Okay, today we're going to talk about January, and because if you're listening to

this and thinking, yep, I already screwed up, then you're in very good company

because that's what a lot of people have happened. But before we dive in, one of

the things I wanted to do is I wanted to give everybody an update on what I'm

going to be working on in 2026. So last year, if you do not remember, I said,

I only have a few days left before the New Year's. I'm not going to get there.

But I will say this. I am so proud of myself because I stuck with this goal all

year long. And let me tell you, that is not easy. Number one,

this year has just really reminded me of losing weight. To get 10 chin ups is a

slow process. It's not like I just do a few things and all of a sudden I'm

busting out 10. I have had to make the smallest improvements really matter,

really celebrate them and really highlight them. And the reason why I think it's a

lot like weight loss is because if you think about it, when you're losing weight,

even if it's not slow, it feels incredibly slow. Like when I was losing 100 pounds,

it could have felt so slow at times because I had 100 pounds to lose.

So on a week where you lose a quarter pound or a half a pound, it's easy to sit

there and bemoan it and whine about it and complain about it and basically make

yourself feel like complete ass. Well, the more you make yourself feel like complete

ass, the less motivated you're going to feel to keep going, the less you're going

to want to do things. So I just think it's so important to cheerlead. And so like

this year, every single time I would be getting frustrated that there were weeks

where I actually went backward where I was just like the week before, I remember

one week in particular, I got five. I finally got five. And I just like in my

mind for some reason. I just thought, oh, good. I'll never, ever only do three or

four ever again. And the next week, guess what? Every day that I practiced, I

couldn't get more than three. For some reason, it just wasn't happening. And I had

to be on myself about not giving up, about not making it a big deal, about not

saying I'll never be able to do it. I listened for it. I definitely had all of

that shit going on in my head. But what I did was I made sure that I did not

give up, that I also told myself that not many women can do a chin up.

And here I am, at least doing three, that if I could have done five that week,

it'll be a matter of time before I get back to that. It reminded me of when I

was in the middle of my weight loss journey, I was stuck at right.

I mean, the light was literally streaming into my bathroom through the window. And

it was like, God had an intervention with me. And the angels parted the sky. And

suddenly a voice in my head said, you cannot go back to the way you were.

This is what you've always said. And it's why you never ended up losing your

weight. Even if you don't lose another pound, everything that you're doing for

yourself right now is worth continuing. And it was like in that moment where I was

like, huh, it only makes sense. I need to keep going if I'm going to lose weight.

Fucking it and eating whatever I want out of frustration and being upset, the only

thing it's going to do is taste good for a minute and then make me feel like ass

later. It's going to make there'd be more time between me and when I get under

200. So the same thing happened this year. I'm going to tell y 'all,

there were so many times I wanted to give up. I wanted to just like, nobody's even

watching me. Nobody cares if I get this goal. It's only matters to me. You know,

I'm strong. Why am I even bothering? I had so many excuses try to come up in my

head. And I will tell you, just like I'm going to teach you later in here, all I

did is sit around and think about, like, what do I need to do next?

What do I need to do next? Every single time I wanted to quit, I would tell

myself, but what do I actually need to do next? There's a difference between wanting

to quit and thinking that's what to do next. Then there's the actual reality of

what do I want to do next that can help me get there. So today what I want to

do is I want to talk to you about

diagnosing why, like, why didn't I get my six? What kept me from getting to 10?

And I want you to do the same thing about this year. So I know I want to keep

working on this. I want to get my 10 chin ups so bad I can taste it because I

want to move into eventually doing regular pull -ups. And I started with chin -ups

for one reason. I wanted a quick win. Chin -ups are the easiest way to start.

They allow you to get strong fast. And it's just like what I did with my weight.

I knew I needed something small to start with so that I could get early wins. And

that's what I'm always teaching y 'all low -hanging fruit. I've always found that

small incremental progress just helps me keep going because I am quick to quit

things. And I have learned how to work with that impulse to want to quit instead

of fighting my nature, which is to do too many things at once, just to solve a

problem. I'm like, no, I don't do that anymore. If I am very quick to quit things,

then I've got to do small little things I can get good at and get quick wins to

keep me motivated and also to reduce a lot of mistakes.

So this is my diagnosis for myself, and then we'll get into talking about how you

can do some diagnosis. My goal was good. It did give the quick wins that I needed,

so 10 chin -ups. I didn't do enough of my chin -ups all year long, though.

I started with just doing them without a real plan. I kind of just jumped in doing

what I thought I knew would be the right way instead of really researching and

getting on a good program for chin -ups. So later on in the year,

I actually added a program to it. Basically, the more often I did them,

I was able to get stronger. And I started listening to myself. I don't think I

even realized until a while about how much bitching and moaning I was doing instead

of reminding myself that I was making progress. This is so important to weight loss.

Some weeks, it is natural to be weaker. And so I started just telling myself, I'm

weaker today, which is surprising. Just like days when I'm stronger, I am surprised.

So I really started focusing on not making those things mean near as much.

because when I made them mean a lot,

want to keep working on it this year, along with a few other goals. I want to get

back to early first thing in the morning workouts. That's really important to me. It

just fits better with my workload. You know, it's running a big -ass weight loss

company. I need to get it done early because I tend to,

I tell my clients this all the time. I put my workouts off until the end of the

day. And I do get them done. But I spent all of 2026,

basically working hard during the day and also dreading going to the gym all day.

And then going to the gym, tired of my ass because I sat there and bemoaned and

it would take me a quarter of my workout to just groove the, like grease the

wheels for myself. And so I was like, if I'm going to dread my workouts, I want

to just dread it first thing in the morning. And that way, I don't have to dread

all day. Now, hopefully I'll fall in love with it again or get excited and stuff.

But I'm just like, you know what? If that never happens, one thing I can fix is I

can stop pushing it off to the end of the day and then having to force myself to

go, which feels like ass, and cut out all of that dread. I also, this year,

I have a goal to squat 200 pounds by the end of the year. I just honestly want

to see if I can improve my legs. I have said forever that I just need to get

over that my legs will never look the way I won't. And the other day, I was

coaching on my damn legs with my own personal coach. And I always tell y 'all, you

need a weight loss coach. That's why you should join my membership. And I have my

own coach, because I got my own shit I have to work through. And so my coach and

I were talking about I was talking about, like, going to early morning workouts and

stuff. And the other day, she said, Corinne, that is a terrible thought to have

because it makes you feel unmotivated. Like when I would sit there and say like,

well, I just need to get over it, my legs are going to just, this is just the

way they're going to look. To me, that just felt like a fact. It just felt like,

I don't know, it almost felt like I was doing myself a solid. But I had never

thought about thinking about it this way. She said, why not just think, I'm going

to give it my all and see what happens? And I was like, wow, that really feels

better. I was like it feels a hell of a lot better than me just sitting there

settling for like, I'm just going to keep working hard and deal with the way they

look instead of, I'm going to work really hard and see if I can surprise myself.

Because the truth is, there's two truths here. The truth is they probably won't ever

look the way I won't. But the truth also is, I have no idea what they could look

like if I was just giving up my all. So that's what I'm going to do. So that's

this year for personal shit. I have some big goals for my company that will make

it possible for women to lose weight even better and easier. Got so many big ideas

and so many things in the works. But what I want to help you with today is I

want to help you with your January goals because a lot of you, you come in real

hot at the first of the year. You're like, all right, this is it. I am done

messing around. So you change your diet radically. If I had to guess,

you've already cut out a lot of things you normally eat. You've joined a gym or

you've dusted off your membership and you're like, I am kicking some ass this year

and that's what's going to happen. And then you get into January. It could be a

few days. It could be a week. It could be a few weeks. And the next thing you

know, you're standing in your kitchen at night eating stuff you didn't plan or

you're snacking when you ain't hungry. You stop at the gas station and you think,

what am I even doing? I'm sitting here getting candy. And I was supposed to make

2026 the year of the queen. And in your head, it sounds the same thing.

Like, I was doing so good. Then I blew it. I can't stick to anything.

I always do this. But I want to break this down because that's not what actually

happens in January. What happens in January is that you showed up as a perfect

storm and nobody warned you. Because here's the thing that no one really talks about

in the whole weight loss land. January is just a weird fucking time of the year.

You got on one hand, you're motivated. And maybe it's not even motivation as much

as you're just so fed up that you feel motivated to do something,

even if you're pissed at yourself. Maybe you're fed up with food noise all the time

or being obsessed about every little thing you put in your mouth. Maybe you're fed

up with feeling so uncomfortable in your body. You don't like going anywhere. You're

hiding in you clothes. You're doing all the things. Or maybe you're just fed up

with your ass because you're always starting over. You always got big plans and the

next thing you know, they're caving and you're like, I'll start tomorrow, I'll start

tomorrow. And tomorrow becomes Monday and Monday becomes next week and next week

becomes next month and next month becomes January of 2027. So a lot of times in

January though, the drive to lose weight is powerful and it's very real. But then

you also got this weird dynamic going on at the same time. You're fucking tired.

Maybe your sleep is off because you've been running yourself ragged through the

holidays and you're just in a hangover all the way through January because you're

just trying to get caught up. Maybe your digestion is off. If you ain't like shit

through the holidays, January is just like, you're just trying to get like the duty

shooter working properly again, the heartburn to get extinguished with a little

fireman called water. And maybe your routine is off. For a lot of us, we spend so

much of the holidays doing so much shit that we put off a lot of things and we

take time off from work and the next thing you know, we're back at work and our

workload is heavy. And also, our nervous system might still be recovering from the

holidays too. We were around a lot of people that we didn't necessarily want to be

around. We had to talk to people that we only talked to once a year, and they

exhaust us and they piss us off and we bite our tongue. Or we are disappointed as

fuck because we want people to say things. We want people to do certain things and

nobody delivered. And so we are feeling all of it. So we can have two things true

at once. We can start January highly motivated and also recovering from the holidays.

And when we don't see that, you know what most women do? We start out really hard

and fast telling ourselves like, this is my year. I'm going to do everything right.

I'm not messing around. I'm going to be some disciplined woman that nobody's even

going to recognize. But without realizing it, what we're doing,

be a making. All the while, we are motivated to lose weight, but we're still tired.

And we still got our regular life. And our regular life might not even be easy

because we're still catching up from the holidays. But this is the problem. Fantasy

U is not who shows up most days. I remember back in the day when I would think

about me losing weight. And I always like, in my mind,

white glow about her and she was just eating salads and she was happily cooking

things in the kitchen she was just doing all the things that was fantasy me but

you know what really was happening most days real life was throat punching me i was

wanting to do all these things eat the salads go to the gym drink my water like

be a a clean eating bitch. But my real life was stressful.

I was always more hungrier than my diets ever gave me calories for. My emotions

were up and down like a fucking roller coaster. One minute I felt like I had my

shit together. The next minute I was worried to death that it was all coming apart.

I was exhausted most of the time. Exhausted from just balancing everything I had to

balance and exhausted from my own bullshit because I was always hard on myself.

I was always worrying about things. I would, what if shit to death. If something

happened, I would catastrophize it first. What's the worst case scenario? And then I

would just insist that was going to happen and then work hard to not make that

happen. And so basically, that fantasy version of me would collapse.

And I would start my perfect diet, my gung -ho version and stuff. And as real life

and me showed up, instead of adjusting my plan,

do you know what I would do? I'd end up quitting. And I wasn't quitting because I

couldn't lose weight. And I wasn't quitting because something was wrong with me. I

was always quitting because I had no flexibility. I didn't think about things in a

realistic way. I was quitting because I was hard on myself. And it was always so

much easier to quit a diet

because on the other side of quitting was some relief. Relief from the perfection I

demanded of myself. Relief from the pressure I put under on myself. Relief from the

way I talk to myself. That is why I quit almost every diet I ever quit. It really

wasn't the diet itself.

It was the way I talked to myself through it. And then on top of that, I never

really picked diets that matched what I needed. They were just trying to solve a

weight problem. So I would go back to the well of weight watchers and I would try

to cut out carbs or I would go back to the well of calorie counting but none of

that was solving problems I really had and so I would I had failed instead of

realizing I was picking the wrong diets I was starting too hard and too fast and I

wasn't setting things up in a way that the Corinne,

who was stressed and hungry at times and emotional roller coastery and who was

really exhausted and who was hard on herself, I didn't pick diets that fit her. I

picked diets that fit the fantasy. And then another reason why a lot of our diets

go to shit in January is we also we have something called fresh start effect.

Our brains do love a good clean slate. New Year,

fresh start energy is good in one way. It's like a double -edged sword.

Fresh start energy gives you motivation. Fresh start energy feels really good.

You get to create a plan. You get to do all that fun stuff. You get to visualize

who you're going to be. You get to imagine the life you're going to have. But

fresh start energy often forgets to plan for real life. We pick things and we plan

things as if we're never going to get tired. Like we're not going to get stressed

and want to eat. We plan as if nothing should ever go wrong. We should just be

able to do the plan just as it is all the time regardless of what happens in

life. And so when something does go wrong, guess what? You think the plan didn't

work. Well, the plan didn't work because it wasn't set up for your real life.

But that's not really the problem. When the plan doesn't work, most of us think,

oh, I don't work. Something's wrong with me. And that's where most women get stuck

because they think they only have two options. One is be real hard on yourself.

If you make mistakes, it's like, well, you knew better. You know what to do. You

just aren't doing it. You need to be stricter. You can't Let this slide. You need

to fix this right now. You should be doing better. You need to try harder. Where's

your willpower? We just like sit there and be an ass to ourselves. Or we go to

option two, which is let it go and just start over tomorrow. I'll deal with that

Monday. I'm going to get serious next week. Tomorrow I'm going to be so much

better. As if tomorrow you're going to show up without today's problems. But here's

the thing. We forget there's a third option.

past the first step. They just notice things, which we've got to notice or we

cannot change, y 'all. Because if you don't notice, what's actually going on,

how are you supposed to have the right solutions to your problems? So we do have

to notice our problems. And a lot of times, like,

we don't look for them because we're so afraid to see problems. And I'm like, oh

my God, you need to see the problem so you can find your solutions.

And then a lot of us, we're just guessing. We guess what the problem is. And diets

do that. They guess what your problem is. So let me explain it this way. Let's say

that you go to a doctor with a headache. You know what a doctor doesn't do when

you come in with a headache? They don't, like, give you two Tylenol and say, go

home. You know what doctors do? They diagnose. Because if a doctor just gave you

Tylenol, they're guessing what the problem is. Your headache must mean you need a

pain reliever. There must be nothing wrong with you. You just have a headache. But

they don't do that. They're going to ask you a lot of questions. They're going to

be like, oh, how long have you had this headache? When does it show up? What else

is going on? They're going to want to figure out some things. They're probably going

to take your blood pressure, they're probably going to ask you about, like, how much

water are you drinking? They're going to ask you good questions because Tylenol might

help a headache, but what if your headache is from really out of control high blood

pressure? What if it's from terrible vision? What if it's from stress? If they're

not diagnosing the right problem, they can give you the wrong solution, even if they

give you Tylenol, which could help the headache. If you've got out of control blood

pressure, you're going to have a heart attack and die. So we want to make sure

that we are diagnosing. Otherwise, we're going to keep coming back with the same

headache. And that's exactly what we do with our diets. We see some behavior like

we're eating at night or we're stopping at the gas station on the way home and

getting candy. And we immediately diagnose ourselves. We're like, that is me not

being disciplined. Oh, I know what it is. It's because I'm lazy. Oh, I just need

stricter rules. But I want you all to think about this for a second. What if

that's not the problem? So let me just say, it's just like when I was doing my

pull -ups. On the week where I went backward, if I diagnosed the problem as you're

not cut out for chin -ups, if I diagnose the problem is being lazy, I'm not going

to fix it. But if I diagnose the problem as, oh, I need to do more strengthening

work with my biceps. Oh, I need to do chin ups more often each week,

not just two times a week. We want to make sure we're really thinking about things.

So let me give you another example. I remember the client, and she was very upset

recently because she had started eating candy in her car, like stopping at gas

stations, buying handfuls of candy, eating it on the drive home, and she felt really

awful about it. And she kept saying, I just need to stop eating candy. I don't

know what's wrong with me. She had diagnosed the problem as she just needed to stop

bad behavior into story. And she diagnosed the problem is there's probably no reason

why because she's like, I don't know what's wrong with me. So there must be nothing

like nothing diagnosable. So I just asked her, I said, is there anything new going

on in your life right now? Is there any kind of pattern that you can think of?

Like we just started talking about life. And she said, well, this mostly happens

after I visit my mom. And I was like, really? Her mom had Alzheimer's and was in

a nursing home. And those visits for her were really hard. Her mom was often very

angry at her. And she was used to her mother being very kind and loving.

Her mom barely remembered her anymore. And she just wasn't herself. And my client

felt so guilty. It wasn't even that her, she wasn't eating the candy because of how

her,

mom's getting so bad, I have caught myself sometimes wishing that she would just

pass away. And she was ate up with guilt.

And she was going anyway, but she was beating herself up for dreading it and for

having very normal thoughts. Sometimes she was angry at her mom, and she felt really

guilty about that. She never showed it, but on the inside, she was pissed. She was

pissed that her mom didn't remember her. She was pissed that her mom was yelling at

her. So she didn't need to quit eating candy. That was the worst thing that she

could do. Because if she diagnosed the problem is I just need to quit eating candy,

guess what? She'd be going and visiting her mom and be eaten alive with guilt and

shame. You know what? She needed to quit. She needed to figure out how she was

going to quit feeling guilty and ashamed of having normal human reactions.

And once we worked through that with some coaching, she could see that she was an

incredible daughter because she was going to something really hard almost every single

day and that her feelings were very normal. And then we started building a home,

like a driving home routine in her car that actually helped her with all of that.

Because the candy was soothing her pain. The candy wasn't the problem.

But if we hadn't noticed her real issue, she would have just kept trying to be

stricter with food and she would have kept failing because she would have kept

feeling guilty and ashamed. And this is why noticing the real problem matters so

much behind eating. Because if you don't diagnose the problem, you apply wrong

solutions. And usually that wrong solution looks like stricter diets. You just need

more rules. You just need to try harder. And then this one, the part that's most

important, you try being harder on yourself thinking that that's going to help and i

will tell you if being hard on yourself worked every woman in this with the sound

of my voice would already be thin because we have tried to be hard on ourselves

for years and it's done nothing but make us fatter it makes us miserable and being

hard on yourself just doesn't work.

Because this is the thing. Whatever you do to lose weight, you're going to have to

keep doing that just to keep it off, which includes how you talk to yourself. That

becomes a habit in a pattern. How you handle mistakes, whether you diagnose or you

beat yourself up, becomes a habit. How you respond when things don't go as planned

becomes a habit. All of those things, we have to make sure that we are noticing

it. Because if you lose your weight, beating yourself up over mistakes, talking

yourself like an asshole, going ham on you when things don't go as planned,

yelling at others when it doesn't go as plan, guess what? When you get to

maintenance and you actually get the goal weight that you want, you're going to have

to do that for the rest of your life. otherwise you'll be terrified that you're

going to regain your weight. So if the only way you can lose weight is by being

strict and punishing yourself with taking away food, talking yourself like an asshole,

then just know you're going to have to live that way forever. And that is not

sustainable. So when we think about January and when we make the mistakes that we're

going to make, like as normal human beings, we need to reset, but we don't need to

sweep things under the rug. And we're not trying to let ourselves off the hook.

What we were saying in a reset is, okay, if I'm not able to follow this plan,

if I'm not able to do this, I need to diagnose what's actually happening. So if

you're eating at night, maybe it's not because you're undisciplined. It could be when

you look at things, maybe you're just under -eating during the day. If you're

overeating on the weekends, maybe it's not a willpower issue. Maybe it's because

you're so fucking tired and you're still trying to grind all weekend long. If

January blew up in your face and you thought that you were going to lose all your

weight, and here you are, listen to me going like, girl, I get it. I started off

hard. And now the wheels flew off my cart and I'm laying in a ditch somewhere and

it's muddy. And I look like shit. Maybe you're not a failure. But when you

diagnose, you're like, maybe I'm always starting diets with unrealistic expectations

layered on top of a woman who's exhausted,

pulled in a in directions, really busy. So I need a plan to lose weight that fits

her, not fantasy me. Because noticing the right problem is what lets you apply the

right solutions. That's how weight loss happens. That's how it starts to feel doable

with your actual life instead of something that you can only do if everything's

perfect And everybody acts the way they're supposed to. So if January already feels

like a shit show, the last thing I want you doing is starting over. Just try for

a hot second to notice and diagnose. Because I don't think you mess things up.

I think all that's happening is you are being revealed exactly what kind of help

you really do need to lose your weight. All right, everybody. Y 'all have a great

week. Wish me luck as I continue on my journey to get my chin ups and now to

squat 200 pounds because this woman wants to be strong. I always tell Chris,

I'll be picking your ass up. You won't be picking mine up in our old age. Y 'all

have a good week.