As a primary care physician, part of my role is to encourage a healthy lifestyle because we want to add quality to people's years of life in addition to the quantity.
Sometimes that can include helping people with their medications or just kind of walking alongside of them when they're making lifestyle changes, whether it's losing weight or working on their mental health. When we set goals, we want to be SMART. And SMART stands for setting a goal that's specific, and then we want to be attainable and realistic. So setting goals in increments instead of massive goals that are out of reach. And the last thing is that the goal is timely. Having a time frame so that we have a marker that we can go back and say I've reached my goal and you can feel good about that.
There's a lot of things you could consider when planning meals to make them healthier. Just a few things are including a lot of protein. Fiber is also important, keeping your digestive system regulated. And then planning ahead of time can be really helpful.
Exercise is also important for living a healthy lifestyle. Exercise needs for people are generally thirty minutes of moderate activity at least five days a week.
So one thing we want to emphasize is living a healthy lifestyle includes a lot of prevention and not just treatment of diseases. So we want to try to stop these things before they happen if we can.
My ultimate goal in patient care is establishing long term relationships with my patients. I want to meet them where they're at with their health, but I also want to walk along them.
The more we get to know people, the better we can take care of them holistically.
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