Welcome back to week three of Fresh Start! We’re getting out of our spring slump – it’s time to take advantage of this restart and make your weight loss success happen this year. It’s so easy to get discouraged after the New Year resolution falls off. We find ourselves in the busy spring season with swimsuit season looming and no plan to do this year any differently. So I’m bringing this series back to get you refreshed and ready to go right now. In the last two episodes, we talked about taking out the mind trash and getting your focus on straight. If you missed them, go back and catch up!

 

What are we talking about this week? You need a plan to follow, a way to craft your success with eating. So how do you get a plan that you know will work for you? Maybe do a Google search or talk to friends about what they’ve done to lose weight? Do you join the office group on the keto diet for comradery and support? You could do any of those, and you’d likely lose weight – for a while. But most diets are designed to be temporary. They work as long as you work them. But once you’ve lost the weight and stopped the diet, the weight comes right back. Every time.

Why? Because you didn’t make a permanent change – you just did a temporary diet. You stepped out of your life and normal living to stick to a diet for a particular length of time. Ever eaten a boring salad while your whole family eats tacos? That’s designed NOT to last. Your diet didn’t teach you how to eat for the rest of YOUR life. And you definitely didn’t learn how to think like a naturally thin person about food and eating.

 

You have to make YOUR plan.

 

No, you don’t have to invent the next perfect diet to create your plan. But only you can craft a plan that fits your life. Do you love your morning coffee? Great – have that on your plan. Is breakfast not for you? Excellent – let lunch be your first meal of the day. Do you like to have a snack for lunch and eat a hearty dinner? Perfect. Write your plan to include almonds and an apple for lunch and a dinner you know will taste good and serve your body.

 

The point is, don’t create a plan that can’t be sustained. If you hate cooking and work outside of the home and won’t have time to cook anyway, don’t design a plan that requires you to cook every night of the week. You won’t do it! If you have little kids to cook for and you don’t want to be a short-order cook, decide how you can cook once for everyone AND still take care of your food needs. You know what you can do and what you can’t or WON’T do.

 

This is the work I do with my clients. Every plan is different because every life is different. And while I won’t tell anyone what they have to eat, I do help my clients craft a plan that fits their life. A plan that can be sustained is one that can be successful. You can always tweak the plan if you want to level up in the future. But as long as you can make small changes that result in incremental weight loss, you can keep losing weight until you get to your goal AND stay there!

 

You can do this! Create that plan and work it – you’ll get there. If you keep yo-yo-ing from diet to diet, you know you will keep regaining the weight. If you do nothing, at best you’ll stay the weight you’re at now. So get started on what will work for you!

Weight loss CAN be this simple! Instead of signing up for a complicated plan that you can’t sustain, create something you can actually do in your life. If you want help, I’m here. Make your consultation appointment and I will set aside an hour just for you. Let’s get you what you want!

 

Here’s your video help for the week!