You are listening to Weight Loss Made Real, and this is episode 30.

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

Today and every Tuesday, I'm going to coach you and teach you exactly how to end your emotional

eating, bust through your binges and leave all your overeating habits in the past

Welcome and to my regular listeners who've been with me for a while welcome back.

I am truly delighted that you're here for a coaching session today.

I'm not sure how it slipped by me,

but I want you to know that we just passed our 100,000 download mark,

over 104,000 downloads thanks to you. So please accept my

gratitude for spreading the word about this podcast so more women and men just like you can be coached and

solve their eating problems whatever they may be. Our subject for today is why

aiming to do better than you used to works more than aiming to be

perfect. This is true in life, but it's especially true in weight loss and anything related to changing your eating habits.

Let's talk about this because if you're anything like my clients or like me, I'm willing

to bet that at least at some point your goal was to not only

end your emotional eating or stop your binging, but to do it perfectly. And that, my friend, is the problem. So get

comfortable because we're about to dive into this subject. Why better is the new perfect, especially when it comes to weight loss?

Why do we all wish we could do things perfectly anyway? Well, I think we all grow up with the fairy tale for everything.

Every example we have of anything that we aspire to comes with a vision of what perfection would look like. We always think about the

ideal. We don't just want to do well. We want to be best. We want to be the best

top of the class, head of the line, highest rated one in your

department at work. The best student, we just want to be best. Even when clients start with me, I know that it's kind of a secret wish for a lot of them to want to be my best clients to do the best.

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