Stop obsessing about marking your start day, and start focussing on learning how to regulate yourself back onto track when you eventually do fall off.

I see far too many people obsessing over starting their weight loss on a Monday, or the beginning of a month, or the year, or a specific holiday.

IT DOES NOT MATTER.

If you're trying to lose weight, your start day has already gone. Pigging out on a pizza and going "it's ok I'm going to start again tomorrow" is just you tricking yourself, and you don't need me to tell you that because you already know it.

You are simply procrastinating, you tell yourself that because you're starting tomorrow (for reals this time), you can afford to pig out on some cake and pizza today, because that's ok, I start tomorrow, this doesn't count.

Imagine having to learn how to drive stick shift, you drive for 20 mins flawlessly and then suddenly you stall your car and it turns off? Now imagine having that same mentality, do you tow your car back to the beginning of the route and start again hoping you don't stall this time? Or do you just start the car again and keep going?

What you're doing to yourself everytime you set a new start day is mentally diminishing what ever you achieved so far and you will fall back into the same vicious cycle, pig out on food, mark a new start day, and try again.

If you start the route again from scratch, the 20 minutes of flawless driving will also be wiped out, leaving you with the feeling that you're always starting from zero.

Your start day is the day you realised you want to lose weight, that's it your start day is gone and you do not get another, you lie to yourself and say "ok I'll start again tomorrow" but that's nothing but a lie, and deep down you know the only reason your making a new start day is so you can justify going ape shit on a XXL pizza without guilt.

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