If you want to lose weight, are you clear as to why?

Why Do You Want to Lose Weight?

Letting go of weight, whether 20 or 150 pounds, can be daunting. Staying focused on just the next two pounds makes it more doable.

I remember years ago, I set out to climb Mount Rainier — all 14,410 feet of it! We climbed to base camp carrying heavy packs, then set up our tents on a glacier. After a few sleepless hours on a bed of ice, we were up at midnight to begin the ascent. At 8 a.m., I looked toward the summit. It loomed massively in front of us. We still had hours to go, and I was exhausted and discouraged. I wondered why I’d thought this was a great idea. At that moment, the fun was gone. I just wanted to sit down and tell my fellow climbers I’d be right there when they came down. I wanted to quit.

Then I recognized that I was at the moment in life when I always quit, when things got really tough. I was having the exact same feelings and thoughts. Feelings that had held me back in most areas of my life—physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.