Value Isn't Free

All valuable items (tangible or intangible) cost something to get; whether this price is time, money, effort, or more than one of these things. And the more valuable the item is, the higher the price that will be paid.
This wouldn't be an issue in a vacuum, but since most of us are operating with very little margin, invested in many different areas of life and in various pursuits, any new pursuit means we need to give up something in order to get what we say we want. And if we refuse? That's easy - a void will be created one way or another. This usually appears as a destruction or removal of something in our lives that is taking up valuable resources. If our deepest desires and our shallow wants are at odds, the shallow pursuit needs to be set aside to make room for the deep, real, true, abiding gift to appear.
So if your words aren't matching your actions (e.g. you say you want to lose weight but continue to shovel in the sweets), ask yourself what you have given up in pursuit of the goal. It may not be fun to deny yourself in the short term, but the price to be paid in the long term is much higher.
And remember, the payoff isn't usually dramatic and sexy, but ordinary and incremental. This is just a reality of growth. Shoots don't appear immediately from the soil, but only after a period of nurturing and attending without seeing any visible results. Growth only appears after we pay the price of being patient and present during this time when "nothing" is apparently going on. But to quote the movie Peaceful Warrior, "Nothing is never going on." To put it another way, my friend Devon Plumberg says, "Don't assume you have to be doing something in order for anything to be going on."