[spoiler title=’Click for video transcript’ style=’default’ collapse_link=’true’] one of the biggest but most often overlooked keys to intermittent fasting is consistency intermittent fasting is so simple that it’s really easy to make it complicated a lot more complicated than it needs to be in my opinion I get a lot of questions and I totally understand them because it’s the same questions I had whenI first started and you know people are asking like well how much half and half do you put in your coffee and you know what if I have a piece of gum is that gonna break my fast and it’s like you’re not seeing the forest for the trees don’t get bogged down in all the details of you know will this tiny little bit of stuff in your coffee break your fast or you know focus on the big picture which is are you sticking to your fasting window day-in day-out over time to me I found that to be the most important part so what I told myself in January 2016 was I am NOT gonna worry about the foods and everything that can come later the main thing I need to worry about is the intermittent fasting so like just don’t eat during the fasting window and eat during the eating window and that was it when I simplified it like that it made it much easier to be very consistent because it was easy to know am i sticking to the plan or not and then if you look at how my weight went in 2015 versus 2016 in was doing all sorts of things trying to figure out you know macros and all this stuff and counting my calories and doing all this stuff I was still doing intermittent fasting but sometimes I’d give up and would just say oh that’s not working but really the thing was I was just not being consistent and I found that to be true even to this day if I’m you know hitting a plateau you know why I hit a plateau nine times out of ten it’s because I haven’t been as consistent with my plan I’ve had a lot of off days so here a couple of things that I do to keep myself consistent the first thing I do is every day I ask myself did you stick to your plan yesterday it’s a it’s a task on my asana checklist and that’s just a little thing that keeps me accountable and I’ve found it to be very important because it it raises my awareness like am I having a lot of off days and you have to be very honest with yourself and I’m very strict with myself in answering that question for example even if it’s something like my five-year-old brought me a strawberry and it was during my fasting wind and he says hey mom you know will you eat the strawberry with me you know it depends on the situation but I might go ahead and have that strawberry but the next day when I ask myself you know did you stick to your plan yesterday I’m gonna say no I did not because I just want to be very accountable to myself another thing that has helped me to be very consistent is that my plan is very simple and very easy to me so if you are finding that you’re having trouble being really consistent with your plan it might be that your plan is too difficult so maybe try dialing back in the difficulty a little bit until you can be consistent with that plan and then maybe dial up the difficulty just a little bit and then the last part of being consistent is to learn how to get back on plan a lot of times what has happened with me is with the previous diet plans it’s like once I start going off the plan I never get back on to that diet but with intermittent fasting because I had the cheat day I think is one big reason you know every week I have the cheat day so I’m constantly going from being on plan for the six days and then I go off plan on Sunday and then I get back on plan every Monday learning how to do that because life happens you’re gonna get off plan whatever plan you’re doing learning how to get back on plan is the best way to learn how to be consistent it’s more about being consistent over time you know if you can hit eighty percent of the time over the long haul you’re gonna be much better off than if you just pick something that you can only stick to you know maybe a hundred percent consistency but only for a few months and if you’re really good at being consistent let me know in the comments below like how do you keep yourself really consistent with a diet plan I love it when people share these tips because I know so many people get a lot of value sometimes I get more value out of the comments section than I do out of the actual video thanks for watching be sure to LIKE comment subscribe down below [/spoiler]
Video Recap
- I had much better results with Intermittent Fasting once I started being very consistent
- 3 things that I do to keep myself consistent
- I ask myself every day if I stuck to my plan the day before
- I keep my plan simple and easy for myself
- I learned how to get back on plan when I got off plan. (This is really a weekly practice with me with intermittent fasting, since I do a cheat day every Sunday)