Robert Whitfield MD recommends starting with one yogurt a week or two salads weekly, holding each change for several weeks before adding the next. Small habits compound over time, especially for gut and brain health.
You. You put that mentality towards your diet and exercise, and it makes perfect sense. It's easier to have two salads a week than change your whole diet to be how the ideal diet is. So making these small little changes, having one yogurt a week, having two salads a week, and then trying that for a few weeks until that gets ingrained and then moving forward with another change will make it more sustainable. And these impacts on the gut and the brain are compounding effects.
