DO. OR DO NOT. THERE IS NO TRY.

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SO, ARE YOU EXCITED TO IMPLEMENT ALL 7 HABITS OF HIGHLY HEALTHY Motherfuckers?!

I hope this feels like a relief to know that what you need to do to get lean and healthy is actually much more simple than we are led to believe. You now have the keystone habits that are going to get you better results than all the brain clutter, clickbait bullshit that we are all subjected to every day. Never mind all the diet fads. These habits are the 20 percent effort that will give you 80 percent of your results.

If you start:

filling half your plate with vegetables,

getting at least seven hours of sleep,

ditching the booze,

eating appropriate portions,

prepping your food in advance,

chilling your ass out and meditating regularly, and

exercising consistently,

you will feel like a total babe, be Healthy as Fuck, and change pretty much your entire world—because you’ll probably be a hell of a lot happier.

Which is, again, the actual point.

Yes, I know I keep hammering that home. But I’d be gutted if your takeaway from this book was “Oonagh said I’m not allowed to eat cheese anymore and Zumba is bad.” So, let’s review what we’ve covered so far so we are all on the same page of health and hotness:

In part 1, we talked about how you get to choose whether you actually want to lose weight. You understand that there is an effort-to-results ratio, and you get to choose what level of effort you want to give depending on what level of fitness you want to have. It’s totally legit to tell six-pack abs to go fuck themselves, and it’s also totally legit to decide that it’s a goal that you want to achieve. Either way, you’ve got to know that it’s not actually abs you are chasing, but the feeling you think you will have when you have the abs. That is, happiness. And the only way to get the happiness you want is to practice that feeling right now, at exactly the weight you are at. Remember, the feeling is the actual goal, so we have to train for that goal. The more joy and fun you can bring to all of this healthy-living stuff, the better it’s going to work.
In part 2, I explained why discipline, motivation, and willpower have totally failed you in the past, and hopefully convinced you that you need to ditch all the fad-diet/lifestyle attempts and focus on developing foundational habits. But not just any habits. If you want to get Healthy as Fuck, you want to cut right to the chase—to the keystone habits that require 20 percent of your effort and give 80 percent of the results: the 7 Habits of Highly Healthy Motherfuckers. To create these habits, you will establish a trigger, which will kick off the habit. Then, you will always get some kind of reward once you’ve completed the habit. If your habit doesn’t feel inherently rewarding (yet), then you have to figure out a way to bribe yourself, because it’s the reward that will automate the response between the trigger and the behavior. This is why it’s so important to link joy to all of your new habits—in order to reinforce them. Do you see why I won’t shut up about the happiness thing?

Now, here’s the fun part—actually making this shit happen in real life. Without quitting. Because I’m guessing that you may have been here before. It probably occurred to you once or twice in your life that it might be a good idea to get some exercise. You probably even had a week or two of glory where you were Really Doing It This Time and you swore that you’d be at spin class each morning no matter what…until it’s Wine Wednesday with the girls and you’re all Britney-oops-I-did-it-again hitting the Snooze button, and then you get mad at yourself for being a Big, Fat Quitty McQuitterface.

Never again.