Please wiring your individual Health Behavior Change assignment. The goal of this assignment is for each student to attempt to change one health behavior, explore your thoughts, feelings, and attit
4. Health Behavior Change Journal- this is an Individual Assignment: (10 points) For approximately one week, students will have the opportunity to attempt to make a health behavior change in a health area of their choice. This can be an area you want to maintain, improve, increase/decrease depending on the type of change. Examples: eat better/healthier, exercise (start or increase), manage stress, improve sleep, quit/decrease smoking, and/or improve time management. For approximately one week, students are being asked to keep track (on computer, on a notebook paper) of your actions taken during this time period. There is no right, wrong, and no failure. Research shows it takes 3-4 months of consistent practice to make a behavior change stay. The mere act of attempting a health behavior change makes you a success! Time Frame: 1 week (approximately 5 to 7 days): Start date-anytime from January 3rd. Due Date of your completed journal AND responses to questions #1-6 below: Saturday, January 12th on/by 11 pm. UPLOAD your assignment in tab “Health Behavior Journal” Please follow this format and include in your final journal paper. You should have at least ONE entry per day for 1 week for approximately a total of 5 up to 7 entries. 1. Your First, Last Name 2. What health behavior do you want to change? Please be specific 3. If you make this change, what will improve for you? 4. What is stopping you at this moment? a. Belief? Personal Values? b. Emotional Habit? c. Other? 5. What is the negative emotion that comes up when you think about making this change 6. What is your attitude about making this change? 7. After you have attempted your behavior change for 5 to 7 days, SUMMARIZE, in approximately 1 to 2 pages maximum how you did. Speak to the challenges, your attitude towards this change, and if you will try to continue with your behavior change. • Journal should have at least ONE entry per day. An entry can be a paragraph, a page, or several pages depending on how YOU manage your behavior change. The goal is to show you are attempting, each day, to work on improving your overall health/life. Please use an organized format, make it clear to decipher your responses to questions #1-6 and #7 Summarize 1 page, and include your actual entry dates/feelings/thoughts/emotions around the behavior change. EXAMPLE of a Journal Log Sheet: Day 1- Date (1/6/18). Describe what you worked on, any feelings, thoughts, and emotions around the behavior change. Day 2- Date; today was a difficult day because…. Day 3- Date….. etc….. Day 5, Day 6, Day 7