That’s what K said to Fran yesterday when she dished up the kids dinner.
We were disorganised and had just thrown some bits in the oven for them. Every meal we have to remind them to at least push their veggies around the plate.
For the past 5 years, we’ve put veggies on their plates and consistently eaten them in front of them without moaning.
That consistency has finally paid off.
Consistency is the key to success in everything that we do.
In this season of setting goals and resolutions, pick something that you actually want to achieve.
If weight loss is a goal, don’t focus on a number on the scales as the only measure of success. Take a waist measurement, try on some clothes that you want to wear and see how they feel.
Then focus on something that being lighter / smaller will give you the opportunity to do.
One of my old clients simply wanted to be able to bound up the stairs in the way I did at the gym I used to work in. When he achieved that it meant a lot more to him than the weight he had lost, it indicated to him that he was fitter and felt a lot more capable as a result.
My own training focuses on being strong and mobile enough to keep up with my kids at the park.
I’ve tried setting weight based targets and I don’t really put the effort in to achieve them. When I focus on process based goals, for example, so many yoga, strength and cardio sessions per week, I do better.
Tracking those numbers interests me more and ultimately produces the same result; fitter, leaner body.
Aiming to cook 2 meals per week from scratch can do the same. We all know we need to eat less processed food.
Focussing on improving your skills in the kitchen can help you achieve that with the bonus of reducing the waist line.
Whatever your goals are, leveraging the result in to another area of your life can make success more likely.
If one of your goals is to lose weight or improve your fitness for every day life, we start our first bootcamp of 2022 tomorrow morning at 6.30am. It’s not too late to sign up – https://achievebootcamp.co.uk/
Darren “broccoli” Checkley
