1. Concept 2 Using self-management Skills to Adhere to healthy lifestyle Behaviors
Introduction
Practicing lifelong healthy lifestyles is the key to health
Many people are not effective in making lifestyle
Special skills SMS have been developed to make lifestyles change
Goal: factors relating to healthy lifestyles adherence and self-management skills will be described

2. 1. To what extent one could change his/her lifestyle ?
Practicing one healthy lifestyle does not ensure adherence to another (asked to do)
Adopting one lifestyle change often makes it easier to make other changes ( believe in)
changing a lifestyle is not an overnight process
Model for lifestyle change Fig1(to help understand negative lifestyles and positive ones)

3. a) Precontemplation: refusing change in lifestyle
b) Contemplation: thinking about change
c) Preparation
d) Action
e) Maintenance
Depending on life circumstances lifestyle move back and forth from one stage to another
Relapse is less likely after the maintenance stage is reached

4. 2. Factors promoting lifestyle change
The promoting factors relate equally well to stages of change for the healthy lifestyle
They influence the way you live

5. Age, gender, heredity, social status and current health/fitness are Personal factors that affect health behaviors but are out of control
Predisposing factors (getting you started) are associated with 2 basic questions: Am I able? and Is it worth it ? They can help you to move from contemplation  to preparation 
- Feeling that you are able means that you have good perception of competence (self confidence and self efficacy)
- You will make change in behavior if you think your effort is worthwhile

6. Enabling factors help to take step toward action and maintenance
- Self assessment
- Self monitoring
- Goal setting………..
Reinforcing factors (support) move people from action to maintenance and to stay there ‘ to stick with a behavior change’
- Reinforcing factors are family, peer, and health professional influence

7. 3. Self- management skills for changing predisposing, enabling and reinforcing factors : Table 1,2 and 3
* Self- management skills  are very useful in promoting lifestyles that enhance health, wellness, and fitness:
Self-assessment skills
Self-monitoring
Goal-setting
Planning skills
Performances Skills
Balancing attitudes
Overcoming barriers
Learning consumer skill
Finding social support
Preventing relapse
Adopting coping skills
Managing time
(lab 2A)
* Table 4 to practice SM

10. Strategies for actions
Do not compare your fitness to athletes (unrealistic expectation)
Factors that influence Health, wellness and fitness are largely within your control
Assess factors that influence healthy lifestyle
With practice you can improve your SMS table 4
Theories and models associated with healthy lifestyle adoption table 5