Someone who’s not ready to succeed with Code Red has a lot of tells.

One of the most obvious ones is that they’re full of excuses about why they “can’t.”

“Well I have to have my pizza.”

“Well I have to have my nightly pint of ice cream.”

“Well I go out for Taco Tuesdays with my friends.”

Another one people who aren’t ready to succeed on Code Red do is throw out words like “too restrictive,” and “deprived.”

(Code Red’s not a program that pats on the head and tells you it’s okay for you to keep eating the foods contributing to your weight and health problems.)

Rebels who succeed with Code Red, on the other hand, tell me they don’t feel “restricted” at all.

In fact, they feel more free than they ever have.

I get that changing your eating from what you’re doing now to how we eat on Code Red is an adjustment.

But if you wanna succeed, clinging to the idea Code Red is restrictive, and that you’re deprived, isn’t gonna help you get there.

It’s not how people who successfully maintain their weight loss think, and that’s pretty telling.

You can’t think like a heavy person and expect to get or stay slender, anymore than you can think like someone who “hates exercise” and expect to become an elite-level athlete.

How you perceive your situation is EVERYTHING.

If you’re perceiving it–including the food you eat–like a heavy person, you’re gonna stay heavy. Period.

So instead of saying “I can’t have _______,” switch to “I can, but I CHOOSE not to.”

Instead of saying “I’m giving up ________,” switch to “I’m choosing what’s best for me and my body.”

If you join Code Red, it’s because you CHOOSE to…and in so doing, choose everything that comes with it.

Embrace that, rather than “resign yourself to it.”

Let it empower you, instead of seeing it as “sacrificing.”

You’re not a victim. Stop thinking like one!