People want to live healthy and decide one day to abandon all the unhealthy things they've been doing. (Drinking soda, processed meat, no exercise)

2 weeks later, they're back to square 1, telling themselves, "one thing must kill a man"

Why?

They're using the wrong method
When it comes to habits, we have to be deliberate about creating them.

All the bad habits you created up until this moment were not created in one day, how then do you think you can delete all of them in one day? That's why you fail.
We're creatures of habit, everything you do now unconsciously is a habit you built most times without knowing. You wake and reach for your phone. That's a habit.

Change them one step at a time. Don't try to do everything at the same time. It won't last.

Pick one thing
You can start with removing soda from your diet, remove triggers from your environment. Dash the soda in your fridge out.

On days when you fail, don't beat yourself over it, just pick up from where you stopped.

Replace it with something else, I started with fruit infused water

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