Your Willpower Will Never Beat Your Environment
A lot of people believe weight loss comes down to willpower. They think if they wanted it bad enough, they would eat better, work out consistently, stop snacking at night, drink more water, plan their meals, go to bed earlier, and finally stick to the...
Years ago, a woman named Shella came into our coaching program needing help losing over 100 pounds.
She was approaching 50 and had struggled with her weight for most of her life. This was not her first attempt at losing weight. She had been through the cycle many times before.
One year, she would ...
The Psychology of Weight Loss: Thoughts, Behavior, and Results
Most people don’t struggle with weight loss because they lack information.
They struggle because they are operating on expectations that have nothing to do with how the body actually works.
You see it all the time.
Someone tracks the...
Most people, at some point in life, ask themselves this question: "How do I lose weight?" The greater question that almost never gets asked is, "Who do I need to become in order to lose weight?" There are people who grew up poor and became rich. There are people who were raised by terrible parents a...
Flip the script on your mind. Why don’t you have time to exercise? How many reasons can you come up with for not tracking your food? If you constantly repeat these reasons every day, weekly, monthly, and over the past decades, this shouldn’t be a hard task. We all are what we repeatedly do, and what...
The life we currently live stems from our current way of thinking. Our way of thinking is heavily influenced by our closest connections—parents, family, friends—and by our immediate environment, including work, news, and social media. From a young age, we are not only taught what to think but also h...
