Our brain wants to do as much as it possibly can subconsciously.

Our brain needs to do as much as it can subconsciously so it can focus in on other tasks.

And the difficulty is that a lot of people forget that.

A lot of people are going, well, what's the secret ingredient? So in the exact same way that you might get someone to track their macros, track

for food, track for calories, track for exercises, get them to track over positive moments in their

life as well. Now, if we look at that as a pie chart, 50% is, I guess, a genetic predisposition.

40% is stuff that we can control and only 10% is stuff around circumstances, material possessions or values. Welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. I am Danny Vennan and you are listening to episode 127. And on today's show,

I am happy to welcome back my friend Sarah Doyle of the Better Life Project. And this episode will be a

slight deviation away from our usual detailed nutritional science-based discussions to focus on an area that

many of you listening have been asking about. So whilst we can have all the research and

knowledge of how to construct a diet and program that, when we are actually trying to induce positive health and nutrition habits

in our own lives or in the lives of others, there are so many other factors to consider.

So how do we form habits? How do we get clients to buy into that process? How do we assess our

behaviors and understand what's getting in our way?

How can we cultivate happiness before getting to that end point that we believe we desire?

How do we include nutrition and exercise in our lives as things that enhance our lives as opposed to be something

that's purely motivated out of fear of not doing it and and how do we instill a positive

relationship with food in our in ourselves or with our clients or our patients or whoever we

end up working with and these are all questions that in one form and other have

been discussion points with many of you who are who are listening. And so hopefully plenty of

those will get answered today. And hopefully Sarah can help us answer a few of these questions

as she works day in and day out with people who are attempting

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