I could really use some help.

Do you know what constant restarts do. They mute the brain. Literally.

When the brain knows and the brain knows everything that you aren't going to follow through with a goal, any goal, it goes directly into the mute mode. This is how procrastination happens, too.

Everytime we don't actually follow through with a job or task, the brain knows it's alright to just lay back in the weeds or take a nap. The brain knows you don't mean business.

Constant food resets and doing round after round of any food protocol is the recipe for eating it all back and moving directly into self-sabotage. The brain has to be trained. Brain Training. You have to show it who's really in charge. You.

Stopping short of following through creates these deep grooves in the brain and they are the broken record that keeps a person dieting for the rest of their life. You don't want to go out like that, CurlFitGirl.

Stop dieting in the name of love for yourself. It only takes one day and one decision to stop doing the things that no longer serve us.

There are only choices and consequences. Today you must choose for yourself what you want waaaaay down the road. Diets are temporary bandaids that only work temporarily. I don't care how they're packaged and how slick they're marketed. They are all the same.

If dieting really worked, it would take one diet, one time and you would be fixed for the rest of your life. Simply use your tracker. Do everything and I mean everything on your own terms. Foods you love and enjoy. Do movement that moves you off the couch at the speed of zero.

Track it like it's your job. It's all fun, really. Embrace yourself right where you are. Practice now like you have this thing tamed. Walk into the room with your lion tamer's confidence, your head held high. Not super ego but just in love with yourself. Funny thing, when you start behaving that way....others notice something different about you. Nothing has changed but your brain. Brain Training.

Follow through for the WIN. Do you know what happens when you actually show your brain who the boss is. The mute mode is turned off. For real. You create new pathways in the brain, open up new super highways for thought and being able to think for yourself. Start today. Don't dillydally around. Don't look back over your shoulder.

Be 100% accountable to yourself. Take full responsibility for everything.

When we've ridden the merry-go-round a million times and we keep making excuses for sliding back off the goose, the brain goes right back into mute mode. She doesn't mean business. Let's coast on our laurels. When she gets close to edging up on her goal...this is the brain..let's just encourage her to let it all slide away right through her fingers. After all, tomorrow is another day and she'll start over again. Round 120.

In all honesty, you don't need a diet plan. Just set yourself up here to lose 1 lb per week, log your food accurately and consistently, and start trying to fit what you normally eat into your calorie goal. After a few weeks you'll start to see patterns of foods that work well for you and foods that don't and you tweak from there.

That's really it. Nothing to stress out about. If you have a bad day, just learn from it and do better tomorrow. The only way you can ruin it is by quitting, so make that your only other rule - don't quit! Log your food & don't quit. Easy peasy.

I just wanted to chime in and say that you did, indeed, get great responses. It really is that easy when you tune out all the "diet this and diet that" garbage. When I realized this, it made everything click and was very liberating. You will have off days or even an off week, but it happens. Log it and move on. It's usually just a blip in the grand scheme of things.

Good luck with it!