I'm Italian and I'm trying to get my English to the next level, while also improving my French.The reasons are infinite, mastering English is basically a must in today's world and of course I also enjoy doing that immensely; French is very useful in general, but especially to a student of "Humanities", or Literature, or whatever you wanna call it, which I am, and the prospect of going to France for a while also seems feasible to me. However, I recently unexpectedly grew an interest in Swedish. I don't know how to explain it briefly, it just kind of sounds too beautiful, it makes me daydream and I feel like it would give me the opportunity to get to know a culture I have zero experience with. But I don't know if I will actually ever go to Sweden, where by the way it is said that almost everyone can speak fluent English, and I am certain that a language like German would prove valuable no matter what I end up doing in my life. I'm also a bit scared by the fact that Swedish dub almost doesn't exist, so I can't even watch things I've already watched in my target language. So I want to ask you, who are probably the person I most respect on the internet, what advice would you give to me in my situation? As a 23 years old student, scared of missing out too many things in exchange of a language I could never end up using, who does not have the slightest "need" of learning it aside from a genuine interest with fragile foundations (it really is a sort of fantasy and nothing more), and who would profit a lot by really mastering English, French and then jumping to German, with 100% possibility regardless of what I'll do in my life (which I absolutely don't know). Thank you very much, love from Italy.

Low tier KZfaqr? Nah. Grassroots KZfaqr.

Multilingual magical thinking? lol Can't you just do what's good without so much nonsense?

I'm an American learning Spanish and that's almost exactly how I lost weight