Log #6

       What I read this week, to tell the truth, literally helps me a lot. It’s mainly about the strategies to form a good habit and to keep ourselves from temptations, including monitoring, scheduling and accountability. Based on these strategies, the author illustrates them with abundant true stories to let readers understand how they actually work. With those vivid story-tellings, the author conveys that starting an original habit once we quit is actually the hardest process in habit-formations. Moreover, it’s even harder than starting a new habit in the very first beginning and continuing a habit. In addition, she also mentioned that no habit-formation strategy is universally useful because most successful habit changes require the coordination of multiple strategies.

Throughout this week’s reading, there’re two types of people she lists when facing temptations, including abstainers and moderators. The former type is that the person can do better when they follow all-or-nothing habits, which means that indulging in a temptation makes him want even more, so the best solution is to keep him far away from it completely. On the other hand, the latter one, moderators, is that they can perform better when they indulge moderately. For example, if they’re on a diet, they may probably indulge themselves for about once or twice a month, but they still have strong self-discipline. This observation is truly attractive to me because I consider myself as an abstainer. The reason is that when I was young, I forced myself not to have unhealthy drinks. Until now, I’ve never bought myself a drink voluntarily, and I don’t have any desire when seeing them. Therefore, I’m exactly the person who is portrayed in the book. How intriguing. Moreover, there’s also another idea I want to put into practice, which is LCHF. It stands for low carbohydrates high fat. I’m fully convinced and in fact, I apply this strategy on one of my friends who is currently on a diet now. I’m looking forward to hearing from her after a while and I’m also wondering to adopt it on myself to see whether it’s effective or not.

I hope that when I finish the whole book, a change or changes can happen in my life, which means that it’s not a waste of time. Instead of frolicking around, I did do something meaningful. I’m still looking forward wholeheartedly.