You might think today is Cyber Monday, or the start of the Holiday season, or whatever. To me, today is (and always has been) back on the wagon week! It’s the Monday after Thanksgiving, where we all had too much to eat, didn’t exercise enough, and had to loosen our belt a couple of notches.

And dammit – there’s nothing wrong with that! You gotta live! I have zero regrets about all the pie and turkey I consumed this last week!

And I, like many of you, am back on the wagon this week! However, I’m very curious about something. This last week, I spent time soul searching and setting intentions.

I realized that I have the greatest and longest lasting health and weight loss success when I’m suupppperrr obsessed with food, health, nutrition, working out, etc.

It’s all I think about. I surround myself with you ladies, weight loss people on Instagram, weigh and log every bite that goes into my mouth, obsessively check how many calories I burned during a workout, etc. I HATE IT!!! HATEEEEE it! It’s so ridiculous. I realize that it’s not the best, or healthiest way to lose weight. FULLY realize!!

Howeverrrrrr…I feel like when I’m not totally obsessed, I don’t stick to it and I find myself off and on the wagon several times a month, if not daily. So I’m wondering who else is like this? And what can we do to change the dialogue in our heads so that we can live a healthy, active life, lose weight in a healthy way, but not be totally and utterly obsessed with every calorie? I’ve been like this my whole life, so it’s going to take some work, but I realllllly want to try!