Consistency 101: How to unlock your weight loss potential
Consistency does not mean perfection. It does not mean going to the gym 7 days a week every week. It’s not eating 100% perfectly clean every week.
Consistency is finding how to incorporate simple healthy habits into your life in a realistic way that is easy to repeat week after week, month after month, year after year.
Consistency is the key to weight loss
It’s the main thing you need to accomplish in order to lose weight and keep it off forever.
If you struggle with consistency, you may think “something is wrong with me”, or “ I don’t have any willpower”, or “I’m not cut out for this healthy lifestyle after all”. But I’m here to tell you, there is nothing wrong with you, your willpower, or your ability to achieve a consistently healthy lifestyle.
Achieving consistency is so hard for you because you are simply going about achieving consistency the wrong way.
Keep reading to find out some nutrition & fitness habits that will help you create consistency in order to achieve weight loss.
Nutrition Habits
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Eat a nourishing breakfast
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Eat smaller, more frequent meals throughout the day
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Never skip a meal to save calories
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Stop eating boring food and start making healthy food fun
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Always have healthy snacks on hand
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Never ignore your hunger
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Slow down your eating
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Plan out your meal and grocery list each week
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Stop cutting out foods or food groups completely
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Romanticise cooking
Fitness Habits
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Do exercise you genuinely enjoy
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Be realistic with how many days a week you commit to exercising
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Find the workout duration that is most realistic for your schedule
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Always start small and work your way up
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Add in more gentle forms of exercise
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Take rest days
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When you don’t have motivation, take action
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When you feel like you have fallen off, realise that all you have to do is hop right back on track
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Do a variety of exercise
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Make exercise fun so you look forward to it
If you never want to worry about weight loss again & are ready to learn strategies to help you stay consistent no matter what life throws at you, book in a complimentary phone consult here.
