Habit-building specialist, popular podcaster, and perennial New York Times bestselling author Gretchen Rubin is our guest today in Episode 960 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”
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Breaking bad habits and behaviors can seem like an impossible thing to do because the pull to keep doing the same things you are used to doing is so incredibly strong. But for a former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor-turned-writer named Gretchen Rubin, bringing about change is all about creating new good habits that are much more desirable while making your old bad habits into something you just don’t have any desire to do anymore. If you’ve never heard of Gretchen before, she’s a pretty big deal in the publishing world selling over two million copies of her books worldwide in more than thirty languages. Her 2009 classic book The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun was a runaway New York Times hit and now she’s back with her much-anticipated follow-up release (which has already hit the New York Times bestsellers list) called Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives. She’s also got an extremely popular self-help iTunes podcast entitled Happier with Gretchen Rubin that’s worth checking out.
Listen in as Jimmy and Gretchen talk about why she left the legal system to become a writer, why she wanted to write clear and succinct ideas unlike the legalese she used to use, whether she’s been surprised by her overwhelming publishing success, how bad habits breed more bad habits, nutrition is one of the biggest challenges for eating more healthfully, people think habits change incrementally, her support for low-carb living ever since reading Gary Taubes’ 2010 book Why We Get Fat and What To Do About It, the huge health effects she saw eating low-carb, why it’s so difficult to make changes in your habits when you know something is good for you to do, the loopholes we use to excuse our bad habits, the convenience vs. inconvenience strategy for changing your habits, my previous interview with Dr. Brian Wansink in Episode 279, anything that seems impure turns people off, how the “buzziness” of cravings goes away if you resist it and abstain, some people who are really tempted do better to have none, if someone can moderate with no issues then they can have a little and be satisfied, the evil office donut bringer, the delicious, satisfying foods you get to eat on a low-carb diet makes it easier to change your habits, planning helps keep you in control, her friend’s “pie” story, why it’s good to fail small not big and to show compassion towards yourself when you fall, why having a finish line goal can actually be detrimental to permanent habit-changing, how people who get within 5-10 pounds of their weight loss goal tend to stop and drift away, the health changes she’s seen in her 70-something year old father since he switched to low-carb, her “Four Tendencies” quiz, her podcast with her and her sister cleaning up her sister’s closet, how cleaning up the clutter as “The Fly Lady Marla Cilley recommends helps improve your habits, and a whole lot more!
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– Gretchen Rubin bio
– Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
– The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
– GretchenRubin.com
– Happier with Gretchen Rubin iTunes podcast
– “Ta-Da! The Launch of My Quiz on the Four Tendencies. Learn About Yourself!”