Personal Narrative: A Long-Term Health Goal

One long-term health goal I would like to accomplish is eating healthier. I would say I eat out four time a week. I would like to replace these meals with home cooked meals that help me meet the national recommended serving for meats, fruits, and vegetables. By the end of the long term goal, I would like to be eating healthy home cooked meals four to five times a day. Three obstacles to changing this behavior would be the convenience of eating out for lunch and dinner. Another obstacle would be the lack of healthy foods in my household. The first strategy I would use to combat the convenience of eating fast food, is by buying a good amount of groceries that consist of healthy meals for me to eat throughout the week. The second strategy I would …show more content…
She will help me stay true to my grocery list as well as creating meal preps for us to eat throughout the week. My second resource will be using my Fitbit that will allow me to write down the meals that I have eaten through the week and month. This will allow me to track my progress and remain motivated to continue my progress despite the hiccups I may encounter. My third resource will be using my Fitbit community in order to stay motivated. I keep in touch with a Fitbit community and read post of other participant’s health goal. Posting your health goals and getting feedback will allow me to be held accountable for my actions in order to stay motivated to reach my goals. My second resources will help me keep track of my progress. I will use the app on my phone and the website in order to keep track of my progress. Keeping track the progress will help me in order to stay motivated to accomplish my goals. This will also allow me to know what meals I like and what meals I should replace because I am less likely to eat them. My long term goal is to eat healthy meals at home at least 5 times throughout the week. I know that I eat fast food about four to five times a week. For a short term goal, I would like to end the month eating healthy home cooked meals three times a week. I think this short-term goal is reasonable and will help me meet my long term