Making and sustaining healthy behavior change can be challenging as behavior change is a complex process. One of the reasons for this challenge is that we fail to recognize which stage of change we are in. According to the Transtheoretical Model (TTM), behavior change happens in five stages. Recognizing which stage we are in can help us apply the correct tools to move up to the next stage. Keep in mind these stages are not always linear and we may fall back to a previous stag