Episode 24: Developing Habits. It’s like pairing your ear buds with a cell phone... sort of!

In order to maintain weight loss, a person has to develop and engage in healthy lifestyle habits. As I thought about this, knowing that habit formation requires pairing a cue, or trigger or situation with a behavior I started thinking of “pairing” my ear buds with my phone… which can be frustrating! Sometimes I get the message that the earbuds and phone are connected, or paired - and then immediately message changes to NOT connected. Frustrating! Trying to establish healthy behaviors to maintain weight loss can be frustrating, as well. You connect, or follow through with a healthy new behavior a time or two, and then wham! Just like that you become “disconnected” from your intention, forgetting about the reward of maintaining that healthy weight. And there you are, seeming to be back to square one. I have to remain persistent when I pair my earbuds and my phone. We all have to remain persistent when establishing healthy lifestyle behaviors so that in time, they do become habits… and we engage in healthy habits without having to think about it! Listen up and we’ll get into more detail about habits… 

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