 When you're only focused on the short term, one of two things is going to happen. This was one of the biggest eye openers for me in the book. When you're eating better, you're going to feel better, you're going to make better choices. When you're not, you're making worse choices. Your nutritional strategy, your way of eating really comes down to mindset as well. I want you to think of your health as a system, not as a goal. All too often, we're focused on the short term goals. We're just telling ourselves, I want to lose the 20 pounds. When you do that, when you're only focused on the short term, one of two things is going to happen. You're either going to be successful, you're going to lose the 20 pounds, and then you tend to say, great, now you can go back to what I was doing before, and you end up gaining back the weight and more. Or more commonly, you don't lose the 20 pounds, and you get discouraged, and you give up, and you say, well, I might as well go back to what I was doing before.