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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is about how to stay motivated in long-term projects when progress is slow.

This episode is first running in mid-February.

We're several weeks into the new year.

Many people resolve to get in shape around January 1st.

But as life intervenes, many people fall off the wagon.

One gym chain went so far as to analyze their customer data

and declare a fitness cliff, which is right around February 9th or so.

We've talked in past episodes about the challenges with New Year's resolutions.

One of these is that people fail to account for the realities of their lives.

I think another major one is that progress on any project can be slow.

I am not a big fan of the common resolution to lose weight.

In my mind, better to focus on healthy habits and let the scale go where it goes.

However, if you have chosen this as a resolution, even if you do everything right, it's hard to sustain healthy weight loss of more than

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