Titrating healthy lifestyle: Using guardrails to get out of your own way

Once you decide that yes you CAN make yourself healthy again, it’s time to get started in a place that will give you a strong foundation and quick win. But where? There’s a story Debra Adele tells in her book The Yamas and Niyamas about a helpful monkey who grabs a fish out of the water and takes him up into the tree. As the fish dies the monkey laments, “But I saved you from drowning!” Sometimes the things we do for our health seem like they should help but they can actually make it ha...