If you think you need more discipline to lose weight, you've already lost.

Discipline is a battery and it runs out.

The people who are in shape and stay in shape forever aren't more disciplined than you.

They just understand what we're going to talk about in this podcast today, which is behavioral psychology.

What is going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Eric Roberts Fitness podcast.

I hope you're having an amazing day thus far. And like the intro stated, today we're talking about

how to actually change your behavior. We're going to uncover, uncover, we're going to uncover the science of why you keep

failing in the specific tactics that you are going to use to fix it.

And later, I'm also going to share the specific if-then tactic we use with our one-on-one clients that creates

consistency without needing a ton of willpower. But right before we get into that, I want to cover the

concept of willpower versus environment. You may have heard me talk about this before, but I think it's worth mentioning at least

in the beginning again.

And I have an analogy for you that relying on willpower is like holding a beach ball

underwater.

You can probably do it for a minute, maybe five minutes, but eventually your arms get tired and the ball

shoots up in your face. You can't keep the ball underwater consistently unless you're using

all of your might, all of your strength, all of your willpower. That's exactly why you can't rely on

the willpower to keep you on track with your diet long term.

And these people who you see, who are in shape, who always hit their calories, they are always

outside getting their steps in, they're not relying on willpower. They understand and they've

made behavior changes in their life. If you're somebody who has started

and stopped a diet, five, 10, 15 more times you could actually count, this podcast is for you

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