This is Catherine in Tampa. She says, I'm getting discouraged because I feel like I'm taking two steps forward and one step back. I feel like I'm, you know, she's getting two pounds that she's gaining and then losing three pounds, gaining, or losing two gaining. Yeah, because you keep changing

her mind. Going back and forth. It says it averages out to be a pound a week that I'm losing,

but the up and down is so frustrating. And yes, I'm weighing myself at the same time every day,

L.O.L. Is there anything I should be doing differently? Well, first of all,

you need to be aware that we are, all of us, have two minds when it comes to our, our

overreating behaviors. There is a part of it that wants to do and the part of us that doesn't.

And the part of us that wants to do it is usually resident in the lizard brain,

which is the earliest like survival part of our neuroanatomy,

which is what the large industries target with their concentrated forms of sugar and salt

and fat and oil and excitatoxins and all packaged up in such a artificially attractive

way and advertise as if you can't live without it.

And so people often have the experience of being dead sure that they're going to stick with something for weeks or months until they hit their goal week.

And then on Monday afternoon, they're at Starbucks and there's a chocolate bar at the counter and they're thinking, well, chocolate grows on a cocoa bean.

And a cocoa bean comes in the plant.

So therefore it's a vegetable or whatever other crazy rationale in their head makes it okay to do that. So recognize that you're of two minds.

And the part of you that wants to continue the overeating or the old unhealthy way of eating,

that part of you wants to collect evidence of failure. That part of you is going to look at every pound you gain, every time

you make a decision to, we have a reversal of intent when you decide to go off your diet

or just screw it for today. It's going to look at that and say, see, I got you again. There's

no point in continuing to try to lose weight because I'm always going to get you.

Yes, exactly.

Or you could say, I'm going to collect evidence of success. Well, okay, I lost three pounds and I gained two pounds last time, but you know what?

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