Guest guest Posted August 27, 2011 Report Share Posted August 27, 2011 HABIT FORMING Saturday, 27 August 2011 From the earliest days of your life, you begin forming habits. Some of the habits you picked up, you learned from your parents, grandparents or even from your peers. You picked up those habits and now...they belong to you. Habits come in two forms. There are good habits and, of course, there are the bad habits. And once those bad habits become part of your life, well, I don't even have to tell you, they're hard to break. Earlier this week in my Clubhouse Chat, I asked my members to share two bad habits in their lives they've been able to kick. I want to share with you some of the bad habits they've beaten. And I wonder, how many of these bad habits are ones you need to break. For instance.... Do you skip breakfast? Oh, that's a bad, bad, bad one. Your name might as well be Brown, as in Leroy Brown, baddest man in the whole damned town! Now listen up, you need to eat breakfast, every morning. That means you may have to rearrange your daily schedule and, if you have to, get up a little earlier to prepare that healthy morning meal for yourself. You should make time to actually sit down at the table and have your breakfast every morning before starting your day. Do you frequent fast food drive-thrus? Do you eat a lot of fast food, claiming "you have to" because your life is just so busy? Is it like your car can find those drive-thrus...on their own? Oh, it's one of the baddest habits we Americans have, our addiction to fast-food and those drive-thru windows. Are you a big soda or diet-soda drinker? Are you? Now you know, they're basically cans of chemicals, don't you? And oh, those diet-sodas. They get their "sweetness" from artificial sweeteners which have been shown to increase your appetite and even raise your blood's insulin levels. Do you eat a lot of red meat? Let me fess up here. I've eaten steaks and prime rib ever since I was a kid. Back home in New Orleans, just two blocks from our house on St. Louis Street, was the Rib Room Restaurant at the fabulous Royal Orleans Hotel. My family used to love going there. But today, you and I know that we need to limit our intake of red meats. They may be tasty and tender but they're hard on our stomachs. They take so long to digest, too. And red meats are loaded with fat. What about alcohol? Are you a big drinker? Do you have a beer or cocktail every evening when you get in from work? And do you drink a little more on the weekends to, uh, "celebrate"? Yeah? So, what are you celebrating? That you're slowly choking the life out of your liver? And oh yeah, liquor contains calories, too. Lots of them. And people have a tendency to not count the calories when they have a drink...or two. Remember, everything in moderation. Are you one of those people who likes to open the refrigerator door every time you walk by it? What are you looking for anyway? How many times a day do you open your fridge? 5 times? 10? 263 times a day? Cut out this bad little habit because every time you look into that fridge, chances are you're gonna find something to snack on. Are you a late night eater, a midnight feeder? Do you sit on the couch in your family room with a bowl of snacks on the end table right next to you? Without even thinking, you're reaching over picking up another handful of Goldfish mini-crackers or cashews and plopping them into your mouth. How much calorie damage can you cause doing that, huh? Talk about a weight-gain. Well, it'll be yours if you keep consuming all of those mindless calories late into the night. And I want to leave you with just one more bad habit you need to kick. Do you not make time to exercise? Yep, that's a really bad habit and maybe the worst of all! You've got to get your workouts in so you can burn those calories and fat as you get your body into better shape. Hey, I've got an idea. How's about making daily exercise one of your good habits! Good habits can be as hard to break as the bad ones. And that's a good thing! My Clubhouse members have worked hard turning their bad habits around and kicking them out of their lives. And I hope you'll join them by saying adios to the bad habits in your life, too. How about it? Love, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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