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How healthy was your day?  At the end of the day, give yourself a grade!  Here’s a quick tool to give yourself a grade from A to F (Intuitively most of us know what a grade “feels” like but just as in school, A is excellent, B is Good, C is Average, D is below average, and F is complete failure):

• What Quantity of food did you eat today?      A=4 B=3 C=2 D=1 F=0
• What Quality of food did you eat today?         A=4 B=3 C=2 D=1 F=0
• What was your Quality of Exercise today?     A=4 B=3 C=2 D=1 F=0
• How did you Sleep the last night ?                      A=4 B=3 C=2 D=1 F=0
• How did you handle Stress today?                      A=4 B=3 C=2 D=1 F=0

Now, add the numbers up and divide by 5.  That’s your health GPA for the day.

This isn’t meant to be complex.  There are two diet questions – quantity and quality of food, which will appropriately weight your GPA towards diet.  Exercise, sleep, and stress, taken individually, are not as important as diet; but combined, are slightly more important.   Also, there is an inherent relativism to this grading scale – for example, an Olympic marathon runner will have a whole different idea of what receiving an “A” for exercise is than most of us will.

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