Healthy Lifestyle Essay

Keeping up a healthy lifestyle can be very difficult. Between work, school, and life in general, people barely have time to eat three meals a day. A lot of people struggle to incorporate healthy eating and physical activity in their daily routines. People forget that if they take care of themselves, it might help make their day a bit better. A healthy lifestyle is a very important part of living a better life.
Recently, I have been busy and have been struggling to live a healthy life. The three factors that currently affect my health behaviors are fast food, living in a suburban area, and friends. I believe that if I improve the way I handle these three things, I would live a healthier life.
Food is one factor that currently affects my health

But as I thought about writing this paper, it was hard for me to choose one so I asked my sister for help. She said that the main personal health behavior I should change is the amount of sugar I consume in a day. At first I did not agree but then when I thought about it, I realized that I do have a bit of a sweet tooth. According to the Transtheoretical stages of change model I am on precontemplation. The precontemplation stage was described as “no current intention of changing” (Donatelle, page 9). At this point, I have not realized my problem of consuming too much sugar until someone pointed it out. This was not a behavior I was not planning on changing. It affects my daily routine because it makes me hype then causes a sugar crash soon after. I know acknowledge that I need to stop eating too much surgery things. I am going to change this habit by implementing a few things in my daily, weekly and monthly life. First, I am going to plan out the amount of sugar I can have in a day. Then I will bring prepackaged food and snacks from home. I can bring healthy snacks such as nuts, vegetables, and fruits. I also have the option of having snacks like Nature valley and other healthy snacks on campus. That will keep me away from sugary