This might be the least creative article I’ve ever written for this website. 

Likewise, this might be the most helpful article I’ve ever written for this site. 

Rather than give you 3 ways that I think you can stay consistent in your health, fitness, and nutrition efforts, I am going to share with you what my clients have done or have been doing that have helped them stay consistent. 

As simple as that, so here we go!

1) ”Keeping my food scale around to do a quick audit on what I think portion size looks like” 

I love this nutritional strategy. I go through phases when I weigh my food and track it in an app and I also go through phases where I eye-ball portion size. The audit works really well when you need a refresher on what 5 ounces of steak or what 1 cup of oatmeal looks like. 

The one thing I would add to this audit strategy is that this phase comes after the investigation. The investigation is where we look at the whole nutritional intake and make some adjustments. Over time, we audit to check in and make sure the business is running smoothly. 

2) “At work I use time-blocking to help me get a bunch of things done during a busy work day. I use that same time-blocking with my workouts to make sure I get them done during a busy work week” 

f you don’t know what time-blocking is, time-blocking is when you give yourself a certain amount of time to work on one specific task. Using myself as a lame example in this, I give myself two hours a week to write client programs. By doing this, I know when I will work on the task and I am always ahead of where I need to be. I may never fully ‘finish’ but I never fall behind. Time-blocking, in general, allows you to accumulate a lot of work time throughout a larger period of time. 

In this workout-related example, my client informed me that she has 50 minutes for every workout, nothing more and sometimes less. But what’s important is that by blocking out 50 minutes multiple times per week, she is able to stay super consistent in her effort and that has been a huge help in allowing her to reach her goals. 

The takeaway here is that you do not need 60,70, or 90 minutes in the gym like you may once have had. If you can be super consistent in smaller allotments of time, that may be just what you need. 

3) “I leave a pan on top of the oven at all times. I never used to eat breakfast because it was too much of a hassle to get the pan out. When I leave it out, I cook breakfast with no problem”

Full disclosure, I actually stole this piece of advice.

When you want to change your actions, you need to create a super easy step forward. In this case, the act of getting the cooking gear out was the inhibitor to the action. Leaving the pan on the over makes it super easy to get started. Not having to do a full clean-up? Added bonus.

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