For change to be permanent, it must stop being a diet and become your life. A diet is temporary, endured, framed as deprivation. A way of living is how you operate indefinitely, requiring minimal effort because it’s habitual, framed as self-expression. Permanence requires sustainability, habit formation, environment alignment, and identity integration.
This companion explores the diet versus life distinction, the permanence test questions, building for permanence, and the shift from temporary thinking to permanent thinking. (5 min read)