The 6-step system to staying motivated with healthy eating that every mom needs

Motivation is one of the biggest lies in our world. We wait to feel motivated to do the things we want to do but are scared to do. Motivation isn’t the special sauce that will all of a sudden make you workout or eat healthy. Motivation is just a feeling. It comes and goes like every other feeling. If you want to eat healthy and lose weight, then you need solid a system that doesn’t rely on feelings. Which is exactly what I’m going to teach you today. When you’re done here, you’ll have a working system that will keep you motivated with healthy eating - especially if you’re a busy mom with little free time to spare. 

Another important lesson to learn about motivation is that you don’t need to feel motivated to take action. In fact, you usually won’t feel motivated to do hard things until you’ve taken action!

It’s just like brushing your teeth. As a kid, you learned that you needed to brush your teeth, but you didn’t necessarily want to. You weren’t “motivated” to do it, right? But your mom told you to brush your teeth every morning and every night until it became a habit. Now you wake up and brush your teeth without even thinking about if you “feel” like it. 

The same thing is true of healthy eating. Until you take the action and build the habit, you’re not going to feel motivated to do the work!

Before you can implement these 6 steps, you have to start taking action! Take imperfect action. Take messy action. 

You won’t ever move towards your goals until you start doing the do! If you’re serious about living a healthy life, you have to start! I have so many tips on how to start inside my free Facebook group, Busy Mom Simple Nutrition. Start taking action by joining the group! Take that action so you can learn how to keep progressing forward.

Once you’ve started taking action, then you’ll be ready for the 6-step system for motivation. It’s going to help you keep taking action and build habits that push you toward your goals. 

Step 1: Repeatability creates consistency

I hear from mamas all the time who struggle to be consistent in their healthy habits. They might make it through 5 days of healthy eating but the weekend rolls around and they fall back into the habit of eating out all weekend because they’re running from competition to competition with their kids and don’t have time to make healthy choices.

But you can’t become consistent until you take an action and then repeat it. Repetition creates consistency.

You have to do the same thing over and over again to make it a habit or to become consistent. Studies have shown that it can take 66 days of repetition before you do something automatically.

That means, eating at home instead of going out for a week, isn’t going to cut it. You have to continue to repeat an action until it’s second nature if you want to learn how to be consistent. 

Step 2: Consistency creates success

Consistency leads you to success. Once you start to see the results of your hard work, you’ll feel inspired to keep going!

A lot of people assume that this is where the line ends. Once you get results you’re golden, you’re done and you’ll be able to rest on your laurels.

The truth is that results come and go - especially on a health journey - you may lose the 15 pounds you were looking to lose, but then a holiday comes up and you can’t resist all the good food. And then the next day you step back on the scale you’ve gained five pounds.

It feels like all your hard work is gone and that you have to start all over. But if you don’t view success as the end of the journey, then you’ll be prepared to keep going. Instead of thinking success means you’re done working, you need to think of success as a building block to a healthy life.

If all it took was success to stop people from going back to old habits, we would not have a problem with our weight. The road doesn’t end with success, success just creates momentum.

Step 3: Success creates momentum

Success is keeping you on the path and it’s building your momentum. On a health and weight loss journey, momentum is like the little engine that could. It keeps you going up the hill even when it gets difficult.

We all know that losing weight never goes as planned. You’ll lose a few pounds, and see the scale come back up for a few days, then you’ll watch it go back down. 

If you don’t build momentum, then you’ll want to give up and say screw it! However, if you’ve progressed on this journey step by step, you’ll recognize that this is just a little blip. You know what it takes to get where you want to be - because you’ve already seen success. 

But once you create momentum, or the habit of eating healthy or exercising, you’ll keep inching your way up the mountain because it’s already a part of your life. You get up and exercise because it’s what you do. You continue to make healthy food choices because it’s just what you do.

Your success has given you the momentum to keep making these choices because you know it works.

Step 4: Momentum creates motivation

Now it’s time to talk about motivation. 

You’ve repeated healthy actions until they became consistent.

That consistency showed you how to get results and feel successful.

You built that success into momentum and created the habit of healthy living.

Now, you can use that habit to motivate yourself.

Before, you never felt motivated to workout or eat healthy because you didn’t truly understand how it felt to make healthy decisions. But when you follow this system, you see the results of your choices before you depend on motivation. Now you understand why it feels good to make healthy choices and that motivates you to keep going!

You start to look at the food you used to love and you don’t want to eat it anymore because you know that it doesn’t make you feel good. So you choose to eat something that will taste good and feel good. That’s what motivation is. Motivation pushes you to make decisions that improve your life instead of giving into temptation.

Step 5: Motivation creates discipline 

Discipline is another misunderstood concept. People believe that either they are disciplined or they are not. You either have the willpower to resist temptation or you don’t. But just like motivation, discipline is something that has to be practiced.

Too often, we try to rely on discipline at the beginning of our health journey and it fails us. However, discipline is learned by understanding what you need to do and why you need to do it. 

Until you’ve created the habits through repetition, and consistency you don’t understand what it takes to be disciplined. Once you know what to do you need to move to the how to do it stage. That’s where success, momentum and motivation come into play. You start to understand the difference between how your old habits hurt you and your new habits are serving you.

The what and why create discipline. You know that you eat healthy foods because it gets you to your goals physically, and it helps you live a happier life by giving you the energy to keep up with your kids, you don’t feel gross and bloated after eating, etc. Discipline means making choices that serve you in every aspect of your life.

Step 6: Discipline creates a lifestyle

All of this culminates in the new healthy lifestyle you have been searching for. Without going through this system you don’t actually change your lifestyle long-term. And real change is necessary to live a healthy life.

I always tell my Macros Made Easy Mamas, that they’ll never go back to how they used to live after my program because they know better now. Once you know better you do better.

If you’ve tried diets in the past that didn’t teach you each of these steps and show you how to build on each step then you just had another diet, not a new lifestyle.

I don’t want you to do another diet that works for a few weeks or months but isn’t sustainable so you go back to your old habits. I want you to see that there is a way to live healthily and still enjoy life! You are capable and worthy of the healthy life of your dreams, and you deserve to find the best way to live that life!

That’s what I want to help you with. As a busy mama myself, I know the struggles of making time for my health while running a household. But I’ve developed systems like this one that will show you how to do both!
Schedule a free discovery call with me, to make your healthy dream a reality.

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