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If you’re someone who loves a good fresh start—whether it’s the energy of January or the promise of a brand-new plan—this episode is made for you. But before you jump into starting from scratch, I want to show you a better way. Today’s episode is all about leveraging last year: the wins, the missteps, and yes, even the moments where you didn’t hit your goal. I’ll walk you through a step-by-step process that helps you stop making the same mistakes and finally start seeing real results.

In this episode, I’ll get vulnerable with you and share my personal story of a fitness goal I failed hard on last year—and the exact strategy I used to turn it around. If you’re tired of feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or like you’re starting over every January, this episode will help you dig deeper, get specific, and take real action.

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What You’ll Learn from this Episode:

• The real reasons why high-achieving professional women don’t hit their weight loss and wellness goals (it’s not what you think).
• How to reflect on your past year without judgment—so you can move forward with clarity.
• Why staying broad with your “problems” and “plans” keeps you stuck—and how to get specific instead.
• The two-step process to uncover what got in your way and what habits you need to stop.
• How small, honest shifts in mindset and strategy can make this the year you finally hit your goals.

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  Happy New Year, my unstoppable friend. This episode is probably one of my absolute favorite episodes of the whole entire year. And it's because if you have been following along for a while, you know, that as overachievers, perfectionists, type a professional women, we all love a good fresh start. There's something about January energy, Monday morning, that Brand new plan, the unblemished strategy that we have not yet put to the test that really does feel very exciting. There's a gust of activation energy in January that we get to really leverage. However, the reason that I really love today's episode, the new year's episode is because I don't want you going into the new year starting from scratch. This is a huge mistake. I talk about this on the podcast in lots of different ways, which means it is an essential piece of your weight loss and wellness strategy in the new year. I don't want you starting from scratch. What I want to help you do, and this episode is going to be strategic. We're going to walk through my step by step process on how to do this. We want to leverage. Last year, we want to take a fine tooth comb. We want to look at the results of last year. Maybe you didn't hit your weight loss or wellness goal because you forgot about it a few months into the year. Maybe you didn't feel excited or motivated all year round, and that got in your way. Maybe a life obstacle, something really complicated with your family or in the workplace, drove you to deprioritize your weight loss and wellness goal. Or maybe you tried to lose weight. And you still didn't hit the mark. There are so many reasons that professional women who are smart and resourceful are not hitting their weight loss and wellness goal. And it's never for no reason. So today's podcast episode is really designed to walk you through my step by step process. to really understand and leverage last year, because it is going to be how you get fire behind your results this coming year. This is a New Year's episode that I have aired in the past and got such positive feedback from so many of you sharing how helpful it was that I wanted to air it again. This episode is particularly special for me because in this episode, I tell you real stories of me failing in a personal fitness goal. I failed. Hard. And I talk about that in this new year's episode. I talk about my reflections of the past year, how and why I failed at my personal fitness goal. And the reason I wanted to share this is because I took the strategy that we talk about in this episode and I applied it to this past year. And because I took the strategy, this exact process that I teach my clients, I do exactly what I coach on.

  I do exactly what I teach. I turned my fitness goals around 180. I cannot wait for you to listen to today's episode. I really hope you enjoy it as much as I loved creating it for you. And if you found it helpful or impactful, then I would love, love, love for you to share it with a friend who also has a weight loss and wellness goal that is feeling that gust of excitement at the newness of the year, but also Does not want to start from scratch. You will be blown away by the impact of simply making the decision to start now and prioritize your weight loss and wellness goals seriously. When you have a proven strategy that gets you results. And you have alongside that a routine process that evaluates your missteps. Hitting your goal becomes inevitable, especially when you take into your tendencies as a perfectionist and an overachiever, you can stop going in alone, piecemealing or guessworking at your strategy. If you know that this is work you want to do, you want to dive deeper on it. I want to make sure that, you know, you can grab one of the last few I'm going to be sharing some of my favorite spots in my upcoming cohort of the Unstoppable group. This is an intimate six month small group coaching program. It is specifically designed for professional working moms who self identify as overachievers or perfectionists. You are someone that is resourceful. You hit growth and goals in so many areas of your life. But your weight loss and wellness goals have somehow slipped by you. Maybe you deprioritize them. You're used to taking care of everyone else first, or simply a piece of your strategy, which is really common was missing. The January cohort is about to start and I would absolutely. Love to see your name. Join the group. You can go and grab one of my last few consult spots before doors close over at burnstressloseweight.com/group. Click the button, grab a spot. And if you don't see a time that works for you, just drop us an email at [email protected], or send me a DM over on Instagram and we can talk there. You can find me at Burn Stress, Lose Weight. I hope you'll have an amazing, amazing week and enjoy today's new year's episode. Hey, unstoppable friend. You're listening to the Burn Stress, Lose Weight podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Priyanka Venugopal, a physician termed a stress and weight loss coach for professional working moms and the founder of the Burn Stress, Lose Weight, Feel Unstoppable small group coaching program. This podcast is going to inspire change at the root for you on and off the scale. I've lost a little over 60 pounds while being a busy physician mom with two young kids and an unpredictable schedule. And along my journey, which was full of many, many imperfect moments, I have learned how to skip past the fads and the gimmicks. I am on this mission now to share with you how you can have a real strategy and mindset skills to really have more of the life you want that you have worked so hard for. Let's get into it. I love New Year's episodes, mostly because it kind of forces me to reflect. As a high achiever, what you and I are very used to doing is we love to focus on what we are going to do, the new plan, the new strategy, but more important than that, the whole intention of today's episode is to first help you figure out what is it that we have to stop doing to make our strategy actually be effective. I think of this really like two peas in a weight loss pod. It's new years. I think I probably said this last year. If I reflect back, I have not gone back and listened to last year's new year's episode, but I feel like I say this every year.

  Sometimes the days and even the weeks feel really slow, but the months and the years feel like they are flying by. Am I right? I can't believe that it's a new year. And I would say for me, and maybe this is true for many of you, I have a mix of two different emotions, like two different types of emotions that I'm noticing that I'm holding concurrently. So if this is you, you're not alone. There's a part of me that feels really excited about the new year. I feel excited about new plans and refreshing my strategy and thinking about my goal and kind of taking a fine tooth comb over my life and asking myself what it is that I want to improve. Where do I want to grow? So there's something really exciting about that because The possibility of achieving those goals is pretty amazing. On the other hand, there is a part of me that feels a little bit meh, which is mostly because I'm reflecting about the past. I'm reflecting about the fact that I had a lot of these goals last year, right? And the year before and the year before that. And a lot of those goals somehow over the course of the year, which is what we're going to talk about today, got forgotten, or they became deprioritized, or I didn't give them the attention that I said I would. And so there's a part of me that feels a little discouraged, a little bit disappointed in myself for not having hit the goals that I had wanted to hit. Now, I want you to know if you feel both, it's so normal and we don't have to ever choose one over the other. It's possible to. Hold both at the same time to feel excited and motivated for the new year, while also just allowing yourself to feel maybe disappointment or discouraged or sad around not hitting some of your goals. Now, I am not one to wallow because I love to really use mindset skills and tools to look at disappointment and sadness and discouragement from the past and leverage What I can learn from the experience. And that is the whole intention of today's episode, because as important it is to feel the excitement and the inspiration of new year, I think it's so important, probably more important to really reflect back on why is it that we have any disappointment, any discouragement, any sadness around not hitting our goals. What got in the way today's episode is going to walk you through a process to help you uncover what it is for you. I think it's going to be something unique for all of us. And. Giving ourselves permission to let those things go. Now one of the biggest mistakes that I know high achievers make, I have done this in the past, I see my clients doing this, is we will look at the past and we'll think about what are the things that I did that got in my way and we will start saying very broad, vague things like procrastination, overeating, over drinking, yelling, right? So we'll just say these very broad categories. And when we have a really broad strokes umbrella type of behavior, maybe procrastination or overeating, it doesn't give our brain enough direction to overcome that habit. So today's episode is also going to walk you through how to take a broad category.

   

  I think procrastination is probably going to be a major one. If you did not hit your goal, you had some procrastination techniques and Floyd that got in the way. I want to help you get really specific. I'm saying this lowly. Like, why do I want to help you get specific? And why am I really making the argument to not stay broad? Because this is going to feel uncomfortable. I'm going to say that it feels uncomfortable because when we haven't answered some of the questions I'm going to ask you on this episode, you might get annoyed with me on the episode. You might get irritated. When I ask you a question, I'm gonna ask you to get more specific. You might feel this irritation bubbling up in you. I don't mind. I don't mind you getting annoyed with me because I would rather you solve this problem. The reason that you might feel annoyed or irritated at getting specific is because it is forcing your brain to do some work. What got in the way of you hitting your weight loss goal this past year? What were your behaviors that got in the way of you hitting your goal? Broad strokes is your brain's way of staying comfortable because you can't really take specific action. But for your weight loss strategy to be specific and clear and tangible and actually actionable. We have to get really clear and specific on what not to do. And this is going to force you to think about your year in a way that maybe you haven't yet. So I was reflecting as we do over the past few weeks about my goals, the ones that I had this time last year that I probably talked about, and I took a real solid inventory. How did I actually do? And if I can be totally honest with you, which is what we do here on the podcast, I did not hit some of my biggest goals specifically around getting stronger. So I've shared on the podcast before I lost a little over 60 pounds without exercise. So I lost a lot of weight without getting stronger. And that was a. choice that I made purposefully. And after I lost the weight, I decided I want to now get stronger. This was my number one goal in January, and I did make some progress. So I did make progress. It's not like I totally let the whole entire thing slide by the wayside. However, I did not get anywhere near hitting my personal fitness goals. Now, the reason that I didn't hit my fitness goals was not because of a lack of capability. It is really a lot more simple than that. It is because I let other things Take over. And when push came to shove, as it does for the professional working mom, what I said was my number one goal, didn't remain my number one. This is what got in the way. A feeling of getting behind at work and feeling a little overwhelmed with my kids. I thought If I can just get a little ahead, if I can just catch up and get a little ahead with my work and with the kids activities, then I will get back to my fitness. And it turns out lesson learned that I needed to learn clearly that there's literally no such thing. I would get ahead with my work. I would take care of projects and do my emails and actually get ahead on what I had planned on doing. And then here's what would happen. My brain would offer me the next tasks you That I could be doing. So even though I would get a lot done, I would accomplish a lot. I felt perpetually behind. I allowed my mindset around my work, around my task list, around my kids to bulldoze over my personal body goal. And that's completely on me. I'm stating it now for the record. I have a fitness goal for this year, and I have such a gust of excitement and motivation that this is going to be the year that I hit it.

  But unless I am like brutally honest without being me truly honest and vulnerable and maybe borderline spicy around what got in my way. I'm going to keep making the same mistakes again and again and again. So I want you to ask yourself if you had a body goal or a weight loss goal and you really wanted it and it was a real priority for you, but you didn't hit it December 31st, you didn't hit it or you didn't make the headway you wanted to. I want you to ask yourself the question, what got in the way? Let's be specific and honest without being mean. This is the hard part for high achievers, especially working moms like you and me, that we sometimes will look at the past and we'll have these judgy, critical thoughts. And I want you to drop that for a minute. Drop the rule book around how it should have gone for you. And if you feel bad or embarrassed or annoyed with yourself, Feel it, but then move on. I want you to move on enough to take proper inventory because without it, I promise you every new year's, it's going to be like groundhog's day. We're going to be back here talking about the same goal as last year. And it's going to happen again and again, and again, just a little story about this, because this is something I can feel the difference for so many years. I have so many distinct memories on new year's day, me and my best friend would call each other, like wishing each other a happy new year. And then we would say, I mean, this is the year. Right? This is the year that we're going to lose the weight. And this, I can remember as far back as even college where I didn't even have that much weight to lose. I probably just wanted to lose like five or 10 pounds at that point in my life. And then of course, by February, our quote unquote best laid plans fell by the wayside. One of us became complacent. So then the other one became complacent and then we didn't have a sustainable strategy. Then we let discouragement set in and then we'll start again later. We'll start again next month. And this happened year after year after year. I cannot tell you for how many years. My goal was weight loss. It was like Groundhog's Day because every year I kept making the same mistakes. Here were the two mistakes that I made for so many years. Problem number one is that you stay vague and broad with your action plan, like the things you're going to do, and you stay vague and broad with what your problems and your obstacles actually have been. For example, you might say, I procrastinated a lot in 2023. That's a really broad and huge example that's hard to wrap your mind around the tangible, specific, actionable habits. The more broad you stay with the action plan that you're going to employ, the Ploy or the things that got in your way in the past, the more vague and confused your brain is going to be in the moment, which is why you'll revert back to old habits. So the solution to this is actually really simple. Let's get really microscopic and specific. So instead of saying I procrastinated a lot, in example, for me might be I picked up my phone and I scrolled on Instagram instead of focusing on my work project. Can you feel how. Specific, I'm being with the example of procrastination. I probably have 10 different examples of how I was procrastinating on my work. List out specific examples. If you were a fly on the wall in the room with you, what were you actually doing? Instead for me, instead of me focusing on my work project, that was right in front of me. A fly on the wall would have seen me pick up my phone, scroll on Instagram, maybe meander to the kitchen and maybe go for a walk outside and maybe procrastinate to work.

  So instead of focusing, this is such a big one for high achievers, instead of focusing on the project that's right in front of you, you start working on something else because, you know, you want to be productive. So you start working on something else rather than finishing the task at hand. So I want you to see how specific you can get. Get really granular. If a fly on the wall was watching you, what specific examples came up for you that would qualify as procrastinating on your goal? And then there is problem number two, which is a little bit harder to do. And it's going to require a little bit more effort on your part. You didn't identify the mindset that you were in in the last year that drove you to do those tactics. You can't actually change habits without understanding what led you to have that habit to begin with. Let's use my procrastination example. I would scroll on Instagram instead of focusing on my work project because I Why did I ever do that? Why would I ever scroll Instagram rather than focus on the work project that I had to get done? It's because I was avoiding a feeling. I was working on something, my work project, that required a lot of brain power, creativity, energy, and likely there was some discomfort in the execution because I had to make decisions, I had to finalize pieces of my project, and because I had to make decisions, I had an uncomfortable feeling. Maybe it was some stress or overwhelm or my desire to get it just right as I do. And rather than feel that emotion while taking action in those moments, my brain said, we need a break. So I would avoid an emotional experience with a procrastination tactic, like scrolling my phone. This is the category of problem that most high achievers have. And if you find yourself making the same mistakes again and again, or you find yourself going off plan again and again, at around the same point in the journey, it is because you. Didn't identify why if you aren't doing exactly what you said you would do, why aren't you? What emotion were you unwilling to allow and feel? A weightloss example might be that you had a plan and then you went off track. Maybe you stopped being consistent for any number of reasons. Maybe you had a curve ball come up for you in your personal life. Maybe there was an unexpected work project. Your kids started annoying you and you just in your mind went off track. You forgot your plan. You became inconsistent. And so then, because you became inconsistent, you felt a certain way about it. Maybe you got discouraged or you got pissed, or you felt embarrassed. To avoid that feeling, that emotion of embarrassment, discouragement, pissed, annoyed, irritated with yourself, you procrastinated on getting back on track.

  Do you see how that works? You don't ever just procrastinate for no reason. High achievers are never not getting back on track with their weakness plan for no reason. The only reason that you're procrastinating and not getting back on track quickly is because you're avoiding an emotion. So the solution is also two fold. Step one is to get really specific and granular with your habits. This is again, the two peas in the pod. The specific habits that we have to talk about are, what are the habits that you're going to employ? What are the habits that you're going to do that will get you to your goal? And equally important, what are the habits that you're going to stop doing? To get you to your goal and step two is to really become honest and clear and bring a lot more awareness to What were the feelings that you were trying to avoid in the moment that led you to procrastinate on your weight loss strategy? So let's walk this through now that you know the two biggest problems Which is being vague and not knowing the mindset and feeling that you were avoiding Let's really walk this through with what happened for you if your results on December 31st didn't match your goal from January 1st Let's get into why we want to be honest, we can be a little spicy, but do not be mean to yourself. Question one, what got in the way? I want you to pause this episode if you can, or if you're driving to come back to this point in the episode and write this down. Write down actionable things that got in your way. Was there something specific about your schedule that got in your way? Was there something about your work life that got in the way? Was there something about your responsibilities at home that got in the way? Work hours, home hours, the weekend, busyness. Maybe you traveled a lot or you had a lot of conferences or retreats that you went to did travel get in your way? Maybe it was holidays. Maybe the holiday season or date nights or vacations Maybe that was what got in your way and it undid some of your weight loss success. Maybe life curveballs Did you have life curveballs that got in your way an unexpected incident that came up maybe with your kid? Maybe you had after school activities And so with every changing season that got in your way Write down because this list can be a very very long list You want to get really comprehensive? What were all of the things in your real professional working mom life that got in the way? Now, once you write this down, I have something to say. If you think that some part of your schedule, the unpredictability of your time, the work hours, or a life curve ball actually got in your way, then it goes to show that you think that weight loss takes time. Really think about this. Okay. When you have a fat burning action plan, which we've talked about separately on this podcast that you make with small nutritional tweaks that you make once and you have on rinse and repeat, weight loss doesn't actually take time. In fact, overeating is what takes up more time. Not following through on the action plan is what actually takes up more time. So the next question, and this is where we're going to get a little spicy. So be honest without being mean. What did your work schedule, your weekend schedule, your travel, the holidays, the kids activities, that life curve ball.

  What did that ever have to do with you following through on your fat burning action plan? Pause here and really answer the question. Now, this is that moment that there's usually three main reasons that I see specifically for the high achiever. You might be one of these, and most likely you're a little bit of all three. The first reason is you didn't have a fat burning action plan to begin with. You, in your mind, thought, I know what to do to lose weight, I'm just going to eat less and move more. I'm just going to cut the carbs. Or you tried to wing your plan, which means you left a lot of decision making to in the moment. So reason number one, you didn't have a fat burning action plan to actually implement. Reason number two, you let momentary whims or life obstacles get in the way. I had a lot of things in the moment that felt really pressing, things that came up with my work life, things that came up with my partner, things that came up with my kids that in the moment felt so important that they would supersede my fitness goal. So I want you to think about if reason number two is the reason that you didn't follow through on your plan. You had a plan number one, but you let a momentary in the moment whim. Get in the way in a deep prioritized your personal weight loss goal, or reason number three, you maybe had a fat burning action plan. You were following through on it and you were prioritizing it, you know, to the best of your ability, but you didn't do it perfectly. And because you didn't do it perfectly, you had some feelings about it, some annoyance or some embarrassment or some frustration, and that drove you to stop showing up completely, whether it's one, two, three, or all three of these reasons for why you didn't follow through on your plan. I want you to know how good it is to know the real reason. And the reason for this, the reason I'm so excited for you to uncover and answer this question really honestly, is because you're going to have more of the same, let's be honest as a professional high achieving working mom you're going to have a very similar working mom life. You're going to have responsibilities at work. You're going to have your kids. You're going to have your partner. You're going to have obstacles come up and vacations and holidays and unexpected things in your life. And it's going to be a lot more of the same that you had. So let's never pretend that that's not going to be the case. I don't ever let my clients go to the land of wishful thinking. We often say that hope is not a strategy. I want you to prepare knowing what the obstacles really were to prepare for the reality of your life. That's what Unstoppable is all about. It's taking your real life into account, not the fairytale land that is so fully stress free and activity free and it's perfectly planned out and it's beautifully scheduled. That's just not real. So let's get back to the question of what got in the way for you. Now that we've answered what got in the way for you, in your mind, answer question number two.

  What are you going to stop? Before we can have our brand new shiny plan, let's get clear. To make space for this actionable plan that we're going to have together, I want us to get really clear on what is it that we have to stop doing. So for me, it was basically procrastinating on some of my exercise. There were so many times that I would have exercise on my schedule. I had a great plan. I had a schedule. super solid muscle building plan in place, but I would procrastinate on it because something important would come up for work or some like annoyance with my kids would just drive me to not want to go to the gym. But equally important that I have to stop doing is I have to stop telling myself a certain story. What was the story that you told yourself that led you to deprioritize your weight loss goal? Listen, it likely started out really small and in little moments because. You are full of motivation and a lot of energy and excitement on January 1st of last year. So think about it when you flash forward at what point in the way to the little moments, maybe it was end of January or maybe February, maybe you got all the way to March, few little moments that started to get in the way. And then those little moments turned bigger and bigger until you didn't hit your goal.

  So for me, this looked like, let me just get ahead on this one project. Let me just get a head start on next week's. Task list so that I don't feel this pressure that I can just feel relaxed when I go to the gym. And then one time procrastinating once on my plan led to two times and then two times led to three and four and then it led to a week and then led to a month and then led to many, many, many, many months. I don't want you to wish your habits away or we'll be right back here a year from now. Which is why this piece is the hard part. That moment will come where you will have your plan in place and then a work responsibility or an annoyance with your partner, or that worry about your kid or that life obstacle, that thing that you answered in question number one will come up again, and there will be a momentary flashback. Let me just not take action on my body goal right now. I'll start tomorrow. Let me just handle this. Insert your answer for question number one right here. Let me just take care of this right now. I'll deal with my weight loss goal or my body goal tomorrow. There's going to be a feeling there. And you'll want to, because it's so habitual, procrastinate or procrastinate work, in my case, out of feeling that emotion. But, I want you to walk forward. Walk forward. It's December 31st. What will it cost you to keep your status quo, to keep those habits? I'm telling you, when I do this, when I kind of do this exercise for myself, when I think about what it's costing me to overwork, for me to procrastinate work, for me to allow momentary feelings of frustration or annoyance with my kid to have me not show up for my body goal, it's costing me a lot. Think about how much it's costing you. It's likely wasting a lot more time, more energy and more effort. And so much more of your mental bandwidth. It's one more year that we're sitting here talking about the same goal. One of my favorite things to hear from my clients in the Unstoppable group is how much bandwidth gets freed up when you start solving your weight loss struggle. Investing in your number one goal makes you take it more seriously. Having the support and accountability of a coach with a group Makes you take it more seriously. This is just the nature of how humans work. And the best part is when you start hitting goals consistently, you can actually stop thinking about it. I cannot tell you the most freeing thing for me. And it's crazy how much I had no idea how much bandwidth and time and effort I was thinking about weight loss for so many years, but when I finally. Reached my goal weight when I solved the weight loss struggle back in 2020, when I finally stepped off the up and down, I stopped having to have that new year's conversation about weight loss, which means now I got to move on to bigger and better things. I got to have bigger goals and better goals. And I allowed myself to grow, which was so fun. In my opinion, seriously, for the professional high achieving working mom, your body goal has to come first. Why do I say this? Because feeling comfortable in your body this year matters. You feeling comfortable in your own skin, having more energy, feeling light and confident in any food scenario will impact how you show up at work. It will impact how you connect with your kids. It's going to impact how present you feel with your partner. So in my opinion, the number one goal for any professional working mom has to be to feel good in your body.

  The truth is, when another year passes and then another, and then another, and you haven't hit this goal that has been so important to you year after year, it starts to erode your self confidence. I totally remember that feeling how I felt year after year. It's like, great. Another year has gone by. I also want you to know that this has happened simply because you deprioritized your goal. So remember that you deserve to prioritize this and really think about question number one and question number two, what got in the way for you this past year that bumped your body goal down on the list? And I want to invite you to respect yourself enough to put it back on top. When it comes to the weight loss strategy that you want to create, you have a game plan now. You know, the main actionable things that you were doing and more importantly, the story that you were telling yourself that ever got in your way to consistently follow through, there was an emotion there. And to solve this problem at the root, to step off the roller coaster and have your strategy actually work. Make sense and for it to become consistent, you have to go through that emotion, be onto that moment that you find yourself in your story, thinking, let me just procrastinate just today, catch it in the moment, let it feel hard if it does, because when you and me are talking about your goals a year from now, you will be so grateful. You will be so grateful to yourself for having followed through in those small, hard moments. Listen, the truth of it is that weight loss with the right fat burning strategy and the right tools for the high achiever is incredibly simple. And also there are going to be moments where your very normal brain, especially for the high achievers, so used to taking care of everyone and everything else.

  We'll want to deprioritize your goal. It will want to procrastinate on your body goals simply because you're so used to prioritizing everyone and everything else. Tell yourself that you not only prioritize your goal and your body on January 1st of this year, but that you maintained it. As something that was deeply important to you. I promise you a year from now, you're going to be so grateful to yourself. Remind yourself in that moment when it feels hard to take a breath and follow through anyway. You have got this my unstoppable friends. I believe in you. I hope that today's new year's episode is leaving you feeling a little bit more full of possibility and inevitability in hitting your dream ideal weight and your wellness goals this year. One of the things that I keep thinking about for myself. For my clients, for all of you is that today is the youngest that we will ever be. We have the longest runway by starting today. And I know that there are so many reasons, especially for the professional woman. There are a million reasons to wait. There are a million reasons to put off your goals until tomorrow, until life gets just a little bit easier. But what I have found for professional women is that there is no perfect season. There is no perfect time to start, but giving yourself permission To prioritize yourself, even when life feels busy or hectic, making space on your calendar for yourself, saying no to other things, blocking your timeout is how you start feeling better in every corner of your life. This is on and off the scale. If you know that the message of this podcast resonates with you, I would love for you to take the passive learning that you're doing here into real life. active implementation by joining the Unstoppable group, head over to burnstressloseweight.com/group, click the button, grab a consult call, and let's talk whether this is a good fit for you. I can't wait to see you there. And I hope you guys have an amazing new year. Bye. Thanks for spending this time with me on the burn stress, lose weight podcast today. I hope that you are leaving today's podcast episode, feeling a little lighter and more inspired than when we started. It turns out that you don't need to have a stress free life to hit your goals on and off the scale, but when you feel more empowered to respond to your real life stresses with true strategy, we will game change how we show up and how we hit our goals. If you want to take what you're learning here on the podcast and put it into real life implementation, it might be time for us to work together in the Burn Stress, Lose Weight, Feel Unstoppable group coaching program. Head over to burnstressloseweight.com. And you can learn all of the details, the nuts, the bolts when the next group is starting and exactly how you can join. Okay, friend, I'll see you next time.