This is good - habits and how to create good ones is sort of my favorite topic.
Have a look all the way down at the bottom - I have a new gout diet recipe for you from
What To Eat For Gout
When it comes right down to it, we live and die (and get gout) by our habits. There is always a lot of talk about will power, self discipline, determination, focus, commitment...all good stuff. I think it's sort of a combination of all those things that come together to create a "habit".
But, it's the opposite of all those things that also create "habits"...bad ones.
It can be said that gout is the result of the lack of all those positive qualities. How come sometimes we have control of those qualities, and sometimes we don't?
Read this post. Maybe it will change your mind about how you think about what you eat and why you eat it...and why you keep getting gout: