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We've all heard the stories of the drug addicts or the alcoholics who have stopped their "habit" and have turned their life around. These stories are tangible evidence that changing a habit can change a life, and for many of these people, changing their habit changed the habits and lives of the people around them. But what if you're not a drug addict? What you enjoy an alcoholic beverage every now and then, but you don't always have to have one. How would changing a seeminly smaller habit change your life?
May I tell you a story about some habits changed my life?
In one year I gained 20 pounds and two clothing sizes from two habits - eating chips while driving to and from work, and eating a bowl of cereal with nuts and fruit before going to bed. Two habits. Two clothing sizes. Twenty pounds.
You see, for the most part, I was bored. The drive was not that long - 45 minutes - but it was on long, straight roads with corn or soybean fields on either side and except for the occasional bird flying by, quite boring. I would like to tell you that I only ate the chips in the afternoon on my way home from work, but I can't. I ate them in the morning on my way into work also. Both directions on those roads were boring. Consequently, I needed something to do and blessed are chips as they not only taste good, but they also give you something to do!
You're probably thinking that those little bags of chips you find in vending machines are not that bad, but you see, I didn't buy those little bags of chips that have maybe five large chips and a few broken ones wedged into the corners of the bag. No, I bought the two pound bags - the gigantic "let's have friends over for a party" bags. I bought a gigantic bag every two to three days. I went to different stores so that the same people wouldn't see me buying so many chips. I had a chip habit and I didn't want anyone to know. Shhhh...
In addition to the daily chips (well, except on Saturday and Sunday because I didn't go to work then), I would eat cereal before going to bed. I had eaten dinner. My goodness, I had already stuffed my face full of chips. I shouldn't have been hungry, but I sometimes was and if I wasn't, I would tell myself that I should eat something so that I wouldn't be starving when I woke up in the morning.
I would look at the clock to make sure I didn't miss a 30-minute window before I went to bed, because that's how long it would take me to fix the cereal and eat it. Planning for a habit is sometimes extremely important! Just like with the chips, I did not skimp on the size of the bowl - the largest please. Cereal poured into it, nuts chopped for it, fruit cut up for it, milk poured over all of it. Lovely. A well-done bowl of cereal is a thing of beauty. I had this tasty treat every night of the week. Yes, even on the weekend.
Two habits, two clothing sizes and twenty pounds later, I realized what I had been doing and I changed my habits.
Oh, wait. Do you really want to know the biggest motivator that made me see that I had habits and that I needed to change what I was doing?
The biggest motivator was looking at the size of the pants that I now had to buy because I couldn't fit into the ones in my closet. I felt like a failure. I felt like I had done something horribly wrong. Deep down I knew that I wasn't a failure nor had I done anything wrong, but those feelings were real and they were strong. Because there they were, staring me in the face as I tried on those pants two sizes larger than I had ever had to buy. Not to mention trying them on before that three-sided mirror. Ouch! That hurt.
So, I decided that if I had changed my life (remember the twenty pounds?) by getting those two habits, then I could change my life by not having them. Good-bye habits! Hello old pants!
I said, "No more" to boring roads. I found different roads to get me to and from work. Each day I drove a different way. The different roads gave my mind something to do - different scenery to look at, different stops and starts, even different holes to avoid in the roads.
I said, "No more" to cereal before bed. I realized that I really didn't know if I would be hungry when I would wake up as I always had that big bowl of cereal before going to bed. And, guess what? After stopping my cereal habit, I very seldom woke up hungry. When those times happened, I thought about what I had eaten for my dinner. It never failed that those few hungry mornings I had eaten food at dinner that provided quick energy, but not sustainable energy.
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