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What is 75 Medium?
The 75 Medium Challenge is a version of the 75 Hard challenge. I prefer the 75 Medium Challenge because you can make it fit your reality and maintain your habits long term. Yes, I do believe that 75 Hard can help you push outside of your comfort zone, prioritize your health and see amazing results but it is extremely hard. It’s designed that way for a reason.
What are the rules of 75 Medium?
The best part about 75 Medium is that you get to make your own rules. Here are the basic rules but you can change them to fit your needs:
- One 45 Minute Workout
- a Step goal between 7000 – 10000
- Calorie Deficit
- Reading 10 Pages of a Self Help Book
- Daily Progress Photo
4 Ways to Prepare for 75 Medium
Even if your challenge isn’t going to start until the 1st, next Monday or the new year. You can start doing these steps now:
- Mindset Practice
- Different Forms of Exercise
- Be curious about food
- Pretend like you started
Mindset Practice
Your mindset when it comes to health, exercise, food, discipline are going to rear its head as you start a challenge like this. Your comfort zone is going to try to pull you back. Starting a mindset practice with mediations, affirmations and journalling can help you uncover limiting beliefs and build confidence.
Different Forms of Exercise
Start trying out different forms of exercise. You can put on walking workout videos on YouTube or dance workouts. Do you want to go the gym? A yoga studio? Is there a run club in your city?
Open your mind to different ways to move your body. A challenge like this will fundamentally change your day to day life and you thought patterns need to do that too. If you have the belief since high school that you hate the gym. I would never stick to a gym routine if my life depended on it then getting a gym membership would not be for you. But you could turn on YouTube video and dance it out.
This is the time to try something new. Not to be perfect or change your entire body but to be curious.
Be curious about food
In this blog post: 5 Lesson’s I learned in order to lose 25lbs in 6 Months I talk about my relationship with food and emotional eating. That was one of the biggest things I had to change in order to see results. This leads to being curious about food. How you think about it? How you use food to punish and reward yourself? What foods do you like? What foods have you never tried?
Take a moment and find one new recipe a month or snack or something food related to help you build a relationship with your food.
Pretend like you started
As an all or nothing girlie this one did not make sense to me at first. I raged against this system of how could I possible just pretend that I started a challenge. I needed a checklist, a clear time frame and if I did not stick within it I would be a failure. However, for my 75 Medium Journey I completed my challenge tasks on March 29th, 30 and 31st before my challenge. Why?
Because I was building up the “start” in my head so much that I felt like I was making it bigger than I needed it to me. These habits weren’t a for now thing that I would discard later. These habits are lifestyle changes. I wanted and succeeded in fundamentally changing how I move through my life one habit at a time.
I went to bed on the 28th of March (2025) and told myself to pretend like I was doing the challenge the next day. I didn’t have to be perfect because I was starting on the first. There was safety in doing this trial. I just wanted to see how it would feel. It made me realize that I could do this. Fitting those habits into my life was easier than I thought.
Here is where it all started for me:
My 75 Medium Journey
My 75 Medium Journey started on April 1st 2025 and I completed it on June 14th 2025. I am created a second challenge for myself to maintain the habits I committed to with in the challenge.
Why did I choose 75 Medium?
I tried 75 Hard back in 2023 and 2024 and I last maybe a two weeks. I was stuck, disappointed and just irritated with myself. Why could I not stay consistent! Well, that challenge is hard. It is designed to be very difficult. I chose 75 Medium because it felt manageable. I also wanted to have a creative element in order to prioritize another very important part of my life which is creating. Writing, crochet, diamond paint, poetry. That is why I coined my journey “75 Medium for Creatives” because I believe that as creative women our physical health is important but our creative health is too. We can put a lot of pressure on our art or our ability to sit down and create at all times. Allowing myself to just create for fun honestly changed my life.
My 75 Medium Rules with a Creative Twist
- 45 Minute Workout
- Step Goal: 7000 Steps
- Calorie Deficit or Diet of your choice
- Progress Picture
- Read 10 Pages
- 45 Minute Creative Session
What helped me stay consistent for 75 days?
I made the decision to do 75 Medium with my Day One being April 1st. That week I wrote down ever possible reason why I would NOT do it.
- 45 minutes is too long of a workout
- I never stick to anything
- I won’t make it 75 days
- Why this time?
I had about 9 items on that list. I read through them and decided to reframe them. The biggest one is time. I would always use the excuse of “I don’t have enough time” or my multi passionate self would get panicked if I had too much on my schedule because I enjoy have lumps of time to just exist. If I jam pack my schedule full how will I doom scroll? Don’t worry I managed to find time to do just that.
I don’t have time.
The best mindset shift for me when it came to this challenge was to calculate how long all of my habits would take me. It came out to 3 hours and 15 minutes. I did not count my food or making food since that is a normal every day practice. But asking myself if i had 3 hours and 15 minutes every day to build my dream life. The answer was a resounding yes. If I looked at my watch time for social media apps definitely had the time!
I never stick to anything! Why would this time be different?
Up until that point I had been a planner stuck in a cycle of needing to make the perfect plan. I was frustrated with myself. Annoyed that I was back here wanting to make a change. Who was I to do it? I felt like I was not capable. I asked myself why did I want to do this challenge now. At this time. The answer was “just because.” I wanted to change my life. I knew what habits would benefit me and how it would help to achieve my long term goals.
You are allowed to try again no matter how many times you don’t “stick” to it.
I won’t make it 75 days
I genuinely believed this until about 30 days left in the challenge. I combated this belief with simply telling myself “see how long you can make it.” It was not about being perfect for 75 days it was about showing up every day to complete the habits I said I would. And I did.
And another factor is if your do all your habits for 70 out of 75 days you might have “failed” the challenge but you completed 70 days of habits. That is not a failure!
Why did I start a new challenge?
After I finished 75 Medium I did not want to revert back to my old habits. I was scared that if I let off the gas I would stop entirely. I took about four days “off” of some of my habits. And then I made a Summer 93 Challenge because there are 93 Days of Summer. As I write this blog there are 30 Days left in this challenge. I will be posting a recap at the end of September on how this challenge went. Essentially I kept the same habits from above but I added in journalling one page every day and instead of just a creative session, I split that into a creating writing session and blogging session in order to achieve my dream of being a published author and making money from my creative lifestyle.
What are my plans for the fall?
The next step for me is to keep doing my habits. The question is do I need to have a “challenge” looming over my head to maintain these habits. I am not entirely sure. There are 89 Days in Autumn and 88 Days in Winter. Do I build a Seasonal Challenge for myself? Possibly.
What I know for a fact is that I will continue to workout, hit my step goal, work on my business and creative sessions. I just don’t know if I will use a sticky note wall or not. Stay tuned!
My 75 Medium Recap and Summer Challenge Details: