The Importance of Healthy Habits
Do You Have Healthy Habits?
Do you eat the same thing for breakfast every morning? Are your gym visits always at the same time of day? Do you stick to a regular bedtime schedule?
Perhaps you are not so regimented. Maybe your gym schedule is crazy and your sleep schedule is chaotic. Maybe you eat whatever is put before you or whatever smells good at the moment.
Consider a famous quote by John Dryden “We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”
And other spoken by Confucius “Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.”
Why not one from Aristotle as well? “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Obviously, some of the greatest thinkers in history agree that your habits determine what you ultimately become in life.
There are just two very important habits that healthy, thin people embrace exercise and healthy eating. Look at anyone who has a great body and you will see that they incorporate these two habits into their life in some manner. NYC personal trainers are often their best friends in health.
Are you unhappy with your body right now? Then seek out our weight loss programs in NYC or just use the following strategy for adopting healthy eating and exercise habits.
How to Create a Healthy Habit
Picking up a healthy habit is as simple as this 7 step process.
1) Select a single habit that you would like to adopt. Resist the temptation to take on several habits all at once, even if all those things do need work. It is more realistic to tackle them one at a time.
Do you need some ideas for healthy habits that will change your life? Talk to our NYC personal trainers or use this quick list:
a.. Cut off all eating after 7 PM.
b.. Go back to your school days and start packing your lunch. c.. Pick four days and start exercising 45 minutes after work on those days. d.. Limit afternoon snacks to fresh produce. e.. Set the alarm early so you can exercise every morning for about an hour. f.. Set appointments with our NYC personal trainers two days a week.
2) Make this new habit real by putting it to paper. Then make a list of the three things motivating you to adopt this healthy habit. Then write down the obstacles that you may stumble upon along the way and how you plan to jump over them.
Here’s an example to show how this looks:
a.. I want to work on the healthy habit of meeting with my NYC personal trainers three times every week.
b.. I am motivated by these three things 1) bathing suit confidence come summertime. 2) Increased energy. 3) Looking amazing in those new skinny jeans.
c.. I expect these obstacles to come my way 1) A general lack of energy after working all day. 2) Not being able to afford weight loss programs in NYC or my personal training sessions. 3) My spouse will not support me emotionally.
d..The solutions to these obstacles will be 1) Scheduling morning workouts with our NYC personal trainers rather than going after work. 2) Eliminating wasteful spending to make room in the budget for my weight loss programs in NYC. 3) Bringing my spouse into the process with me so we can get healthy together.
3) Go public with this goal so everyone knows what you are doing. This puts you on the spot so you either follow through or get embarrassed when others ask how you’re doing with that goal. Go to Facebook or Twitter and let everyone in on your new habit or just announce it at dinner to those closest to you.
4) Establish some form of progress monitoring. This could be simply marking on a calendar for every day you follow through it could be a journal or diary kept to record your journey.
5) Return to Facebook, Twitter, or those that you told in your private life and give regular updates on your journey. If you keep them updated on how you are doing they can offer invaluable support when things get hard.
6) Don’t let failures get you down. Specify what went wrong and come up with a solution to beat the obstacle next time around.
7) Give yourself a prize when you are successful.
Within 30 days you should settle into a routine and that healthy habit will feel like a normal part of your life. This is when you can add in a new healthy habit to build on your new healthy life.
I would love for my weight loss program in NYC to be your first healthy habit. Our NYC personal trainers can make a world of difference so give me a call today.
Laser Sharp Focus
You should have laser sharp focus on just one goal at a time for maximum success. If you tackle more than one at a time, you end up getting nowhere because your energy is so spread out. Keep it focused and you can always pick up another healthy habit when the first has been added with success. Go ahead and write all of your goals down and come back to that list as you accomplish each one.
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