Make Health Easier - How to Design Your Environment For Success.

You’re not lazy. You’re not broken.

You’re just living in a world that makes staying healthy really, really hard.
We call it an obesogenic environment — a fancy term for “the modern world that encourages us to eat more and move less.”
If you’ve ever wondered why staying consistent feels like a daily battle, this is why.
Let’s explore what this means and then talk about what you can actually do about it.

1. Food Is Everywhere (and Designed to Be Irresistible)
You can order a meal without leaving your couch. There’s a snack at every checkout. Coffee often comes with dessert in a cup.
Food companies are brilliant at creating combinations of sugar, fat, and salt that light up your brain’s reward system.

The result is that you’re surrounded by foods that are easy to overeat and hard to stop eating.
How to combat this:

• Keep high-protein foods visible:boiled eggs, Greek yoghurt, tins of tuna, pre-cooked chicken.
  
• Store “sometimes foods” out of sight or in opaque containers.
  
• Prep simple, grab-and-go meals (overnight oats, smoothie bags, salad jars).
  
• Keep water bottles handy. In the car, at your office desk, on the kitchen bench or even in your gym bag.
  
• Write your grocery list before you’re hungry (and stick to it).
  

2. We Move Less Than Ever.
Most of us don’t walk to work. We sit for hours, then unwind on the couch.

Even chores like shopping or mowing the lawn are easier than ever.
Movement used to be built into daily life. Now we have to schedule it.
What helps combat this?

• Lay out your workout clothes the night before.
  
• Keep a resistance band or kettlebell where you’ll see it.
  
• Take calls standing up or walking. You'd be amazed how many steps you can add up doing this.
  
• Park a few hundred metres away.
  
• Schedule workouts like meetings, same time, same day, no debate. But have a plan if
  the plan gets derailed. For example, if I miss my workout on friday at 12:00pm I'll go for a nice Friday evening walk.
  

3. Our Brains Haven’t Caught Up.
Your brain evolved to keep you alive, not lean. It’s wired to seek food, conserve energy, and avoid discomfort.
The problem with this is the modern world gives your brain unlimited access to both food and comfort.
That’s why motivation fades, and why “just be more disciplined” doesn’t work for long.
What can you do about this?

• Use reminders or cues: a sticky note on the fridge — “Protein + Colour + Fibre.”
  
• Reduce decision fatigue: rotate two go-to breakfasts or lunches. Eating similar meals has helped many of my clients stay more consistent. 
  
• Build accountability. Use a coach, a friend, or a weekly check-in with your self.
  
• Make healthy habits frictionless (and unhelpful ones harder).
  

Example:

👉 Keep fruit washed and ready to eat.
👉 Store crisps in the garage or high cupboard.
👉 Cancel junk food subscriptions or delivery shortcuts.

4. Environment Beats Willpower.
When your environment is set up right, consistency takes less effort.
You don’t rely on bursts of motivation, you rely on design.
Think of it like this:

• Your willpower is a matchstick, it burns bright but burns out fast.
  
• Your environment is the fireplace, it keeps the fire going.
  

Ask yourself:

• Does my kitchen make it easy to eat well?
  
• Does my day make it easy to move?
  
• Does my phone, fridge, or schedule support my goals or fight them?
  

Start small. Change one thing at a time.

The goal isn’t perfection, it’s progress that feels sustainable.

The Bottom Line.
You don’t have to fight the modern world. You just need to outsmart it.

The fittest people are not always the most disciplined. They make their environment work for them. 

Make your setup work for you, not against you.

Small environmental changes compound into massive long-term results.

If you’d like accountability, structure, and help designing an environment that makes fat loss easier and more consistent, I’m opening one spot in my 12-Week Reset Personal Training Program so you can shed some excess fat and start feeling comfortable in your own skin again.

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