Why Habits Are the Real Key to Achieving Your Goals
It’s easy to believe weight regain happens because we’ve been ‘weak’ or ‘lazy’. That’s the story diet culture tells, and it’s the one I told myself for years. If I could just eat less, move more, or finally dig up some willpower, I’d be fine.
But biology has its own plan. After weight loss, appetite hormones surge, metabolism slows, and the body works hard to pull you back toward its old settings. That’s not weakness. That’s physiology. And unless you’ve rehearsed the routines to steady yourself when biology pushes back, old patterns slide back in.
Why You Need to Change Your Habits (And Why I Did Too)
It’s easy to believe weight gain happens because we’ve been ‘weak’ or ‘lazy’. At least, that’s the story I told myself for years. If I could just eat less, move more, or finally dig up some willpower, I’d be fine. But when I stepped back and really looked at how I was living, it became obvious: this wasn’t about weakness. It was about the daily systems I was operating in - and the habits that either supported me or quietly pulled me off track.
Why Habits Matter When You’re Taking a GLP-1
I think we can all agree that GLP-1 medications are genius. A small injection once a week and suddenly the constant background noise about food, cravings and hunger turns down to a level you didn’t think was possible. For many people, it feels like someone has finally handed them the volume control on their appetite.
But here’s what I learnt quickly: the jab doesn’t cook dinner for you, it doesn’t remind you to drink water, and it certainly doesn’t pull you up from the sofa when you’d rather stay horizontal. All it does is give you a window of opportunity where the appetite battles are quieter. What you do with that window still depends entirely on your daily routines.