8 Food Habits Keeping You Unhealthy | STOP the Self Sabotage

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Eating is a routine, so we develop automatic subconscious habits that guide our day to day choices without us even realizing it.

Today we’re gna take a look at 8 bad food habits that keep us unhealthy

Before I realized these bad habits, I was getting unhealthy. When I replaced my bad food habits with good food habits, my health changed dramatically.

you’re probably thinking it takes a lot of time to eat healthy and it’s a sacrifice, you can never eat anything you like. truth is I spend LESS time cooking and I enjoy my food more due to good habits being in place and dodging the bad habits

bad food habit #1 is relying on willpower

we’ve all made new years resolutions but time goes by and we go back to old habits. we put pressure on ourselves to change but don’t set up the conditions to succeed. success is less about willpower and more about skillpower.

willpower instinct: great willpower is not about fighting instincts, its about harnessing them

We can make our willpower battles easier by using leverage

self-control is rooted in self-knowledge

bad food habit #2: fear of standing out. eating is a cultural and social event

It’s normal for people to notice your change of habit and ask.

What if you live with people who have different habits?
In some ways it strengthens the habit

the 3rd habit to kick to the curb is shopping for the advice we wana hear

most common health concerns, losing some weight, lowering cholesterol or glucose are doable with some tweaks to our lifestyle

Bad food habit #4 is the one-size-fits-all diet. why shouldn’t our health goals be personalized?

We decide to eat xyz, then we don’t stick with it and we feel like a failure.

basic principles apply to everybody. Smoking isn’t healthy for anyone and neither is a diet full of ultraprocessed foods, added salt and sugar and saturated fat. But there is a lot of wiggle room

If your eating plan is so strict it requires u to cheat, maybe you're going too far too fast.

it’s ironic that one of the main obstacles when trying to fix our eating habits is to bite off more than we can chew

Who wants to lose 3lb in a month? We wana lose 30 or 40. or overhaul our entire diet overnight

The yo-yo of losing weight and putting it back is destructive. So kick the habit of choosing goals made by and for other people.

4 habits down. Bad food habit #5 is identifying with our habits

We say things like I wana get fit but I just don’t like to exercise. I wana eat healthy but I just like junk food too much. our preferences are just habits we built

Bad food habit #6 is confusing simple with easy

Eating healthy is simple but not easy. Fresh fruits and vegetables, easy on the processed stuff. that’s 90% of nutrition. you already know how to eat healthy

Bad food habit #7 is obsession with the short term

the habits you built 10y ago are still with you. losing weight is good, but it’s 1 component of health. Every healthy dietary pattern will help you move towards and maintain a healthy weight, but not every diet that helps you lose weight is healthy.

what goes for weight loss, goes for the obsession with muscles and six pack abs. I see people throwing their health to the wind for the promise of bigger muscles

theories that you need to load up on saturated fat or cut fiber-rich foods to get buff and lean. None of that is true, you can get fit and build muscle on a health-promoting diet with adequate protein intake and the right physical activity

you don’t need to compromise your long-term health to get short-term results so do not settle

last bad food habit is minimizing the impact of food habits

Warren Buffet: chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

get started as soon as you can. you don’t need a grand new years resolution like losing 100lbs or getting a 12 pack

here are ways to save money while eating healthy and 7 things about food I wish I knew long ago

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