It's Time to Break The Cycle of Bad Habits

Henry Ford said it best, "If you always do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got."

Bad habits need to be broken which means hard choices are often required to create health and happiness in our life. What we think in our heads as the way things should be or how we want them to be doesn't magically happen because the thought is there. Bad habits are ugly and keep us trapped in a life of emotional stress, depression, repeating unhealthy behaviors, and unable to move forward into the life we are supposed to live. We are not loving ourselves when we are repeating bad habits. In order to create good habits, ending the cycle of what you have always done will be the start of great things for you.

Bad habit cycles can include turning to unhealthy ways of dealing with stress, enabling a loved one, or simply not accepting it is happening at all. Turning to alcohol, drugs, smoking, binge eating or not eating are examples of unhealthy stress relief habits. Making accommodations for a person's harmful conduct and dysfunctional behavior believing it is a help actually makes the problem worse and is an example of enabling. Being in denial about bad habit cycles is another way of not facing what needs to be changed.

The cycle of bad habits feels horrible in life and many of us are running around living this as our "norm" daily walk. Many times we are fat, sick and angry and not looking at ourselves as the cause of what is happening. Instead we choose to repeat what is not working for us to get healthy and "get what we have always gotten". It is time for us to take our heads out of the sand and begin finding our mental strong to make the tough choices that will open doors to good health. It is time to stop doing what we have always done.

Health and fitness are about physical and emotional health and it does take making changes, removing bad habits, and remaining true to the choices that will keep us heading in the direction of our goals. The journey will not be easy and life is not about that, but it is always about progressing and becoming better than we were yesterday. If you really want a better, healthy life it will be up to you to break the cycle of bad habits. Your life, your body and your choice.

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