HEALTHY HABITS SUCK

Most people know they should choose healthy habits, but lack motivation. This book blends a feisty, humorous, reality-check tone with evidence-based skills to help readers take steps toward positive change.

Salad instead of steak? Working out? Skipping that second beer or glass of wine? Healthy habits are THE WORST. Blending humor and irreverence with the science of behavior change, this playful guide offers practical, counterintuitive strategies to help readers live a healthier life—even if they don't want to. This book isn't for those who get up every morning and can't wait for a run, who consider eating sweet potatoes a splurge, and who set aside thirty minutes before work to meditate. However, readers who think about getting up to go for a run but go back to sleep, regret last night's dinner of fast food, and can barely get to work on time—let alone meditate—will learn to find the motivation they need to live their best life.

Dayna Lee-Baggley, PhD, is a psychologist who exercises regularly and rarely enjoys it. She is a runner who never gets a runner's high. And every time her kid asks her to go do some physical activity she thinks “crap, I don't want to do that” and she does it anyway. She resides in in Halifax, NS, Canada.