Habits are those little things you do every day without thinking. They are embedded in your personal routine and are often times very difficult to break.Poor habits have a compound impact on your life. Repeating the same unhealthy behavior over days, weeks, months and years will build up the negative responses, which is why it can seem like your belly fat came out of nowhere. Many times, we don’t even notice our bad habits or recognize the outsized impact they are having.
Fortunately, Bad Habits Can be Overcome
The easiest way to break an unhealthy habit that might be leading to elastic waist bands and moo moo dresses is to
replace it with a healthy habit. It is usually not enough to just quit the negative habit.
The reason habits become so strong is that they burrow their way deep into the human psyche. People begin to develop triggers that create a craving for the habit.
For example, if you drink a couple of beers after work every day, your body will get used to that series of events. Each time you get home, your body will begins to crave alcohol. Reaching for that beer just feels so right.
Rather than try to quit cold turkey, trick your body into letting go of that bad belly habit with a switcheroo. Instead of grabbing the calorie-dense but nutritionally lacking beer, grab a protein shake or a bottle of water instead.
Your body will still crave beer at first, but as you continue with the new action, you will strengthen the good habit and slowly dissolve the bad one. Speaking of “dissolve” you should notice your belly fat fading away as well.
Try This Technique to Break Your Belly Fat Habits
- For three days in a row, sit down at night and write down everything you did throughout the day. List every action, even if it doesn’t seem important.
- At the end of the three days, review these lists and pick out the actions that may be causing an increase in your belly.
- Don’t forget, the things that aren’t on that list – like eating breakfast, going to the gym or taking a jog around the local high school track – are just as important as what is on the list.
- Make a new list of all the habits you want to replace.
- Now add all the new, healthy habits you want to integrate into your day.
- Each week pick one bad belly habit to replace and one good belly habit to institute. Implement. Keep implementing.
- Next week, go back to your list and pick one more bad habit to break and one more good habit to adopt.
It’s important not to try and eliminate all your bad habits in a single day. Kicking a treasured sinful habit to the curb is hard enough. Trying to eliminate all your flaws in one swoop is simply too hard. You’ll likely tax your willpower (strong as it may be) to the breaking point and end up falling right back into your old routine.
Work on one habit at a time until you feel like it is conquered before moving on to the next. In this way, slowly but surely, you will eliminate your poor habits and adopt positive ones. Your slim new six pack abs will thank you.
