One thing about habits is that you need to make room for them. And this can mean literal room or in a metaphorical sense. If you want to eat healthy for example consider that eating healthy literally starts before you eat, when you buy groceries. If you always go shopping for groceries when you're hungry, you're not gonna buy healthy stuff, and if you don't little healthy stuff at home you won't eat healthy.
How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)
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Re: How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)
#102It took me 3 days to fully drop sugar from coffee, at 17 I think. Never liked sweets and pastry, though, but dropping every sugar drink took me more, a couple weeks, specially Nestea. Edit: took me 1 day to drop the remaining sugar, and plants in general.
Same here, I learned to not have sugar with coffee since sugar was always running out in my previous work. Not drinking coffee is not an option, so I have no choice.
And today coffee with sugar is so disgusting to me, it feels like my throat gets all sticky all of a sudden.
Re: How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)
#103Answer: it depends. When failure to be habitual about something has significant financial cost or causes physical pain, adoption will often be nearly instantaneous.
Re: How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)
#104When I shifted to Bangalore and in March 2023, I faced water shortage (found out later it was a issue in the water supply pipes) I signed up to gym practically immediately, and used to go all days back then, just to have a bath. Hit the treadmill for 30-40 mins or lift for an hour,then have a bath. Used to gym earlier in 2022 but never got that to be a habit, but the habit stacking thing worked really well. Now that…
The gym had baths?
Re: How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mine is a bowl of old fashion oats, frozen mixed fruit (I like a blueberry/blackberry mix), and maybe some non-fat plain greek yogurt and/or a glass a of plain soy milk. Alternatively, a couple of scrambled eggs with a piece of toast and a bananna is fairly healthy. A fried egg on an English muffin also isn't a terrible way to start the day. Target ~400 cals, Try and get some protein and fiber in there. Watch out for…
I used a CGM recently. I tried breakfast as oatmeal with blueberries and mixed in with peanut butter. It spikes my blood sugar outside the "normal range". I treat oatmeal as once a week treat to avoid food boredom. The oatmeal was a "big bowl" variety from a packet. I heard rolled oats might be better but it's a hassle to cook. Most days breakfast is scrambled eggs (3 eggs), spinach, cheese. Sometimes I add tuna or a…
It's not as nice as cooking it properly, but you can cook rolled oats in the microwave in a couple of minutes.
Re: How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)
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mine is also simple, 6 eggs, sometimes with a toast on the size and tuna and some fruits. been eating that for 12 years or so (eggs dont cost much here).
6 eggs at breakfast every day? My doctor's advice (which is also official government advice for high cholestorol) was two egg yellows max every week - that includes any foods that use egg yellows. Egg whites you have more leeway and theoretically one could use 6 egg whites every day but that would include heavy exercise.
Isn't the high cholesterol thing proven false?
Re: How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)
#107Answer: it depends. When failure to be habitual about something has significant financial cost or causes physical pain, adoption will often be nearly instantaneous.
I always wondered about the possible negative effects of having a comfortable life.
The parental love by default dictates us to create a good life for our children, which may result in too much comfort.
Do tough times indeed create stronger people? If so, how could that be incorporated into the gentleness of the modern pedagogy?
Re: How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)
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I think part of the problem is we don't really know what a healthy diet looks like. We can point to what is probably unhealthy: eating tons of sugar filled items is probably bad, eating a lot of fried food is at least questionable, but beyond that we really don't know. The research is either poorly done, impossible to do, or you can find studies that go both ways.
I mean a healthy diet is a variety of fruits and vegetables, with a decent supplement of whole grains and occasional lean meats and eggs. Minimally processed as much as possible - whole ingredients should be the majority of calories. The details don’t matter so much, as long as you get a variety and generally stick to the above guidelines. I think you can judge how healthy a diet is by how many people get diseases, m…
What's your protein intake with that diet though? A person with 80kg needs around 120-160g of protein a day (depending on activity etc), that seems tricky if the source of your protein is non-animal based.
Re: How long does it take to create a new habit? (2015)
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mine is a bowl of old fashion oats, frozen mixed fruit (I like a blueberry/blackberry mix), and maybe some non-fat plain greek yogurt and/or a glass a of plain soy milk. Alternatively, a couple of scrambled eggs with a piece of toast and a bananna is fairly healthy. A fried egg on an English muffin also isn't a terrible way to start the day. Target ~400 cals, Try and get some protein and fiber in there. Watch out for…
I used a CGM recently. I tried breakfast as oatmeal with blueberries and mixed in with peanut butter. It spikes my blood sugar outside the "normal range". I treat oatmeal as once a week treat to avoid food boredom. The oatmeal was a "big bowl" variety from a packet. I heard rolled oats might be better but it's a hassle to cook. Most days breakfast is scrambled eggs (3 eggs), spinach, cheese. Sometimes I add tuna or a…
Instant oats without additives exist. Just pure rolled oats that have been previously steamed in the factory.