Aug 12, 2026 · 13 min · 9 segments
## I Used to Quit My Diet at Day 12 Every Time I Tried to Lose Weight I had to stick to a diet for 21 days straight before I saw the results that eventually added up to 120 pounds lost. But I almost…
Eve GuzmanHost
So I always tell people before I lost the first 120 pounds, I lost 100 pounds because I would start and stop diets that could have been successful.
I never extended myself grace and fat loss hadn't shown up on the scale yet by the time that I would do something crazy like quitting.
That part of the scale catching up with all of the effort that you're putting in, it takes time.
I was so impatient and because I didn't see a few pounds down, I would use it as a reason to sabotage my own diet.
And if you know me and you know science, the thing that makes you lose weight is not eating healthy.
It is not swapping out a food for this thing or that thing or picking the most popular diet.
You can eat double cheeseburgers like me, like I used to, and lose weight, but are you in a deficit? But when I did not see by day 10 or 12 or 13, weight loss on the scale, I would sabotage my diet and eat whatever the hell I wanted.
I'm going to walk you through that because I think it is a single most common reason people never get to see their own results.
But this is what it looked like for me on repeat and before I had actually figured it out.
So I always tell people before I lost the first 120 pounds, I lost 100 pounds because I would start and stop diets that could have been successful.
I never extended myself grace and fat loss hadn't shown up on the scale yet by the time that I would do something crazy like quitting.
That part of the scale catching up with all of the effort that you're putting in, it takes time.
I was so impatient and because I didn't see a few pounds down, I would use it as a reason to sabotage my own diet.
And if you know me and you know science, the thing that makes you lose weight is not eating healthy.
It is not swapping out a food for this thing or that thing or picking the most popular diet.
You can eat double cheeseburgers like me, like I used to, and lose weight, but are you in a deficit? But when I did not see by day 10 or 12 or 13, weight loss on the scale, I would sabotage my diet and eat whatever the hell I wanted.
I'm going to walk you through that because I think it is a single most common reason people never get to see their own results.
But this is what it looked like for me on repeat and before I had actually figured it out.
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