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Everything You’ve Learned about Building Habits is Flawed with Michelle Segar

March 17, 2022

By Jill Castle, MS, RDN

Dr. Michelle Segar talks about her new book, The Joy Choice: How to Finally Achieve Lasting Changes in Eating and Exercise, and new ways to develop good habits, particularly those not reflected in existing research.

She has studied for 30 years how to help people adopt healthy behaviors despite  the complexity and unpredictability of the real world. With this experience, she has combined her entire career in academic research with real-world health coaching to craft joy-infused methods that lead towards sustainable and healthy behavior.

She brings forward a fresh, brain-based approach in instilling sustainable behavior change in eating and exercise, as highlighted in her forthcoming book.

She explains how to understand behavior change in terms of our choices in life. While many behavior changes look great in theory, there are flaws  in their underpinnings that cause these to fail when applied in real-life contexts.

She brings up the idea of “habiters” and “unhabiters.” Habiters tend to have a personality deeply rooted in self-control and discipline. While unhabiters tend to be distracted by unexpected things that strangle them from the things they’ve outlined for themselves.

She shares the key elements leading to lasting behavior changes and explains why terms such as choices and options are safer than the word habit. We need to set our brains up to be flexible since it is one of our three primary executive functions to ensure sustainable changes with healthy lifestyles.

Dr. Segar gives tips on what parents can do to help their growing children develop healthful choices and options.

“You don't want to force your kids to do too much movement. Embed the seed of recognizing the positive feelings that come with it. You want to design it to be positive, if at all possible.”- Dr. Michelle Segar Click To Tweet

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What You’ll Learn in  Everything You’ve Learned About Building Habits is Flawed:

  • The language of behavior change
  • Why habit is a vague global word
  • How to evaluate the assumptions underlying habit formation
  • Difference between a “habiter” or an “unhabiter”
  • Key elements for lasting behavior changes
  • How our brain self-management system works
  • Picking the joy choice and having a flexible mindset
  • How to help kids feel the positive experiences from physical activities

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