Healthy Eating
Using this method, you can serve up meals with a healthy balance of vegetables, protein and carbohydrates - without any counting, calculating, weighing or measuring.
What is the Plate Method?
This type of exercise is repeated and continuous movement of large muscle groups and includes walking, cycling, jogging and swimming.
What is aerobic exercise?
What is a trigger?
What is laughter?
A macronutrient that helps our bodies to build tissues, it comprises 25% of the plate.
What is Protein?
The Ideal percentage of your plate that should contain non-starchy vegetables.
What is 50%?
The recommended number of minutes of moderate physical activity for adults each week.
What is 150?
This essential tool helps break goals into small achievable steps.
What is an Action Plan?
A hormone that is released by the body during stressful situations, (fight or flight) it raises the body's blood glucose, and overtime will increase insulin resistance and abdominal fat.
What is Cortisol?
Recommended % of weight loss to prevent or delay Type 2 diabetes.
What is 5-7%?
This Macronutrient has the most effect on blood glucose.
What are Carbohydrates?
A test you can do to determine if the activity your doing is of moderate intensity.
What it the "talk test"?
A type of harmful thinking, it leads us to believe we are either going to be perfectly successful or completely fail.
What is all or nothing?
A common stress reliever that involves inhaling and exhaling slowly increasing the supply of oxygen to your brain, sending a signal to your nervous systems to lower your heart rate, blood pressure and cortisol.
What is Deep breathing?
When a person's blood glucose level is higher than normal but not high enough to be classified as diabetes.
What is prediabetes?
A key nutrient that is found in fruits and vegetables but is missing from fruit and vegetable juice.
What is resistance training?
One of the 6 concepts of Making an Action Plan.
Be Realistic
Make it Doable
Be Specific
Be flexible
Focus on Behaviors
Make it Enjoyable
Identify the negative thought, put on the brakes, think helpful thoughts.
What are the 3 steps to replace negative thoughts with helpful thoughts?
The personalized reason for participating in the program. It is a helpful reminder and a great motivator for success.
What is my "WHY"?
One serving size of meat.
What is the palm of your hand or the size of a deck of cards?
2 minutes of movement for every 30 minutes of sitting.
What is a movement break?
In the National Weight Loss Study, the individuals who successfully lost weight and kept it off did there two things.
What is daily physical activity and tracking?
Refuels you, it supports your physical, mental and spiritual health-"Putting your oxygen mask on first".
What is Self-Care?
Describe your problem, come up with options, choose the best option, make a plan and try it.
What are the five steps of problem solving?