Make a record of all your bad eating habits, such as:
Skipping lunch
Buying a bar of chocolate every day
Eating toast, butter and marmalade all evening
Eating too much fat cheese
Eating while working at the sink instead of sitting down at the dining table.
Vomiting almost every evening
Select the bad habit which you think will be the easiest to correct and concentrate all you can on improving this habit first.
When you have successfully managed to introduce a better habit, e.g., to eat a plate of salad for lunch every day, you can then begin to remove the next bad habit, and so on.
Through all this time, you can count on feeling sad and irritated. The eating monster inside you will insist on continuing with the bad habit. It will be necessary for you to be as persistent as somebody who has decided to stop smoking. Finally, in time you will get accustomed to it and experience the new habit as obvious and natural. Plus, you will feel good about yourself for having overcome a bad and unnecessary habit.
1 comment:
I'm a psychology professor who studies bad habits and how to change them. I really like what you have to say about changing eating habits and it very much lines up with my thinking on the matter. Picking one bad habit at a time is a great idea. "Baby steps" is definitely part of the solution. I would only caution readers that they should not rush themselves. Changing a habit takes time and lots of repetition.
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