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8 Food Habits Keeping You Unhealthy | STOP the Self Sabotage

8 Food Habits Keeping You Unhealthy | STOP the Self SabotageNew20 min

Subscribe for more free nutrition and health tips: https://bit.ly/2toMJ9uUploaded 11-01-21Eating is a routine, so we develop automatic subconscious habits that guide our day to day choices without us even realizing it.Today we’re gna take a look at 8 bad food habits that keep us unhealthy Before I realized these bad habits, I was getting unhealthy. When I replaced my bad food habits with good food habits, my health changed dramatically. you’re probably thinking it takes a lot of time to eat healthy and it’s a sacrifice, you can never eat anything you like. truth is I spend LESS time cooking and I enjoy my food more due to good habits being in place and dodging the bad habitsbad food habit #1 is relying on willpowerwe’ve all made new years resolutions but time goes by and we go back to old habits. we put pressure on ourselves to change but don’t set up the conditions to succeed. success is less about willpower and more about skillpower.willpower instinct: great willpower is not about fighting instincts, its about harnessing themWe can make our willpower battles easier by using leverageself-control is rooted in self-knowledgebad food habit #2: fear of standing out. eating is a cultural and social eventIt’s normal for people to notice your change of habit and ask.What if you live with people who have different habits? In some ways it strengthens the habitthe 3rd habit to kick to the curb is shopping for the advice we wana hearmost common health concerns, losing some weight, lowering cholesterol or glucose are doable with some tweaks to our lifestyleBad food habit #4 is the one-size-fits-all diet. why shouldn’t our health goals be personalized?We decide to eat xyz, then we don’t stick with it and we feel like a failure.basic principles apply to everybody. Smoking isn’t healthy for anyone and neither is a diet full of ultraprocessed foods, added salt and sugar and saturated fat. But there is a lot of wiggle roomIf your eating plan is so strict it requires u to cheat, maybe you're going too far too fast. it’s ironic that one of the main obstacles when trying to fix our eating habits is to bite off more than we can chewWho wants to lose 3lb in a month? We wana lose 30 or 40. or overhaul our entire diet overnightThe yo-yo of losing weight and putting it back is destructive. So kick the habit of choosing goals made by and for other people. 4 habits down. Bad food habit #5 is identifying with our habitsWe say things like I wana get fit but I just don’t like to exerc