There’s only so much any of us can have on our plates, and sometimes you’ve gotta say “no” to stuff in order to stay sane.

On one of my Instagram posts about how it’s not too late to get on the 10 Pound Takedown starting, some drive-by social media commenter

In every single 10 Pound Takedown Challenge, there are people who introduce themselves in the challenge Facebook group by saying some version of this:   

The journey of getting and keeping your weight off is full of dynamics most people never see coming, because there’s not a lot of discussion

Something I do on every 10 Pound Takedown Challenge is ask people to get in touch with their WHY.   As in, why do you

Weight loss is emotional for sure. But it’s also physical, and in a way most people don’t think about until they’re a ways into it.

“Cristy, I just don’t FEEL like losing weight.” I get some version of that a lot for people who aren’t ready to go all the

DAILY I see or hear reminders of how deeply the diet mentality is conditioned into most people (including me before I created the Code Red

Look, I’m sure you’ve been there a million times. You start something new, and it’s fun and exciting just because it’s new. But when you

Let’s face it…there’s no shortage of outside circumstances to blame for our problems. We’ve ALL used stuff outside ourselves as an excuse to abandon our