David Goggins is Gomer's Therapist

"I'm like wildly obese, right?" Gomer says about eight minutes in, somewhere between defending his protein shake and bringing up David Goggins. He's down thirty pounds. Luke's question, which takes him forty-five minutes to ask outright, is why a guy who'll do all this won't call a therapist. In This Episode: Gomer's actual answer for why he hasn't gone to therapy — he wants the story to be that he white-knuckled it and everything was fine. He calls that a tool of the devil. A listener with an eating disorder background once wrote in to say that picking a diet can just be the disorder wearing different clothes. Gomer calls it a brilliant way of looking at it and then applies it to himself. Why Gomer does mobility work now. His dad's cartilage wore down to bone on bone, walking got hard so he walked less, and the hip replacement in March was followed by death in June. 75 Hard, laid out rule by rule: two forty-five-minute workouts three hours apart with one outdoors in whatever the weather is, ten pages of a nonfiction book, a gallon of water, daily progress photos, no snacks or dessert or alcohol, and back to day one if you miss anything. The book Luke handed him fifteen years ago, which argues that a man who doesn't brush his teeth isn't making a statement about conformity. He's hurting himself on purpose. Chapters: 00:00: Intro 00:25: His father's ashes, and the song he tried to write with AI 05:11: Three kinds of protein in one glass, and whether that counts as extreme 10:30: Neglect as a form of self-hatred 13:56: What a fall after sixty-five actually means 16:42: Dante's circles, and how small things become big ones 21:24: ADHD, water, and why extremes come easier than habits 24:24: 75 Hard, explained in full 31:53: Mobility work, and his father's hip 38:01: Finding the parts of it you actually like 45:54: Why he still hasn't gone to therapy 51:49: The box downstairs he cannot make himself open Resources Mentioned: Catching Foxes on Substack: https://catchingfoxes.substack.com/ No More Mr. Nice Guy by Dr. Robert Glover: https://nomoremrniceguy.com/ 75 Hard: https://andyfrisella.com/pages/75hard-info Exodus 90: https://exodus90.com/ Pray More Retreat: https://praymoreretreat.org/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios https://saintkolbestudios.com/ Support Catching Foxes