Mar 4, 2026 · 27 min · 8 segments
Andrea shares her “secret weapon” for staying consistent with fitness year round and makes a compelling case that perfectionism, not laziness, is what truly derails progress. Drawing on research and…
So let's break down this argument I'm making about perfectionism or just trying to do it perfectly.
And I'm going to share, like I said, my secret weapon for being able to be pretty dang consistent.
There are actual studies, and I will link them in the show notes because I always link my studies.
There's research that shows one of them is in the Journal of Health Psychology, and it found that black and white thinking or like the on and off thinking is you can call it the all or nothing mentality, it's all kind of labeled the same, around eating actually was directly linked to worse long-term outcomes.
So if someone lost weight, if they had the all or nothing thinking, they were more likely to gain back their weight.
It also is linked to more constant restarting cycles and just kind of continually starting over, gaining the weight, losing it, gaining the weight, losing it.
So first, before we get into this, I want to give you five signs that you might be having a all or nothing mentality, or you might have a thinking pattern around health and fitness that makes you think you have to check off this checklist.
So let's go over those five signs so that we can all be on the same page and you can say, hey, this is me or this isn't me.
And even if it isn't you, I still want you to listen to my secret sauce weapon, my method, because I think it makes a difference if you still feel like you're someone who struggles with consistency.
So the first sign that you might struggle with trying to do things perfectly is you use the ruined language.
So let's break down this argument I'm making about perfectionism or just trying to do it perfectly.
And I'm going to share, like I said, my secret weapon for being able to be pretty dang consistent.
There are actual studies, and I will link them in the show notes because I always link my studies.
There's research that shows one of them is in the Journal of Health Psychology, and it found that black and white thinking or like the on and off thinking is you can call it the all or nothing mentality, it's all kind of labeled the same, around eating actually was directly linked to worse long-term outcomes.
So if someone lost weight, if they had the all or nothing thinking, they were more likely to gain back their weight.
It also is linked to more constant restarting cycles and just kind of continually starting over, gaining the weight, losing it, gaining the weight, losing it.
So first, before we get into this, I want to give you five signs that you might be having a all or nothing mentality, or you might have a thinking pattern around health and fitness that makes you think you have to check off this checklist.
So let's go over those five signs so that we can all be on the same page and you can say, hey, this is me or this isn't me.
And even if it isn't you, I still want you to listen to my secret sauce weapon, my method, because I think it makes a difference if you still feel like you're someone who struggles with consistency.
So the first sign that you might struggle with trying to do things perfectly is you use the ruined language.
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