Changing Your Habits
It’s hard to believe that I changed my way of eating to the South Beach Diet over 100 days ago. In some ways it seems like I have just started, but in other ways it seems like this is second nature and has been a part of my life for years. As I reflect back on the success (and failures) I have had, it comes to mind that the largest factor of success is simply changing habits – eliminating the bad habits from our life and replacing them with good habits. Unfortunately, we don’t often see these bad habits when we are committing them. Even when we do, we fool ourselves into thinking they aren’t having an effect on us.
As many of you know, I have not rid my life of all my bad habits. When it comes to eating, there is one that has a strangle hold on me – overeating. Even though I have had a respectable level of success with the South Beach Diet, it is not what it could be. I think this is a direct result of the volume of food I eat. I have tried to make a conscious effort to change this in the last couple of weeks, but I still battle it daily. I feel like once I beat this habit, my weight loss will slightly accelerate.
The second habit I have to work on is exercise. Up until a month or so ago I was doing very well with this. Then I got sick with bronchitis. Since that point I have hardly exercised at all, and now I can tell it is going to be a chore getting back in the habit of exercising. I don’t think you can have ideal success with dieting without the exercise component.
Ultimately, success in losing weight, or anything else for that matter, comes down to making a decision and changing your habits.
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