The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

New Year Pitfalls, where kickstart plans go wrong.

Yesterday I laid out the benefits of doing a kickstart program. What a good community challenge, elimination program, or other total reset

could offer you in reclaiming or enhancing health. For the most part, I believe in the power of these

plans. Obviously, I organize one every year here.

I've seen countless folks turn their well-being around, lose weight, build strength and stamina,

relish new energy, reverse or dial back medical conditions, kick medications they thought they'd be on

for the rest of their lives. A kickstart gave them enough structure, support, and momentum to move beyond the drag force,

and they're flourishing today as a result.

And yet, I'd be remiss to say I haven't seen them fail for some people.

As a professional and a friend, I've witnessed, or at least heard the story after the fact,

people getting fully sidetracked

and even losing their footing on one of these plans. It happens, and there's usually a clear reason why.

Here are six possibilities. One, you've chosen an ungrounded or unrealistic plan. Not all dietary plans,

challenges, and programs are created equal. In fact,

a sad portion, dare I say majority, have little regard for how human metabolism actually works.

We're all well acquainted with the various fat-averse variants, but there are legions of bad plans that

purport irrational claims and

or dangerous methods, such as those promising the moon to people if they only subsist on a

handful of calories in virtually zero nutrients for a month or more. The same can apply to any number

of other elimination or combination diets, which pulled their

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