It can be empowering to start a new habit or stop an existing habit (and for it to stick!)
But when we do this, we sometimes don’t realise that we started another bad habit inadvertently.
For example, I ran the Sydney Marathon this year and got into a good training regime.
Alongside my running habit, I didn’t realise I had started a new habit of eating dessert.
Regular desserting was fine while I was regularly running.
But once I ran the Marathon and stopped the exercise regime, my dessert habit continued (until I eventually realised I was doing it…)
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