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Document a key health behaviour in a Diary Health Behaviour I wish to Change. A reflection on my health behaviour change journey
targeted towards achieving and maintaining weight reduction.
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Abstract
Fortunately, I was always well-aware of the benefits of eating healthy diet and
exercising regularly. However, sustained commitment towards adopting the healthier lifestyle
was lacking, termed self-liberation in the literature (Romain 2014, p. 262). Of course, there
were numerous short-term, intangible costs associated with my changed lifestyle–unable to eat
my favourite food, inability to spend quality time with my friends in my favourite restaurant
over dinner almost every alternate day, an abrupt end to binge drinking parties during the
weekends, eating a relatively bland diet rich in dietary fibres, forced to walk at least 2 miles a
day irrespective of competing priorities, drinking plentiful of water irrespective of whether I
am thirsty or not and thus staying optimally hydrated, to name a few. However, I was able to
gradually offset most of these short-term costs by adopting the change management process
through counter-conditioning (substituting the behaviours that are undesirable), helping
relationships (seeking support from the community), reinforcement management (rewarding
myself on a regular-basis for implementing the change process successfully), self-liberation
(embarking on this change journey and remaining committed to the change process), and
stimulus control (removing all direct and indirect incentives for unhealthy habits). Notably, my
approach was evidence-informed (Stumpf 2013, p. 24).