“It’s important to remember that, regardless of what we might like to think, no doubt carrying extra weight does increase the risks to our health.”
“We can either do something about it and improve our, you know, future and current health prospects, or we can choose to do nothing and then nothing changes.”
“Every day that we have is a really good opportunity to continue to make improvements little by little.”
“Recognizing each little tiny step, each day is an opportunity to build on the day before.”
“It’s more than just changing, isn’t it? It’s that understanding.”
“Behavior change isn’t about that. Behavior change, in some ways, knowing that it’s gone a little bit wrong is a good point to start from because you can work from that and say, right, okay, why did it go wrong? What do I need to change?”
“So it’s no wonder that we might over-indulge. And it’s important then to kind of recognize that that’s what’s happened, just rather than beat ourselves up about it, to think, well, how can I be aware of that next time and do something different next time?”
“Start with the thing that’s going to have the quickest win with the least effort. And it’s getting that balance right. And then building on that as time goes on.”
“Trying not to go from one extreme to the other is really important and just sort of coming back to that kind of January reset kind of feeling.”
“Now I’m living the life that I wanted to live and I’ve done so many things that I never would have done if I hadn’t made those changes.”
“It’s the bigger picture, it’s the bigger vision, if you like. So your bigger vision might be the summer or the autumn, something that you’re planning to do then. It might be 10 years time, it might be 20 years time.”
Don’t think you’re going to go from eating unhealthy to eating only healthy foods overnight. It’s not practical, it’s not realistic because there are always going to be foods with different nutritional values.”
“It’s about those small steps that take you from the couch to the 5K. It doesn’t happen overnight.”
“Apart from those people who take an intensive seven-day driving course, it takes months to relearn how to eat and implement that on a lifelong basis.”
“It’s about changing attitudes, behaviours, and beliefs, lots and lots of practice of doing things and getting it wrong, but trying again.”
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