Eating Healthy
1. Awareness- I became aware how important it is to eat healthy when my father was diagnosed with diabetes. I always saw him eating late at night and munching on sweets but never thought anything of it. I figured he works hard during the day- he deserves to eat what he likes. Wrong- it finally caught up with him and now he can’t eat alot of things because it can kill him.
2. Knowledge and beliefs- I knew eating all those sweets couldn’t be bad for you but I have such a fast metabolism that I never gain weight. But then I realized that gaining weight wasn’t the only indication that I was eating unhealthy. I felt lazy and sick sometimes. It was beginning to dawn on me that just because I wasn’t gaining weight didn’t mean I was helathy.
3. Behavorial skills- I began to start cooking my own food. I began eating less sweets and alot more greens. This was not hard to do because when I eat good- I REALLY feel good. I’ll eat McDonalds or Wendys because I want something instant. but I’ll feel like shit 5 minutes after. But if I eat a grilled chicken panini with onions, lettuce and tomatoes I’ll feel full and great! By me cooking more I am not only eating more healthier but it saves me a ton of money! Just doing the dishes suck.
4. Self Efficacy- I am keep up this new lifestyle. It’s not that hard to do. I have all the utensils that I need. I work for a company called “saladmaster” and it promotes healthy cooking by cooking with stainless surgical steel. By cooking with Saladmaster you don’t let bad toxins get into your food because the cooking system is non-porous. So I cook in that, I cook for my girlfriend (I just wish she would do her own dishes! She’ll let them stack up in the sink until she has NO untensils and then she is forced to clean it- but even then- sometimes she’ll just sit there and starve. lmao- lazy). I like this new lifestyle- that’s why it’s easy for me to keep it up. And my girlfriend promotes it too- she’s become a crazy health junkie- excercising and eating healthy and watching portion control- so her doing this with me helps alot too.
5. Supports for sustaining change. I guess my support is from my girlfriend. I think if she wasn’t so into eating healthy and always buying good groceries- i don’t know if I would be able to keep it up. Also, when I watch my mom carefully prepare my dads food and my dad watching what he eats- it only makes me want to keep this up. I don’t want to become liek that. My mom worries all the time and it stresses me out. I wouldn’t want to do that to my wife or my health. Anyways, pops lost alot of weight and he looks good. I always wondered who I looked like because it was never really my mom. Once he lost the weight and his face got thinner- I saw that I look exactly like him.
this is good. good work.