Learn to Break the “Habit Loop” and Replace Bad Habits With Good Ones

If I did it, you can do it too.

Breaking the Habit

Back in 2013, I came back to the U.S. after living in China for four years. My weight upon returning was 155 pounds. Amazingly, in less than two years, I had gained 25 pounds.

I thought I was eating the same amount as always, but obviously something was different.

It wasn’t a matter of lack of exercise, since there are two activities I consistently do; I play tennis at least four times per week, and I train at a local boxing club often.

In fact these are two activities which I have been doing since I was 15 years of age.

So what the heck happened?

Most likely, I surmised, it is the change of food from fewer processed foods, and substantially lower sugar content, to our high processed, high sugar content food engineered to get Americans to eat more. Notice, I am not mentioning fast food, since in Beijing there are plenty fast food restaurants, with which I indulged quite regularly. Certainly, no less than I did here in the U.S.

But to be honest, there was another change in my daily routine that happened rather unwittingly which was also a big culprit; I picked up the…