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Josh Hillis is the author of two books: Lean and Strong: eating Skills, Psychology, and Workouts, and Fat Loss Happens on Monday: Habit Based Diet and Workout Hacks. He has been in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and The Denver Post.

Since 2004, Josh has coached thousands of people on eating behavior, between one-on-one clients, online coaching programs, and live workshops.

He currently attends MSU Denver and is doing his thesis on contextual behavioral science and emotional eating. He won the psychology department's "promising teacher of the year" award as a TA. Josh has written and edited questions for NASM's personal trainer certification exam, performance enhancement specialist exam, and level 3 qualification exam.

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Josh Hillis Writing professionally is about writing when you don't want to. It's about sitting down and just cranking out work.

Writer's block is about trying to g…moreWriting professionally is about writing when you don't want to. It's about sitting down and just cranking out work.

Writer's block is about trying to get it right. So don't bother trying to get it right. Just write. Write total crap. Every first draft is terrible, that's part of the process. You start with garbage, and just do more and more drafts until it's something really useful for people.

Lean and Strong, I wrote 2000 words per day until I was done with the first draft (about 80,000 words). Then I threw that draft away completely, and started over.

I did the same thing writing the second draft, just 2000 words per day. And it was better, more focused, solved more real problems, and was more useful for people.

After the second draft, I figured out how to organize the material in a way that it could be taught well. The third draft, really, was about that organization, and creating a useable system of the material. I took a bunch of good information, and made it read like a coaching system. That's when I figured out the five levels, 1) Don't Diet, 2) Eating Skills, 3) Meta-skills, 4) Mindset turning points, 5) Psychology.

The fourth draft filled out that framework. The fifth draft was putting in the 387 references, and explaining how they relate. The sixth and seventh drafts were from notes from my editor.

So, writer's block is about not being willing to do those crappy first drafts. The trick is to start, knowing it will suck, and continuing to write anyway. Knowing that writing is an iterative process, and that it's made better through repeated revisions.(less)

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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Josh Hillis So, for the last five years I've really been digging in on how to make weight loss more effective, kind, and professional. I wanted to know why diets …moreSo, for the last five years I've really been digging in on how to make weight loss more effective, kind, and professional. I wanted to know why diets didn't work for 90% of the people, and how to create a system that worked for eveyone.

I found some studies on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and emotional eating, and it really clarified things. I started to see that, for folks who stress eat, emotionally eat, procrastination eat, or tired eat, normal tools won't work. That's when I started diving in on the ACT stuff. I got so deep into the research that I went back to school for psychology, so I could learn how to actually read research LOL. Research methods became one of my favorite classes, and I eventually TA'd it, and even won a department award for TA'ing it.

I'm really passionate about taking cutting edge tools from psychology and making them available to people who are working on their eating. That aws the original genesis of the book.

The system in the book itself opened up from repeatedly going back to my client notes and looking at which coaching pieces actually made a difference. I found that the hunger and fullness cues I'd been teaching were great, but that most people needed more structure and guidelines at first, to learn them.

The book came from that research work (and one particular review I did on ACT and snacking), from looking at goal achievement research, motivation science, and at what was working for real clients in a simplified and structured way.(less)

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	Fat Loss Happens on Monday: Habit-Based Diet & Workout Hacks by Josh Hillis (Goodreads Author), Dan John, Valerie Waters (Foreword) 4.26 avg rating — 359 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	21 Day Kettlebell Swing Challenge 3.84 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lean and Strong: Eating Skills, Psychology, and Workouts 4.53 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	RKC Book of Strength and Conditioning by The RKC Community (Editor), Josh Hillis (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Geoff Neupert Master RKC (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“All it takes is for you to make your food preparation the most important ‘workout’ of the week.”
― Josh Hillis, Fat Loss Happens on Monday: Habit-Based Diet & Workout Hacks

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“Day Two: 5 Minutes (100 calories burned+EPOC) -•- Beginner: 30-30 *walk/jog 3:00 or until warmed up 0:00-1:00 • 30 seconds swings / 30 seconds rest 1:00-2:00 • 30 seconds swings / 30 seconds rest 2:00-3:00 • 30 seconds swings / 30 seconds rest 3:00-4:00 • 30 seconds swings / 30 seconds rest 4:00-5:00 • 30 seconds swings / 30 seconds rest *walk 3:00 or until cooled down”
― Josh Hillis, 21 Day Kettlebell Swing Challenge

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“The way it works is you follow the 21 day program. You'll do a kettlebell swing workout EVERY DAY for 21 days. If you miss a day, you take a few days off and start over again at day one. To complete the challenge, you must do 21 days consecutively.”
― Josh Hillis, 21 Day Kettlebell Swing Challenge

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― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

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