If you’re looking for dieting help … if you can’t stick to a diet … or you find it hard to keep yourself on a set pattern of eating, then here’s some good news.
The Way You Eat Now Is a Habit
The reason why it’s so hard for you to start eating “right” or to follow your diet is because the way you eat now is a habit you’ve developed over years and years of conditioning.
Take sugar for example (and on that note: all examples from my own life)…
It started when you were a baby, and your mommy let you put all that sugar in there with your cheerios. You loved it at the end when you got to drink all that sweetened milk didn’t you?
Then, you got addicted to soda and started drinking that all the time — add to the fact you were a kid and just LOVED candy — and whenever you weren’t downing a soda you were drinking “southern style” sweet tea.
You were a sugar consuming machine by the time you hit middle school!
You developed the habit, a literal “connection” in your brain, between pleasure and sugar. And your taste buds got “wired” this way so that anything that wasn’t sweet didn’t taste good.
Simply Create A New Habit
That’s all you got to do and it’s not as hard as you think it is.
The process goes like this:
- Decide on a new habit you want …
- Find a simple process to enforce the new habit …
- Just do it, WITHOUT fail, consistently for 28 days …
For example: cutting out sugar.
When you get up in the morning, instead of filling your coffee cup with coffee, cream and a crap-load of sugar … instead fill it with black coffee. Take a big long smell of this stuff and force a smile to your face.
(It’s scary I know!)
I’m not gonna lie — you won’t like the taste of black coffee the first 28 days … but just do it.
Treat it like an “appointment” with yourself. You wouldn’t be late for an important business meeting or something like that would you? Good, treat yourself with the same respect.
You Only Need 28 Days
That’s because it only takes 28 days of doing something consistently before you start to “re-wire” your brain to be forming that new habit.
At the end of the 28 days it will actually feel “weird” to not be doing what you’re doing. Getting out the cream and sugar for your coffee in the morning will seem “Foreign” to you.
This is exactly how I kicked the habit … now my taste-buds are re-wired and black coffee tastes good to me. BONUS: you can actually tell the difference between different flavors and brews of coffees a lot easier now!
Mental Trick: Focus ONLY On Today
Even 28 days can seem like a lot of time for most people … and to be honest … it can be! Especially when you’re trying to create a new habit from something you’ve been doing a long time.
The key thing to remember is habits are NOT hard to break. It’s NOT hard to replace a bad, old habit with a new good one … you just have to do one thing that most of us are bad at:
BE CONSISTENT!
Almost anything in life is easy enough to succeed at if you’re able to CONSISTENT (I’ll save that for a later post though).
Here’s how you be consistent: take it day by day.
The Alcoholic’s Secret Diet Tip!
Ever been to an AA meeting? Or any type of addictive behavior “anonymous” meeting?
You know what they say right? “I’m taking it day by day”
And it’s a PROVEN strategy for doing anything consistently … think giving up sugar is hard? Try giving up heroin!
It all comes down to choosing to make it through the present moment, this minute, the current hour, and then eventually — 24 of those hours make up a day (or about 16 before you go to sleep right?) — and you’ve gotten through the day.
Don’t worry your head with tomorrow. Don’t get anxious. Just take it day by day.
Anyways, that’s one of my best Dieting Help tips and hopefully it’ll help you too 
