Habit Tracker
Not everyone needs to focus closely on every ingredient in every meal.
You may not be interested in tracking, food journaling but are interested in forming new habits and behaviours in a sustainable way.
Many people have a good understanding of nutrition, however face the challenge of not actually implementing positive nutrition habits.
The issue isn’t knowledge, the issue is implementation.
In this case, focusing on habits can be extremely effective and understanding the habit loop can be a great place to start.
Here is an example of a habit checklist:
Set yourself a realistic target for how many times you can confidently practice your new habit. It doesn't have to be every day. You can still progress by consistently practicing over time.
However many days you think you can do, subtract 1 from that number and set that as your weekly target.
That way, anything above that is a bonus. Shrinking the change and leaping over the target get help build confidence.
If you set your target too high and life gets in the way, you might feel deflated and demotivated if you don't hit your target.
If building habits is your focus for this program, we have the FNC Habit Tracker which you can use. It is a Google spreadsheet but doesn’t need a great deal of computer skill.
Alternatively you could use a habit building app and we recommend:
Apple - Habit Buddy
Android - Habit Bull
No matter whether you use and app or the FNC Habit Tracker, understanding the habit loop is a great step - we’ve linked the Habit Loop article below as step 3.
To get the FNC Habit Tracker, follow these steps.
Step 1: Fill out the form below and we will send you the FNC Habit Tracker. Being a Google Form, the Diet Builder seems to work best (although not exclusively) with Gmail accounts.
Step 2: Scroll down below the from for the Habit Tracker Guide videos
Step 3: Read The Habit Loop Blog
A quick tip for video quality for the following guide.
If you are finding it difficult to see the details, you can adjust the quality of the playback.
Click on the cog on the bottom right corner of the video and select the largest number to watch with improved quality.
Click on the little square in the bottom right corner to watch the video full screen.
Video List (click the title to skip to the video):
Habit Tracker Pre Check in
This is the step to do at the start of each week - choosing your nutrition skill and planning how you will work on it for a week to start making it a habit.
Habit Tracker Daily Check In
This is the daily step when you have decided what nutrition skill you are working on - ticking off what you did and making comments.
Habit Tracker Post Check In
This is the step at the end of each week, reflect on how you did before choosing your next nutrition skill for the following week.
Habit Tracker - Habit Checklist
This is an option if you want to simple check list of multiple nutrition skills. It might be useful when you’ve built up confidence in a number of nutrition skills and want to keep track of consistency.
Habit Tracker - Adding New Nutrition Skills
You can always choose nutrition skills which are not listed to work on. This video explains how to add in nutrition skills to the drop down menus.