Worried About Where Your Health Will Be A Year From Now? – Try These Manageable Changes

The key to making changes in your habit or routine is to make them as manageable as possible. It might seem much quicker and more effective to go cold turkey on a bad habit. Or, to implement a strict new lifestyle routine. But, more often than not extreme changes lead to disappointment and failure rather than success. In fact, making small changes consistently has a much better chance of getting you where you want to be. Especially with things that are related to our health. Read on to find out more.
Eating Habits
Type in ‘healthy eating’ into any internet search bar, and you will come up with millions of results. Start to work your way through the first page, and you might notice that they don’t all agree with each other.
There are your calorie counters, your clean eaters, your slimming club members, Then you have those who ban refined sugar or carbs or fats. That is a lot of advice to digest at one time!
But instead of worrying about what it is that you are eating, why not take a more measured approach and look at how much you are eating instead?
Sometimes changing the way we eat can be difficult. But we all have the ability to tune into our full signal and learn to stop eating when we are no longer hungry.
This is a small habit that you can get into, which will pay off dividends in the long term. As you will no longer easily consume too many calories for your body to effectively work off.
Sleeping Habits
Our sleeping habits can be something that it is easy to ignore. We can get protective over our time in the evenings when we watch TV or chill out. That means we don’t often want to cut down on these activities to make way for more sleep. However, getting more sleep or a better quality of sleep can make such a positive difference to our health.
Having enough sleep can help improve concentration, make us eat less because we are not eating just because we are tired. It can also help our mental health as we have can a higher resistance to anxiety and distress if will are well refreshed. So now we know that it is so important, what can we do to improve it?
Well, the first thing is to make sure that your bedroom is a place that is restful. You will need a comfy bed with a good mattress like the ones available at www.somzi.com. You will also need thick curtains to block out any light from the street. Try to keep the light in the room low too, so it’s easier to drop off to sleep, once you get into bed.
You can also set yourself a regular bedtime. Ok, this might seem a bit childish, but it is actually the more mature thing to do. As adults, we have a responsibility to look after ourselves, and getting enough sleep is a big part of that!
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Newly middle-aged wife of 1, Mom of 3, Grandma of 2. A professional blogger who has lived in 3 places since losing her home to a house fire in October 2018 with her husband. Becky appreciates being self-employed which has allowed her to work from 'anywhere'. Life is better when you can laugh. As you can tell by her Facebook page where she keeps the humor memes going daily. Becky looks forward to the upcoming new year. It will be fun to see what 2020 holds.