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--- Quote from: galumay on June 07, 2023, 08:03:07 AM ---Something I have battle with for a while is trying to displace decisions with habits. The idea is that decisions are 'expensive' in terms of mental energy, time, decision quality and distraction from other tasks, so if you can replace as many decisions as possible with habits then you can make better decisions and limit them to important issues really requiring decisions. Steve Jobs making a habit of always wearing the same type of clothes is a very basic example.
My battle is interesting, I find it relatively easy to turn decisions into habits with positive things, so I have made a habit of cleaning the group head every time I pull a coffee, and keeping the workspace around the coffee machine clean, these were fairly easy and are now embedded in my habitual behaviour. Its the negative habits that are harder to make stick for me, so NOT eating between meals is my current battle, I have many times told myself I am going to make it a habit and failed many times! I have considered 2 strategies, one is to invert the negative decisions, so try to make it a habit to only eat at meal times! The second is this - write about it. 2 days ago I just posted my thoughts about negative versus positive habits (maybe better phrased as doing or not doing habits), and I have had more success with not snacking between meals than ever in the past! Its well known that making commitments in writing makes them much easier to uphold so it may be as simple as this, I figure doubling down here can only help!
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Hi! You have some very interesting thoughts here. I decided to dwell a bit on your forum.
I too struggle with the habit of eating between meals because it causes a spike in blood sugar.
Why do you do it?
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