Title: Compose a personal wellness plan.
Course: Nutrition and Wellness (19253-36) > Section: Understanding Nutrition and Wellness

Composition should include

- identifying wellness strategies, such as
  - examining physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social, behavioral, financial, and vocational/occupational wellness
  - establishing a healthy pattern of eating
  - engaging in regular physical activity
  - maintaining good nutrition
  - avoiding use of harmful substances
  - getting enough sleep
- explaining the positive effect of regular physical activity on the body and mind
- choosing appropriate types and levels of physical activity to improve physical condition
- charting progress over time
- defining goals for improving wellness
- evaluating goals by asking whether each goal is specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and tangible (SMART)
- identifying potential difficulties related to goal achievement
- developing a plan of action
- enumerating ways to evaluate progress toward each goal.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- What criteria is used to evaluate physical fitness?
- What are the outcomes of good physical fitness? Of poor physical fitness?
- Why do people make excuses to avoid exercise as a strategy for physical fitness?

Communication

- What communication skills are needed to develop physical fitness strategies?
- What activities are appropriate for people who wish to improve their physical fitness?
- What role can technology play in maintaining or improving physical fitness?

Leadership

- What leadership abilities help to set and implement goals for physical fitness?
- What motivates people to implement strategies for physical fitness?

Management

- What information and resources are needed to implement strategies for physical fitness?
- What steps should be taken to begin implementing strategies for physical fitness?
- What management techniques are essential to implementing strategies for physical fitness?

Teacher Resources:

- About Health at Every Size (HAES), Association for Size Diversity and Health
- FCCLA Student Body: The Fit You