Healthy Habits Suck

by Dayna Lee-Baggley

Ebook, 2019

Status

Available

Call number

153.8

Tags

Self-Help, !Po, __make_cover, _import190910

Genres

Collection

ebooks

Publication

New Harbinger Publications

Description

Salad instead of steak? Working out? Skipping that second beer or glass of wine? Healthy habits are THE WORST. If you're someone who gets up every morning and can't wait for your run, considers eating sweet potatoes a splurge, and sets aside thirty minutes before work to meditate-this book isn't for you. If you're someone who thinks about getting up to go for a run but goes back to sleep, regrets last night's dinner of fast food, and can barely get to work on time-let alone meditate-then this book will help you find the motivation you've been looking for to live your healthiest life, even when you don't want to. With this funny, in-your-face guide, you won't find advice on how to 'enjoy' exercise, or tips for making broccoli and kale taste as good as donuts and ice cream. What you will find are solid skills to help you actually do the healthy things you know you should be doing. Using these skills-based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and neuroscience-you'll learn to find the motivation you're really craving to adopt healthy habits, even if they do suck. You'll also discover how to accept self-criticism, develop self-compassion, and live a more meaningful life. This book not only acknowledges that many healthy habits suck, it uses science to explain why we want the things we want (junk food), crave the things we crave (sugar), and dislike the things we dislike (exercise). At the end, you'll feel validated in feeling like these things are the absolute worst. But you'll also find the motivation to do them anyway.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member ashmolean1
I actually am enjoying this book. You read one chapter a week and are given reasons to change your behaviors, values, thoughts and feelings as well as understanding how those around us impact our efforts.This is a new approach for me and I like it. I think the edition layout and cover design could
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LibraryThing member jeanh12
This is a self-help book to help you live a more healthful life. It wasn't revolutionary, but was a solid book. The book looks at why you want to accomplish a goal and helps you look at the roadblocks that hinder you as well as ways to succeed in spite of them. You can download worksheets to help
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 you. This is not a quick fix, but rather a solid realistic tool. One section that was very valuable to me is the one where she talks about formulating goals that you can control. I really want to lose 5 pounds, but have not been having much luck despite increasing my exercise and watching my diet--I guess everyone is right when they say your metabolism changes in your 50's! Instead of being discouraged and giving up because I can't directly control my weight, my new goal is going to be to exercise more and continue to eat better. Those are things I actually can control. Maybe this is obvious to others, but it wasn't to me and that alone made this book worth the read. I would recommend this book to anyone trying to live a healthier life.
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LibraryThing member msoul13
NOTE: I won a free paperback copy of this book from LibraryThing's Early Reviewers (August 2019).

This is a very different kind of health and wellness book in which readers are encouraged to exercise self-compassion when they encounter difficulties with living a healthy lifestyle. Lee-Baggley makes
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 the case for personal values as the make-or-break factor in setting healthy habits, and walks readers through the process of discovering and understanding their personal values. The book goes beyond improving physical health to improving mental, emotional, and social health, too. For example, there is an extensive section on how to begin a meditation practice. I appreciated reading the remarks on how to mitigate negative self-talk. To get the most out of this book, readers will need to visit the companion website and download the accompanying worksheets.
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LibraryThing member foof2you
I found this book very informative. There are many useful tools to help get your life on track. One problem that I had with this book was that worksheets were not in the book, if you wanted them the author keeps referingto the books web site to get these free items. I think that it would have been
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 helpful to include all the materials in the book.
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LibraryThing member whybehave2002
This is full of really good information. And it comes with the option to print out worksheets if you want to take it chapter by chapter and do a worksheet a week. Well worth the read.
LibraryThing member BookAnonJeff
Strong Start, Falters About Halfway In, Never Really Recovers. This book had an intriguing premise - it was going to explain the scientific reasons for why you don't want to be healthy and help you overcome them. And it had some excellent points in the beginning regarding human evolution, even as
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 it glossed over any actual science or citations. But around halfway in it begins using a particular metaphor that effectively says "you're not to blame" and rather than continuing with the quasi-scientific explanations it goes full bore with this metaphor through the end of the book. Intriguing in the first half, and genuinely well written throughout. May be exactly what people who generally read self help books are looking for. Recommended.
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Original publication date

2019-08-29

DDC/MDS

153.8

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