October 23, 2009, Newsletter Issue #238: Start a health journal

Tip of the Week

Remember...this is your journal and your entries can be whatever you want them to be.

I recommend daily entries, but let the length be short or long according to your experiences.

Weekly entries may work out very well for you. But the longer the time between entries, the more likely valuable information and opinions will be forgotten and lost.

Information you can especially keep in your health journal include:

1. Treatments you are using
2. Food you have eaten, especially if you are working hard at weight management
3. Your progress in nutrition improvement
4. Your progress in exercise
5. Your progress in taking control of your life management
6. Your opinions about the effect of the healthy resolutions you are implementing

Keep the journal in the bathroom vanity drawer and add to it at bedtime or when you are in the bathroom. A journal can be a simple tablet, or a spiral type notebook or a beautiful bound book from the stationary department.

My journaling experiences have led me to prefer using a new page for each day. This makes it easier for me to go back to a certain date for specific information. The goal of a journal is become a helpful habit which supports your other resolutions through your accountability to the journal. To be more successful, it will help early on to find an entry pattern that helps you. But, as with exercise routines, sometimes it helps extend the vitality of a journaling project to change methods just slightly from time to time. One idea may be to treat yourself to a new ´book´ for each month´s journal.

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