Aravind Padmaraju warns against changing everything at once. People with high motivation quit within two to three weeks when they aim for 100% change from day one. Pick one habit, let it stick for a month, then add the next. The brain handles about 10% shifts at a time.
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So don't do these mistakes whenever you start anything in your life, including you want to lose your weight. And maybe you wanted to do 5 or 6 things. Maybe you want to correct your diet, you want to correct your activity, you want to correct having a right goal, you want to correct your water, your sleep. The best way to do it is just do one thing at a time. Don't try to focus on everything when you start. Most of the times Why do you fail? Why do you quit? This is a research says the person who starts with so much of motivation, within 2 to 3 weeks he leaves everything. The main reason is you are at zero, you are trying to attain from the day one onwards 100. It is not going to happen. Rather, take one thing at a time, focus on one thing, making that part of your lifestyle, and then add one more, and then add one more, and then add one more. From 0 to— you go progressively like 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%. Take even a month. So this is one thing will change you because understand your brain can only take 10%, 1 to 10% of changes. So most of the times you try to do aggressively and you try to do restrictively everything in your life. So even with your diet, don't change everything from the day one. Change one meal at a time, see how your body is, um, adapting, and then make one more.