You are listening to Weight Loss Made Real and this is episode 24.

How to recover from an eating slip when you're following any weight loss plan.

Join me today as I coach you and help you understand why you have slips.

We all do.

Recognize what's happening when it's happening, and learn to recover

faster than ever before.

So I want to talk about first why we do have slips. If we're committed to something, we make a decision that we want to lose weight or learn to do something different or learn to eat differently and

we're very committed we're very excited we're in that honeymoon stage why do we

slip it all well the fact is that every single time we learn something new

falling down is part of the learning process because we're forming new pathways in our brain. Our brain keeps wanting to

take us to what it already knows it's very efficient in having us repeat our old

behaviors and our old behaviors.

And our old behaviors are falling down, overeating,

doing things we don't want to do,

getting into an emotional funk,

all those things that we want to do less of or stop

doing. And when we want to add something in that's new, that we want to put in a new habit in

there or do more of something that doesn't come naturally to us,

that's when our brains are tempted to keep taking us down the old path.

So the way that our brains are constructed, the way that we've

evolved, kind of guarantees that when we try to do something new, this is

what's going to happen. We're going to fall down. So here's the problem. Even though it's expected in science, we tell ourselves that we shouldn't fail. We shouldn't have a problem. We shouldn't have to fall down.

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