198: White Knuckles Are Red Flags

<p>Today's episode is all about something I say often: short term strategies deliver short term results.</p> <p>If you cannot maintain the strategy that delivers the results, you will not sustain the results themselves.</p> <p>Any approach that requires white-knuckled willpower should be a real red flag that you might be working hard for results you won't maintain.</p> <p>http://primalpotential.com/198-white-knuckles-red-flags/</p> <h2>White Knuckles Are Red Flags</h2> <p>How many times will you employ a short term strategy that you know you can't sustain?</p> <p>There are so many problems with this approach.</p> <ol> <li>If you can't sustain the strategy, you won't sustain the results</li> <li>If you don't know, address or solve the true problems, they'll still be there waiting for you</li> <li>You're creating a negative association with the process <ol> <li>You're reinforcing a pattern of quitting or failure and therefore think that's all that lies ahead for you. That's not true. It's your crappy strategy</li> <li>You think change is harder than it actually is. That's representative of your unsustainable approach.</li> </ol> </li> </ol> <p>The lasting is approach is the approach you enjoy and are able and willing to maintain.</p> <p>If you're looking for a break, an escape or a cheat, it's not the right approach.</p> <p>You're very likely focused on the wrong thing. Does your approach help you address WHY you eat, not just WHAT you eat?</p> <p><strong>Internal development precedes external improvements.</strong></p> <p>If you successfully complete your Whole30 but don't address your pattern of emotional eating, what happens the next time you get emotional?</p> <p>If you do a 21 day detox but do nothing to overcome your all-or-nothing tendencies, don't you think another "nothing" cycle is coming? Then what?</p> <p>Absolutely listen to the full episode to understand how you can overcome this white-knuckle-willpower approach to weight loss! It's not working!</p>