You are listening to Weight Loss Made Real, and this is episode 64.

I'm your host, master Weight Loss Coach and Author Cookie Rosenbloon.

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

eating, how to bust through those urges to binge, and how to leave all your overeating habits in the past

where they belong.

If you just found me, welcome.

And if you're a regular listener, welcome back. I appreciate you.

Today we're going to talk about how to stop making the same painful mistakes over and over again.

So get comfortable and get ready to be coached. Let's dive right in.

So I'm going to start with something very unusual for our podcast and for these coaching sessions.

I'm going to read you a very short poem. Bear with me, even if you're not into poetry, because it perfectly illustrates and helps me teach

you how to do exactly that, how to stop repeating the same painful, painful behaviors again and again.

So the poem is called autobiography in five short chapters,

and it's attributed to Portia Nelson. Chapter 1, I walk down the street.

There's a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost. I am hopeless. It isn't my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. Chapter 2, I walk down the same street. There's a deep

hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don't see it. I fall in again.

I can't believe him in the same place. But it isn't my fault. It still takes me a long time to get out.

Chapter 3.

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I see it is there.

I still fall in. It's a habit. My eyes are open. I know where I am.

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