6 Ways to Stay Consistent With Your Healthy Lifestyle

Starting a healthy lifestyle is often the easiest part of the process. You get excited about 
your goals, you research ways to improve your health, create a daily routine, and have 
a nice boost of endorphins to get you going. The challenge with your new healthy living 
plan is committing to it long-term, which is where consistency comes in.

If you struggle staying consistent, that is likely going to be your biggest downfall when it 
comes to healthy living. But don’t worry, there are many ways to stay consistent, enjoy 
your life, and become a healthier version of yourself all at the same time.


1. Identify Your Why

It is impossible to be consistent with any goal or change in your life without knowing why 
you want to do it. And don’t think of just the more obvious reasons, really dig deep here. 
It is those meaningful, deeply emotional reasons that are going to motivate you and 
keep you on track.

Start by making a list of all the reasons you want to start healthy living. Include all the 
small and big things, then when your list is complete draw a circle around what you feel 
is the most important. This is likely not going to be losing weight or changing something 
about your appearance, but a much more meaningful and thought-provoking reason. 
This is what you need to hold on to when you want to be consistent.


2. Adjust Your Environment

Certain changes to your healthy lifestyle will require adjusting your environment to 
better fit these changes. If exercise if one of your main goals with healthy living, then 
you may need to change things in your environment to better suit this. Is your treadmill 
currently being used as a second closet for your clean clothes you haven’t put away? 
Time to remove all the clothes, and move your treadmill to a location where you will feel 
inspired to use it every day.

Think of ways to make your environment better suited to your healthy habits, such as 
putting healthy snacks and fruits on the counter, and the “junk food” hidden away in 
cabinets. Lay out your workout clothes each night so you change into them first thing in 
the morning. Have a designated spot at your desk with journal or a quiet meditation 
area.


3. Choose Your Health Goals

What are your health goals? What are your reasons for wanting to have a healthier 
lifestyle? What are some specific things you are trying to accomplish? Not just your why, 
but what exactly are you trying to do with your new healthy living journey?

Get specific here and choose some goals that you can work toward. They don’t have to 
be big goals either. Any little goal that is aligned with your why is going to be useful for 
staying consistent.


4. Find a Way to Track Your Progress

Once you know what your health goals are, you can then choose a way to track your 
progress. Here are a few different ways you might want to track your progress:

*	Use a goal tracking worksheet
*	Use a habit tracker
*	Write your progress down in a journal
*	Use a digital journal or planner


5. Be Flexible Throughout This Journey

Even with specific goals you are trying to reach, you still want to be flexible and give 
yourself grace. There will always be moments when something unexpected happens. 
You have a back injury and can’t go to the gym, or there is an emergency with one of 
your kids, and you are unable to make dinner that night or you run out of time for your 
daily self-care. 

Stop putting so much pressure on yourself that when one little thing happens to disrupt 
your routine, you throw the entire plan out the window. 


6. Identify Your Challenges That Prevent Consistency

If this is not the first time you have tried to incorporate healthy habits into your life, think 
back on the past and what got in the way of consistency most often. You will likely see 
some patterns in your own behaviors that you can correct. Maybe you are someone 
who has too many restrictions and rules, and you get burnt out, then give up entirely. 
You might be someone who gradually gets lazier and lazier, making up excuses about 
why you can’t keep up with it. Or maybe you just have a bad habit of not going all-in on 
day one, and just never picking up momentum.

Writing in your journal can also be really useful to figure out where you went wrong in 
the past, and what you want to do differently this time around.

