If you feel like giving up when your weight loss stalls (or you start screwing up because a stall feels like no progress), two things to remember:

First:

If you stall, so start going off-plan, that GUARANTEES you will either continue to stall, or will start gaining weight, or will start reversing any physical wellness you’ve been able to achieve.

I get that it’s frustrating, but going off-plan is the OPPOSITE of how to handle it, okay?

Also remember that success is not a straight line. You go down, you go up, you go left, you go right, you circle back, and then you go forward again.

Follow the rules and foods list, and the number of times your weight stalls, or goes up instead of down, drops dramatically.

It MAY still happen, because there are nuances. Even Kristin Small, a former Code Red Certified Coach who lost 135 pounds in 8 months, had days where her weight went up instead of down.

If someone who lost 135 pounds THAT quickly had days where her weight went up instead of down, that tells you it may happen to anyone.

That’s not an excuse to play fast and loose with the foods and rules. Tighten up, and the number of days you don’t lose weight become few and far between.

Also stop expecting success to be a straight line, and start following 100% of the rules 100% of the time, stall or not.

You’ll get there. It HAS to happen.

Second: 

The top 3 reasons for a stall are lack of water, lack of water, and being sloppy with your food.

Being sloppy includes “snacking” on Code Red foods (even if you have a Home Study program and you log your Code Red “snacks”).

The reason we don’t snack on Code Red isn’t about food quality. It’s because snacking gives your body fuel. When it has fuel, it stops tapping into fat stores.

Eat to give your body nutrients it can’t make it on its own. Do NOT starve yourself.

But also remember that if you constantly eat when you’re trying to lose weight – even Code Red-approved foods – your body has no reason to use your extra fat for fuel.

Snacking is like giving your unmotivated adult kid cash all the time, then getting frustrated and asking, “Why don’t they go to get a job?”

They don’t “need” a job when you’re still funding their life, and your body doesn’t need your extra body fat for fuel when you’re always giving it fuel in the form of food.

Lack of water is pretty self-explanatory, and simple to correct. Get ALL your water in, and get as much in as you safely can in the first half of the day.

Lack of sleep is self-explanatory, but can be more complicated, depending on your situation.

If you have pain from diabetic nerve damage in your feet, for example, it may keep you up some nights.

If you have special needs kids who don’t sleep through the night, that may keep you up some nights.

If you’re in that kind of situation, do the best you can with it, AND control everything else you can about your sleep schedule.

Take a safe, Code Red-approved sleep aid, if you need it.

Manage your stress and anxiety in healthy ways (what works for you).

And make your room a sleep zone.

Get off your devices before bed, create a cool, clean, comfortable dark room, and and/or wear blue-light blocking glasses leading up to bed time. Blue light blocks the production of melatonin, a hormone your body releases to help you fall asleep naturally.

If you don’t have blue light blocking glasses yet, I have a partnership with Swanwick Sleep, where you can get a discount on your first (or next) pair.

Check it out at www.CodeRedLifestyle.com/Swannies for more info. Use code, REBEL15, to get 15% off your order.

Whatever you decide: Stay the course, because success isn’t linear.

Screwing off only postpones your success.

And quitting destroys your progress faster than any stall.