Extremism is ruining your life. People don't want to be around you and you're not hitting your goals.

Being serious about fitness & longevity is one thing.

But extremism is another.

Ten years ago, on one of my many FAILED diets, I would be 100% perfect with everything I ate.

For like 6 weeks.

Then I would slip up.

And return to my bad habits.

The slip ups could be tiny.

Somebody could offer me a piece of chocolate, some french fries, a soda, whatever.

This would derail my momentum.

I thought that to get a six pack, I would have to be perfect all the time.

Since my diet was ruined by 75 calories of chocolate, I would just pig out on anything I wanted until I was dissatisfied with my body again.

Now, I know that some of you may experience the same thing.

It's not about being perfect 100% of the time.

But most of the time.

This is how good habits are formed.

You cannot be perfect all the time.

No one is.

You are human.

Just be better -- not perfect.

Perfection is an ideal -- try to be as close to perfect as you can while enjoying life.

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90% perfect is a good place to aim for.

You can eat things you want without falling off the deep end.

I am currently road tripping with my wife.

I have eaten things that I wouldn't normally eat.

Pizza, chocolate, ice cream, potato chips, bread, etc.

All in moderation.

All without going over my calories for the day.

I am in control of my body.

I know when to stop.

More importantly, I am confident in my abilities to tell myself to stop.

My demons responsible for comfort eating no longer exist.

I am not recommending eating processed junk food, but it happens.

About an hour before writing this email, I ate a handful of chocolate and potato chips.

But I am under my calories for today AND hitting my protein goal.

10 years ago, I would be ordering a pizza with all the trimmings and drinking 12+ beers after "screwing up" my diet.

You have got to be creative.

You have got to stay cool when you go off your diet.

There is no reason to freak out.

You will never be perfect.

And that's a wonderful thing.

You will always have something to work towards.

A reason to struggle.

Being perfect is no way to live.

No purpose.

What's the point?

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Even Mr Olympia sometimes has cheat days.

The point of fitness is to make it a lifestyle.

Only a handful of people on the planet can walk around shredded to the bone, jacked, year round.

And these people are genetic freaks, leveraging a ton of PEDs, and often miserable in the process.

No way to live.

You need to find the balance that you can sustain.

And this comes from trial and error.

You won't get it right overnight.

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