People wanting to change their eating habits in order to lose weight should know that it takes time.
According to a study at University College London, it takes on average 66 days to change a habit. This is the normal time required for new habits to be reinforced.
Study participants were asked to eat a piece of fruit with your dinner, drink a whole botte of water with lunch and run 15 minutes before dinner.
Professor Jane Wardle explains, "What we found was that it takes 66 days on average for people in our study to acquire a habit."
The professor went on to say, "As behaviours are repeated in consistent settings they then begin to proceed more efficiently and with less thought as control of the behaviour transfers to cues in the environment that activate an automatic response – a habit."
She also added that it much easier to acquire new habits then it is modify old ones.