Health and Weight Loss 30

The thirtieth tip on health and weight loss.

Bud Jeffries, strongerman.com. Sorry if I look the same in all these. I was going to do a whole Mr. Rogers “changemysweater” thing, but we decided to go with this. Or, hey, I’ve got my sort of Albert Einstein uniform, black Tshirt on.

That leads into exactly the tip that I’m about to tell you about fat loss and about, really, super health. And that is consistency. That applies to everything in your life, everything that you do, everything, especially in regards to food and in regards to exercise.

It doesn’t have to be the world-record-beating-est workout you’ve ever done. Actually showing up and doing it on a regular basis is a big thing. Working out three times a week, every week, all year is a whole lot better than six times a week for six weeks and taking six weeks off. Get it? Eating 90% healthy 90% of the time is a whole lot better than eating 100% healthy 50% of the time and then taking six weeks off and eating junk food.

Long-term consistency, both from a health and exercise perspective, is a big deal. And those will pay off in the dividends that I’m talking to you about: the massive fat loss, that 100 pound weight loss, or whatever it is you want to do. You don’t have to lose a whole 100 pounds: for most people, just lose 20 pounds, and all it takes is consistency.

The other thing with that is, if you don’t get consistent, you don’t make gains. And most people, if they don’t actually make a gain in their workout, they can’t lift more, do more repetitions, or go longer, they’re not going to make a gain in fat loss. You don’t make that gain unless you do the workout consistently. You don’t have to be crazy but be consistent, too, like you’ll work out every day of the week, and every 20 minutes exactly half a gram of protein, and one egg white, and three Brussels sprouts or whatever it is, crazy you don’t have to do that. It’s the consistency that you can live with, but serious enforced consistency.