Like most of you I’ve been through my cycles of weight loss and weight gain. Something would spark my motivation and I would be hyper-focused for weeks at a time.

And then the drive would start to taper. That taper would lead to not being able to work in the kitchen as hard as in the gym.

It looked something like this:

Yeah, let’s do this!
It’s working!
This isn’t so bad.
I’m gonna look awesome come summertime.
I’m hungry, but I’m doing great, so I can afford to eat that.
I don’t feel like cooking… I guess it won’t be the end of the world if I kinda let go this week.
OK, it’s been another week without doing my meal prep.
Ugh, I feel my weight is starting to go back up from all that garbage I’ve been eating.
I did all that work for nothing.
Eh, what’s the point. I should just be happy with who I am. It’s wintertime anyway.
I. Hate. My. Body.
Rinse and repeat – over and over and over again.

I see people going through those same cycles as I did. The thoughts might be slightly different, and the motivation to lose weight might come from a different place, but almost everyone goes through the cycle seen in the picture.

Our ultimate goal is to take that initial motivation and extend it all the way until we reach our goal, which is forever, as there is no real destination – only a way of life.

** Our goal is to make motivation into a habit itself **