Feeling discouraged...

Don't let impatience get the best of you. You may need to tweak your eating. There is no such thing as the finish line when it comes to making our health a priority.

Willpower runs out. Remember the greater purpose for doing all of this. When I threw all dieting rules and regulations out the window I began to start observing people. Let's call them 'normal' people. People who've never been on a diet a single day in their entire lifetime. These people exist.

They don't think..is any of this even worth it. They don't take Before and After pix of themselves. They don't examine their belly or take photos of their bellies at their highest weight. They don't take photos of themselves that relate to their weight whatsoever. They appear in photos but they simply are. They are content just to be and exist. Present. Always present.

People who have a 'normal' relationship with food think waaaay down the road and none of it has to do with food or dieting. They're not thinking about reaching their optimum setpoint and how they can really start living when that happens. How they'll finally be 'fixed' when they reach their dream weight. They live each day and have more brain space for the outside world. A world that is not consumed with dieting and food resets, body image and belly selfies.

They don't assign moral judgments to food. Good or bad, clean or dirty, naughty or nice, all or nothing. Their diet is not the moral high ground that they stand on.

They don't let beast mode at the gym consume their thoughts. I've spent the last few years observing the 'normal' people. The common denominator. They give themselves permission to think for themselves and do everything on their own terms. I call it returning back to original factory settings. That's a point in time when the word diet was not even on our radar.

For any of the good results to stick a year from now, 5 years from now, you have to reframe your thinking. There is no such thing as the finish line.