Have you noticed how when someone wants to lose weight, the first thing they do is start exercising? They may or may not have an exercise plan in place, but they are inspired to take some kind of physical action nonetheless, because to them, movement is progress. While it’s great to see others take action on their goals, what would actually help them is to pause and take note of what they are already doing that could be getting in the way of living a healthy life. Look, you can do the “right things” as long as you stop doing the “wrong ones”. If you keep exercising while still eating unhealthy food most of the time, you’re not going to get any positive results from exercising, because all of the benefits from the exercise are being offset by the poor food habits. Here’s another example. If you know you don’t have a protein meal ready after your strength training workout, there’s no point in doing the workout, because all of the effort spent would have been for naught. Yeah, you still end up burning calories, but you won’t get the desired result. Why bother?!