BIO1156 Behavior Change Assessment

Introduction

Health is an essential part of our life but in hurdle life sometimes we are unable to concentrate on our health and we can become unhealthy. So, it is necessary for every person to maintain their health physically as well as mentally. I am a student and doing work to live a comfortable life and manage my expenses here. But even sometimes I had seen those days when I was so, busy, and I have no time to take care of myself and I became so, unhealthy. Thus, I think that everybody should make a health action plan and follow it as well to be health conscious. I have set so, me targets to stay fit which I will tell you in the following paragraph.

Target Behaviours: My target behaviors are given below:
1. Healthy food choices
2. Walk in the early morning
3. Less use of sugar
4. Study hard to achieve goals
5. Exercise daily
But my first priority is to choose healthy food items which are the main part to feel us healthy because I notice myself sometimes, I chose the healthy foodstuff but indirectly that was unhealthy for me. such as unhealthy foods which include hydrogenated vegetable oils increase the risk of heart disease, high amounts of calories, sodium, and saturated fat may harmful, high-fat products increase the chances of obesity. In short, these types of foodstuff have become a danger for my health which I can not tolerate. So, this is my major concern overall through this health action plan except for others. Because if I will stay healthy then I can achieve my other targets otherwise it is impossible to do that.
So, it is very hard for me to do some improvements in this behavior because due to my busy schedule maybe I will not be able to get enough time to make my food at home. So, before going to work then I eat fast food only which is very unhealthy. As well as, I am a pure vegetarian because I belong to Sikhism so, everything here in Canada is non- vegetarian so, it is very hard for me to eat on time. so, maybe these kinds of problems I have to face while changing the behavior.

Establishing Baseline
So, I have selected to follow a better diet plan instead of unhealthy food. So,, I would talk about the baseline frequency of this behavior, I started to look at this behavior from the last week, then I felt that I have really an unhealthy eating habit. On the first day of the week, I did not eat anything because I was so, busy with my work. But for the next day, I eat a little bit healthy because my friend offers me to eat so, me food at home. As well as for the next two days Wednesday and Thursday I have an exam and work both at the same time. that why I was really unable to take a healthy diet as well as I was not able to take a good sleep for these two days. In these 48 hours, I did not drink the required amount of water. On the first day I eat only the junior chicken after that I ate only one sandwich. But the next morning, I came home and ate the noodles made by myself. S0, for the remaining days, I was following the same type of unhealthy diet. So, in the below graph, I have tried to represent the diet plan for last week.