How to actually start getting healthier
Or at least, one part of getting healthier, which is having the right attitude to training your mammalian brain
In spite of failing wildly at lot of my aspirations, the one thing I think I’ve done really well in life is be healthy. Which is why I get people sometimes asking me how I do it. Usually they ask, “how do I lose weight?” Or something like that. It’s phrased different ways, but it’s always about “how” to be healthy.
The question is fundamentally flawed, though. It’s that “how” part. It indicates that the person asking thinks they would go out and get healthy if only they knew the correct way to do it. “If someone could just tell me what to do, I’d go do it and get the results I want.”
Which is not the case at all. You already know how to be healthy.
Which is healthier, some carrots or a chocolate chip cookie?
Obviously, the carrots are healthier. You know that. I mean, it’s not like there aren’t details to get into, but your health isn’t on the razor’s edge of success or failure depending on whether or not you got one more or less milligram of vitamin B12. Stay real.
The problem isn’t that you don’t understand better eating habits, the problem is that, cookies taste…
