Be able to accept the change.

“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves, otherwise we harden” Goethe.

Humans are creatures of habit.  Some habits we have to lose and some we have to gain and accept.  Healthy eating and regular exercising eventually grows on you but you need to give it a chance.  Here is an obvious example:  start eating breakfast.  If you force yourself for 2 weeks in a row, it will grow on you and most likely will turn into a habit.  Give a try to all the variety of breakfasts in this book – those are all extremely tasty and of course, healthy.

Here is another example:  If you’re a white rice eater, you need to know that eating five servings per day increase your risk of diabetes for 17%.  On the other hand, eating two servings of brown rice was associated with decreased risk of diabetes.  The difference is the whole grain that is polished off the white rice.   Researchers from Harvard School of Public Health demonstrated  that just substituting of white rice with brown lowers the risk of diabetes.  (Archives of Internal Medicine, June 14, 2010)

Make a small change, and break a habit. It's the most effiective form of treatment.