All of us have habits. Anything and everything that gets done repeatedly becomes a habit. Everyone has a set of routines or habits for doing things that we have to do each day. Once we start getting use to it, we continue to do this pattern automatically without thinking. From combing are hair a certain way, to always waking up on time, to brushing are teeth every morning etc. We create new habits every day without even realizing it, its like are brains are programed to do so. Whether there good or bad trying to get rid of them is simply impossible habits can never go away however there is a way of changing a habit you don’t like by changing the old habit into a new one. In the book The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life, author Charles
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One factor that is necessary to successful weight loss is by applying Charles Golden Rule of Habit Change. According to Charles a habit can never be broken only changed as he states “The Golden Rule of Habit Change means that if you use the same cue and provide the same reward, the routine can be switched out [..] if we can create new neurological routines […] we can force those bad tendencies into the background (pg20)”. This means that the successful program will focus on providing support the dieter needs in order to switch out their bad food habit or their bad exercise habit. Weight Watchers does this in two ways by doing what they call their new system called smart points and by providing tons of recipes for meal planning. Smart points allow the dieters to still eat real food and lose weight but limits them on the number of points they can consume in a day. Smart points are created when the dieter gives their current weight, height, and how much they want to lose thus creating the number of points one can consume each day. Providing them with a ton of healthy recipes they can chose to make vs an unhealthy mean as well has proving a food list with the point value for each item. So say they want to consume a banana that’s 2
One factor that is necessary to successful weight loss is by applying Charles Golden Rule of Habit Change. According to Charles a habit can never be broken only changed as he states “The Golden Rule of Habit Change means that if you use the same cue and provide the same reward, the routine can be switched out [..] if we can create new neurological routines […] we can force those bad tendencies into the background (pg20)”. This means that the successful program will focus on providing support the dieter needs in order to switch out their bad food habit or their bad exercise habit. Weight Watchers does this in two ways by doing what they call their new system called smart points and by providing tons of recipes for meal planning. Smart points allow the dieters to still eat real food and lose weight but limits them on the number of points they can consume in a day. Smart points are created when the dieter gives their current weight, height, and how much they want to lose thus creating the number of points one can consume each day. Providing them with a ton of healthy recipes they can chose to make vs an unhealthy mean as well has proving a food list with the point value for each item. So say they want to consume a banana that’s 2