Just like one bad day of eating or one missed workout isn’t going to hurt you, one good day of eating or one great workout isn’t going to make the difference either.

If you are inconsistent, you aren’t going to achieve great results.

It’s as simple as that.

Success comes with consistency!

It doesn’t matter how “good” your diet was this past week, if you don’t keep it up.

Honestly, I would rather someone made small changes they could stick with long-term, than huge changes that only lasted a couple of weeks.

Because, even though the drastic changes will yield quicker changes and more instant gratification, they won’t yield long-term results.

Results comes from consistency.

Especially TRUE RESULTS.

Yea if you want to lose weight on the scale, you can really deprive yourself for a week and get “results.”

Yea your weight will go down, but you won’t really have changed your body composition or have improved your health.

Just like a couple of weeks of working out won’t really improve your strength or mobility. They may make you sore, but they won’t create LASTING CHANGE.

And while programing is an important piece of this, even the best laid plans and the best prepared programs won’t do you any good if you aren’t CONSISTENT.

But consistency is the hard part because life always wants to get in the way.

There will be hundreds of thousands of excuses you can come up with to slack on your program.

That’s life.

So you’ve got to find something that keeps you on track. That keeps you honest with yourself about whether or not you are actually truly following the program you set out to do.

I’ve found that ACCOUNTABILITY is key to CONSISTENCY.

Whether you hold yourself accountable by setting up a food log and writing down your workouts or by hiring a trainer and getting friends involved (or maybe even all of the above), you’ve got to find a way to hold yourself accountable.

So stop letting yourself off the hook because you did a few good days OR beating yourself up because you “slipped up” one day.

CONSISTENCY is key! And it is most easily achieved when we hold ourselves ACCOUNTABLE.

Happy Friday! Go out and work toward what you want today! Don’t wait till Monday!