Healthy Eating
Physical Activity
Potpourri
Tools and Challenges
Stress
100

The percentage of non-starchy vegetables on Myplate.

What is 50%?

100

The recommended number of minutes of physical activity for adults each week.

What is 150?

100

Describe your problem, come up with options, choose the best option, make an action plan, try it.

What are the five steps of problem solving?

100

This is a stress-causing situation or event that may lead us to respond habitually.

What is a trigger?

100

Stress can increase your risk for many chronic diseases, including this condition, the focus of this program. 

What is Type 2 Diabetes?

200

This macronutrient helps our bodies to build tissues and comprises 25% of MyPlate.

What is Protein?

200

A test you can do to determine if the activity your doing is of moderate intensity.

What is the "talk test"?

200

The number of calories in a pound of fat.

What is 3500?

200

One of the most important skills we cultivate in this program, it helps us to observe how our thoughts and habits may be helping or hurting us.

What is self-awareness?

200

Stress typically has this effect on your blood glucose.

What is increases?

300

These foods are high in fiber, water, and vitamins and minerals and are low in calories, sugar and fat.

What are non starchy vegetables?

300

This type of exercise gives your heart and lungs a workout and raises endurance.

What is aerobic exercise?

300

Happens when a person's blood glucose level is higher than normal but not high enough to be classified as diabetes. 

What is prediabetes?

300

This type of harmful thinking leads us to believe we are either, going to be perfectly successfully or completely fail!

What is all or nothing?

300

Common stress relivers include exercising, listening to calming music, and this activity that involves inhaling and exhaling. 

What is deep breathing?

400

In a balanced meal, carbohydrates should take up this percentage of your plate.

What is 25%?

400

Physical activity using resistance bands, dumbbell, kettle balls, and your own body weight. 

What is Resistance training? 

400

This is often far larger than we need when we eat out, making it important to plan ahead.

What is portion size?

400

This essential tool helps us break our goals into small, achievable steps. 

What is an Action Plan?

400

Stressors can sometimes be avoided by saying this two-letter word. 

What is "NO"?

500

This Macronutrient has the most effect on Blood Glucose.

What are Carbohydrates?

500

Percentage of weight loss to prevent/delay type 2 diabetes. 

What is 5-7%?

500

The personalized reason for participating in this program.  It is a helpful reminder and a great motivator for success.   

What is my "WHY"

500

In the National Weight Loss study, the individuals who successfully lost weight and kept it off did these two things. 

What is daily physical activity and tracking?

500

The stress hormone, is elevated when we are in a heightened state of arousal and is responsible for increasing insulin resistance and abdominal fat?

What is Cortisol?