Midlife Weight Loss That Lasts: Why, Habits, Tracking, And Momentum For 2026

Resolutions fizzle when they’re built on vague wishes. We go straight at the real work: anchoring weight loss to a why that matters, mapping habits that are small and doable, and tracking progress in ways that feel good enough to repeat. Jax opens up about the moment everything changed—a doctor’s blunt warning—and how a tough, personal why carried her through plateaus, early mornings, and the days motivation disappeared.

We start by unpacking the emotional core of change with guided journaling prompts: what you’re tired of carrying, who you want to become, and what it will cost if nothing changes. From there, we break a big 2026 goal into daily systems that actually move the scale: a 60-day macro tracking sprint, protein and fiber as north stars, a clear hydration target, and the simplest movement plan that wins—walking. Strength training joins the mix so you protect muscle and confidence. Meal prep becomes your midweek autopilot, turning hard choices into easy defaults.

Then we make it visible. Choose a tracker you’ll use: goal board, habit jar, streak calendar, or an app that gives you that satisfying hit of progress. Stack accountability with a friend, your family, or an online community, and design your environment to lower friction—shoes by the door, outfits set, water filled, positive reminders in plain sight. Jax also shares a five-minute morning visualization to set identity before the day steals your attention, plus three affirmations that reinforce follow-through. Finally, we reframing rewards: skip “cheat meals” and celebrate wins with experiences and tools that strengthen your healthy identity—new shoes, a sauna session, a fresh journal, or posting your streak.

Want the prompts, trackers, and affirmations in one place? Grab the companion guide linked in the show notes. If this conversation helps you build momentum, subscribe, share with a friend who needs a nudge, and leave a quick review so more women can find it. What’s your why for 2026?

Wellness Goals GUIDE

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome And Promise Of Structure
• 4:05 Finding A Personal, Powerful Why
• 11:12 Guided Journaling To Define Why
• 19:00 Identity Shift And Future Self
• 25:20 From Goals To Habits And Systems
• 32:15 Movement, Meal Prep, And Routine
• 40:10 Tracking Tools And Accountability

Transcript

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So, welcome to the Midlife Glowgetter Podcast. I'm Jax, and today is going to be a great, great episode, episode 28. This is the wellness goals that actually stick for New Year's. And really, the most popular goal of all time is to lose weight for the new year. That is my goal. It's been my goal for over three years, and I've been successful so far. So I really feel like I'm an expert on this. You know, New Year's brings a good, useful, fresh energy, but your goals have to have structure. They have to have meaning. They have to have purpose. And that's what I'm going to feed you today in this episode. Weight loss is such a common resolution. It's, I think it's probably number one. Like I said, but for me, it's a long-term goal, which makes me a perfect voice on this. I promise you, by the end of this episode, you will have a meaningful why of why you want to lose weight, why that is your wellness goal for 2026, a habit map, a tracking system, a simple daily mindset practice. So this will give you structure to achieve your goal, your goal to lose weight for the new year for 2026. So I did link a companion guide in the show notes. I suggest you grab it, download it, print it, whatever you need to do. It has journaling prompts, habit lists, trackers, affirmations, the five-minute visualization practice that I'll be sharing with you. One of the things I'll be sharing on this episode. So find that guide, download it, review it, make notes, grab a cup of coffee, a cup of tea, your water bottle. Get in the mood if you're driving or if you're sitting on your couch or doing housework, whatever you may do or sitting at work. Whatever you may be doing, get ready. This is going to be a great episode. I'm super excited. This is something I'm passionate about, that I truly know that I live every day, that I have lived for the last three and a half years. So we'll get started. So now we will talk about one of the biggest, most important concepts when you want to lose weight, when this is your wellness goal, your why. Your specific personal why. Why you want to lose weight. This is personal. This is your purpose, your meaning. People usually just have general reasons. Oh, I want to lose weight. I want to be cute in a bikini. I want to be healthy. But there are real reasons why. Real personal, emotional reasons why you want to lose weight. With me, I lived a life of shame when I was overweight. I was embarrassed. I was living small. I did not have my real personality. I was I was living with regret. And I will tell you one thing. When I was younger, I I was cute. I was small, I was fit, I took really took care of myself. I could date pretty much any guy I wanted to. And when I gained the weight, it truly humbled me. It really did. And I learned a lot about myself, but I was living small and I was in shame. And when I decided to lose weight, I wanted to stop living with regret. I wanted, of course, I wanted to be healthy. I wanted to move, but I wanted to live a long life for myself, for my son, for his future family, for my parents, for my sisters, for my niece. I did not want to live a life of regret. I did not want to die. Okay. That is my why. I do not want to die early. So everyone has their real reason why. Having vague goals, you know, you know, such as vague reasons like being in a cute bikini. I guess that works for some people that did not work for me. Again, your why is not a goal. It's what carries you when you are not motivated, when things are crazy in your life, when you have stress, you have hormones, you have family chaos or exhaustion. This will carry you through the hard days. This will remind you why you are taking all the effort, why you are doing all the hard, hard work, why you're waking up early in the morning, why you're meal prepping, why you're walking, why you are tracking and keeping tabs on what you do, why you are catching yourself with emotional eating, why you're journaling. There are so many habits you can do, and the reasons why you're doing them is because of your real why. So your brain is designed to conserve energy and avoid discomfort. That is how your brain is designed. When something gets hard, when something gets difficult, your brain defaults to abort. I need to abort this mission. I need to give up. I need to find comfort. A meaningful why creates that emotional relevance in your life, which helps you follow through with your goal. It increases the odds that you will follow through, that you will not give up on a hard day. I have had so many hard days, and you know what? I pick myself up and I move forward. I take each day by day, and I remember where I was and where I am going and where I don't want to be. I do not want to die early at 50 years old, and that's the route I was on. I have so much to live for, I have so much to offer, I have such great family and friends that I needed to find my real why, and I did, and that's what picks me through hard days. You know, I was on a plateau for like three months. I did not lose any weight. And I finally broke that plateau by increasing my protein. And the only thing that made me get up in the morning, go to the gym to walk, to meal prep every Sunday, to drink my water, to do strength training, to do exercise classes, was that I was in a mode of desperation. I did not want to die early. And that is on my mind to this day. So you have to have a real, true why. And so I'm gonna walk you through that. If you're not driving, grab a pen and paper. This is a pen and paper moment. Not to think about this later moment, unless you are driving. Come back to this episode part. And so I invite you to pause this episode, grab a pen and paper if you can. So now we're gonna do a journaling practice. If you're not driving, we're gonna set the mood. Grab a journal, a notebook, a piece of paper, a really good pen. Put a soft light on, maybe a candle, get a cozy drink, get an iced coffee if you can, or just your water will do. Um, have this podcast playing in the background. Put your phone on, do not disturb. You are creating a safe space. You're telling your body that you are safe, you are focused, you are ready to work, and this is work. Okay. So you're gonna ask yourself, and I'm gonna ask you, what wellness goal do you want specifically for the new year for 2026? I'm gonna assume, since you listen to me, since you're listening to this podcast, that it is to lose weight. So this is the example we will use. And I'm going to bounce off my answers to see how I answer so you can reflect and maybe create your answers that pertain to you. So for me, it is to lose 100 pounds in 2026. That is my goal. That will get me to my goal weight, my dream weight that I have been dreaming about for several, several years. How will you feel when you hit that goal weight come December 31st, 2026? How will you feel? What changes day to day? For me, the anxiety will will lessen. I still have an anxiety that I'm going to die. And the reason I had this about four years ago, my doctor sat me down and said, in five years, I'll be dead. I will be dead. Imagine what you will miss out on. Who will miss you? So that thought is in my mind. And I feel that come December of 2026, that anxiety will be lessened. I will not have the fear that I'm going to die. And that's what drives me. Maybe it is not normal, maybe not healthy, but it's what gets me up every morning to meal prep to do all the things to achieve my goal. And then ask yourself, what are you tired of carrying? I was tired of carrying the shame and the regret and the embarrassment and the pain in my body, physical pain, emotional pain. And then ask yourself, what do you want to feel more of in your body and your life? For me, I want to be proud. I want to make my son proud. I was tired of him. I felt that he was ashamed of me. He never showed it. He says he never was. But there were several things that we missed out on when I was overweight when he was younger. I could recall he was in a travel baseball group. And at one evening, we were at a hotel out of town for travel baseball, and the parents were having a race with their kids, and I physically could not do it, and he could not participate. And I was so ashamed and so embarrassed for him. But he never showed it. He had a smile on his face, and he says he was still proud of me. But those kind of moments stick in my mind of all the things I missed out on. So that is something that I did miss out on, and I no longer want to miss out on, especially if my son has a family and kids in the future. I want to participate. I don't want to be ashamed. I don't want to be embarrassed. I don't want to make my family embarrassed. And I felt that's what I was doing. And then the next question is: who is the woman who already lives this way? The identity shift. If I weighed 140, 135 pounds, which is my goal weights, I will have all the energy in the world. I will be calm. I will be confident. I can do anything I set my mind to. It'll be a sense of confidence, which I'm already kind of carrying because of how far I've come. And it's amazing how your confidence builds when you achieve goals. But when I achieve that goal, I will have an unstoppable confidence. And I know I will be able to do anything I put my mind to. And that's how I want to feel. And then the next question: what does she believe about herself? This is the identity shift. And I said, I believe I could achieve anything I put my mind to. That's how I want to feel come December of 2026. What does she do on hard days? She lives the life of a fit person, of a healthy person. She walks every day. She eats healthy. She drinks her water. She takes her supplements. She carries herself with confidence. She speaks her mind. She glows. It is glow up energy that I want to achieve. And so that is my identity shift. And that's what you need to ask yourself. You ask yourself these three questions for identity shift. Who is the woman who already lives this way? What does she believe about herself? What does she do on hard days when she's living this lifestyle? So, next is why does this matter? Ask yourself, why does this matter? Why does this future person matter to me? Why does this goal matter? For me, I want to live a life I'd want to live twice. I don't want to live with regret. We get one trip, one go-around, one chance to live a life. I want to, I'm, I miss out on so much. My family missed out on me so much for years when I was extremely overweight. I am tired of living that way. And it's still in my mind. It's still, I still have thoughts of how small I was living, how embarrassed, how ashamed, how reserved, how I did not let my personality shine through. And I was tired of living that way. And so this is why it matters. I don't want to live a life of regret. I don't want to be, if I bless this lucky to make it to 85 years old, I don't want to be in my bed thinking I missed out on so much because I did not put in the effort to lose weight. I did not participate with my family. I did not have the confidence in my life to go for goals, to achieve goals. And losing weight is the biggest obstacle I will probably overcome. And so far I've done well, but there's still a road ahead. So this matters to me because I don't want to live a life of regret. Ask yourself, why does this matter? What do you want to achieve with this goal? What kind of life do you want to live? And then ask yourself again, why does this matter? Keep asking yourself that question till you get to the true, meaningful why, the real reason for the hard work you're about to take on for 2026. Then say, if nothing changes this year, what does that cost you? What does that cost you if you don't change this year? It could be your peace, it could be your confidence, it could be your mindset, it could be your personality, it could be a real reason. If you don't achieve this goal, what's gonna happen? What are you gonna miss out on? You need to grab that energy, that confidence to to dedicate yourself and do everything you can to overcome every obstacle you will face when you are trying to lose weight this come new year. And there will be obstacles you need to take day by day and realize this is your why, and you are not giving up. So finally, to wrap up this section of the episode of your why, this is the question, this is the statement. I'm committing to blank because blank, when it gets hard, I will remember blank. So for me, this will be my wife statement, and it's been my same why for three and a half years. It is I am committing to lose weight and get healthy because I do not want to die early. When it gets hard, I will remember where I've come, where I am going, and what I need to do to get the job done. I will remember my family, myself, my friends, and all that I still need to accomplish in this gift we call life. So that is my why. Create your why. Live it, breathe it, remember it, feed off it. Create a why. Okay, so we went through the why, which is number one the most important substance for losing weight, for your new year's goal, for the energy you want to bring on. Now it's all about the habits. You're working backwards to create the habits that's going to make you achieve that goal. Where you're gonna be in December 31st, 2026. Goals do not change your life, systems do, habits do, they change your life. A goal is a dream, it's a focus, but the actionable steps is what changes and makes you achieve that goal. Your goal is the destination, your habits are the vehicle. You need to work backwards to it to get those habits in place to achieve that goal. This is my goal a hundred pounds by December 31st, 2026. That is two pounds a week, it comes out to be. I have to lose. On average, two pounds per week. How am I gonna lose two pounds per week? That's achievable. It really is. But it's all about consistency. And by the word, that's my word for 2026. Consistency. So, what habits am I gonna take every day, every hour, to achieve that goal? I have a list of them. You have to be creative. What is gonna motivate you? What are you going to enjoy? So, some of the habits for me is my macros. I'm going to track my food at least the first 60 days of 2026. Every day, every meal, I'm going to track. I'm going to make it my full-time job. I'm going to track my protein, my healthy fats, my carbs, even my fiber, I'm going to track. Because I feel protein and fiber are number one. You get enough fiber, that means you're eating enough fruits and vegetables. So tracking my macros is something I'm going to do. Drinking my water 120 ounces a day. And how am I going to do that? I bought a Q water bottle. Buy yourself a Q water bottle. Real cute. Something you really enjoy looking at and carrying around that represents your personality. I this year bought a red, sparkly, Stanley 40-ounce water bottle. It's got little crystal little like glitter in it. It brings out good energy. It stands out. It's how I want to feel. So buy a personality water bottle so you could drink your water. Movement. How are you going to move every day? What are you going to do to move your body that will create actionable steps that you're actually going to stick to? Okay. Walking is by far one of the best movement activities you can do. I really feel passionate about that. That's how I started. I had no gym membership. I was so overweight. I could not even walk in a gym. I was so embarrassed. And so I just started walking around my block early morning so no one would see me. And I kept doing it. And I kept going. I kept walking. So maybe that is walking early in the morning or late in the evening. Maybe that is buying a walking pad. You don't have to buy a fancy treadmill. Buy a walking pad under$200 from Amazon. They're still quality walking pads. You need one? Look on my website. I have one listed, the one that I just bought about a month ago that I absolutely love. But it doesn't matter. Walk. Get movement in. You can think about getting a weighted vest, but I wouldn't start if you just started walking. I would build up to that. So you want to get strength training. You want to do body weight exercises from home if you're not at a gym, resistance bands, dumbbells, body weight exercises. There are so many tools you can do. You could buy a book, you could look at YouTube videos. Those aren't expensive things to invest in. YouTube's free, a book under 30 bucks. Invest in the tools to teach yourself how you're going to move your body, what you're going to do. And then set a time, calendar it. Block it on your calendar. This is a non-negotiable time slot for me to move my body. You're going to meal prep. Meal prep is by far such a God sent. You don't have to think throughout the week. You're not tempted. The meals there, the food's prepared. Even if you're lazy, you don't want to cook. You don't have to. You cooked Saturday or Sunday, whatever day your meal prep is. Do a meal prep day. You have to create the right mindset, the right environment to stick to these habits. And that's part of a habit tracker. Maybe doing a five-minute visualization practice meditation, which I'll cover. Journaling, writing down your thoughts, an emotional eating journal, even if you're an emotional eater. Get affirmations in place. I have a list in the guide. Affirmations, just repeat them in your mind. Voice note them on your phone and listen to yourself while you're driving. Go in front of a mirror and just say that affirmation and believe it and feel it and know it in your gut that this is you. This is what you're doing. You have to have an accountability community or partner. I have a close friend at work. We we are both on a weight loss mission and we we bounce ideas off. My son is an accountability partner. He is my biggest supporter. He is so happy for me. And he says it every day. You're doing it, mom. You're doing it. You're doing you're having you're doing a great job, Mom. I'm so proud of you. Look how far you've come. He is my biggest supporter. My parents are always saying to me, You look fantastic. You've got to feel great. You're still doing it, Jackie. You're not giving up. So have a support system, the right environment. I come here online. I put videos out there. I put photos. It is my accountability. I am being accountable to all the people who listen to me. You that listen to me, my followers. It's not really followers, it's my supporters. It's my support system. You are my support system. Get out there. Find your community. Find your support system. Get a coach. Get a life coach who supports you. Join a life coaching community. Eventually, I'll be starting that when I am more confident and I have the tools and the knowledge to provide good coaching to my clients. Right now I'm not there, but I'm getting there. So even in the future, you could think about that. You have to have a checkoff system for your habits. You have to have a monitoring system, a checkoff system. I have a goal board. I have a bulletin board. I bought these little pieces of paper, little tiny three by three inch little cute pieces of paper, a stack of them of a thousand. I write down in a Sharpie each day of the week everything I did for that day, whether it be walking 45 minutes, I did strength training for 30 minutes. I meal prepped today. I ate healthy. I drank 120 ounces of water. I did my visualization meditation. Whatever I did that day, I put on the glowboard for that day. And the end of the week, I see everything I did. I physically see it on my goal board. I call it a glowboard, goal board, whatever you want to call it. It's a board. It's in my office. I see it every day. I want to pin that note, that sharpie note on that board that I did that action. I did it for myself and my future. So a goal board is a trend, a terrific idea. You can have a planner with a habit system built in. Golden coil, that's the planner I use. They it's a it's a custom planner, and they have a fantastic habit tracker that you can build in in your planner. There's tons of planners out there, wellness planners you can look into. I like golden coil. But you can have a poster board with the habits. So you can have a board setup. You could use an app. There's so many apps out there. And I I gave a list in my guide of different apps. A digital app you can use. You can find ones that really motivate you with a little a little zing to them, like a little, a little, a little ring when you hit that button that you achieve that goal. It gives a little a little glow-up energy. It's a little dopamine hit. So think about digital apps. They really help. And it feels good to knock off each habit that, yeah, I did that. I did that for myself. I did the effort for myself. So you need to track your habits. You have to have some sort of habit tracker. And I gave you a list of them. Do what fits you. What is going to make you want to track off that habit, to be proud of yourself and take the step and create that habit tracker? Other ways you can track your habits, you can have a habit jar. I have a big glass jar with little beads. Every time I do something good for myself to achieve my goal, I put a bead, a really pretty tiny crystal bead in that jar and you see it build up and fill up with beads. Or you could have you could have a little piece of paper with the habit you did, fold it up and put it in that jar. It could be your habit jar. You could do a streak chain, a big paper calendar. And every day you do your habits, you put a big red X for each day. You physically see that calendar. You see yourself doing day by day everything you're doing for yourself. It is amazing what you could do for yourself and what you could achieve. You could have that streak chain, that paper calendar. You could have a done list notebook. Write down what you did for the day. You could be a journaling type habit tracker notebook. That's another way you could track. You could have a spreadsheet tracker, an Excel or pages spread treat tracker, a simple check boxes every day. You could do a 30-day hard or a 75-day hard or a 75-day soft. I'm going to focus on doing a 30-day soft. I just don't like the hard terminology, but you could call it whatever you wish of every day. You're going to dedicate on tracking and achieving every habit you set forth to make that goal come to life. Accountability texts, a daily check-in with an emoji with a friend. You could have a daily check-in with a friend or family. I do that with a friend of mine, and I do that with my son and my sisters. I say, look what I did today. And you know what? They send me an emoji. You did it, girl. You're doing it. So have that support system. Those are other ways to track a daily chat, a daily text with somebody. You could you could have a daily text chat and list all the habits you did for that day, and you could get support and it could be a habit tracker. So a daily text. But back to the environment you're creating. There's a couple other things I wanted to mention that I forgot. I got so excited about this podcast that I forgot to mention. Some other things for your environment is build a playlist. Build a music playlist. Have go-to podcasts to listen to while you're working out, while you're walking. Have a course, maybe a course you're taking to enhance your career and make more money. Listen to that while you're while you're walking or working out. Follow social media accounts that make you want to live a better life, that make you want to lose weight. Surround yourself with positive social media. It is life-changing. Find those people, search for them. Look at their profile. Look what they're doing. Is this gonna motivate me to do what I need to do? Find that podcaster, hopefully I'm one of them, who's gonna motivate you to live a better life. Surround yourself. Other things you can do is for your environment is make the friction of achieving your habit difficult. Like put your walking shoes by the door when you're getting ready to walk in the morning. Have them set out the night before. Lay out your workout clothes the night before. Have them ready. Have all your foods prepped. Like I mentioned, meal prep. Create your environment, make your environment easy for you. Have your water bottle filled up at night so you could drink it at night and be ready in the morning. Have your scale and your measurements ready every week or every day whenever you scale and do measurements. I have my scale right outside my bedroom door in the hallway, and it's there every time I walk by. I got it. I gotta weigh myself. I gotta know if I'm on track. I gotta know where I'm at. That is your reminder. Have reminders around the house. Post it's on your fridge. This is your home. Curate it. Do what you need to do to keep your eye on the prize. What the prize is, your goal by December 2026. Do everything. Create your environment to keep your eye on the prize. So that's why I want to mention about the environment and about different ways to track. Finally, use AI for your advantage. Use ChatGPT. Here are some prompts you can use to help you on your habit tracking. You could tell ChatGPT, create five habit options to support weight loss for a 48-year-old woman who needs to lose 100 pounds in 12 months. So they will feed you some habit ideas. You could tell ChatGPT to be creative and think outside the box, and they will be creative. Maybe it'll get your juices flowing, get ideas. This is a brainstorming session. Have ChatGPT create meals for you, a seven-day meal prep plan that is focused on protein and fiber. You could even have Chat GPT create your macros for you. So this is all the habits you're creating in your life. Have AI help you. Be your support system. Use AI for your advantage. So now we went over the why, which is the base. We went over how to track your habits, how to create them, how to curate your environments, establish that base so you can achieve that goal for 2026. Now this is just a visualization method that I use three, four times a week. It's my five-minute wake-up visualization. Kind of a woo-woo thing, not really. It works, it helps me keep in the right mindset. It's a long road. I've been on a long road. Three and a half years. That's a long road. I had a lot to lose. And I still have a way to go. You have to be in the right mindset. So, why this works, a five-minute wake-up visualization, it keeps you calm, less reactive, less mentally cluttered. It's a visualization tool. It sets the identity before the day starts, and before the day steals your attention. Different things steal your attention. So it really creates your mindset for the day. It sets the tone. So this is the process. You're in bed, you're waking up, you're groggy, you're just waking up, but you're not out of bed yet. You still have the covers on. Put your hand on your chest. Take three deep breaths. Three deep breaths with your hand on your chest. Picture her energy. My future me. Your future you. Where you will be at the end of 2026. How you will feel, what you've experienced, what you look like, your future self. Maybe maybe it's you running on the beach with your grandkids or your kids who are adults. Maybe it's wearing this beautiful dress you have set forth that you you bought this dress a smaller size to motivate you. Maybe you're wearing a beautiful dress that you have in your mind. Visualize this. A simple win, a walk, a walk on the beach in a cute bathing suit. Maybe it's doing a 5K. Maybe it's playing with your grandkids, like I mentioned. Visualize visualize your future self at the end of 2026. Feel the emotion, the pride, the calmness, the confidence. And here are three affirmations to say yourself while you're visualizing. I keep promises to myself. I do hard things in small steps. I'm building a body and life I respect. So you're saying those affirmations, you're picturing your future self. You have your hand on your chest, and you've done your deep breaths. Finally, you end. What's my next right action today? What am I going to do today to hit that goal at the end of 2026? What do I need to do today? You get up and you do those hard things. So that is my five-minute visualization. You could try in bed before you actually start the day. Finally, this is the idea. You're doing your goals, you have your why, you have your habits, you're doing your habits every day, every week. You have to have celebrations and milestones. Boom. I lost two pounds this week. I hit my goal. This is a celebration. This is a party. Tell your friends, tell your family. Brag on social media. Create a ritual. You look at that goal board and you look at that habit tracker or that habit jar and you see it filling up or you see all the habits you did this week. Look what you accomplished. Look what you did. You're doing it, girl. You're doing it. So you have to have a milestone, a celebration. I am not a believer in cheat meals. That is going backwards. You're going backwards. Why would you do that? Why would you have a cheat meal and go backwards? How is that a benefit? That is not a positive dopamine hit. That is creating in your mind that you can have cheat meals. You know what? If you have to lose 100 pounds, you can't have cheat meals. It is not an option. So have a positive milestone. Live that type of life, that visualized life you're going to live when you have lost that weight. Maybe you book a sauna session. Maybe you go one of those places that have saunas. You you book a sauna session or a red light session. Even like a facial, if you can afford it. Book a facial. Live that girl life. Get a new book. Get a new health book. You're living a new life. You have a new future. Get a health book. Get a new athleisure workout wear. Get new tennis shoes. Get cute new socks. Get a new lip gloss. Get your manicure done or your pedicure. Get a coffee for yourself. Journal. Get a fresh journal. Get a massage. Go on a solo date. Don't eat a cheat meal. That is going backwards. Am not I do not believe in that. But have your celebrations, your milestones. Make it consistent, not perfection. Boom! I lost 10 pounds this month. It's time to do something for myself. I need to celebrate. This is a huge accomplishment. I'm doing it. I'm living the life. I'm keeping my promise in myself. Create that milestone, that celebration in your brain. Create that dopamine hits to keep moving forward. So yeah, celebration and milestones, they're a good thing. So that's it. That's gonna be a wrap for today's podcast episode. I hope it enlightened you. I hope, I really hope this motivated you to really set those goals and accomplish them. You can do it. You can do it. I'm a believer in you. I believe in myself and I believe in you. So have your true why. Figure out that why. Take an hour or two of your time and journal and figure out your real why. A meaningful, sustainable, purposeful why. Have that habit set, those habits, that habit map, that habit tracker, however, you're gonna track those habits. It's create a create a habit tracker that's going to give you that dopamine hits, that feel-good energy to keep moving forward. Do the five-minute visualization. Do that meditation that I told you about. Try it. You may like it. You may want to do it every day. It you could do it less than five minutes. It could be three minutes, but it sets your tone for the day. And then finally, celebrate your milestones. You're doing it, girl. You're going to do it. Celebrate those milestones. Boom. I lost two pounds this week. I lost 10 pounds this month. Look, I'm wearing a smaller clothing size. Celebrate. Don't put it on the back burner. You are important. So again, look at this uh the guide in the show notes. This will have everything that I mentioned on the podcast. It'll be your go-to to reflect on, to make your own notes, to prepare for 2026. If this podcast motivated you, if it inspired you, if you gain knowledge from it, any review is helpful. I truly appreciate it. If you have questions, if you have comments, DM me, send me an email, send me a text. Don't be shy. I love getting positive and negative responses. It motivates me. It's a learning tool. I heck, I need to learn too, too. So leave those reviews and send me those DMs. Um, but that's it. I hope you guys have a great 2026. I'll be on your next week. I am your biggest supporter. I support myself and I support other women. I believe in that. I am a big, big believer in that. So you're just tackle 2026, set those goals, look forward to the year ahead and all that you're going to accomplish. You have a bright future ahead. And so do I. I hope you guys have a great week ahead. I hope you accomplish everything you set forth. I appreciate you. I think about you every day. And I hope you enjoyed this podcast. Love Jax.