I did the last challenge 6ish months ago and I had great success, but I still had more weight to drop. I stayed motivated for a while and continued to drop, then the holidays happened. I did well because I stayed with these same wonderful people who continue to motivate while I was working out, but I wasn’t dropping weight. Fast forward to January when I was hoping to be where I wanted to be and not “need” to do the challenge, but here I was at the same weight. I started to get mad/sad/complacent and I told myself I was at a good weight, I could maintain this for the rest of my life and not have to make “sacrifices” with my best friend, food. This is my mental game justifying my unhealthy habits (my biggest struggle in life). After the 7th person asked if I was going to join this next challenge I finally gave in, perhaps these people think I need to lose more weight? So I joined, but with different goals this time. Of course I wanted to win and drop weight and change my body, but my goal was to change my mind. I wanted to get to that place at the end of the challenge where food was no longer my best friend and I would use it as fuel.