Why You Don’t Follow Through on Your Health Goals — and How to Fix It

The Art of Manliness

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Most of us know what we should do to be healthier: eat better, move more, sleep well. The real challenge? Actually following through.

On today’s show, I talk to behavioral psychologist Amantha Imber, author of The Health Habit, who argues that the missing piece in most health advice isn’t more information — it’s learning how to bridge the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it.

Amantha first outlines four “habit hijackers” that sabotage your best-laid plans and shares practical, research-backed tactics to overcome each one. We then dive into some specific health habits that will give you a lot of transformative bang for your buck. We discuss how restricting your sleep can help you sleep better, the truth about the popular 10,000 steps a day recommendation, the underrated power of an after-dinner walk, and more.

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0:00.0	So as we head into the holidays, things have gotten extra busy than the K household.
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1:33.2	Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness podcast.
1:36.0	Most of us know what we should do to be healthier.
1:38.8	Eat better, move more, sleep well.
1:42.0	The real challenge, actually following through.
1:45.2	On today's show, I talked to behavioral psychologist Amanda Ember, author of The Health Habit, who argues that the missing piece in most health advice
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