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Change : all it takes is some determination and commitment ...

Anyone you meet will always have a list of habits, both conscious and subconscious. Some are daily, others, occasional, like making sure you have a cup of tea in the morning. Most of these habits are benign, if at times strange, but there will always be those that we will want to rid ourselves of! Much of this is because many habits can be harmful, often without us noticing for a while. Whilst many of us might be content to live with them, we all have the ones we want to say goodbye to!  It would regularly take time for an initially harmless act to turn into something unhealthy, and by that time the behaviour had become entrenched. I didn’t realise that my daily mandatory 5+ black coffees with sweetener were bad. I rationalised (falsely) that it’s just coffee and everyone likes coffee, as well as convincing myself the insane amount of coke zero I consumed was normal (it had no sugar!). On the surface, these habits aren’t horrendous, but they contributed to my anorexia. Coffee and sweet