Elastic Waist book club: Making the Cut--how do you keep going?

We're at or nearly or so close to or just a little bit past the halfway mark in the 30-day Making the Cut program! Woo! Sob. So let's talk about how not to give up: When you're standing in the middle of the kitchen, eyes glazing over, about to faint from hunger and so tired and so not wanting to cook and so aware that if you picked up the phone, pizza would be at your front door in 15 minutes and also next door is a convenience store that conveniently sells Oreos that will hold you through that endless 15 minutes. When you're in the middle of your third set of impossibly awful pull-downs or pull-ups or planks or squats or sit-ups or push-ups or stupidly named burpies and you hate the word burpies and you want to kill the person who calls any exercise burpies.
When it starts to look like she's smirking at you. When you're lying in bed in and you know you're going to have to get up and do it all over again, from exercises to cooking to not eating your weight in Ding-Dongs to not snapping and destroying everyone around you; when even the sight of a pretty little muscle, where before there didn't used to be anything but skin and bones, is not enough to keep you alive--how do you stay alive? How do you keep going? How do you turn the page, and write down the exercises you're going to do today, and tomorrow and the next day and the grocery list for all the things you have to cook today, and tomorrow, and the next day, and then do it? What's keeping you keeping on? And if you quit, what do we have to say to you to get you back and moving again? Goonies never say die, kids.

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