What is normal?

I often talk about the importance of changing your habits for making a long term body transformation. What I am really talking about is changing what is normal for you. If waking up and eating the right breakfast is what you automatically do then that is normal for you and you are in the habit of eating a good breakfast. If you wake up and want to eat sugary cereal then that is normal for you and that is what you are going to want. Anything that varies from what you normally do is not going to feel or taste right.

Changing your habits takes a conscious effort at first but when you are able to sustain those changes without thinking about them then you have created a new normal or habit. It is only by changing your habits that you are going to make a body transformation that lasts.

So if you are a person who has to have something sweet every meal or every night I would say that you need to make a conscious effort to change that habit until it becomes normal to not have the sweets everyday. If your normal is to drink soda through the day then you need to make the conscious effort to replace that soda with water until water is really what you want. You will find that as you change your habits, especially with nutrition, that the foods that you get into the habit of eating are the ones that you will crave. Most people only eat 10-15 foods and they eat those same foods over and over. If you can improve the quality of those foods one by one you will improve your body and your health.