What is the transtheoretical model?
Sometimes we judge nutritional success as getting the recommend grams of carbohydrate, drinking the perfect hydration mix and having the exact amount of carbohydrate and protein in the post-workout recovery shake. This can mean success for some athletes, but with many it is a constant struggle simply to get them to stop eating fast food so often, drink more water, increase their fruit and vegetable intake or just eat more frequently. The transtheoretical model of behaviour change (TTM) involves focusing on big behaviours rather than the finite. Prochaska and DiClemente created TTM as a way to explain how people modify their own behaviours (1). It is a model of intentional change that focuses on the decision-making abilities of the individual, and has been found to be useful in determining a nutritional counselling strategy(2,3,4,5). TTM explains intentional behaviour change in a way that includes both cognitive and performance-based components. These stages create definitions for not o
