Sooner or Later, You have to go Home

I love to watch NBC’s “The Biggest Loser” TV show. It is inspiring to see the contestants work so hard and lose unbelievable amounts of weight each week.

I have overweight clients who tell me they wish they could be on the show, or go away to a “fat camp.” They think that if they got away from their current environment, they would find weight loss success.

Short term success, maybe. But sooner or later, you have to go home.

At home you don’t have eight hours a day to exercise. You don’t have a kitchen stocked with only healthy foods. You aren’t isolated on a resort with others who share the same purpose as you – work out like crazy and eat super clean. No trainers in your face every day. No teammates. No weigh-ins that affect other people’s lives.

At home it’s family and work responsibilities, Duncan Donuts right around the corner, parties and dinners, overtime, sick kids, fights with your spouse, office pizza luncheons, cupboards for midnight raids, and the list goes on.

At home it’s all about balance: taking care of your family, working to pay the bills, planning and preparing healthy foods, exercising…and getting enough sleep.

A weight loss show or a fat farm is not the answer. If you won’t change your lifestyle at home, you won’t change. The answer is changing your lifestyle right now, right where you’re at, right in your home and office, and right in front of your family and friends.