How do You Stop Failing at Losing Weight?

aka "I messed up again!" Now what? 

Holidays are tough, friends. Not only the family factor, where you are thrown together with people you may or may not like or get along with...but the food factor, where you are paired with food habits or "traditions" that include overeating, sugar overload, or alcohol overload. Sounds like fun, huh? All leading you to the day after, scale despair, feeling of failure again and general disgustedness. Is that a word?

So, how do you stop failing at losing weight? 

First of all, one day is not going to make or break you. You can overeat in one day, you can stop exercising, you can feel like you are losing control, but one day of this is not going to break you. However, it can start a downward spiral if not stopped. Your job is to stop the one day into becoming several days or one week. And this is typically where the problem starts. Feelings of failure and memories of past failures start to affect your mind and you start to lose hope.

When you are on a weight-loss program [with your fitness professional advising you], let's say it's a 12-week program - you will notice results in the first couple of weeks, you will notice results after a month or so, but the REAL, substantial results will not show until week 8 or 9. Week 8 or 9! What does that mean? That means you have to work hard, stick to your program, for 8-9 weeks BEFORE you are going to see substantial results. THEN you have to bring it home and work hard for another 3-4 weeks to get to your goal.

Can you do that? Do you have what it takes?

YES, YOU CAN! I know you can!


You stop "failing" at losing weight by doing the following:

-Have a plan in writing - both workouts and nutrition
-Have goals, either weight loss, bodyfat%, clothing size - measurable goals
-Putting on your blinders and sticking to your plan. Not being swayed at what others are doing OR what others say about what you are doing.
-Knowing what is real and what is not real. Things you hear, things you see, things you read. Stop falling for every weight-loss gimmick and learn to trust your inside voice.
-Finding your heart. Finding the STRENGTH inside of you.

It's not fun to fail. It's heartbreaking. I tried for 8 years to lose weight and nothing worked. But when I applied those principles, I did lose the weight and I did stick with it, for 9 years now. You can stop failing. You can stop "guessing" at weight loss and making unrealistic "goals" which are really just dreams. You have the ability to make your dreams become reality and it starts with you, what's inside of you.

Get mad! Get mad at the food that you think is stopping you. Get mad at the body that you think is stopping you. Get mad enough to do something about it. For me, there are some days where only "Eugene" can help me. Eugene is the name of the punching "guy" in my studio. He alternates between wearing a mask and pink bandana according to my mood, but there are some days when the only thing that can help me is to beat the crap out of him. Better him than the kids, right? And there are other days where I need to run it out, on the track. There are days where you could not PAY me to eat sugar and there are days where I could fall easily. But when you have a plan, you stick to it and you get STRONG, you CAN do it.

I'm here to help you. Will you stop failing? Please do it today.

sandi@startwiththeinside.com