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Weight Loss Expert: Losing Weight Is a Spiritual Process (Disguised as Fitness) - Dan Go

Weight Loss Expert: Losing Weight Is a Spiritual Process (Disguised as Fitness) - Dan Go

Update: 2025-11-04
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Is sustainable weight loss really a spiritual awakening disguised as fitness?

Dan Go: Weight Loss Is a Spiritual Process Disguised as FitnessJosh Trent welcomes Dan Go, High Performance Fitness Coach, to the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 779, to reveal why true transformation doesn't start in the gym but inside the mind, how food becomes a coping mechanism for childhood wounds, why identity change is the missing link in every fitness journey, and how emotional debt and generational trauma keep us stuck in cycles of sabotage.


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In This Episode, Dan Go Uncovers:

[01:20 ] Fitness Fuels Spirituality

  • How physical growth fuels spiritual growth.
  • Why food addiction is the hardest addiction to break.
  • What benefit we get from eating unhealthy food.
  • How food became a coping mechanism for Dan when he was a child.
  • The importance of identifying the root cause of our habits in order to remove them.

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[07:55 ] Healing Generational Curses

  • Why generational curses follow us.
  • How Dan and his family had to leave China and moved to Canada.
  • Why he anger helped him achieve his goals.
  • How he tried to channel his anger into exercise but it didn't solve the problem.
  • The importance of learning how to label our emotions.

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[14:20 ] What's Really Stopping You From Losing Weight

  • Why weight loss that is tied to actions is not sustainable long-term.
  • How many people don't feel like they deserve to be healthy.
  • Why weight loss and staying fit are a lifelong process.
  • How we can change how we look through what we say.

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[21:45 ] You Can't Stay Fit Without an Identity Change

  • The difference between people who are able to maintain their weight loss and the ones who don't.
  • Why we can't surround ourselves with people who allow our bad habits.
  • How the process of identity change is uncomfortable.
  • Why we need to change our identity in order to lose weight.

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[27:15 ] Stop Trying to Escape

  • How we're trying to escape something through our bad habits.
  • Why we need to uncover the layers to get to the root cause.
  • How we usually replace one bad habit with another until we fix the real issue.

[30:25 ] How You Create Emotional Debt

  • Why we don't allow ourselves to feel the feelings.
  • The importance of sitting and befriending our feelings.
  • How emotional debt is created.
  • Why we can only start healing once we become aware of the root cause of our behavior.

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[33:35 ] What Motivates Change

  • Why the transformation of the body starts in the mind.
  • How some people need to hit rock bottom in order to begin their transformation.
  • Why our children can be the strongest driver for healing and change.
  • How Dan realized he was recreating his childhood with his children.

[39:10 ] Transformation Is Painful

  • Why we need to experience pain in order to change.
  • How we can manufacture the pain without actually going through it.
  • Why the process of transformation is painful.
  • How pain can become the signal for change.

[42:15 ] Circadian Meal Timing

  • How 90 minutes per week can get us in shape.
  • Why emotional healing is an essential part of body transformation.
  • The importance of meal timing.
  • Why the body is a machine and we need to understand how it works.
  • How we should naturally stop eating 2 to 3 hours before sleep.
  • Why we're not supposed to eat when we're hungry.

[49:20 ] Follow Your Digestive Rhythm

  • How digestive rhythm changes throughout the day.
  • Why we digest more slowly at night.
  • How hunger is the biggest struggle in weight loss.
  • Why we need to allow ourselves to feel hunger.

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[53:20 ] The Importance of Sleep

  • Why we eat more calories when we don't sleep well.
  • How good quality sleep can make us less hungry.
  • Why tracking our sleep can help us create a better sleep routine.

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[56:45 ] Are You Truly Healthy? Only Tests Can Tell

  • The importance of hormone regulation and nutrition intake.
  • Why most people who come to Dan lack vitamin D3 and magnesium.
  • How blood testing tells us the truth about our health.

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[59:10 ] How to Change The Source Code

  • How too much belly fat takes away blood flow to the brain.
  • Why fat creates a blockage for intuition to work properly.
  • How most of the world's population is not metabolically healthy.
  • Why getting in shape will transform our entire lives.
  • What self-love truly means.

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"When you start to get your body in shape, you will take the steps to transform your entire life. It becomes a spiritual process. You heal the parts that you need to heal. You shed your old skin and you have to turn into a different person." — Dan Go

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Weight Loss Expert: Losing Weight Is a Spiritual Process (Disguised as Fitness) - Dan Go

Weight Loss Expert: Losing Weight Is a Spiritual Process (Disguised as Fitness) - Dan Go

Dan Go, Josh Trent