Hi, my name is Melissa Urban, and you're listening to Do the Thing, a

podcast where we explore what's been missing every time you've tried to make a

change and make it stick.

Today I'm answering three of your questions dear Melissa style.

We'll discuss whether staying on the whole 30

longer than 30 days is the way to achieve additional weight loss goals.

How mentally rehearsing for disaster when you find things going well in your life can backfire so hard, and how to

gracefully but firmly respond to people asking if you're pregnant because you turn down a drink.

There's a common thread in all of these discussions about the stories we tell ourselves in stressful situations.

I hope by exploring these stories you'll have your own light bulb moment and be able to hold your boundaries, shift your

perspective, and successfully do the thing. The first dear Melissa question I'll

answer today, I've received so many times since the release of Food Freedom Forever in 2016 and it goes like this

Dear Melissa if I still have additional weight to lose shouldn't I just stay on the whole 30?

Can I really afford to move into food freedom?

And the essence of the question is actually this,

if I have additional weight to lose, do I get to move into food freedom?

The, I think, premise of this question is, I'm doing the whole 30.

I know it's not a weight loss diet,

but by changing my habits and my health

and my emotional relationship with food,

I have lost weight. And if I still have more weight to lose

shouldn't I just stay in the rules of the program to facilitate me

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