Short YouTube coaching monologue by Jim Katsoulis arguing that the real aim is not the act of losing weight but living at your goal weight long-term. He warns against extreme, short-term plans and advises investing time to build sustainable lifestyle habits and skills to maintain the goal weight for life.
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You don't want to lose weight. You want to live at your goal weight. And this distinction is crucial because the weight loss phase is just a phase. And ideally, it's going to be a short period of time, and you living at your goal weight is going to be the rest of your life. But you are focusing only on the losing weight phase, and you're doing extreme plans that you can't maintain. So that is preventing you from achieving the goal that you truly want to achieve. So the solution is to start focusing on what you truly want, which is to live at your goal weight. So give yourself a little bit more time time and start to build up the foundation, the lifestyle, and the skill set that allows you to live at that goal weight for the rest of your life.