10/20/2026
A much needed LONG motivational Tuesday post from a Registered Dietitian who specializes in eating disorders 🍁🙏🏻🍂
Where you are now...today...at this moment, isn’t the result of what you’ve done recently…yesterday…or likely a week ago. Who you are and what your body looks like has actually evolved from years of use and even possibly abuse.
We are human, not robots. Change is hard. It’s not as simple as changing a battery in an electronic device and forgetting about it as it doesn’t require much attention anymore and will most likely not require attention until the next time you need to change its battery.
With that said, with all the months and possibly years of wiring our brains to work a certain way, why do we have expectations of quick results?
“My daughters wedding is in 2 months and I need to go down 2 dress sizes to fit the dress I told the store to order me”...I’ve been following my “diet” and only “cheated” once at my cousins party and that wasn’t as “bad” as I could’ve been... how come I didn’t lose weight?
Wow, we sure have high expectations of ourselves to see results pretty quickly... as most of my followers know, I’m not a “sugar coater”. I’m not going to “sell you” on a quick journey or a “one stop fits all” answer.
I will remind you that everything worthwhile you’ve EVER achieved didn’t occur overnight, in a day, a month- and often not a year... Your college degree, from conception to the birth of your child, establishing credit to purchase your first home...
The message I’m hoping you receive from me today is- slow down, keep moving forward, lower your expectations.
Think of a foot bridge, a wobbly scary bridge that, sometimes if it’s really long, you can’t see the end of... you walk along and it gets shaky. You grab hold of the ropes in fear of falling. The end is unclear, not in your view. You know that turning back is not an option anymore as you’ve done that before and it doesn’t “serve you” anymore. So you keep moving forward. Step after step, day after day, however long it takes. When you get to the end and you look back at that bridge, you will have achieved something you can be proud of for your entire life and believe me...in time, you won’t even remember how difficult the journey was!
