You are listening to Weight Loss Made Real and this is episode 20.

Are you waiting for the perfect time to lose weight?

That's what we're going to talk about today.

I'm your host, Master Weight Loss Coach, and author Cookie Rosenblum.

I am thrilled that you showed up today for a coaching session because we've got a lot to talk about so let's dive in.

Today you are going to get a gentle kick in the butt from me to you if you are one of

those people that's always waiting for the perfect time to lose weight and start taking care of yourself.

There is no perfect time.

All of us have our favorite excuses, but I want you to realize that life is normally one big challenge one after another.

Waiting starts off for what we think of as a true reason, but then it soon becomes one big excuse after another.

And then going to those excuses becomes a habit that you do. When we start something, it means we need to commit to it. So we

declare our intentions, we say what we're going to do, we dig in, we map out our plan and we begin the journey. But when we wait for the right time,

what happens is that we start looking for problems so instead of focusing on what's ahead of us we just

stay stuck we look around us and our tendency is to look for problems, not realizing that having problems to solve is part of being human.

Problems don't mean stop.

Problems just mean make a plan. Did you ever hear anyone talk about

some goal they had? Maybe it was losing weight or going back to school or maybe it was changing jobs or starting to work out or

get organized. Most of us have these goals but they're very vague. We don't really plan. We don't really have steps to take. We just

have a vague vision. So when you actually hear of someone accomplishing something, usually you're very impressed, and I am too,

maybe a little surprised, because of all the things that we've said we wanted to do and never did ourselves. The main difference between the people who

accomplish their goals and those of us who don't is that they begin. They don't wait. They don't wait for their ducks to get lined up in a row because there

are no ducks to line up in a row there is no there there is no perfect when I

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