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Personal Health Management: An Approach for a Lifetime (BHAN 155)
University of Delaware
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My behavior change focus will be on losing weight. But in a healthy way be going to the gym and eating healthy. I have never really felt good in my body, it's not that I am obeses, I just not skinny like all the other girls. I have tried all of the crazy diets and weird tricks that I found on the internet. I also have Snapchat and Instagram, which don’t really help me feel good about the way I look. Nothing has worked for me to be able to lose weight, but hopefully this will work for me. My progress this week on improving my behavior change is deleting all social media for the whole week. I actually got my other 3 roommates to do it with me, so we all went on a social media cleanse. On Sunday night we all went on our phones, at 12AM we all deleted Snapchat and Instagram. We have all been supporting each other on this week-long journey to a better and healthier lifestyle. It is only 3 more days until we can redownload all the apps and I don’t know if I even want to download it anymore, I might just be able to talk to my long distance friends (but still, who knows). I think right now I am getting up to the informed pessimism stage of the emotional cycle of change because I am not really excited about this change anymore. It is becoming a lot of work for me to handle, but I still do it because I know it will be good for me in the long run. But I am also really hunkering down on what works for me and what doesn’t, I’m not making any more careless mistakes from overly optimistic thinking. I figured out what healthy food I like, what workout plans work for me, and what kind of social media I can have in my life to be happy. My hopes failed and I am now at the part of my journey where it isn’t fun anymore. What is helping me to work towards my goal is that I hate this, but I don’t hate this enough to don’t think that I can’t do it. I still have a little bit of hope left in me, thinking that I can make it through the next 4 weeks of this process. Also my roommates have been the biggest help, even more than my own mental health. If they weren’t there to make sure that I continued to do the things I am supposed to do, I don’t think I would be able to go on. Social support is so much better than your own personal support system.
I think some challenges I might encounter or I am encountering this week on my weight loss goal is peer pressure. When you decide to delete your social media, but your friends keep theirs it makes it a lot harder. Your friends are constantly talking about things they find on social media, but you can’t see it cause you are on a cleanse. That is going to be the hardest part of the week for me, just staying on target. But I think with determination, and a lot of effort it will work out. For my next week goal I am going to combine eating healthy and working out. Now I know that I said that I was going to do that this week, but I kinda forgot and picked the thing I was going to do next week. So now we are going to backpedal a little, not a lot because this could have been the original way. But it is going to be a bit rough some days with class, work, homework, the gym, and taking the time to find a healthy meal. So hopefully that will workout and I won't fall off of this wagon just yet.
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Course: Personal Health Management: An Approach for a Lifetime (BHAN 155)
University: University of Delaware
