Goals and Self Defeating Behavior - Kick your subconscious in the butt!

So I have been doing pretty good working out and eating better and losing weight and toning up, etc.   And then . . . I reach a goal and think "So I am here.  I wonder if I do this, how much I will gain back . . . " and so then begins the downward spiral.  I mean, I reached my mini-goal and now I am back up 6 pounds!!!!  I am ticked!!!  But we've all been there right?  NOT ANYMORE!

I heard someone say the other day that we are comfortable in our "box" and if we strive for something different and we get there, we subconsciously start to undo what we did to get to the goal so we could get back to our "box."  He used the example of all the multi-million dollar lottery winners that go bankrupt.  I always think, "Well, they are just stupid!  I would be so much smarter with that money."  I like to think I would but would I subsconsciously start to self destruct so I could get back to my box?

So subconscious - here is your kick in the butt.  When we reach a goal, we are going to create a new "box" into which we fit and we are going to set up the beginnings of another box for our next goal so we can see it and then we are going to burn all the boxes behind us.  Got it???  There is no going back.  I refuse.