The accountant and the carpenter.

Over the past few months, I've been tracking how I do. I haven't made vast improvements but I have made minor ones.


I've been more accountable with what I do with my life. If I eat something, I track it. If I exercise, I track it. If I don't move that day, I try to eat less that day.


Since I analyze diets and lifestyles everyday, I have been trying to analyze mine. When  I use these "care plans" as we call them, I want to see checks in all the  left side of the left columns of the form and check marks on all the right side of the right columns.  This is just an easy way to see what the patient needs to work on. I have been using these forms for myself.


On the front side of the form, we analyze the diet and medical history, write a statement of the patient, and then on the back, we code their risks and write our education and nutritional goals that the patient set.


These are my care plans...the front side....you can't really tell but I'm extremely proud of the goals I set and the accomplishments I've made. From the beginning of the year, I've decreased eating out significantly and have increased fruits and vegetables. I've also increased exercise. The one I did today, I could have checked "most days" but I don't feel that I'm exercising enough to qualify for that....but if I had a patient that exercised as much as I do, I would give her the benefit of the doubt and put most days...


So I'm constructing a new diet day by day and I'm becoming accountable for my actions (oh yeah, I'm the accountant and the carpenter...)