Happy Memorial Day to everyone!

This weekend is the unofficial beginning of summer and this is the time when we want to look and feel our best. This is when we double down on fitness and eating healthy. But beware the friendly saboteur.

What is a friendly saboteur?

Imagine this scenario: You have been disciplined in working out regularly for a few weeks, while eating a healthy, balanced diet, cutting down on alcohol consumption, limiting sugar intake, and not eating late in the night; then you have a night out with friends, family, or a significant other to celebrate something; you get caught up in the moment, swept along in the euphoria; someone hands you another drink or urges you to have another slice of cake; of course, you don’t want to be impolite or be a party-pooper; so you partake; and it feels great. Moderation be damned.

But guess what? You’ve been friendly sabotaged. The friendly saboteur is one of the prime reasons your weeks of workout and healthy eating haven’t given you the progress you want. The friendly saboteur is why you can’t get to the next level. The friendly saboteur is the monkey wrench in your summer master plan to be best version of you.

What do you do to counteract this?

Come back in a couple of days for our next post, Beware the Friendly Saboteur, Part 2, when we show you how to identify the friendly saboteur in your life and how to be aware when the sabotaging is happening.