Your best weight is whatever weight you reach when you're living the healthiest life that you actually enjoy
If your efforts can be summarized as cyclical, episodic, concentrated bouts of suffering, during which your aim isn't the healthiest life that you can enjoy but rather the healthiest life that you can tolerate, well, go figure you're not likely to keep it off.
If you want to succeed with long-term weight loss, it's crucial that you embrace both reality and imperfection.
Remember, too, that your best efforts will vary.
Your best when facing a challenging time in life will be different from your best when everything is hunky-dory, just as your best on your birthday, or on a vacation, or at a holiday meal will require indulgence.
The truth is there will come a point where you can't happily live any better — where you can't happily eat less and you can't happily exercise more — and your weight, living with that life, is your best weight.
In every other area of our lives we readily accept our best efforts as great, and we need to do that with weight and healthful living too.
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