Summer is here(ish).
Most of us are just starting our summer seasons.
Kids are out of school, routine gets thrown off, the weather gets really nice, we tend to travel or have visitors and the outside is where we want to be!
Thus, we enter another season where routine is hard. Especially a fitness and nutrition routine.
A lot of people are all or nothing. We’re either on, or we feel like we’re off, and we forget about the long term mission in spite of ourselves.
Similar to “fuck it season” between Thanksgiving and Christmas, that often translates into “well, I can’t make it to the gym 4 days a week, so I’ll just go 0 times a week and get back at it “when things settle down”.
Or, “well, I ate poorly over the weekend while we were out camping, and we’ve got visitors coming this weekend, so I’ll just keep eating poorly from now until Fall”.
Bad news, summer is more than 25% of the year. If we add in November and December, as well as a handful of other inconvenient disruptions to routine, it’s easy to consider half the year as a time when it’s easy to just give up and assume you’ll get back when it’s not as challenging.
I probably don’t have to get too detailed on an explanation of why taking 50% of the year off of taking steps forward towards your goal isn’t super productive.
So what should you do instead?
Keep taking those steps, year round, regardless of convenience and remembering to go easy on yourself.
While you might not be able to get in the gym as much as you were, or you might have difficulty following your ideal nutrition plan 100% of the time 50% of the time, anything you can do is better than abandoning it altogether.
So if you usually go 4 times a week to the gym, but now you find yourself only going 2x, that’s great! It’s way better than 0x.
And if you find yourself eating poorly more frequently than you do in other seasons, when you have the control to do it right, do it right.
So don’t throw it all to the wind until the Fall. If you do, you’re just going to hear from me again 8 weeks later when we hit November and I start to lecture about the pitfalls of the holiday season.
