#5 The Monday Morning Starter: Why Willpower Alone Never Works

Through the Lens of Love · Aug 18, 2026 · 27m

Have you ever been a Monday Morning Starter? New workout plan, new diet, no more chocolate — starting Monday. And by 10am, you're already in the shop, digging through where you told your husband to hide the chocolate from you.

In this episode, I share the season of my life when I lived as a Monday Morning Starter every single week — always chasing more willpower, more rules, more control — convinced that overhauling everything at once was the only way to really change. It never worked. Not once.

What actually shifted things was choosing one thing. Just one. From a single Beach Body workout…