Life gets in the way and everybody falls off of the wagon sometimes, even me. However the key is to not stay off of the wagon. Maybe you had a bad day or a bad week or bad month. It’s never too late to start over whether it be with your exercise regimen or your healthy eating regimen. Everyday is a new day for us to choose to nourish our higher self with love and special attention so that we can be our best and better able to serve and help others. When I first start working with clients one of their biggest challenges is that they start off doing good on their healthy eating regimen but then life happens and they fall off of the wagon. Each and everyone of us takes falling off of the wagon hard and sometimes this becomes a roadblock in preventing us from moving forward. Well here are my top 5 tips and strategies that I share with clients to help them avoid falling off the wagon and staying off the wagon.

PLAN AHEAD – Planning ahead is one of the key factors in making healthy eating a priority. Planning ahead and carving out time to do some of the less desirable tasks in your life will free up time for you to do what you want on the back end or later on in the week. Some examples of planning ahead include, cooking once but having enough to eat twice. Another example of planning ahead when traveling could be to make a list of healthy restaurants at your travel location. IF WE FAIL TO PLAN WE PLAN TO FAIL. Think ahead on how you might be able to set yourself up for success!!!

DO THE HARD WORK – Sometimes making healthy eating a priority involves doing the hard work and sometimes the hard work involves looking deep within and finding ways to nourish the longing desire in your soul. Nourishing the soul will provide you with far more joy and a much deeper satisfaction than just eating healthy food and will aid in eliminating emotional eating, and eating for entertainment and comfort. So go within and see where you need a little TLC. Maybe you need to address your relationships of find a career that resonates with your purpose or a meaningful spiritual practice. Nourish your soul first and everything else will follow.

CONNECT WITH COMMUNITY – Connect and get support from someone of like mind to share your successes and your struggles. Having a supportive environment and accountability is huge in preventing you from falling off the wagon. Find support in a close friend, local meetup group or through your own personal coach. Find out more about how I might be able to support you as your own personal coach here.

TIME MANAGEMENT – One of my coaches constantly drives home the point that if its not scheduled its not real. Managing your time wisely and carving out time to take care of yourself is super IMPORTANT. Making time for menu planning, grocery shopping, cooking and packing lunch on the front end will reduce the amount of time that you will need to do it on the back end or throughout the week. What day will you set aside for yourself? It comes down to the simple fact that we will either pay in time or money. At some point you will have to pay however, if you put in the work now you won’t have to pay with your health later. Make time now for the body that you want and the vibrant healthy life that you would like to obtain or maintain. Reduce or eliminate those thing that steal your time which can include but not limited to watching tv, surfing the internet and maybe saying yes too much to others and not saying yes to yourself).

IDENTIFY YOUR WHY – Identifying why you want to eat and be healthy is HUGE. Determining your why will be your motivation when you don’t feel like it. For most women including myself we want to look good and that can be one of the main reasons. However there are other motivating WHYS like disease prevention, increased energy, being vibrant later in life. You determine your WHY and place it where you can see it. Daily affirm your WHY!!!

Leave me a comment and let me know the one thing that you will do for your health this week to set yourself up for success!!!!