October 11
Excuses mean that my reasons are soooo good for not towing the line that I get to be permanently off the hook for ever having to take responsibility for my actions. Sometimes the excuses I use are almost laughable, but just as often there are these emotionally based excuses that really pull on one’s heartstrings. Believe me, even I find those kinds of “reasons” hard to respond to in conversation with clients. I say to myself, “How can I tell them that they are still responsible for their food choices when they just lost their job?”
But, here’s what I know. My clients pay me to help them to lose and permanently keep off their weight. They can’t just keep creating calorie surpluses and cementing poor habits and successfully reach their goal. If they keep on coming up with “legitimate” reasons why they cannot eat the way they need to for the weight they want to be, then they are simply not going to be the weight they want to be. This is the reason that I teach people to learn to frame it as eating for their goal weight rather than dieting. They are then learning to embrace the lifestyle that is required if they want to live at that weight, not a temporary diet they can abandon if this “isn’t the right time”.
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