Making Healthy Decisions

WW Weekly provided some great tips on how to make healthy decisions.  The best way to make healthy decisions?

Create a guideline ahead of time so you aren't wasting any energy making a good-for-you decision in the moment.

1.  Identify a scenario:  Pinpoint a scenario where you often make an in-the-moment decision you wish you didn't such as eating sweets instead of more fruit.

2.  Decide what to do:  Determine ahead of time what you actually want to do instead of eating the sweets.  You could eat fruit while watching tv.

3.  Create a guideline:  When _____ happens, I'll do _____.

I actually used this.

When I sit down to watch TV, I'll bring a piece of fruit with me.

4.  Check Yourself:  Review your guideline to make sure it's truly do-able.  It shouldn't require a lot of effort or be hard to stick to-that way, it'll be more likely you'll use it.  The more you use it, the more second nature it'll become.

Source:  WW Weekly December 27-January 2, 2020

Sincerly,

NC Wellness Consultant