If you’re not planning to stay on track for the holidays, consider this.

Last week, while in Lehi, Utah filming videos, I went on a run and tripped.

I banged my head on the sidewalk and skinned my left knee up pretty good.

The wound wasn’t nearly as deep or big as the one on my right knee from earlier this year, when I tripped while running at Tamarack, and at first, it was healing just fine. I’d been covering it before getting dressed (since skinned knees often crack and ooze).

I don’t know what I was thinking, but one day during my Utah trip, I did NOT cover it.

I also wore leggings, which, as you know, are tight.

At the end of the day, when I went to get undressed, my skinned knee wound had split open, fluid had seeped out, and the legging fabric had dried and gotten inside the wound as it started to heel.

As you can imagine, taking those leggings off was absolutely excruciating.

I had to rip the entire wound open, top to bottom, and it hurt worse when I did that than the first time I injured it.

Ever since then, it hasn’t wanted to heal well or quickly.

And it hurts and throbs all the time, and causes me pain when I try to sleep.

Before I had to rip the wound open, it was in the home stretch of healing.

But I got complacent with my care of it, and now I’m paying the price.

It’s been SUCH a huge reminder for me to take care of things correctly the FIRST time, instead of letting my complacency voice win the day.

Everyone has a complacency voice. It’s the one that wants comfort more than progress.

You have it, too. It’s the one telling you, “Well, just this once,” or “Just one bite.”

You’ve been around this mountain enough times to know just this once is rarely just this once. It could be, but for most people, it isn’t.

Just this once becomes just once more, and just once more.

Next thing you know, you’re living with the pain of knowing you gained back 40 pounds that you didn’t have to gain back.

And that pain and shame creates resistance to getting back on track, kinda like my knee wound is “resisting” healing as fast as it did the first time.

It’s gotta undo all the new damage I did to it by ripping the wound open again.

I bring all this up because, if you’re thinking of going off-track for the holidays, I guarantee you that as hard as you think it’ll be to stay on track, it’ll be 1000 times harder and more painful to get BACK on track.

It’s NOT worth it.

Do everything you possibly can to stay on track.

Plan your meals.

Plan your emergency foods.

Plan your exit strategy.

Plan your “weak moment” outreach.

If you wanna get and stay off the weight loss mountain once and for all, do what you’ve gotta do.

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