When is avoiding helpful? Pretty much never. Avoiding the scale, avoiding journaling, avoiding ticking off habits, avoiding speaking to someone...whatever it looks like for you, avoiding is a coping mechanism to avoid discomfort (AKA. our own thoughts). Unfortunately, we end up avoiding doing the things that are going to get us the results we want, and we stop doing the real work of facing our thoughts and feelings. When we avoid, we miss the opportunity to learn, grow, and improve. 

Today we're talking about why we avoid, why it's not helpful, and how you can start to work through your patterns of avoidance, particularly in weight loss.