June 11th, 2009Why are habits so important for Weight loss?
Why are habits so important? They are important because they determine our behavior. How we behave is crucial to our well-being and to the way we conduct our lives. We become overweight because we don’t control our behavior. Unknowingly, we develop bad eating and lifestyle habits. Before we know where we are we are overweight and we wonder how it happened.
Our response to being overweight is not to change the habits that made us fat in the first place, instead we look for some quick fix - a diet - and we continue in the same old way once the diet is over. Is it any wonder that the nation has a weight problem? Unless people get to the heart of what permanent weight loss is all about - behavior change - there is going to be no improvement in the nation’s weight / health problem.
So what is the answer? The answer is that people need to learn to identify the habits that make them fat. They need to recognize their bad eating and lifestyle habits. They then need to learn new habits - slim habits. Learning new habits is the most effective way to make change. The reason for this is that habits cannot be changed. Once we have learned a habit it is always going to be hotwired onto our brain. Learning new habits to supersede our bad habits is the way forward.
The simple process of changing our behavior is the key to permanent weight loss. Once we recognize this and do something about it we can take control of our lives. If we don’t we will suffer because of our inattention to ourselves, and that makes no sense.
Author: Henry M John
