Habits Por Vida: My Third Week
Hello again! It's now been three weeks that I've been a pescetarian, and I am dreaming of the day that I can wake up to bacon again. This week has been okay... I may or may not have had a sausage breakfast sandwich yesterday... But anyways things have been great! I'm still sticking to my meal prep plan since as I've said before keeping everything nice and planned out makes the whole process run a lot smoother. I also like to just keep it simple, having three different recipes for every meal time and using them in a rotation.
Though, when I do have my slip ups, I wonder: what makes a person want to keep doing something? How do we develop habits and most importantly, how long does it take to make this come naturally? If this project were to end today, surely I would be back to my beef and chicken eating ways, but how long would it take for me to never return to meat ever again? Could that even happen?
I read an article on habits and how long they take to develop, and according to James Clear in his "How Long Does it Actually Take to Form a New Habit? (Backed by Science)" he explains that it could take anywhere "from 18 days to 254 days" to form a new habit. This made me feel pretty hopeless since it's already been 21 days and I find myself eating non-seafood meat every once in a while. But he also says that the occasional slip up has "no measurable impact on your long-term habits" and rather than moping, I should develop new strategies to prevent history from repeating itself. This made me feel a bit more hopeful, I am a massive believer in accepting your mistakes, and adapting accordingly. So I think this strategy is right up my alley.
So, I decided to look for some inspiration, you can never be successful in anything your heart isn't invested in. So I needed to find some more reasons to keep on continuing my pescetarianism. Looking through a website, I found this gem, which was reason enough to maintain my practice.
(Source: Bloomberg.com)
The fact that a majority of the U.S is for pastures and the raising of livestock is crazy. Especially when you take into consideration, that from the raising of this livestock comes crazy amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. It's pretty outrageous. Things such as this remind me why I am doing the things I do, helping me refocus and fight on to change my ways.
Though, when I do have my slip ups, I wonder: what makes a person want to keep doing something? How do we develop habits and most importantly, how long does it take to make this come naturally? If this project were to end today, surely I would be back to my beef and chicken eating ways, but how long would it take for me to never return to meat ever again? Could that even happen?
I read an article on habits and how long they take to develop, and according to James Clear in his "How Long Does it Actually Take to Form a New Habit? (Backed by Science)" he explains that it could take anywhere "from 18 days to 254 days" to form a new habit. This made me feel pretty hopeless since it's already been 21 days and I find myself eating non-seafood meat every once in a while. But he also says that the occasional slip up has "no measurable impact on your long-term habits" and rather than moping, I should develop new strategies to prevent history from repeating itself. This made me feel a bit more hopeful, I am a massive believer in accepting your mistakes, and adapting accordingly. So I think this strategy is right up my alley.
So, I decided to look for some inspiration, you can never be successful in anything your heart isn't invested in. So I needed to find some more reasons to keep on continuing my pescetarianism. Looking through a website, I found this gem, which was reason enough to maintain my practice.
(Source: Bloomberg.com)
The fact that a majority of the U.S is for pastures and the raising of livestock is crazy. Especially when you take into consideration, that from the raising of this livestock comes crazy amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. It's pretty outrageous. Things such as this remind me why I am doing the things I do, helping me refocus and fight on to change my ways.
Super interesting info and map! I had no idea that much land was used for pasture. I'm interested to know what special use and miscellaneous areas on the map mean.
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