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Healthy You
Are you ready for a Healthier You? Check out these great tips, resources, and ideas to help you get started living your best!
Assess Your Environment
The choices we make every day are greatly influenced by our environments. While CanDo is working to improve our food and physical activity environments at the community level, there are steps you can take to ensure that your home environment is conducive to making healthy choices. Use the following audits from America on the Move to assess your home and learn ways to improve your personal environment:
Home Food Environment Audit, Spanish
Home Physical Activity Environment Audit, Spanish
Eat Healthy
Tip: When eating out, ask the waiter for a to-go box when you order. Before you begin eating, put ½ your food in the to-go box so you’re not as tempted to overeat.
Recipes
What’s in Your Food?
Helpful Handouts
Book Resource
Eating Mindfully: How to End Mindless Eating and Enjoy a Balanced Relationship with Food by Susan Albers
Get Active
Tip: Take short activity breaks throughout the day. Even if you’re planning to do your “workout” later in the day, it’s important to move your body every 1 to 2 hours.
How Active Are You?
Track Your Physical Activity
Helpful Resources
Manage My Weight
Tip: For long-term weight loss, set a realistic goal of losing 1-2 pounds per week.
Weight Management Guides & Resources
- Healthy Weight: It’s Not a Diet, It’s a Lifestyle!
- MyPyramid – Food/Activity Trackers, Menus, & More
- Food & Activity Journal
- Aim for a Healthy Weight
- Finding the Balance: Parent’s Guide
Calculators
Helpful Handouts & Links
Reduce Stress
Tip: Trim down your “to do” list. Separate tasks into “need to do” and “nice to do” and then focus only on what is really necessary for the amount of time you have.
Stress and Health
Stress Management Techniques
Helpful Resources
CanDo spotlight!
Have you had a chance to explore www.ChooseMyPlate.gov for the most recent USDA recommendations for healthy eating?