Here’s the inconvenient truth - most diets fail. And while I'm never going to ask you to give up on your weight-loss goals, it's time to figure out how to be happy at any size.

How long have you been waiting to be thin?

How many sentences start with "when I lose weight...?"

I'm guessing it's years. If you're anything like me - I spent more than half my life waiting to be thin enough to have the holidays, career, friendships, relationships and fun that I wanted.

And while, in an ideal world, we'd just be skinny and not have to figure out to be happy fat, that's not where we're at. If 95% of diets fail, you're gambling your entire happiness on a 5% chance you might lose the weight. And I don't love those odds for you.

Here's what happens over here - you're allowed to want to lose weight, to be actively working on it, all the while acknowledging it's statistically unlikely it's going to happen, that you've wasted a ton of your life waiting to be thin. And you're done waiting.

Whether you never lose a pound or you reach your goal weight, I know that you deserve better than waiting one more day to live.

You can have a full, happy and fun life RIGHT NOW. In the body you're in.

You can stop letting every decision you make be contingent on your size, you can stop putting everything off until you've done the diet, you can stop walking into situations feeling like you're on the back-foot because you're fat.

I'm not here to tell you to give up on diets, or how to lose weight, or that you'll never be thin.

I'm here simply to give you permission to live your life right now. REGARDLESS of the size of your body.

Because I know that you don't want to waste any more time living a pale imitation of the big life you dream of, just because you think your belly is too big for it.

IF 95% OF DIETS FAIL, YOU ARE BETTING YOUR HAPPINESS ON BEING THE EXCEPTION TO THE RULE