The a Word the Phenomenon of Accommodation

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A lot of times people feel that they always have to do it and let me give you a brief story about eating so I had a client who was following an eating plan that was working for her she felt great. She went to a family multi-family gathering a very special event and her very dear friend handed her this beautiful dessert but my friend didn't feel tempted because she wanted to accommodate her friends need to feel cared for herself. It put her into a spiral she didn't bring compromise to because she was so focused on I have to be good person to be a good friend. So accommodation is when we consistently not sometimes subsume our own eating and exercise goals and plans behind the needs of

This week I was privileged to welcome Michelle Segar to the show to discuss her new book The Joy Choice: How to Finally Achieve Lasting Changes in Eating and Exercise. Michelle is a researcher at The University of Michigan who studies sustainable behavior change and the science of habits. In this conversation Michelle unpacks the science behind our choices and explains how thinking around behavior change has often made the mistake of an all or nothing approach to changing our habits and lifestyle.

The Joy Choice offers a fresh, brain-based solution that turns the old behavior-change paradigm on its head. This groundbreaking book liberates you from the self-defeating obligations and rigid requirements of past diet and workout regimens and reveals what emerging research suggests really drives the consistent choices that power sustainable change.

Michelle Segar, PhD is an award-winning lifestyle coach and sustainable behavior change researcher at the University of Michigan. For nearly three decades, she has pioneered methods to create sustainable healthy behavior changes that are being used to boost patient health, employee well-being, and gym membership retention.

Website: https://michellesegar.com

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