Thrive State Podcast

EPISODE 20: Get Healthy AF with a Habits-Based Approach

Episode 20: Oonagh Duncan

How many times have you thought about implementing a health regimen? And how many times have you heard yourself immediately backing down and saying the greatest excuse of all: ‘I don’t have the time’?

The biggest problem we have in health today is overcomplexity. Availability of overwhelming information gives us a tendency to make simple things way too complicated. And this overwhelms people, discourages us from implementing even the little changes. End result—we quit and do nothing.

But here’s Oonagh Duncan for some real, no-fancy talk. She is the CEO of Fit Feels Good and author of the international bestseller Healthy as F**k and another upcoming sure hit, Ditch the Diet. This is for everyone wanting to approach wellness science in the most chillax way possible.

Her philosophy is simple and straightforward: Make health your habit. No matter how big or small, do start and put a step forward.

And when you’re hit by the ‘f**k its,’ it’s totally fine! Don’t beat yourself up. Reward yourself even for the small wins. Success is built by those milestones you win day by day, week by week, month by month.

And after all, health and getting healthy is about feeling good. So watch the episode with Oonagh Duncan and talk about health like you’re just having a good laugh with your best bud and getting ready to be a kick a** at life!

Oonagh’s got a super deal for Thrive State listeners. Pre-order Ditch the Diet and get $300 in bonuses when you use this link: fitfeelsgood.com/thrive.
Catch Oonagh at fitfeelsgood.com and @oonaghduncan on IG!

Show notes

03:09

From Anti-Fitness to Feel Good Expert: As soon as I made that decision, my career took off as I would never have imagined. Swimming upstream vs. shifting streams – when you’re moving right with the current, and everything seemed to be working for you.

07:48

The Habit Loop: Habits are formed through Trigger – Behavior – Reward loops. What people tend to miss is that reward section. Because people think we don’t need it, but this is how the brain works. We need these positive affirmations to do these things.

10:28

Habit stacking: Attach a habit you want to adapt to things already built into your routine, so it’s easier to do. Build keystone habits—those that set off a ripple effect throughout your day.

13:11

What a healthy day looks like: It is what you learn in kindergarten. Go back to the basics—there is no big secret about the stuff we have to do. The big secret is really about actually doing those things.

17:40

‘It’s ok to half-ass it!’: It doesn’t have to be all or nothing. If you’re trying to implement a habit, allow the small wins.

20:26

Fighting the ‘F* it!’: The messy middle. Don’t get all guilty; learn what you gotta learn from it and use that to get empowered to do something different.

24:54

The Efforts-to-Results Ratio: You can decide on the effort and make peace with the results, or you can decide on the results you want and make peace with the efforts that are gonna take to get you there. It’s your choice.

29:08

The Feel Good Movement: Recognizing that health and wellness are not a number on a scale but how you feel. Feeling good is the ultimate outcome that you want, and ALSO the method by which you need to get there.

32:54

Best Medicine: Dance. Exercise. Music

Here’s the super deal that’s gonna get you to be a kick a** at life! Pre-order Oonagh Duncan’s Ditch the Diet book and get $300 in bonuses here: fitfeelsgood.com/thrive.

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