EP. #175: How to Reach Your Goals with Baby Steps

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How many times have you heard this saying? </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s how I think about dieting. Even if you try different diets, you’re still restricting what foods you eat, not listening to your body, and trying to lose weight by doing something unsustainable. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Diets are designed to be temporary, so even if you lose some weight on one, you ultimately go off it. Because you haven’t changed your eating habits, you’ve got at least a 95% chance of gaining it back.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So many people have difficulty reaching their weight goals (and any other goal for that matter) because they’re caught in a</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> pattern of doing the same thing or a not-so-different version of it, that doesn’t work, over and over again.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maybe you snack after dinner while watching TV every night. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maybe you eat at your desk at work and don’t really pay attention to how much you’re eating or whether you’re hungry. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Maybe you try to skip meals and then end up overeating. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These are all habits that move you away from your goal of being a healthier, more comfortable weight. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The thing is that every time you repeat a habit that moves you in the opposite direction from your goals, you’re reinforcing that pattern in your brain, and making it a little harder to break the habit.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But you can turn that around. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stay tuned to learn a pretty simple technique to break those patterns and establish better habits that move you TOWARDS y