We all want to overcome our bad habits and replace them with good ones. This is exactly why new years resolutions are so popular. People are all like “new year, new me! This time I’m really gonna nail it!” However, three to four weeks into the new year, most resolutions have failed. The bad habit’s back from never been gone, and the good ones are gone from never having really been there. Before you can overcome bad habits, you need to acknowledge they’re bad. Just knowing rationally as in eating junk food all the time is unhealthy isn’t enough. You need to feel deeply that your current habit’s not serving you well. For instance, I once used to live pretty unhealthily: eating lots of processed food, exercising by lifting my thumb to hit a button on the remote, going to bed close to midnight and waking up by 6am, stressing like crazy, you know the drill. At the same time, I wondered why I caught colds and felt so tired all the time, why my periods hurt so much, why my hormones came in peaks as high as the Mount Everest and lows as deep as the Mariana Trench. I had discussed my issues with various doctors and all of them confirmed my lifestyle was pretty healthy with some room for improvement, so I wondered what the heck I should do to feel better. Until I learned how to take healthy habits to the next level. I learned to triple my vegetable intake, double my fruit intake, sleep more, exercise more. I identified that what I thought was healthy wasn’t enough. I needed to upgrade my game if I were to shed my colds, 24/7 exhaustion and hormonal issues. I had to identify that what was considered healthy by mainstream health advice wasn’t enough for me.