Go for these three basic guidelines to stay on track with your fitness, wellness, and health goals!
Healthier eating habits, exercising everyday, and good nights of sleep make wonders for anyone! Three simple basic things, that if you get on top of it, it will help you with overall wellness, health, and fitness goals.
Healthier eating habits: it doesn’t matter the diet you go for. Here are some basic guidelines that will support weight loss not mattering your body type, age, sex, of physical limitations.
1) in a scale from 0 to 5, being five the fullest, stop eating at three.
2) go for real food. Avoid pasta, pizza, bread, cookies, candy. Substitute those options for vegetables, meat, salad, fruits…
3) drink water through the day. Many times you are thirsty, but you misunderstand the signal for being hungry.
4) consider nutrients, and minerals intake. Avoid empty calories.
Exercising:
1) schedule at least one workout a day. Something that will get you a bit out of your comfort zone. To RELEASE stress out of your body, and your mind. That helps A LOT with reducing inflammation, and swoleness.
2) stay on the move. Avoid long hours sitting down. Walk around, stretch, do 20 jumping jacks every hour… You will be shocked with how much weight you will loose, and how much better you will feel.
3) when I try to ‘brainwash’ kids towards the importance of working out, I make this comparison: “what kind of lion would you choose to be? A Zoo Lion, or a Wild Lion? The Zoo Lion almost doesn’t move, is fed all the time, and gets lazy… The wild lion hunts his own food. Is independent, has to be brave, and has to be strong…”
Good nights of sleep… It is not you only that is struggling to turn off the mind, and fall asleep… The brain keeps on spinning around between the past, future, and different emotions… What can you do for better nights of sleep?
1) turn off the tv way before going to bed. Imagine how the light, colors, and sounds excite your brain?
2) avoid eating easily digested carbs late at night. This will give you a spike of energy, and it will keep you extra hours awake.
3) put your hand on your heart, and feel your heart rate. Try taking some nice, and calming deep breathes. to slow it down. Do this every time the worrying thoughts come around.
4) look for some easy meditation to help you fall asleep. It can be 2min, 5min, or more.
5) get in the habit of doing relaxing things before going to bed. Foam roll, read a book, sit at a quiet place where you can admire nature (sea water, wind blowing, tree leaves shaking, snow falling…)