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What Victory Tastes Like

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“What Victory Tastes Like” is the epilogue to The Weight Loss Habit.

This is the final day of the Weight Loss Habit takeover of the site, celebrating the book’s release this week.

For those of you uninterested in weight loss content, I promise I’ll get back to the regular Self-Improvement Made Easy content with my next post.

Don’t forget to buy your copy of The Weight Loss Habit.

What Victory Tastes Like

The Weight Loss Habit Changes You

I started off this book by quoting Charles Duhigg in The Power of Habit:

“If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.

This is the real power of habit:

The insight that your habits are what you choose them to be. Once that choice occurs – and becomes automatic – it’s not only real, it starts to seem inevitable.”

I ended Part One of this book by telling you it will get easier.… Read more

The Complaining Game

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I hope those of you in America had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday, were able to reflect on your gratitude for all that you have to be thankful for, and remembered that love for your family and friends is more important than arguing over any petty differences. And for you non-Americans, I hope that you have a delightful ordinary non-holiday weekend.

With Thanksgiving wrapping up, let’s talk about the opposite of thankfulness: Complaining.

When we were babies, complaining was one of the few methods we had for exercising influence over the world. If we were tired, or hungry, or wanted a toy, or had a poopy diaper, we would cry about it until a grown-up solved the problem for us.

As we became older children, with control over our own bodies and growing mental faculties, we had enough self-efficacy to handle some small issues, such as using the bathroom on our own or making a bowl of cereal when we were hungry.… Read more

The Fundamental Rule of Weight Loss

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Note: I’ve been working on a book tentatively titled The Weight-Loss Habit: The (Sort of) Easy Way to Lose Weight and Keep It Off Forever. This is an excerpt from the book.

Since the book is still in draft form, I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback on this.

Edit:

The book is now available.

Weight loss is all about habits. So is weight gain. In fact, your entire relationship with food is determined by your habits.

To lose weight, you need to change your eating habits.

You may argue that this is an obvious statement, and just kicking the can down the road. How do you change your eating habits?

That isn’t necessarily obvious, but at least you’re asking the right question.

One of my favorite books is The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. This talks about the idea of Keystone Habits. Frequently, someone looking to change their life will pick up a new good habit or break a bad habit.… Read more