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WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THAT YOU FELT 100%?

Welcome to my little wellness quiz, designed to help you get a clear idea on how you rank when it comes to nutrition, health and wellness. Are you doing enough to stay fit and well? Why is it important? You can hardly open a newspaper or check into social media without seeing stories about the dramatic downturn in our collective health. Desk jobs, busy lifestyles and fast food are destroying our health, leading to shocking stories like: 8/10 people are overweight, drink too much or get too little exercise. And, let’s face it, the figures represent only those brave enough to admit their darkest secrets on a public health questionnaire. The reality is that most people are probably not taking good enough care of themselves. There are some key questions that have a huge influence on your overall health and feeling of wellness. Answering them will help you get a really good picture of what’s going on. And, if you decide you need help, you know where I am …

HOW HEALTHY IS YOUR DIET?

    WHAT DO YOU HAVE FOR BREAKFAST?

    HOW MANY PORTIONS OF FRUIT AND VEG DO YOU EAT A DAY?

    WHICH SOFT DRINKS DO YOU CONSUME THE MOST?

    HOW MANY MEASURES* OF ALCOHOL DO YOU DRINK PER WEEK (BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF)?

    * A 125ml glass of wine with 12-13% alcohol by volume (most wines) contains approx. 1.5 units of alcohol. 125ml is a small glass. At home you are more likely to be serving up glasses around 175ml to 250ml.

    CHOOSE THE DEGREE TO WHICH YOU AGREE WITH THIS STATEMENT: I OFTEN CRAVE CHOCOLATE, SWEET FOODS, CEREAL OR PASTA.

    Your diet needs a little attention. Bad habits and too much sugar lead to chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease. Making changes to your diet has a big impact on how you feel and how much energy you have. Focus on trying to get more natural, unprocessed foods into your life Breakfast is often a low point in people’s diets nutritionally. Consider going to work on an egg, warming up some porridge, packing up your overnight oats or chia pudding – even a slice of wholemeal toast with unsweetened nut butter is a big step up from sugary cereals.
    Not bad, but there’s room for improvement. Look to your snacks and see where you eat more of the good stuff (nuts, seeds, low GL fruit like apples, pears, plums and berries, nut butters, oatcakes, hummus, crudités) and less of the not-so-good stuff (afternoon raids of the biscuit tin or ‘picking’ when you get in from work).
    I commend you for the effort you are already putting into taking care of your health. There is always something you can be doing to fine-tune your diet and take your health to the next level. The next step up is functional foods: those foods that fulfil a specific role in the body. Flaxseeds, for example, are helpful for hormone balance.

    What does your overall picture look like?

    The results should speak for themselves when it comes to highlighting the areas that need the most work. If you scored the minimum (or close to the minimum) in more than two areas, it really is worth prioritising your health. Even if you feel you have a long way to go, just start. It doesn’t matter how big the first change is, just that you make it. Once that starts to feel OK, change something else. The fast track through all of this is to come and work with me on a nutrition coaching programme, where we can take a look at your current level of health and wellness, consider any symptoms you may be experiencing, and work together to create a step-by-step programme for you to follow. Different levels of support are available.

    If you are in the middle group – you’ve done OK generally, some areas are better than others. Where can you do more? Are you using ‘it could be worse’ as a reason for not taking 100% responsibility for all areas of your health? I would invite you to prioritise one area of nutrition, health and wellbeing, work yourself down a list of improvements you could be making in that area, and get yourself firing on all cylinders.

    If you scored highly in the quiz, do not rest on your laurels. You’re feeling pretty darn good – but could things get even better? Even among the high flyers, it’s likely that you scored slightly lower on one area than another. Work on that. Or maybe you are so healthy that you got the perfect 20/20. Very well done. But there will be something you know that you are not doing so well on, but it turns out I didn’t ask … You know what I’m talking about. Look to fixing that.

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