Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Being or getting overweight is a struggle for a lot of people around the world.

Here in the US, about a third of the people struggle with severe obesity, another third struggle with being overweight,

which means that two-thirds of the people in the US struggle with their weight.

And of course this podcast isn't about an American diet of

how to lose weight. But I do believe there are things that we can learn about living a healthy

lifestyle when it comes to our diet,

because I believe the three components of a healthy diet

are very similar to three components of living a happy, contended life. But what are these three

components of a healthy diet? Well, the first two you probably will know because

they're very common.

One is exercise and the second one is eating healthy foods and eating the right amount of them.

But the third component I think is less talked about and yet is equally

as important as the first two exercise and what we eat. I'm not sure if there's a name for it, so I'm going to call it don't give up or

get back on track. Because this is the thing that I've seen that happens to so many people when they work on being

healthy. They're doing well, things are going while they're exercising, they're

eating healthy, but then a day comes when they get off track.

They may have too big of a dessert, they may not exercise for a few days, and when they

get off track, it's like their mind says, well, I'm off. What difference doesn't make anymore?

I'm just going to go ahead and eat whatever I want or do whatever I want. It doesn't matter

because I'm already off track. Now mind you, they're not off track very much, but they're off track. And so they, in a sense, throw

on the towel and give up. It's too hard, it's too difficult, where it really is just a day or two, they

got off and now it's time to get back on the track. They need to continue to exercise and they need to continue to

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