I hold live events called After Hours With Cristy, and they include a live, interactive Q&A with me.
At one of these events I held in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, a woman who’s lost 135 pounds on the Code Red Lifestyle™ asked me how to fight the complacency some people experience when they get close to their goal weight.
In my experience as a nutrition and weight loss coach, there are two common reasons people start slacking off once they get near goal weight.
To be clear, I’m not talking about people who’re following all the rules and fighting with the last one or two pounds. That happens sometimes.
I’m talking about people who get near goal and start slipping up.
One reason people do this is simply that they want to be done losing weight.
So rather than drop that last 5 or 10 pounds, they think, “Well, I’m close enough.”
Another reason is that, deep down, they’re afraid of reaching goal weight.
In some cases, it’s because they can’t remember the last time they weighed their goal weight, and they have no idea how to be someone at that weight.
There’s also the fact that, when you’ve lost and gained weight over and over again, part of you believes it’s gonna happen even on Code Red, no matter how much evidence to the contrary there is.
Hitting your goal weight is a HUGE milestone. But after reaching goal weight comes maintaining the weight loss…something you’ve never been able to do.
So you sabotage yourself just enough to get close to goal weight, without actually reaching it, because it feels “safe.”
Maintaining your weight loss on the Code Red Lifestyle™ isn’t difficult.
It doesn’t mean you can go back to doing what got you fat and sick and the first place. That’s a fantasy the diet industry perpetuates to keep you circling the weight loss mountain.
But it’s not difficult. My Certified Coaches are ALL trained in maintenance; plus they’re living in maintenance, or they wouldn’t be Coaches!
My book, The Code Red Revolution, talks about maintenance, too.
Look, you’ve already lost the weight. That means know how to get your weight off…which means you’re not gonna gain it back unless you choose to.
Get those last five or ten pounds off. Face your fear so you can learn there’s nothing to fear.