Elliott Botterill argues that fighting cravings like chocolate through willpower alone burns out fast. Instead, redesign your environment so the healthy choice is the easiest one. Remove temptation from reach and let your surroundings do the work.
Fighting your biology, let me tell you, that is going to be pretty tough. You can do it, but generally in short periods of time because of the extreme amount of energy and willpower, like, involved. The example here is me. You know, I, I try and keep myself in shape, you know, I try and eat pretty healthy, but the truth is I, I have such bad willpower, and so I have to manipulate my environment in order to stick to my goals and not off my face with endless chocolate because I fucking love chocolate. And so I have to make sure it's not there. It's the only way I can do it. So I'm fighting my biology, but not directly. I'm manipulating the environment to do the hard work for me. I'm making my default option the right option. And that is where this comes in.
