After a grocery shopping trip to Costco and Winco, I pulled up outside The Grove Hotel (I live in a condo above the hotel) and grabbed the small cart from the private closet inside the homeowners’ elevator.

I pushed the cart back to my car and filled it with groceries. It was quite a haul, so the cart was bursting with stuff.

As I pushed the cart back to the homeowners’ elevator, I spotted a guy from the company that’s slowly replacing all the elevators in the hotel.

He’s always really nice to Hazel, so I gave Hazel a go free-type command, and she ran over to see him.

“Oh, hello, Hazel! How are you?” he greeted. Then he looked at me. “So what are you guys out doing? You just out going for a little walk?”

To recap: I’m standing there with a cart full of GROCERIES in front of me.

Costco doesn’t bag your groceries, so my groceries were in plain view, along with receipts from both stores.

And this guy still asks me if Hazel and I had been on “a little walk?”

Listen, this guy’s not dumb. He’s an engineer who works for a Fortune 500 company.

Yet even seeing my cart overflowing with groceries, he thinks Hazel and I had just been on a walk.

It just goes to show: Sometimes what’s obvious to you (or me) isn’t obvious to other people.

It’s also true that the answers YOU need aren’t always as obvious to you as you think.

Take my weight regain last year.

In just one month, I regained ALL the weight I lost to compete in my bodybuilding show.

It didn’t happen right away. I kept it off for five freaking months, and I literally would have bet that I’d never gain it back.

Yet, I did. I made three big mistakes that, in hindsight, were SUPER obvious…but at the time, I grossly underestimated how devastating they would be to ME.

If you’ve ever regained weight you swore or believed you never would – and you’re baffled about why it happened – take another look.

The answer may not seem obvious to you, but it’s there, and if you wanna see it (so you can learn from it and use it to do better, like I did), you will!