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Help People Take the First Steps to Health

Good intentions don’t always produce good results. People want to eat better and be more active, but they may not have the skills they need to make it happen. Now you can offer your employees, clients, members, or community a tool that will help them get started on their way to a healthy lifestyle. First Steps: Your Healthy Living Journal is a refreshing new approach to getting healthy and staying there.

All-in-One Journal and Guidebook

Developed by Active Living Partners, a comprehensive behavior change initiative, First Steps is based on realistic, research-proven programs. It outlines the four key steps to behavior change. The moderate and realistic approach empowers people to do the following:

  • Build awareness of their current attitudes and behaviors toward diet and physical activity
  • Create solutions to overcome behaviors that undermine their health and fitness goals
  • Boost confidence in their ability to make healthy choices
  • Sustain commitment as they work through challenges and build on their successes

The journal portion of the book provides an easy way to track physical activity and eating patterns. Plus, special sections on setting goals and rewards, overcoming obstacles, and creating motivational affirmations will help people stay committed to their lifestyle changes.

Create a Health Movement

First Steps: Your Healthy Living Journal has everything you need to offer a plan for eating well and being active. Consider these ideas for using First Steps as part of your health promotion initiatives.

Kick-start a health kick. Offer First Steps as a lunch-and-learn series or a half-day workshop. Everyone gets a copy of the journal to use in his or her journey to health.

New year, new you. Help people fulfill that New Year’s resolution to lose weight. Give them First Steps for the holidays!

Offer as an introductory course. First Steps is based on principles of behavior change used in Active Living Every Day and Healthy Eating Every Day. Both of these programs would make great follow-ups to First Steps.

Energize current members. If you have an on-site fitness facility, provide your “hit or miss” members with a motivational tool to recommit to their fitness goals.

Convert good intentions to good attendance. Give First Steps to people who attend a fitness class or wellness presentation.

Start your own best-seller list. Make First Steps part of your health library and provide solid, high-quality information to counteract the diet fads and fitness quick-fixes.

Order Now

Include First Steps: Your Healthy Living Journal as part of your programming for 2006. Bulk discounts are available, and your custom logo can be added to the book cover if desired. For more information or to order, please contact David Earl at 800-747-4457 ext 2319 or davide@hkusa.com. Make a smart investment in healthy living today!



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