What are the healthy things that you want to be doing on a daily basis that just become part of your normal everyday routine? In this video we discuss how to set healthy habits and why it’s important to your weight loss goals.

Hey Ladies, Laura Sales, here I am back with our next video, which is Habit Tracker. Now you might be wondering what are all these tracking things and thinking that there so many different tracking tools available to you and not really understanding the purpose of each one. So I wanted to film a video to let you know what each Tracker is for. Each Tracker is for a very specific, a different part of the plan and you can use these tools. They’re are available to you, but they are not required. You don’t have to use these tools. These tools are just put in place because these tools are available to you to be able to use in order to get the best results on the program. So if you use all the tools, you’re going to get better results. If you only want to pick and choose a couple of the tools, that’s fine too.

But in today’s video, what we’re going to be talking about is something that I decided to implement into the program called the Healthy Habit Tracker. And as of right now, we just have this Habit Tracker as a PDF download that you can print out and use at home, but we will also have a digital one on the app coming soon. So at the time that I’m filming this video, we just have this, but this actually works out really, really well. So this is a sheet, as you can see that’s got different days going across the top. And then in this column down here, it’s got the different habits. So what you want to do is you want to take this form and the first thing you’re going to do is fill out the month. So you’re going to pick whatever month this is. You’re going to see that there’s 31 spots.

And the whole idea that you want to do here with this Habit Tracker is you want to come up with what are the habits that you want to establish. What are the healthy things that you want to be doing on a daily basis that just become part of your normal everyday routine? See, the thing about habits is that your body establishes habits very quickly. And then establishes good habits, but it also establishes bad habits. So once it has established a bad habit, you have to undo that habit if you want to be able to get results. So a lot of us have had bad habits around sugar addiction, snacking, food addictions, eating too much food, eating, eating the wrong kinds of foods, and our body creates habits out of those that actually creates neuropathways in the brain that establishes those habits. So you have to be able to undo those habits.

And the only way that you can undo those habits is by putting new habits in place that replaced those old habits. So you can use this healthy habit tracker to do that, to either establish new habits that you want to start establishing, and you can also use it to undo unhealthy habits that you might be currently doing. So the first thing that you want to do is take out your form, which is below this video, by the way. And you want to come over here and you want to list out what are those habits. So for example, let me just fill this out. I’m going to say that I want to create a habit for the next 31 days because that’s about as long as it takes for you to really establish solidly a new habit. If you do something for 30 days straight, most likely it’s going to become a habit for you.

So let’s say that for me, I want to make a habit of walking every day. So I’m going to put down walking as my first habit. And each day that I walk, I’m going to fill in the little box. So as you can see in this example, I have walked seven days in a row. Now, once you start this, it’s called don’t break the chain. So you start a chain of habits. And this was something that was actually talked about by a famous actor and producer, Jerry Seinfeld, and he basically what he did was he was being interviewed by someone who was a young writer and they asked him like, how do you become such a good writer? And Jerry said, you have to, you have to practice. You have to write every single day, and they said, wow, that just seems like it requires a lot of discipline to sit down and write every single day.

So this is where Jerry came up with this whole concept of “don’t break the chain.” So what he would do, and the reason he became such a great writer is because what he would do is every single day he took out a big blank calendar and every single day he would write and he would take a big red mark permanent marker, and he would X on the calendar the days that he wrote. And once he started this chain, the whole concept was, don’t break the chain because you create momentum. And when you start to create momentum, everything begins to work in your favor. So you want to create momentum in losing weight. You want to create momentum and eating healthy. You want to create momentum in creating these healthy habits, meal prepping and sleeping well and all of these different things that we have going on in the program.

So what you want to do is you want to visually be able to see what’s happening on your healthy habits. So let’s say on day eight I didn’t walk, okay, and I’m like, darn, I don’t get to put my little X there. So on day 9 I pick it back up and I start walking again. See what this looks like, how you see that blank little box right there. Mentally, it’s disturbing. You don’t want to have a box there, so this is going to keep on track. It’s going to keep you accountable. You’re going to be going towards a goal every single day. Now, the way that you change your lifestyle and the way that you change your routine and change your habits is one step at a time, one day at a time, one action at a time. So you can focus on taking this as fast or as slow as you want.

If you want to dive in and change a ton of habits, then you would write down what are all the habits that you want to establish or change and then you’re going to create a chain and you’re going to go for as many days as you possibly can in a row without breaking that chain, and if you break the chain, you just pick it back up the next day and you keep going, but you want to go for at least 30 days straight on each habit before it actually gets ingrained into your brain like, okay, this is something that we actually do. We want to do it. We look forward to doing it. You will start to crave going on walks. You will start to crave eating healthy foods and vegetables and healthy fats like your body will literally start establishing habits that make it to where you don’t want sugar or processed foods or carbs or any bad junk food or any of those fried bad oils.

You will not even want any of that stuff anymore. You will actually start to crave healthy foods, healthy fats and lean proteins. You will love going on your walks, you will look forward to drinking your green juice. You will start getting such better sleep, and these are the different habits that we have to start creating. If you want to live a long, healthy life, right, you have to make it into a lifestyle because you don’t want to be on a diet. You don’t want to be on a challenge forever. You don’t always want to be trying to do new things. What you want to do is just establish normal habits so that it can become a part of your normal everyday routine. And that’s how you make that happen. With the Healthy Habit Tracker that I have provided you with, that’s below this video. So go ahead and below this video, download the Healthy Habits Tracker and print it out and start filling out what habits you want to start establishing and which habits you want to break. All right, I’ll see you in the next video.