Practice Better’s Lifestyle Journal is a powerful tool for tracking key indicators of your clients’ habits, activities, progress, and areas of improvement. This feature sheds light on your clients’ daily decisions and behaviors, giving you insights to form a more effective, personalized strategy for their health goals.

The Lifestyle Journal lets your clients log their physical activity, measurements, vitals, mood, bowel movements, sleep patterns, and other essential health details to keep you in the loop.

You can even customize a client’s Lifestyle Journal to tailor it to their unique needs.

Learn more about customizing your client’s journal by clicking here!

The Lifestyle Journal also creates structured, trackable objectives for your clients. You can set custom daily targets for weight, activity, sleep, and more to encourage consistent progress.

Clients will be able to see their target in the Client Portal and monitor when they have reached their daily targets.

While the Lifestyle Journal can be an effective and insightful tool for practitioners, it can also be a crucial tool for your client’s sense of accountability too. Logging and visualizing daily habits and behaviors will allow your client to be more conscious of their lifestyle choices. This creates a sense of awareness which is the first fundamental step to better decision-making and meaningful change.

You can further empower your clients by allowing them to analyze their own lifestyle entries over time. The Analysis section of the Lifestyle Journal displays graphs and statistics based on the entries your clients have logged in their Lifestyle Journal. You can give your client access to this section if you would like to share a more detailed and comprehensive view of your client’s lifestyle behaviors over the course of time.

Learn more about Journal Preferences and Default settings by clicking here!

We’ve enhanced the Lifestyle Journal with integrations that include Fitbit, Apple Health, Garmin, and Oura. Clients can now link these devices to Practice Better, so their health metrics—like heart rate, sleep, and activity data—automatically sync to the Lifestyle Journal, saving them the hassle of manual entries.

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To learn more about our new wearables integrations, click here!

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[Editor’s note: This post was originally published on January 6th, 2021, and has been edited for accuracy and comprehensiveness.]