Team up with a health coach for a winning game plan to reach your health goals!
The New Year is here! What does that mean for you and your health? Are you one of the many planning to make resolutions and health goals for the New Year? Let’s talk about that. Change can be difficult to accomplish. To set the stage, we need a game plan! Like sports teams that have a goal to win championships, making health changes can be similar. We have an “opponent” – the behavior we want to change. We have “practice” – the other times we’ve made changes. We may even have a “scouting report” on our opponent – what has worked or not worked when making changes in the past. If we have that information, we can make a game plan!
Our plan doesn’t have to be as in-depth as a game plan for a football team playing in the Super Bowl but we still need to have a plan. The plan will help to provide guidelines of how to make changes. The plan needs to include action steps that follow the SMART system…Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely action steps. Write your plan down and have it available to refer back to. When we attempt change, we are bound to run into barriers and setbacks. Having a plan helps you be prepared to face barriers and find ways over, under, around or through them. Your health game plan needs to include contingency plans to help you use barriers as a springboard to greater things. We can’t plan for all barriers but we can be prepared. Hold yourself accountable to making changes but don’t allow yourself to be held hostage by them. If you run into a barrier, adjust your plan to get you back on track. Don’t let that barrier be an excuse to stop! What may also help you drive through a barrier is working with a coach. A health coach can provide you with accountability, guidance, motivation, celebration and cheer leading. A coach can also refer you to the professional services you may need to keep you moving forward. They can help you identify different action steps or take a new perspective on a problem that may help you find a new approach. Remember, you hold the keys to better health!
Warm wishes for a Happy, Healthy and Safe New Year!
It’s Your Health. It’s Your Life. Make That Change!
~John
A person with Diabetes will certainly tell you that it has its ups and downs. Sure, having Diabetes can cause a ton of different feelings and emotions. But the Highs and Lows I’m talking about today are Blood Sugar Levels. The Highs and Lows. Both are important and can have an impact on your overall health. But, Lows can be even more problematic. Hypoglycemia can cause a critical situation that might require the intervention of emergency personnel. To prevent that from happening, you must be aware of what your blood sugar levels are doing. So, let me tell you a little story about last night (2.22.2016)…. I’ll show you my Blood Glucose log and actions taken:
you’ve been able to keep those resolutions! Many times we start to falter as we move deeper into January and February. We often have a tough time making and maintaining change. Why? It doesn’t have to be that way! Things change every day. We are just not always aware of the changes going on around us. The sun rises in the East and sets in the West day after day. What’s different about the rising and setting of the sun? The time is different. It never rises and sets at exactly the same each day! We just don’t perceive the difference until it hits us how dark it is at 4:30 pm on the Winter Solstice. The gradual change makes it more difficult to distinguish the changes. (Take heart, the sun shines a little longer each day now!)
ercise more. Specify what that means to you. How do you define eating healthier or exercising more?
