Hey there and welcome to Pursuing Health. I'm Dr. Julie Fouche, family physician and

former CrossFit Games athlete. Here is your bonus weekly CrossFit Health Tip, which

was originally published on CrossFit.com. Enjoy!

I'm here today with Stefano Shea, who is a CrossFit Level 3 trainer and content writer

for CrossFit, and we're going to be talking about changing lifestyle habits. So it can

be very overwhelming to want to make a lifestyle change. There's a lot of things out there,

a lot of advice from different people, many different things that you might want to do

and put into practice. How do you recommend that people get started when they know they

want to make a change?

I recommend starting small, starting it with just one simple step. They know they can

accomplish and then mastering that step and then going from there. And what that step is,

different for everybody, but it's something that speaks to them. Maybe a friend tells them

I've had great experience with this, a coach, a doctor. Somebody gives them an idea and they pursue

that. And there's no perfect way to do this. So it's really when I was coaching athletes at

the collegiate level and I was looking at their diets, I would almost always tell them they need

to eat more protein. And that was it. Yes, I did see a lot of junk food, probably some alcohol,

other things that we could fix later on. But the one thing that was easy to explain and to

guide them with was just say, why don't you bump up your protein? You're eating one chicken

breast here, eat two, that kind of thing. And so it was just a simple step to get started

because there's nothing harder than taking that first step.

We're always overwhelmed too much information. Once you take that first step,

that while now you're now you're taking action. And that's literally what you want to have

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