Healthy Habits
Healthy Life Habits One Must Follow
Climbing stairs – when the elevator is not working – seems the most difficult task of the day. Have you ever thought to opt for a good habit and forsake a bad one? Have you ever wanted to be productive and at the same time active? While being in bed at night, your brain starts its rollercoaster ride of thoughts of what good you could have done early in the day? Are you the one who was determined to follow a specific diet to be healthy but a Subway burger ruined your intentions? If you, a yes to these all then you have clicked the perfect site.
Habits can be defined as
repetitive tendencies and hard to give up on a performed task. A conscious and
subconscious mind both are aware of the tasks performed. That is why old habits
are difficult to alter but not impossible. It just takes time to adopt new
healthy habits. Only if you set small goals instead of bigger ones, as small
goals are achievable. You can start by planning. Hard planning (in form of a dairy)
calendar or soft planning (by downloading apps or on your laptop) calendar. One
must not worry if developing a new habit takes weeks, months, or even years. If
somehow you tend to go back to square one – an old habit – do not worry at all.
It is a common activity as one is used to the old habit. If you have a close
person, be it a sibling or friend, or spouse they can be the eventual support
system and motivational people.
Below small goals would
be discussed in detail. Habits can be adopted one by one and based on your
preferences. It will be a guideline for those who are genuinely busy in their
daily activities and cannot go to the gym for a workout. Even the membership in
the gymnasium is not cheap everyone cannot afford it. There is no hard and fast
rule. Everybody responds to changes differently. Some might see drastic change
while some witness change after the real struggle. Everything that sort is
normal. If at all certain people are determined to switch to healthy habits,
they will be willing to accept the changes. While some will face difficulty.
Stairs and chairs
The best way to do a cardio
workout is to climb up and down the stairs. You can do chair squats at home, a
person only requires a chair. If you have a rug or yoga mat at home then you
can easily do lunges, hip bridge poses, knee pushups, regular pushups, donkey
kicks, side-lying hip abduction, and crunches. Start with a set of 3 and
gradually increase according to your stamina. At home, workouts can be done 5
days a week.
Detox Water
One can switch their carbonated
drinks with that detox water. Lemons are available throughout the year and so
as mint leaves. Slice cut 2 big lemons and around 25 leaves of mint and put in
2 liters of water overnight. Drink it in intervals the next day. Lemons are the
source of vitamin C and soluble fiber. Lemons aid in digestion and weight loss
and prevent the formation of stones in the kidneys. While leaves give
freshness, and acne-free skin and boost immunity.
Walk
Keeping
yourself active, take a walk to get anything from a nearby store. One can park
slightly away from the plaza they want to shop.
Healthy Breakfast
The most important meal of the day to kick start your metabolism. It balances blood sugar levels and keeps you energized for the rest of the day. If you are tired of oatmeal, you can add eggs – to make an omelet. Protein-rich breakfast may include eggs in any form. The best would be having a veggie-eggs omelet would be the best option. With whole grain slice of bread.
Color Green Veggies
Adding cucumbers, spinaches, lettuces, cabbages, kales, green beans, celery, spring onions, chives, and broccoli to your diet. The calorie count is as low as 15 calories to as high as 49 calories. While the fiber content ranges from 0.3g of fiber to 3.0g of fiber per measuring cup.
Healthy Substitute
Step one would be to stop buying junk snacks and go for healthy snacks.
Switch white sugar to that brown sugar.
Replace regular cookies with wheat cookies.
Instead of regular chocolate, go for dark cocoa chocolate.
Instead of regular cooking or canola oil, buy olive oil or avocado oil for cooking.
Late-night snacking can be controlled only by being willing to change habits.
Intermittent Fasting
World popular frame eating and
fasting diet plan – intermittent fasting. The famous 16:8 frame. Where people
consume food for 8 hours. Snacks are excluded and only main meals are
considered to intake. While 16 hours, is the fasting time. Only water or detox
water may be consumed. If one gets comfortable eating in 16:8 hours, then the
frame can be mended according to the need. Basically, this helps to manage the
time one should consume and refrain accordingly. It helps to maintain a healthy
lifestyle and be more conscious while eating.
Going to bed 30 minutes prior
The addiction to scrolling social media before going to bed is the most halting task anyone could do. It is better not to use your cell phone after your dinner meal. What should one do? Prepare wardrobe for the next day, jot down what tasks need to be done the next day, re-stocking of kitchen items, workouts, self-care routine and spend time with family. If you have the 8 hours cycle of sleep, trust me, you are the luckiest on this planet. As there are people who are facing insomnia on regular basis. People tend to forget the hazardous result of lack of sleep. They are prone to heart diseases, irregular hormones, and fluctuation in weight.
One a note, no change can happen
overnight. Be it adopting a home workout or diet. Walking or adjusting the
bedtime routine. No need to be hard on yourself. The bad habits have been with
you for quite some time, hence, give yourself time to change and evolve. Once
you feel accomplished in healthy habits, you will feel positive, active, and
energized. You will certainly be able to step by step achieve your healthy
habits. Every change will gradually take time.
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