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Getting back in alignment is a lot about trade-offs. Not trade-offs that others force you to make, trade-offs you get to make based on what matters most to you. Everything comes at the cost of something else: cost of time, opportunity cost because doing one thing means you are not doing something else. When you expect trade-offs, you give yourself the opportunity to be deliberate about choosing the trade-off you want to make. You get to choose to spend your energy and time in the places that matter most to you.

When you allow yourself to expect to do all the things, you rob yourself of making that choice. When it comes to your health and fitness and nutrition, there are trade-offs just like everywhere else. Precision Nutrition created a fantastic infographic that shows different levels of leanness for Men and Women and gives guidelines about what it takes to get there. It’s titled The Cost of Getting Lean. Take a look:

https://www.precisionnutrition.com/cost-of-getting-lean-infographic

Based on this model, what would you have to do more of and what would you have to do less of based on where you want to be? It may be a sobering look at how your expectations align with the rest of your life. How much do you really want to focus on eating a specific way, and optimizing sleep and exercise as part of your life? What would you have to give up or trade-off in order to do that? Take a look and see where you are. There is no right or wrong answer; that’s the whole point. Take a look at the graphic, think about what level of fitness and leanness you want, and see if the steps needed to get there are in alignment with the other things that matter in your life right now.

My goal in this book is to help you clear the path to health and nutrition alignment in your life. I can give you some clear and simple steps, but I can’t make them all easy even if I wanted to. You can change how your journey feels by practicing seeing and stepping into your reality and checking if the expectations you hold for yourself are helping you or hurting you. Build your Owner’s Manual based on the real life you are living now. Adjust your expectations to shrink the gap and tension between where you are and where you think you should be. Create a greater level of ownership and alignment by moving from external drivers and rules to internal values and guidelines around food and eating. Take action, and close that gap between what you know and what you do.