Situations Arise that Make it Difficult to Achieve Goal

In addition to already being sick, last Friday (jan 16), I had to get my wisdom teeth pulled last minute due to serve pain. I couldn't do too much after the procedure or eat any solids and the only thing I had in my house I could eat was ice cream, duh duh dun. So all I ate pretty much for three days was ice cream, fruit juice and more ice cream, definitely meeting few of the healthy "RESST" goals I set. After the weekend I began to recover and record RESST indicators again and achieved all of them for the first half of the week. However, in the middle of the night on Thursday (jan 22), I woke up to my fiance's call and an hour later we were in the ER. After staying up all night, Friday morning he had an emergency appendectomy surgery. The saga continued but we were finally discharged and now resting. 

I give you this long story to make the point that many things can and do arise that challenge people's ability to stay on track with the goals of an intervention. Getting my wisdom teeth out and not having sufficient food I could eat lead me to a diet of probably over 250g sugar/day during my three day recovery. Then my fiance's crazy appendix  prevented me from sleeping for 36 hours straight. My doctor told me the only way to recover from my virus was to sleep lots, stay hydrated, eat well and take it easy, none of which I've done over the past three days because of being in the hospital and taking care of my fiance. I'm not to sure any of these "challenges to my goals" could have been prevented and, from a Program Directors point of view, it is important to understand that participants in a program or clinical trial also have to deal with LIFE :)