Why You Can't Stick To Your Diet 👀

20 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this motivational monologue, Eric Roberts explains that most people fail to maintain a diet not because they lack discipline, but because they demand perfection—exact calorie targets, long workouts, strict meal‑prepping, and never eating out. He argues that this all‑or‑nothing mindset leads to quitting when perfection isn’t achieved. Roberts presents a contrasting principle: being about 60% consistent for three consecutive months yields far better results than being perfect for a short four‑week burst followed by eight weeks of inactivity. He advises viewers to design a "bare minimum" plan that specifies what can be done even on the toughest days (when tired, stressed, or busy). By ensuring the plan works on worst‑case days, it becomes sustainable and effective on better days, fostering lasting diet consistency.

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You can't stick to your diet, not because of your discipline. It's because you think if you can't hit your calories perfectly, get all of your workouts done at least an hour long, never go out to eat and only eat your meal-prepped food, you think that's not good enough. And so you tell yourself, if I can't be perfect, I'm not going to see any progress anyway, so I might as well just quit. And here's the part no one ever told you. Being 60% consistent for 3 months straight will always produce more results than being perfect for 4 weeks and then doing nothing for 8 weeks. So start setting up your plan to do the bare minimum. What can you do even on your worst days? When you're tired, stressed, busy? Because if you can do it then, You can do it on your best days, and that's actually how you stay consistent with your diet.