I was sitting and thinking this morning about why some things so hard. Most of the time, these things are just bad habits. Losing weight for instance. Many of us have had life long struggles with losing weight. Why? Why is it so hard just to choose to NOT put something that is unhealthy to our bodies in our mouths? The concept of how eight loss works is not a complex one. Yet I know this is not my struggle alone. Billions of dollars are spent in American fighting obesity, as well as the side effects of chronic obesity.
I have read many times, that if we can do something consistently every day for 14 days - it will become a habit. We all have many positive habits we have trained ourselves to do over a lifetime - brush our teeth, bathe, make our beds, mow the lawn, clean the house, do the laundry, pay the bills, sometimes even exercise. I can go one and on. We know they are habits because when we don't do them, we feel the absence or void. We know we need to do these things. We also have habits that are not so great - watching too much TV, spending gross amounts of time on the internet (or Pinterest), gossiping with our friends, etc.
So I have decided to try the breaking a bad habit/developing a new habit by doing a positive new habit for the next 30 days. This will be a test through the end of August. I am going to choose to focus first on my worst demon - diet. I am in the group of people that we term the "fit fat". I have low blood pressure, a nice steady low heartbeat, and I am very active logging miles of walking, hiking, and biking each week. But I consistently fail on "clean eating", and I probably indulge in too many beers as well!
I will post an update at the end of August on how it went and whether I was successful at developing new clean eating habits. I do not need wishes of luck here - I need to just CHOOSE to stay the course. Every day, every meal, every snack is a choice. I choose to work to develop new habits.