Do Your Expectations Sabotage Your Success at Achieving & Maintaining a Healthy Weight?

When women talk about their biggest obstacles to successful weight and health management, we often hear about hurdles like not enough time or knowledge to prepare healthy meals. Or frequent social occasions that involve food. Or hectic schedules, or stress in their lives, or transitions they're currently going through. The list goes on. But if you're like many of us, it's really none of these. Instead, our biggest obstacle is unrealistic expectations.

All the menu planning, exercising, and positive behavior change in the world will not help the woman who has set goals that are impossible to achieve. Unfortunately, too many of us are that woman – driven, all-or-nothing, compulsive perfectionists. Because of feelings of insecurity or inferiority, or simply because we've internalized someone else's standards, we hold a very limited definition of what it means to be successful. We try to mold ourselves into "perfect" people with "perfect" behavior.  The irony is that this strategy leaves us feeling worse about ourselves. The more perfectionistic we become, the less likely we are to adopt these changes long-term.

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