In part 2 of 2, we explore the questions that will help you use what serves you, and ditch what doesn't What habits did you NOT grow up with that were healthy? What habits did you NOT 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! These questions, with the questions from part 1, deliver boatloads of information you can "hook" to and create sustainable habit changes that are smooth like butta'
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[00:00:56] Hey, everybody and welcome to Healthy AF. This is part two of the two-parter on habits that you had in the past
[00:01:08] and how to use those habits when you are looking to make a behavioral shift for now.
[00:01:14] As I said in the prior episode, this conversation came up with a friend of mine, Shannon.
[00:01:22] She was a long-time friend. We grew up together clearly in the country and of the South, right?
[00:01:30] North Carolina Countryside. She was telling me about some of the ways we were talking,
[00:01:37] reminiscing about some of the ways that we grew up, our habits, what we did, what we could,
[00:01:44] how we lived, how we ate. She was saying, gosh, all that stuff was so unhealthy.
[00:01:50] And I was like, huh, that's a really interesting thing to tease out.
[00:01:56] So I came up with four questions and if you haven't listened to the episode before this one,
[00:02:01] you don't have to stop now but you can pop over there when you're done.
[00:02:05] The first episode addressed what habits did you grow up with that were healthy?
[00:02:13] And what habits did you grow up with that were unhealthy?
[00:02:19] So part two addresses these questions.
[00:02:24] What habits did you not grow up with that were healthy?
[00:02:30] And what habits did you not grow up with that were unhealthy?
[00:02:37] So here's an example for you. In my family, where I was the mom and I had kids,
[00:02:46] my kids did not have a sit-down dinner for several years because they all played soccer
[00:02:56] and we either had to eat dinner at 3.30 or 8 p.m.
[00:03:02] Or it was kind of all over the place. We did a lot of eating in shifts,
[00:03:06] we did a lot of eating in the minivan, we did a lot of picking it up,
[00:03:10] we did a lot of convenience foods. So what habit that they did not grow up with
[00:03:17] was a sit-down family meal. Now when I look back on my growing up,
[00:03:25] I grew up with that family meal, that family time and a home cooked meal at that.
[00:03:33] My mama always felt sad for me and my children that I couldn't provide that for her,
[00:03:40] for them because we were so busy. And here's the conversation that it got to.
[00:03:47] Like, right, I couldn't provide my kids a sit-down home cooked meal in many ways.
[00:03:56] But there was another benefit that happened with that crazy schedule of mine.
[00:04:02] And that was we did have family time. We had the family time in the car,
[00:04:09] going to the soccer practice and coming from the soccer practice.
[00:04:14] So that was accomplished, that part of that dinner time was accomplished.
[00:04:20] So when I look at what habits did you not grow up with that were healthy,
[00:04:26] my children did not grow up with a home cooked meal every night.
[00:04:34] But what habit that they not grow up with that was unhealthy?
[00:04:41] Well, they did grow up with family conversation on the daily.
[00:04:45] So you see how like both of those can be true.
[00:04:49] So my children have the habit of we connect with our family on the daily.
[00:04:54] My children did not have the habit of we eat a home cooked meal every night.
[00:05:01] So as they go through and get bigger and bigger and bigger and they are,
[00:05:05] you just can't put a brick on their head and make them stop.
[00:05:08] They can choose, oh, what really worked for me was having family time.
[00:05:15] I know how to do that. What I didn't have was home cooked meal.
[00:05:19] I might not know how to do that. How do I incorporate it?
[00:05:24] So I get it that all these four questions are super specific.
[00:05:30] But they will up promise you give you some insights into your past wiring
[00:05:37] and how you might want to use the stuff from your past that you did
[00:05:42] and didn't get that was unhealthy and healthy to build your desirable habits.
[00:05:48] And what parts of those habits in the past that you did and didn't get
[00:05:53] that were healthy and unhealthy that you want to let go of.
[00:05:58] So you can make yourself a little paper grid.
[00:06:03] On the top, I'm going to say it one more time because this is so confusing even for me to podcast.
[00:06:11] What habits did you grow up with that were healthy?
[00:06:17] And what habits did you grow up with that were unhealthy?
[00:06:22] And on the bottom of your sheet on one side, what habits did you not grow up with that were healthy?
[00:06:31] What habits did you not grow up with that were unhealthy?
[00:06:36] I'll share another one just make sure we're clear as mud.
[00:06:40] A habit that I did not grow up with that is unhealthy.
[00:06:44] We didn't go out to dinner.
[00:06:46] There were no fast-feed restaurants. Okay, near us.
[00:06:50] We had a stoplight and a food line.
[00:06:53] I didn't even have food line back then it was a food world.
[00:06:57] So I did not grow up with the habit of constantly eating fast food,
[00:07:03] which was an unhealthy habit.
[00:07:05] And I can be really grateful for that.
[00:07:08] And I can also lean in.
[00:07:10] Okay Amy, so you don't have that habit to break kudos heck yeah.
[00:07:15] So I did not have that that I did not grow up with that was healthy was let me see.
[00:07:23] Ah, drinking a lot of water.
[00:07:26] We didn't drink a lot of water.
[00:07:28] We had well water.
[00:07:29] We drank milk and we drank sweet tea, but we didn't drink water.
[00:07:32] So that's a healthy habit that I didn't grow up with.
[00:07:36] So that will be like an indicator light of oh,
[00:07:40] it's harder to drink that water because it's not a habit I'm used to.
[00:07:45] But I can lean into the fact that I don't eat a lot of fast food
[00:07:49] because it's not something I grew up around.
[00:07:51] Same thing with alcohol.
[00:07:52] My family didn't really drink out like I never saw anyone in my family drink any alcohol.
[00:07:57] So when I look to put healthy habits into my life,
[00:08:02] the low hanging fruit of stuff to cut out or avoid
[00:08:06] unhealthy habits that I did not do growing up.
[00:08:10] We did not drink a lot of alcohol.
[00:08:12] We did not eat a lot of fast food.
[00:08:15] That means those are the easy ones for me to chop off and accomplish.
[00:08:21] What we didn't do that was actually healthy that I would like to do
[00:08:27] is we didn't drink a lot of water.
[00:08:29] So that's going to take me a little bit more effort.
[00:08:33] I feel like this was a crazy journey on the podcast,
[00:08:37] but I'm thinking you got it.
[00:08:39] I'd love to hear some comments below like this made no sense or no.
[00:08:43] I'm down with you.
[00:08:45] And when you're looking at creating those healthy habits,
[00:08:48] use those four questions.
[00:08:50] I promise you,
[00:08:51] you're going to find something that makes creating your healthy lifestyle
[00:08:56] a little bit more effortless and that's a good thing.
[00:09:00] And don't forget to give yourself some grace and tune in next time.
[00:09:05] And thanks for being with us.
[00:09:09] Thank you so much for listening to this episode of the Healthy AF Podcast.
[00:09:14] I hope that it has helped you create a new possibility for your health
[00:09:18] and sets you into action to go get it.
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