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| 9.5 | Diet Tip - Get Your Friends and Family to Help You With Your Diet |
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How to succeed on your diet by getting help from your family and friends.
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 | There are many benefits of getting social groups to help you with your diet. They give you support and encouragement. If everyone tries to eat healthy and exercise, the entire culture of the group can change. Instead of having pressure to eat unhealthy snacks, the group will actually pressure you to be healthy!
It is much more likely that you will exercise if you do it with friends. If you set a date to exercise together, you are much more likely to follow through. Setting appointments like this automatically applies social pressure. If you feel like you are going to let someone down, you will rarely miss a workout.
Many of our social activities revolve around food. If you can get all of your friends to get healthy, the culture of your group changes. Now, when you go to parties, only healthy food will be available. When you go out, only the healthy restaurants will be recommended.
Remember that we all rise or sink to the level of our friends. If you friends are fit and healthy, you will automatically do what it takes to be accepted in their group. You will become fit and healthy. If your friends are unhealthy, you will also tend to be unhealthy. If they are enabling you to eat bad food, make it clear that this is unacceptable. Communicate to them that you need to be healthy for your happiness and wellbeing. If they are good friends they will understand and support you. If they do not, make sure that you only get together for activities that do not involve food. Make them your tennis or hiking buddies. Stick to your healthy friends as dinner buddies.
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