More Habits

OK.  I’ve spent the past few days observing a bad habit but not doing anything about it. Literally, as I’ve been wiping crumbs from the edge of my mouth, I’ve been thinking, “I should do something about that” – but I don’t.

Today is the day.

Observe:

• I need/want a cup of tea.
• I go downstairs and put the kettle on.
• It starts to make that heating up noise that only fast British kettles can make.  They are fast.
• In the time is takes to boil enough water for a cup of tea, I get out the cracker container and reach up and get the peanut butter/honey/jam/whatever.
• I pour the water over the teabag.
• While the tea is brewing I make and eat a small pb on cracker sandwich.
• I put milk in tea and think, “I’m hungry – think I’ll make a couple more of those to eat while I’m drinking my tea.”

Put like that it looks silly and irrelevant but if I do this just twice a day, 4 days per week, it amounts to more than 60,000 extra calories per year.  Extra – over and above what I need to live a healthy active life.

SO – today is that day I do something else during the boiling/brewing waiting times.  I’ll let you know what it turns out to be.