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Blog Entry 8 of 22 Changing My Thinking
I know how to eat healthy, but often make unhealthy choices. And, exercise... what's that? I sporatically exercise and make attempts at eating healthy. That's better than nothing, right? It's a beginning.

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One Week
Contributed by: Julie Robinson   on 4/10/2006

My favorite website is www.wikipedia.com. It is sometimes my first place to go when exploring a concept. When I was thinking about how I've been on the eat to hunger program for one week today, I decided to look into how long it takes to make something you want to change a habit. And, I was surprised that when clicking on the word "habit" in Wikipedia, that I found the following definition for learning:

Learning is the process of acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes, or values, through study, experience, or teaching, that causes a change of behavior that is persistent, measurable, and specified or allows an individual to formulate a new mentalconstruct or revise a prior mental construct (conceptual knowledge such as attitudes or values). It is a process that depends on experience and leads to long-term changes in behavior potential. Behavior potential describes the possible behavior of an individual (not actual behavior) in a given situation in order to achieve a goal. But potential is not enough; if individual learning is not periodically reinforced, it becomes shallower and shallower, and eventually is lost in that individual.

There are many other habits that I would like to acquire. In the past, I have tried doing them all at once: like, dieting and exercising together. I have never succeeded at both at the same time. What I do know is that when I weigh less, I find moving feels better. And, it has to be one thing at a time for me.

So, I have been successful for one week. I hope that I will be forming the new mental construct mentioned above in the wikipedia definition. I also hope to inspire YOU.






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Julie Robinson

Castle Rock , CO

Julie Robinson has posted 22 blog entries and 10 comments since joining on 4/3/2006. Julie Robinson 's average blog rating is 4.59.
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