Sick to Fit: Three simple techniques that got me from 420 pounds to the cover of Runner’s World, Good Morning America, and the Today Show
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Sick to Fit: Three simple techniques that got me from 420 pounds to the cover of Runner’s World, Good Morning America, and the Today Show
Pre-Suasion, refers to this progress of codification as an “if/when-then plan.”
We don’t want to live in a world where the only things that are valued are the ones that can be measured. What about happiness, passion, curiosity, wonder, and love?
we delay taking action until it suddenly “hurts enough.” That’s when we feel the urgency of solving the problem. And then we want to solve it immediately, and completely, and forever.
You may still feel the craving, but that’s different from having to make the decision again and again, every time the temptation presents itself. And as research shows, cravings that aren’t fed quickly subside and soon go away.
“I promise to be faithful to you unless somebody hotter comes along,” or “I’m 80% sure that I won’t cheat on you.”
Whatever qualities or experiences you want in your life, you need to pay attention to them and whether you’re getting them in sufficient quantity, frequency, and intensity.
laying on the couch in a swirling stupor of tryptophan, queasiness, and regret while the Lions and the Bears battle it out on TV.