Monthly Archives: February 2017

My first session on live well was very informative. It has shown me that my stress management is at a very high stage. I am maintaining my stress regularly. I am in the action stage of exercise. I am trying to the best of my ability to reach maintenance and keep it going for a regular and steady pace. It’s easier to keep going then to have to start all over again. Then there is healthy eating. A section in livewell, where I am at the Preparation stage. I have a habit of eating and drinking everything and anything that tastes good and is in front of me at any time, any place. I have come to a conclusion that my goal is to meal prep more often and to find myself eating healthy and regularly. I will no longer eat after 8pm daily. My goal is to be closer to maintenance by the end of the semester.

So far my experience with LiveWell has been okay. While completing my first session I learned a lot about myself in terms of health. After finishing the first assessment I found that in exercise I’m in preparation stage, in healthy eating I’m in precontemplation stage, and for stress management I’m in maintenance stage which I thing is great. For exercise I will try my best to improve by taking some time out to make sure I do some cardio at least three times a week. Since I don’t have time to go to the gym I bought myself a resistance band to help me with the workout and I think its great way to begin with. For healthy eating I think this will be hard for me to change since I’m used to the diet that I currently have and while working and taking classes I eat whatever that’s available. LiveWell recommended that I eat 4 cups of fruits and vegetables per day, I thing I can do about 1 and half cup maybe. In LiveWell I like the resources that are available and I actually found the section where students in the video talk about their story of how they were inspired to be healthier because they saw someone else being unhealthy and I’m looking forward to see how effective LiveWell  will be for me.

I would say my 1st session went well. For exercise, I am in the precontemplation phase which I knew already. I always have the urge to go to the gym or to run outside but I never do. For healthy eating, I am in the contemplation phase. I am slowly but surely trying to eat healthier by cutting out sugar from my diet as much as possible and eating less processed foods, especially processed meats which contain a lot of nitrates that can affect my asthma. I try to consume dairy products but I believe that there are other ways to get calcium and vitamin D without drinking milk or eating yogurt, cheese, etc. I believe that we shouldn’t be consuming milk past our infant-toddler ages but that’s just me. For stress management, I am in the action phase. I’m always stressed so I’m always looking for ways to relieve that whether it be taking walks or just sleeping. Overall, I think LiveWell can help in the long-run and give me that push to better myself.