Slow and steady …

There's something to be said for slow and steady progress, but there's also something to be said for decisive and sweeping action. When it comes to negative habits, there's no time like today to quit cold turkey. Of course that's a lot easier said than done, but with practice we can do better almost immediately.

Many ppl struggle with a “cold turkey” approach. Using a tapering approach can help slowly weaning away from those bad habits. An example might be drinking soda. Rather than cut it out 100% give yourself 1 or 2 treats a small soda per week or switch to diet soda (which saves on the calories) if you can’t cut out the daily habit quite yet.

Another approach and I personally find this works best for myself is the ADD in positive changes without really thinking of the bad habits. A vessel can only hold so much and adding can feel less restrictive as the bad habits begin to fall away. Too many times we have lofty goals without smaller goals we jump in head first and it’s “sink or swim”, we become overwhelmed and give up. For example add in some lean protein at every meal/snack Protein helps us feel satiated and fully thus indirectly decreases our caloric intake while providing some much needed nutrients

Adding one thing at a time like an ingredient in a recipe can feel more manageable. We have little successes along the way and those inspire us to keep going rather than feeling so far off our giant end goal we quit out of frustration

So when considering goals in the new year choose stepping stone smaller pieces of the puzzle the big picture all the ingredients that create the full recipe of success and celebrate these along the way