Hi, and welcome back. And welcome to our third module in this module, I'm actually going to give you a little bit of lifestyle homework. And this is in preparation for the other modules. What we're going to do is we're going to look at where you are right now. And the reason why that's important is because it will help you as you move through the modules to see how you can make small adjustments or large adjustments that are going to help you achieve your goals of getting your blood sugar's under control, balancing your blood sugar's. So, this is going to be I'm going to have you do a lifestyle log.

So in this handout, you will see that I will ask you to write down what your habits are for three days. So this will give you an understanding of what your eating habits actually are. What your sleeping habits are like, what your exercise habits are like, if you have stress, or you feel emotional or stressful eating or just you don't feel good during the day, you will write those things down as well. And you're going to do this for three days. And the reason why we do it for three days is because on any given day, you could have a kind of weird part of your schedule. When you do it for three days, it gives you an idea of what your habits are.

Now, this can actually be really informative. Because when you say, Well, you know, I generally eat this and I generally go to bed this time. In your mind, that's what you actually think. But when you write it down and you look at it, you might notice certain patterns that you had not noticed before. So you're going to look at the handout and you're going to look at when you wake up in the morning, how do you feel Do you feel refreshed and ready for the day? What are you eating for breakfast?

Or are you skipping breakfast? How do you feel on your way to work? Do you have stressful moments while you're at work? Are you eating lunch? What time? Are you eating lunch?

Then you look at later in the day after you get off, or what do you do between getting off work? And the time that you go to bed? Are you exercising? Are you picking up your kids? Are you cooking? Do you have other curricular activities that you do?

And you're going to write that down, and then you're going to write if you have snacks, if you cheat, if you eat late at night, all these things are things for you to understand about your current habits. You don't have to share it with anybody else. It is just for you. But it gives you a way of beginning to look at and beginning to see how things that you're doing could be impacting your blood sugar's Don't forget to put what time you go to sleep at night, because we're gonna have a whole module on sleep later in the program. So, very simple. And just do that for the next three days.

And if you want you notice some aha things you can put comments about how you're doing on the segment. I'll see you next time.