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Episode 235: Your Diet Works… Until You Have a Bad Day

Oct 16, 2026
 

 

As a 20-year PMP nerd and systems girly, I can predict exactly when your diet is going to fail you. It’s when you have a bad day. In fact, the FIRST predictable failure point in your diet is that you do not have a plan for it to work when you aren't feeling it.

Because I'm guessing the diets you've been on have worked when you're motivated. 

But what happens when you're having a bad day? What happens on the days you don't wanna? What happens on the days when you slept like crap, work blew up, your kid needs something, and the absolute LAST thing you want to do is meal prep and go to the gym?

Are those the days you quit?

Your best days are easy. Today, you’re going to understand what needs to happen for your weight loss to survive your worst days.


Together, we will investigate:

  • How you can determine if your diet has lasting power so you can not just lose weight, but actually keep it off.
  • Why most weight loss plans are designed for ideal conditions instead of your actual life.
  • Why “Stay Ahead of the Threat” applies just as much to sustainable weight loss as it did to Counterintelligence.
  • The one single question to ask yourself that reveals whether your current weight loss plan will actually last.
  • Why knowing WHAT to do to lose weight isn’t enough to actually make weight loss stick.

 

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