277: The joys and challenges if leaving addiction

I recently recorded conversations with Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat to Live

Rewatched The End of Dieting and a part captured me

About stopping a habit, the stages one goes through

Though he talks about food and diet, the same stages and challenges appear in living by your environmental habits.

He starts by talking about how when you start -- eating in his case or avoiding packaged food, not flying, etc if you act on the environment.

He describes everything I went through, from feeling like I couldn't, like I made my way harder or worse, like others could do this, not me

All the way to how I came to love it, find the old ways disgusting

What he talks about the joys, he's speaking from experience that anyone can have, of more of what you love at less cost, more convenience, and so on.

He says taste buds change. They do. You will find packaged food disgusting and fresh fruit unbelievable.

That change will happen in other areas. You'll see buying packaged food unpleasant, same with unnecessary clothes

You'll replace those things with spending time with people you care about, building projects, connecting with people.