I was overwhelmed with all my responsibilities and was eating emotionally as a coping mechanism. I primarily work from home, and after I dropped my kid off at daycare and got to my desk to work, I’d eat lots of snacks from my kitchen to get myself started at work, as I was unmotivated at my job and didn’t have accountability to stop me. In the past, I used Weight Watchers (both in person as a teenager and online only more recently), MyFitnessPal, and Noom. I went to a nutritionist at 8 years old, and I went to a weight loss summer camp in high school. In the years after college, I would go through a cycle where I decided I wanted to lose weight, would start whatever program on January 1, would be really disciplined and do all the calorie counting and time-consuming meal prep, I’d lose about 20 pounds, and then summer would roll around and I’d go on vacation and have more fun social plans, have less time for meal prep and fewer meals at home, and I would stop whatever program and eventually gain the weight back. I learned about MyBodyTutor during Adam's mentor call in Brandon Turner's BetterLife Tribe. The program's cost was a lot higher than any others I’d done before, and I was resistant to investing in myself in that way. I was also worried that it would be more time-consuming than I had time for in my busy life. Still, I hoped that I would lose more weight than the plateau I had previously always hit, that it would feel easy and not restrictive in my life, that I would build sustainable healthy habits and maintain the weight loss. I lost 20 pounds, which is awesome, but it came off so much more easily than before by making realistic changes in my life. My husband and I are trying for another child, so in talking with my coach, I decided it would be better for my body to stay at this healthy weight that feels comfortable rather than trying to get past this plateau where I’ve commonly ended up. I had originally hoped to lose more weight and have a more dramatic transformation, but it just doesn’t feel right for my life right now. However, this time I feel much more confident that I can maintain the weight loss and healthy habits I’ve built, because I’m not feeling restricted or spending hours each week on meal prep. One of the most impactful things I’m taking away was a piece of guidance from Adam about emotional eating, how doing so is not really fair to yourself because eating to comfort yourself doesn’t actually address what is making you unhappy. After achieving my goals with MyBodyTutor, I have been working on my mindset and started working with a business coach to help my career. I feel comfortable about what the weight loss means and what it doesn’t, and I’m energized to continue working on other areas of my life that need attention. If you’re hesitant to spend the money or the time on yourself, I want to tell you that you deserve it. You deserve the gift of health. I believe in health at every size, so while I had a lot of resistance at the thought of needing to lose weight to be healthy, I’m ending up at a place where I truly believe I’ve become a “healthy person," and that is so much more important to me than a physical image or metric of what health is “supposed to” look like.