Healthy Eating and Exercise as Behaviors?

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While they're wildly popular and it seems like common sense, there is very little scientific support that automate produces sustainable change even with simple behaviors like flossing. The whole concept of habit formation that has really, you know, lots of research tend to be animal models. And so when we think about healthy eating and exercise, we're not rats,. We live a complex lives that often involve puking pets and kids that need get sick and jobs that have unexpected deadlines.

Michelle Segar is the author of No Sweat, she is a lifestyle coach and an award-winning NIH-funded sustainable behavior change researcher at the University of Michigan. She's got nearly three decades under her belt, and she's pioneered methods to create sustainable, healthy behavior changes, those changes are being used to boost patient health, employee well-being and gym member retention.

In this episode, we talk about behaviour change and habits, we talk about the concept of P.O.P., and of course, her latest book, The Joy Choice. I really think that this is a book worth your time and attention - and so is this episode!

Links Worth Exploring

Connect with Michelle: Website | Twitter | LinkedIn
What Are Your Hidden Eating and Exercise TRAPs? Take the Quiz here!
Buy Michelle's book: The Joy Choice
Buy Michelle's book: No Sweat
Related Conversation: The Four Tendencies with Gretchen Rubin
Related Blog Post: A Productive Life: Integrating Habits

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