Healthy Habits for a Healthy Life
How many of us say we are going to get healthier? We will start going to the gym, we will start eating healthier. But then it never happens. The September 2015 issue of the Berkeley Wellness Letter has some suggestions for not only changing habits, but changing them for good. The article is based on James Prochaska, Ph.D., professor of psychology at the University of Rhode Island. Over 30 years ago, he proposed stages of changing our habits. If you follow these stages, suggestions, you should have better success in changing bad habits to good habits. Studies have found that changing behavior doesn’t happen overnight but it is a process and we can improve our odds of making changes permanent and a “habit” that lasts. What are the 5 stages? Precontemplation – yes, you have to decide to change a habit – to get off the couch, to cut back or eliminate the sugared sodas, to go for a walk e...