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2018 Life Changers
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Providence Health & Services
January
January 2018
Tiffany Reeves | Providence Health and Services
I never thought much of keeping track of the things that I do to stay healthy or try to stay on track but since the tracking, I have realized how easy it is to slip. I don't eat fast food but ...
Laura Galbraith | Providence Health and Services
I actually started to make a change with the heart to start program when I was encouraged to start this by my friend Mindy. I will run my first 5K this month and I also signed up for the Shamrock run ...
Mary Sargent | Providence Health and Services
I'm probably one of the older 8^) participants. My husband and I are in our early 70's, have both experienced cancer, enjoy good health today. We are VERY thankful for the great care we have ...
Renee Mariconette | Providence Health and Services
Choose Well has reminded me to live more in the moment.
Josie Nesbitt | Providence Health and Services
have started making sure i eat at least 3 healthy meals a day. Breakfast being the most important focus
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February
February 2018
Carol Alexander | Providence Health and Services
Choose Well helped me to think about what I am eating, and how much at a time, when I start to fill full, I stop eating. I have lost 20 pounds. I eat more salads and fruit.It is hard because I have a ...
Janelle Anderson | Providence Health and Services
Choose Well inspired me to start using my Fitbit wrist band again. I earned 3rd place in my first Choose Well Challenge with 49, 441 steps! In one week I burned over 50,000 calories! My Fitbit ...
Launa Soto | Providence Health and Services
The Choose Well program has encouraged me to live a healthier lifestyle by being conscious of what I am eating, looking closely at food labels and to strive to walk the 10,000 steps or more daily. ...
Jennifer Rhodes | Providence Health and Services
To eat well and exercise daily. While interacting with co workers to encourage them.
Chatchay Thongthap | Providence Health and Services
Sticking to the plan regimen. Making the program a ritual on a regular basis. Choose Well helps me set goals and accomplish them on a regular basis. Doing physical activity like running, ...
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March
March 2018
Kacie Christie | Providence Health and Services
When we started tracking in Choose Well, there was a few things that I noticed right away. First off was just by tracking, I was more aware of the steps I was getting daily and I wanted to increase ...
Danette Stringer | Providence Health and Services
I have started wearing a fitbit to work now. I make an effort to walk through the hospital on my breaks and lunch periods.
Tina Pounder | Providence Health and Services
Choose well has helped me to be more cautious about decisions I make towards making better choices in food and my workouts. Being sure to do what is best to improve my health.
Azhar Iqbal | Providence Health and Services
Choose well helped me to focus on my goals for being healthy and walk more and more and eat vegetables and salad a lot. AND exercise a lot. I have been walking and experiencing big change in me ...
Maizoua Moua | Providence Health and Services
Choose well has helped me keep track of reaching the 10,000 steps goal everyday. It has helped remind me to loosen up after a long day of work, making my sleep so much better. Choose well kept me on ...
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April
April 2018
Mohammed Islam | Providence Health and Services
I just started Choose Well last week. I really like it. Now, I have some extra things to do every day before I go to bed and watch less tv now. My goal is to get the 40,000 points.
Mojdeh Sedighim-moradian | Providence Health and Services
I have a healthier lifestyle now.
Paula Grimaud | Providence Health and Services
Like all my coworkers, I signed up for the Choose Well program because I want to earn my yearly health incentive. I didn't own a tracking device at the start, wasn't sure I wanted to spend the ...
Kristen Larsen | Providence Health and Services
Seeing and tracking has really opened my eyes on things that I should/could be doing to better my health. - Starting to eat something for breakfast. I've always been the one who skips this - ...
Renee Thach | Providence Health and Services
Choose Well has got me looking at my health from a whole new perspective. I never EVER used to track the things I do, the things I eat. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, which has caused me to ...
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May
May 2018
Rolanda Napkin | Providence Health and Services
Reaching my goals to stay well and healthy
| Providence Health and Services
Prior to working at the University of Providence, SHP, I had been working for Providence Health & Services in Nursing Education where we participated in Health & Wellness programs which held ...
Shalini Stubbs | Providence Health and Services
I spend more time with my daughter's and go walking with routinely and I do yoga with them.
Erik Young-Brown | Providence Health and Services
To stay balanced in life, to have time to connect with myself in mindful moments, to eat healthy food, to find time to exercise to have more time to connect with my wife and children
Susan Houck Strom | Providence Health and Services
Since the begining of the Choose Well challange, I've been reminded that efforts to make big health changes are limited to the number of hours in the day. Given work, commute, home life, living in ...
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June
June 2018
Maria Aviles | Providence Health and Services
Choose Well help me to make changes on my habits. I am doing more activities; I am feeling with more energy.
Kanjana Gnongbanhthom | Providence Health and Services
Choose Well is helping me on how to eat the good food.
Christine Abbot | Providence Health and Services
I changed my life 7 years ago with quitting smoking. It has changed my life for the better. I am not walking around smelling like a cigarette and neither are my children, who are my inspiration. They ...
Steve Gately | Providence Health and Services
I had a moment in January of 2018 where I realized something had to give. When everyone was out starting New Year’s resolutions, getting gym memberships, diets started, etc, I was at my highest ...
Ricky Rios | Providence Health and Services
It has encouraged me to better myself.
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July
July 2018
Rene Salvana | Providence Health and Services
Since I work for PMSV, it has a big change of me than my previous job. PMSV treats you as family members and the work is all good.You can learn a lot of many ways and their programs help you benefit ...
Lalith Wijesundara | Providence Health and Services
Going through this Choose Well has encouraged me to be depend on your self not depending on someone els to do your job.
Tisha Valverde-Westwood | Providence Health and Services
I am a Choose Well champion and Iove that you are trying to get everyone involved. Overall, I believe this program has helped me. I now walk every day on both of my breaks and lunch with a friend/co ...
Olesya Sukhoterina | Providence Health and Services
I have been definitely better at exercising every day and have more energy. I have been trying to improve my relationships with coworkers and improve my communication, so that I can be a better health ...
Linda Reel | Providence Health and Services
Choose Well has been a lot of fun. It has been very interesting to track my daily habits and see what I was already doing day by day to stay healthy. It also motivated me to go back in to see my ...
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August
August 2018
Roger Alpizar | Providence Health and Services
Every day I change my ways by improving my overall being, I treat myself better and treat others with the same love and respect everyone deserves. As a food service worker, I have done my best to be ...
Lara Kerschen | Providence Health and Services
Started with little changes that made me feel better and do better. Then I kept changing things that made me feel good and trying to encourage people around me to do the same thing.
Nancy Fread | Providence Health and Services
Started PT for a better gait. It has changed my outlook significantly. With multiple injuries in both legs & feet, my activity level had been very low for over a year. I have been slowly healing ...
Susan Arnold | Providence Health and Services
I USED TO BE MOTIVATED BY THE IDEA OF BEING PERFECT. WHEN I WOULD FAIL, I WOULD BE DISCOURAGED, FEELING SO FAR FROM THE TARGET (THIS WAS TRUE IN SO MANY AREAS OF MY LIFE). FOUR YEARS AGO I WENT ON A ...
Jeannie Razevich | Providence Health and Services
Dieting was not working for me, I was always tired and lost no weight. I decided to eat three healthy meals and start walking more. It worked! I am down 20 lbs so far! I am feeling so much better!
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September
September 2018
Deb S. | Providence Health and Services
As I track my healthy behaviors, I find the practice reinforces doing the healthy things and gives me positive feedback for those healthy choices. Looking at ways to make it fun to get those steps in ...
Joan Ashcraft | Providence Health and Services
Taking part in the Choose Well program this year really made me check in with my health every day. Sometimes it was because I just wanted to rack up those points! :) I focused on keeping my sleep ...
Katie Gillespie | Providence Health and Services
After having a premature baby a few years ago, I became very anxious and gained a significant amount of weight. I tried several times to lose weight, but my mind, body, and spirit were not in the ...
Hanna Ferguson | Providence Health and Services
I was naturally fit so I did not work out very often previously. Choose Well along with my fit bit has encouraged me to make sure I get my 10,000 step in a day. I have also joined class pass and kept ...
Vonda Walls | Providence Health and Services
Making me more aware of label contents. Encouragement to move more.
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October
October 2018
Michael Henry | Providence Health and Services
By tracking my mood, I’ve realized how much stress and unhappiness I’ve been experiencing in a given week. I’ve just signed up for a marathon with some friends to help with the ...
Ralph Kiehl | Providence Health and Services
Finding ways to stay possitive and stay focused are keys to staying well. There are many distractions and voices calling you to veer to the right or left. But one must stay positive and focused on ...
Jeremy Crooks | Providence Health and Services
I bicycled to school with my son. We ended up creating our own mountain bike trials!
Elisa Flaherty | Providence Health and Services
When I was 32 i was 274 lbs, slept all the time and felt sluggish and tired all the time, since then I have lost over 60 lbs, and feel more energy and better stamina than I have since I was a ...
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November
November 2018
Tubbs McLogin | Providence Health and Services
I used to be depressed and unconnected, not to mention. Now I've found a community that understands and knows me. By getting on the computer everyday, I can honestly say I am in the best shape of ...
John Neathawk | Providence Health and Services
Because of Choose well I started running at least three times a week. After the birth of our first child I had to set out special time to get this done.
Rachael Riopel | Providence Health and Services
Choose well has encouraged me to track my steps daily. I have an 11 month old child at home and although I feel exhausted all of the time, I have not been getting enough steps in per day. So now if I ...
Charlette Golliday | Providence Health and Services
Choose Well has help me with little health reminders and added motivation to tract my health progress. Walking more in little ways like parking farther from store enterences to get in a few more steps ...
Cynthia Burns | Providence Health and Services
Choose Well has made me look at myself and my habits in a more positive way. I sought out after the death of my husband in April 2018 and my mother in 2016 and my father in 2017 I was lost into a deep ...
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December
December 2018
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