How I Stay Consistent When Life Gets Messy

Lean With Plants

Chelsea Mae Cullen

Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.9 • 952 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

If life feels like an emotional rollercoaster and consistency seems impossible, this one’s for you.

In this episode, I’m talking about what it really means to build habits when everything feels messy, chaotic, and hard.

Spoiler: it’s not about being perfect or having it all figured out — it’s about learning how to show up even when you don’t want to.

I’ll share how I’ve managed to keep moving forward (sometimes to my own surprise!) despite crying, crumbling, and feeling like a hot mess most of the time.

You’ll learn why consistency isn’t about perfection, but about having the right toolkit for the battles that life throws at you.

Here are 15 things I think will help you achieve your goals, and stay consistent even when life is tough!

Think of this as your permission slip to succeed in the middle of the mess — because you don’t need to be calm, collected, or flawless to reach your goals. You just need to know how to “do messy well.”

If you’re ready to do whatever is required to succeed for your health goals, then book a free consult with our team to talk about making that a reality.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the Lean of Plants podcast. My name is Chelsea and if you are struggling to lose weight on a plant-based diet, then this podcast is for you. While there are thousands of books, podcasts and resources about the benefits of a plant-based diet, the reality is that being vegan does not
0:21.9	guarantee losing weight. If you are feeling frustrated and confused about where to start,
0:28.6	or you know exactly what you should be doing, but you just can't seem to rustle up enough
0:34.1	willpower to do it, then keep listening. In this podcast, you'll learn the
0:38.7	truth about plant-based weight loss, but just as importantly, how to use proven methods of
0:44.1	behavioural change to turn what you know into lifelong habits that lead to getting and staying
0:49.9	lean. Can't wait to get started. Let's do this.
1:11.6	Hello, hello, welcome to the episode. I'm very excited for this one, which I say every time.
1:18.2	What I should be saying is that I have been preparing for this episode by crying non-stop for the past week, two weeks, six months, year-ish. Not actually true, but maybe it's been 10 years
1:25.6	in the making. What I'm trying to say is I'm an
1:28.7	emotional person I am sometimes amazed at the things that I get myself to do when I don't want to do
1:39.6	it and I'm writing this episode for anyone out there who feels like there's two types of people.
1:47.0	There are the people who can make themselves do things or maybe have just an emotionally or a mentally calm space between the ears.
1:57.0	And then there are the other people who are like, I'm just so messed up.
2:02.3	I'm so in my head crazy.
2:05.0	I'm so broken.
2:07.6	There's no way that I can achieve any kind of consistency or any kind of success that someone
2:13.9	who doesn't struggle with the things that I struggle with can because I'm on a
2:18.6	roller coaster and then my behavior is also on a roller coaster. So maybe the title of this episode
2:23.8	should be like if you have an internal roller coaster, if you have things that are difficult,
2:29.8	if your life is messy, if the way that your brain chemistry works is that things feel hard for you.
2:36.3	You want to crumble.
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