How the get the good habits. Part 2. The crucial moment.
Recently I’ve posted the first part of “How to get the good habits” series, in which I described that when getting the new habit, it’s important to focus on advantages you get from it and keep this advantages in mind, especially when you want to roll back to the old ones.
As you remember, I wanted also to refuse from eating many sweeties, by replacing them with healthy food – fruits and vegetables.
One week passed and I would like share with you my impressions!
For the first days or my transfer I had often dreams appearing in my head like: “How it would be great to eat a brick of chocolate” and even doubts like: “Maybe I shouldn’t be so strict with myself. Other people eat chocolate, so I will!” However, I used the method I described in the first part of “How to get the good habits” post, imagining myself in 5 years strong and healthy at one of the beach in Hawaii. And it really helped! I think this method was effective, because I focused my dreams on what I wanted to achieve and maybe at the same moment by subconscious mind connected health and strength to the fruits and vegetables, so I didn’t want eating chocolate any more.
However, for the first days it was really difficult to switch my thoughts from sweeties to Hawaii.
For the following days, it became a little bit easier, however I had to put some effort (it was especially tough knowing that a bunch of chocolates wait for me at home ;)).
The interesting situation was at Saturday when I came back from the summer house. The mood was beautiful, so on my way back to home I decided eating one chocolate upon arrival. However hard I tried to drive this thought away and switch back to Hawaii, the desire still was growing. I’ve understood it was maybe the critical moment of getting the new habit.
Upon arrival my desire of eating the chocolate was enormous, so I made a brute force trick. I went to kitchen, took an orange and ate it! I felt my sweet desire decreased, however still persisted. So I ate some peanuts, apple and banana. Then I felt relieve!
Yesterday was a Monday, the eighth day of my new habit. I noticed with that I didn’t want eating the chocolate anymore. My mind was completely clear from these thoughts! Surely, when I passed some shop with lots of candies, I felt some desire of eating one or two. However, I could switch my thoughts to Hawaii without any efforts.
To summarize my lesson, when getting the new habit, the crucial moment appears at the end of first week – maybe the 6th or the 7th day. During this day the desire of rolling back to the old habit is enormous and hardly to resist! What can help – is the brute force method. I.e. when you refusing from eating something, you just may drink the water for whole the day or eat something healthy, like apple. When I passed the crucial moment, I’ve got the new habit! The same I wish to you!
Acquire the good habits and be healthy! Good luck!
