Healthy Choice Challenge
See below how simple healthy choices can help you to stay on track in a big way. If you’ve made the choice to live a healthier lifestyle and achieve extraordinary health, your daily choices will reflect your decision and you won’t be as inclined to give in to temptations that slow your progress.
Review the options below, what choices are you making to support or detract from your decision to live a healthier lifestyle?
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Choice A: Skip breakfast
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Choice B: Eat a healthy, low-calorie meal such as low fat yogurt and strawberries with a cup of hot tea.
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Choice A: Snack on a candy bar.
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Choice B: Eat a piece of fruit or a protein bar.
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Choice A: Sit around during lunch or your break.
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Choice B: Walk around the building; climb a few flights of stairs; meditate; stretch; walk the dog.
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Choice A: Save up calories for that big dinner.
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Choice B: Eat every three hours; never skip a meal in order to eat more later.
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Choice A: have a high-calorie, high-fat dessert.
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Choice B: Have fruit, sorbet, coffee; have one bit and savor it.
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Choice A: Go to happy hour.
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Choice B: Run or go to the gym; play golf, tennis, or bike with friends.
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Choice A: Choose fast food.
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Choice B: Make your own meals or order salad with grilled chicken.
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Choice A: Sit around being bored.
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Choice B: Make a “to do” list and get your house, office, etc, in order.
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Choice A: Listen to negative self talk.
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Choice B: Read a positive book; review your goals.
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Choice A: Stay up late watching TV and snacking.
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Choice B: Go to bed early enough to get seven hours of sleep; tape your favorite late-night shows.
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Choice A: Drink soda or fruit drinks.
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Choice B: Drink water (8 to 10 glasses daily).
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Choice A: Shop when you’re hungry, without a list.
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Choice B: Shop after eating and stick to your list.
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Choice A: Drink alcohol and in excess.
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Choice B: Have a club soda with lime or drink 1 glass of red wine.
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Choice A: Reach for the snack cupboard.
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Choice B: Sweep the front porch, take out two soup cans and use them for your weight-training exercises.
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Choice A: Try to get healthy alone.
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Choice B: Ask a friend to join you; partner with a health coach and trainer; join a gym.
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Choice A: Eat at a fast food restaurant.
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Choice B: Make your own healthy meals so you control how they’re prepared.
You’ll find it easier to make the right choices when you’re thinking in terms of the benefits of achieving your goals rather than depending on willpower for long terms success. I hope you are sticking to your healthy lifestyle plan. I'm excited you committed to living a healthier life. Don't give up. Keep up those weekly Extraordinary Habits of Health and don’t let your journey toward Extraordinary Health ever end. Keep pressing on towards new goals and live an extraordinary life!