Why the Healthy Habits Challenge Works (And Why We’re Doing It This Way)

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December 22, 2025
Why the Healthy Habits Challenge Works (And Why We’re Doing It This Way)

Every year, January rolls around and people start thinking about how they want things to be different.

More energy.
Better health.
More consistency.
Less starting over.

And every year, a lot of people do something — a reset, a diet, a challenge — only to find themselves back in familiar patterns a few weeks or months later.

That doesn’t happen because people don’t care.
It doesn’t happen because they lack discipline.

It happens because nothing underneath the behavior actually changed.

That’s why the WildFire Healthy Habits Challenge exists — and why we’re doing it very intentionally.

This Isn’t a Diet. It’s a Habit Reset.

The Healthy Habits Challenge runs January 5 – February 15, 2026 and is built around four daily habits:

You complete four habits per day for six weeks.

On paper, that might not look extreme enough. And that’s exactly the point.

Diets and extremes don’t work for the long haul.
Habits do.

But habits only stick when they’re paired with coaching, accountability, and mindset change.

The Habit Everyone Panics About (And Why It Matters Most)

Let’s be honest — when most people read the habits, they’re fine with protein and movement.

Then they see daily journaling, and that’s where the resistance shows up.

For many people, journaling feels harder than changing food. Harder than movement. Harder than sleep. And there’s a reason for that.

Journaling asks you to slow down.
To notice your thoughts.
To become aware of the beliefs driving your actions.

And that’s where real change happens.

If you want to be someone who chooses vegetables over convenience, movement over Netflix, sleep over scrolling — you have to believe that’s who you are. Not that you’re “being good.” Not that you’re giving something up. But that this is simply how you live.

How you talk to yourself matters.
How you frame your choices matters.
What you believe about yourself matters.

That’s why journaling isn’t an add-on in this challenge — it’s a cornerstone.

And no, it doesn’t have to be deep or overwhelming.

Some days, journaling might look like:

To support you, we provide 42 daily journal prompts — one for every day of the challenge — so you’re never staring at a blank page.

Why Coaching Is the Real Difference

The biggest benefit of this challenge isn’t the habits.

It’s the coaching.

Every coach at WildFire has walked their own journey with nutrition and lifestyle change. None of us arrived here perfectly. We’ve all navigated inconsistency, learning curves, plateaus, and breakthroughs.

That lived experience matters — because it allows us to coach you through real life, not an ideal version of it.

When you sign up for this challenge, every WildFire coach becomes a resource for you.

That means:

What Actually Creates Success

For lasting lifestyle change to happen, two things must be in place.

1. You need to know what to do (the what and the why)

We coach you on:

This is the education piece.

But here’s the truth most people already know…

2. Knowing isn’t the problem. Doing it is.

Most people already know what they “should” do. The struggle is bridging the gap between:

“I know what I need to do”
and
“I’m actually doing it consistently.”

That gap is where habits fall apart.

This challenge is designed to coach you through the middle — the space where life happens.

We help you:

This is where most of the coaching happens.

The coaching makes the middle less messy.
It holds you accountable to staying in it.
And it allows us to tweak habits so they become easier and more effective over time.

Why Accountability Changes Everything

I’ve been coaching people on nutrition and healthy habits for nearly 20 years — longer than I’ve been coaching CrossFit.

I know what to do.

But the single biggest factor in my own success was accountability.

When I hired a coach and became accountable to my daily choices, everything changed. I stayed consistent, calm, and confident. I lost 30 pounds over the course of a year — and I’ve kept it off for the past five years because my habits stayed consistent.

That’s what this challenge is built around.

That’s also why there is some skin in the game.

The investment matters. For some people, that alone creates accountability. And on top of that, you receive a high level of coaching, support, and structure throughout the six weeks.

What Happens When You Sign Up

Once you register:

There is a lot of intentional work your coaches put into this — because this piece of the puzzle is critical to your success.

This Is How We’re Doing Nutrition in the New Year

If this challenge looks “too simple” or not like a traditional diet, that’s intentional.

Simple habits + strong coaching + accountability = lasting change.

This is how we help you stop repeating cycles and start building something sustainable.

So join us.
Give yourself this gift.
And let us coach you through it.

🔥 Register for the Healthy Habits Challenge

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