When is the best day to start a new diet?

Ever heard of a temporal landmark? They’re about to change your life.

Known as the ‘fresh start effect’, they motivate us, give life structure, and save our sanity. They’re also the most useful answer to the question: ‘When is the best day to start a new diet?’, since it’s different for everyone.

When you apply landmarks to health and wellness, you can relegate passages of time where you’ve slacked off or been imperfect to a previous period of your life. This serves as a boost to help you lean into your goals by kickstarting more aspirational habits.

Google searches for the keyword ‘diet’ go up in volume following a temporal landmark. When we’re looking into a new week, month, or year, we shake off our past eating habits and feel motivated to move into a new passage of time with a fresh outlook and healthier eating habits.

Temporal landmarks can also account for events like birthdays, holidays, new jobs, Christmas, weddings… any significant (or even not-so-significant) event. The more landmarks you make in your life, the more drive you have to keep moving forward with your fitness routine and see the big picture. No one likes feeling like time is slipping through their fingers.

So, when is the best day to start a diet?

Okay, so temporal landmarks mean that any day you decide to set a new passage of time. But one landmark we can all agree on is Monday. Monday is always a great day to start a diet - that ‘new week, new me’ mentality is a cliche for a reason. You start the week full of fresh energy and a renewed motivation to have a good week, especially if your previous one wasn’t so great.

Use your Sunday to plan and prepare your new diet. Go shopping, prep your meals, pack your gym kit. How do you want to feel by next Sunday? Really imagine yourself a week from now - lighter, happier and healthier. Then go get those manifestations.

That said, if you slip up and eat a greasy pizza with triple helpings of garlic bread, you shouldn’t wait until next Monday to start eating healthily again. Make your next meal or the next morning the next fresh start. New chances are everywhere, so don’t throw in the towel at the first challenge.

Let us give you a new landmark to grow from

There’s nothing like a workout or diet programme to give you that ‘fresh start’ effect. Our personal trainers can help create new starts for you in the form of personalised training and nutrition plans. They’ll help you set healthy goals with realistic time frames, then keep motivating you throughout your training to resist temptation and stick to your plan.

The best thing about our plans? You can start them any day, because they’re a landmark in themselves. The day you show up and work closely with a personal trainer is the day you step into a fresh passage of time you deserve to grow in. Let us guide and motivate you to stick to your health and fitness goals and start making the most of your time and effort. Find a club near you today.