In part 1 of 2, we explore the questions that will help you use what serves you, and ditch what doesn't... What habits did you grow up with that were healthy? What habits did you grow up with that were unhealthy?
Use these reflections (look hard and be thorough!) to tease out what you can use and what needs to be kissed goodbye!
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[00:00:54] Hey everybody and welcome to another episode of Healthy AF. This one is a two-parter
[00:01:04] actually and it comes straight out of a conversation that I had with my dear
[00:01:08] friend Shannon. We grew up in the same area clearly in the south and we were
[00:01:15] talking actually about nutrition and our nutrition patterns and how we grew
[00:01:22] up and she said to me, you know so much of the stuff we ate back then was just
[00:01:29] horrible for you. And I said really? And she said, well yeah, I mean we ate the
[00:01:38] green beans but it was never the green beans. It was always the green beans with
[00:01:41] the fat back and the salt and the corn. We always had the corn or some sort of
[00:01:47] like even table sugar or something in it. And you know we just kind of made the
[00:01:53] green beans unhealthy and I got to thinking about that and thinking about the
[00:01:58] way we grew up. And I came up with four questions that you can use to explore
[00:02:07] those habits that you had or didn't have that are serving you or not serving
[00:02:15] you in your current life. So this is part one and the questions we're going to
[00:02:22] ask today are what habits did you grow up with that were healthy and what habits
[00:02:33] did you grow up with that were unhealthy and I'm on stick to the green beans,
[00:02:39] okay. So in chatting with my friend we were talking about the green beans and how much
[00:02:49] large was put into the green beans which may not have been the healthiest choice
[00:02:56] and we talked about how much salt was in the green beans which again may negate some of that
[00:03:03] that nutrition and the nutritive value man them green beans are cooked down to mush okay.
[00:03:09] We're going to be having them on the stove for hours and by the time we serve them they
[00:03:14] they're not going to have any texture in them at all. So when we look at that what habit did I
[00:03:22] did we grow up with that was healthy well I said to her yeah those green beans were cooked down
[00:03:30] to mush and they had fat back in it and they were loaded up with salt but how many of those green
[00:03:38] beans were green beans you grew on your own land in your garden all of them all those green beans
[00:03:47] were either fresh in the summer and you might have picked them that morning
[00:03:52] and strung them and cooked them that night or they were canned and we used them over the winter
[00:04:01] so when you look at we talk about nutritive value they literally had a shelf life of like you know
[00:04:11] I don't know four hours from the time we picked them to the time we were cooking them to the time
[00:04:15] we were eating them well that's a really healthy habit it's also super healthy that we were just
[00:04:23] eating at home we were cooking meals at home from fresh foods and eating it so when you tease a part
[00:04:32] that habit of wow we ate foods that um weren't cooked well there's another whole part to look at
[00:04:41] that that's the part you keep that's the part you build up in the habit that you want to move forward
[00:04:50] so let's look at that other side what habit did you have growing up what habits did you have growing
[00:04:58] up that were unhealthy well what was unhealthy was cooking it until it was mush although truth be told
[00:05:04] like I'm a sucker for a green bean mush not gonna lie um but cooking it down until it was mush
[00:05:12] maybe over-sulting it and you know what I my verdict is out on fats right now I feel like that's
[00:05:22] a very personal decision but if you really didn't want the caloric load and or the fat load from
[00:05:30] the fat back then you would not want that in your green beans so I'm gonna give that one a
[00:05:36] neutral depending on where you're at in your life what your genetics are and what you're trying to
[00:05:40] accomplish my point is in the story is that one thing I see that is helpful in coaching
[00:05:50] that you can learn to do for yourself that I try to train my clients to do for themselves their
[00:05:56] little inner coach is when you're looking at your habits and what habits you want to have and
[00:06:04] how hard it's gonna be for them for you to break them um what you want to add in you don't have
[00:06:12] to throw the baby out with the bath water sit down make you up a list two sheets of uh or two
[00:06:20] columns on your paper what healthy habit did I have or what habit did I grow up with that was unhealthy
[00:06:32] and what habit did I grow up with that was healthy and start pulling apart those examples about
[00:06:40] like really what was it you know you could do the same thing for my cartoons on Saturday morning
[00:06:47] every Saturday morning um my brother and I would get up and we would watch cartoons from the time
[00:06:51] we got up probably six o'clockish until the time mama had breakfast on about 738 we'd all sit down
[00:06:58] and eat breakfast and then it was time for chores I had cleaned a little bathroom okay
[00:07:03] bronid daddy went outside to start the yard work I had to do little bathroom and dust and
[00:07:08] mama had the vacuum in and the clean in the kitchen so in some ways you could look and say like wow
[00:07:13] you started off your day with two hours of screen time well yeah but it was also um you know that
[00:07:20] might be in the unhealthy column but what's healthy is I started off my unscheduled weekend time
[00:07:27] with two hours of whatever the you know what I wanted to do
[00:07:34] and that's a pretty healthy habit so that might be something I carry into adulthood and in fact
[00:07:40] I do that now I start out my day with doing whatever I want to for a specified amount of time
[00:07:47] and then I'm ready I'm recharged and I'm ready
[00:07:50] so when you start looking at habit change and you start looking at how am I wired
[00:07:58] we might want to throw the baby out with the bath water don't be tempted to do that
[00:08:03] sit down make your list really look then ditch the stuff that doesn't work for you anymore
[00:08:11] and use a way to stack your habits your new habits that you do want using the habits that are
[00:08:17] already pre-wired in you that are desirable and healthy okay part two is going to address the
[00:08:25] question I have to write these down this and I could mess this up so easily I maybe I have I don't
[00:08:30] know part two is what habits did you not grow up with that were healthy and what habits did
[00:08:40] you not grow up with that were unhealthy so stay tuned give yourself some grace subscribe to the
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