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How Can You Make Healthy Choices Easier?

by | Jan 15, 2025 | Mindset

As many people do, we often start reassessing habits we have around this time of year, revamping some and adding/subtracting others. Ultimately, we’re always looking for ways to make healthy choices easier in the new year, based on where we are in life at the moment… Not based on some idealized version of our daily life! Basically, I’m trying to find ways to automate and schedule doing more of the healthy things, and remove obstacles that are between me and healthy habits.

Automate

Can you make habits just happen without even needing to think about it?

A few examples:

  • Doing click-and-collect for groceries with a cart that autofills with a vegetable, fruit and protein-heavy shopping list—avoiding crowds + the chance that you’ll skip the steel cut oats in favor of cinnamon rolls… or at least making a grocery list in an app in your phone that you can reference every time you’re at the store.
  • Setting up recurring orders of things like whey protein, probiotics, et cetera
  • Setting up notifications on your phone to remind you when you have a workout coming up

Schedule

How can you build healthy habits into your calendar so they don’t get skipped?

A few examples:

  • Molly’s to-do list is usually ridiculously long, but that’s partially because there are a few daily healthy habits in there that come back and need to be ticked off daily. They include meditation, training/filling in the training journal, and yes, morning yoga. To feel done for the day, those all need to get checked off. (I use ToDoIst, which allows for recurring tasks and integrates with GCal. It’s amazing. But there are other habit trackers out there that you might prefer!)
  • Actually sign up for Zwift rides or online fitness classes—in fact, we’ve seen this whenever we’ve hosted yoga for our Consummate Athlete Coaching clients. Most of us won’t do our yoga solo, but when it’s on the calendar with other people at a specific time, it gets done.

Remove Obstacles

What are the reasons you’re not getting the things done that you know you should be doing?

A few examples:

  • Setting up your yoga mat and leaving it set up with everything you need for mobility and strength work. Same applies to your trainer setup!
  • Want to boost veggie or made-at-home meal consumption? Pressure cookers make veggie stews, chilis, curries and so many other protein-and-veggie meals SO easy to prepare with 10 min of prep and 45 min of cooking.
  • It’s hard to get outside when it’s cold and wet and your shoes are soggy from the previous ride or run… So get a shoe dryer for quick-drying your sneakers!

Struggling to figure out where to go from here? Check out our book, Becoming A Consummate Athlete, for tons of easy habits to add to your life to make big changes, or book a call with us to talk through some changes you could make that will make the biggest impact on your health and fitness!

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