Any change to your lifestyle may affect your health. Making positive lifestyle changes can be a challenge, but the effects and results of such a change can be highly beneficial to your overall wellbeing. Lifestyle changes such as improving diet, maintaining a healthy weight, stopping smoking, drinking moderately, and exercising regularly are all steps to help you on the way to taking control of your health.

It may seem daunting trying to improve on everything at once, so setting small goals with a clear plan of what you want to achieve is key in making a lifestyle change. Making changes will ultimately be easier if you change one thing at a time, rather than changing everything at once. Try to think of any change as an evolution of your lifestyle, not an absolute resolution. The most extreme changes we try to make in our life are often the most unsustainable.

Below are some printable information sheets that provide hints and tips to help you make these lifestyle changes. Also please remember, you do not have to do these changes alone. The nursing staff here at the surgery would like to support you in any decision to improve your health, so please contact the surgery and book an appointment with one of the practice nurses or social prescribers for any extra help and guidance.