Brigid Titgemeier explains how all-or-nothing thinking sabotages diet and fitness goals. One missed workout or cookie triggers people to abandon their entire plan, believing anything less than perfect is failure. This binary cycle of strict adherence and complete disengagement makes progress impossible.
One of the biggest things sabotaging your health is your all-or-nothing mindset. If I can't do it perfectly, then I'm not going to do it at all. Who has been there on their diet journey? I'm sure that many of you can relate. This is something that we hear very commonly in my community, the all-or-nothing trap, where you begin a new health routine, you face unexpected setback, you miss one day, and then you abandon the routine completely. Where you're trying to do a nutrition plan, you have one cookie, you're like, well, I already had one cookie, so I might as well have the ice cream, the fries, the cake too, but I promise I'll be good again tomorrow. Or that voice that convinces you that if you can't fit in 3 45-minute workouts per week, then why even bother working out at all?
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