How Can I Start Eating Healthier?

You have access to limitless information on which food choices you should be making to become healthier. The struggle however exists in how to actually get yourself to make the better choices consistently!

You need a specific skill-set to change. Simply trying to change your habitual behaviours has a very low success rate long-term. Being motivated only lasts so long, and then you “fall off the wagon”. Has this ever happened to you?

You see, your regular behaviours are ultimately CAUSED by the “wiring patterns (belief systems)” in your brain. When you say to yourself “I love ice cream, and making a salad is too time-consuming”, you are revealing your current brain wiring. You ultimately attribute more benefit than cost to eating ice cream, and not making a salad. You attribute more pleasure than pain to eating the ice cream and skipping the salad. As a result, this is what you are going to most often throughout your life!

Depriving yourself of what you get pleasure from, and forcing yourself to do something you dislike, goes directly against your genetic programming as a human. You have to learn how to actually CHANGE what you like and dislike! Research on neural plasticity have shown us that you can actually change the wiring (beliefs) in your brain.

The problem is NOT that you don’t understand which choice is healthier. The problem is that you don’t REALLY understand, deep down, the devastation on your body, and effect on chronic illness development, of regularly eating the ice cream and not having the salad. The research is very clear on this, and we all need to learn it.

Health is your greatest asset. You MUST learn how to gradually “re-wire” your brain to associate “a longer, better, happier life, and reduced chance of every chronic illness” with eating the salad and not eating the ice cream. This is ultimately a stronger source of pleasure to your body than instant gratification. To change your brain, you have to regularly, consciously focus on this, for an extended period of time. You can do it. It works. I can help.

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-Dr. Mark Hunter B.Sc., Dip. S.I.M., D.C., C.C.W.P.