Hi there, Cathy! Glad to hear you're refocusing on your journey to better health--I read through your entries last year and it seemed like you were able to make some real progress.
Whether it's cigarettes or food, we can get caught in bad patterns that we know aren't any good for us, yet fulfill our underlying mental and emotional needs--comfort, certainty, variety, connection to others, and so forth. If you find yourself struggling to keep the weight off or to quit smoking, you may want to look less and how and what you're doing and more at why you're doing it.
For instance, Tony Robbins explains that a need for comfort and certainty is one of our basic human needs--so if you go home and know you can dissolve whatever issues you had during the day through eating, the need is met. However, we can get caught in an unhealthy cycle where we know what we're doing isn't helpful for weight loss, but keep doing it out of want for that comfort. Take a look at the video in my link. It does a great job explaining our different needs and how those sorts of habits develop--and more importantly, how to stop the difference between what we know we should do and what we end up doing.
Hi there, Cathy! Glad to hear you're refocusing on your journey to better health--I read through your entries last year and it seemed like you were able to make some real progress.
ReplyDeleteWhether it's cigarettes or food, we can get caught in bad patterns that we know aren't any good for us, yet fulfill our underlying mental and emotional needs--comfort, certainty, variety, connection to others, and so forth. If you find yourself struggling to keep the weight off or to quit smoking, you may want to look less and how and what you're doing and more at why you're doing it.
For instance, Tony Robbins explains that a need for comfort and certainty is one of our basic human needs--so if you go home and know you can dissolve whatever issues you had during the day through eating, the need is met. However, we can get caught in an unhealthy cycle where we know what we're doing isn't helpful for weight loss, but keep doing it out of want for that comfort. Take a look at the video in my link. It does a great job explaining our different needs and how those sorts of habits develop--and more importantly, how to stop the difference between what we know we should do and what we end up doing.