155: The End of Self-Sabotage

<p>Today we're having another Primal Potential Book Club episode all about the end of self-sabotage!</p> <p>I read a lot of books and I'm constantly going through books about health, nutrition & fat loss but I only want to share a book with you when I feel a sense of, "Oh my goodness, they NEED to hear this." I most recently got that feeling with a book that has nothing to do with fat loss, yet EVERYTHING to do with fat loss.</p> <p>The book is called The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.</p> <p>The book is written for anyone struggling with internal resistance - excuse making, procrastination, quitting - and is perfect for individuals who are trying to get healthy, burn fat or improve their food choices.</p> <p>In today's episode I share the passages that moved me the most & discuss how they apply to health & fat loss.</p> <p><a href="http://primalpotential.com/155-end-self-sabotage/">http://primalpotential.com/155-end-self-sabotage/</a></p> <h2>The End of Self-Sabotage</h2> <blockquote> <p>“There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.”</p> </blockquote> <p>This is 100% true of weight loss. It’s not the good choice that is hard. It’s the thinking about it. The debating. The internal arguing back and forth and the situations you create and battle with in your head.</p> <p>That’s the secret that most people who have lost weight know that people who haven’t lost weight haven’t yet accepted: It’s not the fat loss part that’s hard. It’s tackling the junk in your head that is hard.</p> <p>On the very next page he writes,</p> <blockquote> <p>“Most of us have two lives. The life we live and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands resistance.</p> </blockquote> <p>I think if you have any amount of weight to lose you get this. I think you get this if you feel like food is controlling your life.</p> <p>It's this sense that there’s the life I am living and the life <em>I plan