Episode 196: Your New Year’s Weight Loss Goals Don’t Fail in January. They Fail in December.
Dec 19, 2025
Your new year’s weight loss resolutions don’t fail in January. They actually fail in December, before you’ve even made them.
After 40+ years of emotional eating, and after helping several hundred women stop binge eating using strategies I learned as the Chief of Staff for FBI Counterintelligence (yes, really)... I can tell you this. Your January goals collapse because of three specific things you’re doing right now, in December, without even realizing it.
So today, I’m breaking down the 3 December mistakes that quietly sabotage your weight loss goals, and how to fix each one so you don’t start January starting over. Again. If you want to finally hit your New Year’s goals without the new years resolution nonsense, this episode is for you.
Together, we will investigate:
- Why your New Year’s weight loss goals are set up for failure in December… and the surprising patterns that quietly sabotage your success.
- The one Steven Covey habit high-achieving women use completely wrong… and the missing step that determines whether your goals collapse or finally stick.
- How “unresolved endings” from the entire year hijack your brain chemistry which makes emotional eating worse.
- Why December ends up being the emotional junk drawer of the year, and how that pushes you straight back into binge eating without realizing it.
- Why all that ‘magical reflection’ advice from self-help gurus backfires, and what to do instead if you actually want results in January.
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