They Will Make A Big Difference
Wanna live a healthier life?
Let’s start by changing what you do daily.
Replacing bad behaviors with some healthy habits, and doing so consistently, can make all the difference. If you haven’t done so thus far, rethink how you’re living and how your habits are affecting your physical, mental, and emotional well-being— and do something about it.
The following health tips are supposed to not only improve your quality of life, but also simplify your daily routine. By better managing your time, you’ll find where to include each of these life-changing micro-habits into your day. With small steps, the big picture can be transformed.
So, let’s begin with 7 tiny daily healthy habits you should begin incorporating into your daily routine.
The Next 7 Healthy Habits You Should Build
- Drink a glass of water first thing in the morning.
This health tip is simple, but also quite important. Here are a few reasons why this should be part of your healthy eating habits:
- While sleeping, your body gets dehydrated. What it craves, and will be happy to receive as soon as possible, is a whole glass of water. In giving that to your body, you’ll feel instantly refreshed and will also jump start your metabolism. It turns out, you don’t necessarily need to eat breakfast super early, but you do need to put this magical liquid in your system immediately.
- To make it even simpler, put the glass next to your bed as a reminder. In the morning, fill it with water, add a lemon, and give yourself about 5 minutes to fully enjoy the process of fueling your body and brain. Make it a meditation! Why not?
- Some more benefits of this little trick are that it clears your mind and makes you alert and fully awake. With that, you can easily start the day, have a productive morning, and be more focused than usual for the rest of the day.
- Water also helps flush toxins out of the body, strengthens the immune system, and plays a huge role in managing your weight.
Try doing this first thing in the morning tomorrow and experience all of these positive effects for yourself!
- Leave technology behind in the evening
Most people have sleeping problems. However, it’s crucial to get your 8 or so hours of sleep every night in order to have energy and a clear mind the next day. If you don’t, your body and brain will suffer in many different ways.
Some of the factors hurting your sleep are going to bed with your phone, browsing the Web on your laptop, watching a movie to get yourself to sleep, or checking social media and getting overwhelmed. For this, using technology before bedtime has become an issue — it keeps your brain activated; no wonder you have problems falling asleep.
There’s a simple solution, and you should add it to your arsenal of daily healthy habits: unplug an hour before bed.
Do it for just 10 minutes today or say to yourself you won’t be taking your phone or laptop to bed anymore. Then, make this period of time longer once you feel comfortable with it.
It’s so much better to go to bed peacefully and be positive about tomorrow, rather than be kept awake thinking about the posts you just read on your friend’s timeline, the bad news you were bombarded with, or an argument you had on social media.
- Forming healthy eating habits with little adjustments
You can change your whole meal plan over time by beginning to for some small healthy eating habits today. For instance, you can begin consuming proteins and veggies with each meal. Then, your desire for unhealthy foods will eventually go away, and you’ll still feel full and satisfied after a big meal.
Soon after, you can add supplements such as omega-3 fatty acids to your daily diet. It’s a tiny, 2-second act (taking the pills), but is something that will boost your health in numerous different ways. The krill/fish supplement is proven to control many types of diseases. As a bonus, it fights depression and anxiety, is good for your eyes and heart, and reduces inflammation.
- Journal your thoughts
Journaling is on this list of health tips for a few reasons.
First of all, it’s another chance to stay away from technology and boost your mental health by emptying your mind and putting it all on paper. However, the benefit of this healthy habit goes much further.
By sharing your thoughts on paper, you’re learning how to open up. In real life, that makes your relationships better over time and you become a better communicator.
It’s great for staying motivated to reach your goals. By writing about your goals, you visualize that it’s already happening, and your subconscious mind works to bring you the necessary circumstances in life to get you closer to that vision.
Journaling is also a therapy. You can write about your fears and doubts and feel better afterwards. It brings clarity and mindfulness to all issues you address.
- Have stretch breaks
This one is for mental and physical health.
The truth is, we work too much and don’t take breaks — which ends up actually ruining our productivity.
Instead, our brain needs to be engaged in relaxing activities as much as once every hour. That can be as little as 5 minutes of stretching, breathing deeply, enjoying a cup of tea, and just filling your mind with positive thoughts.
It’s also suggested to do proper stretching after you wake up, and before you go to sleep. In the morning, stretching helps to get the body get in active mode. In the evening, on the other hand, it helps your brain get into sleep mode and is more of a relaxing activity, rather than one bringing energy to all parts of your body.
- Start walking
Sounds simple, right? Yet, we avoid it as much as possible. Well, now might be the right time in your life to add walking to your daily healthy habits.
It’s beneficial for your physical well-being as by doing it daily, you’re staying active. Also, it’s great for emptying your mind, breathing some fresh air, getting some vitamin D (if done during the day), and boosting your mood naturally and feeling more alive!
Walking is also connected to stronger bones and lower blood pressure. If you’re not the type of person who likes exercising, this is the easiest form of moving your body and still getting the benefits such as losing body fat, doing basic cardio, and improving your heart health.
If you’re wondering how to include it in your daily schedule, you can do this:
If you wake up earlier, it can be a fantastic start of the day. You’ll be motivated to add some other healthy habits to your morning routine afterward.
Even your lunch break can be your formula for success at work. . . If you do the right activities during it. This is because it’s important to completely shut your brain off and stop thinking about the things going on at the office; for this, you should do something different, and preferably outside. If you get out and just walk, even if it’s for 10 minutes, you’ll see that the stress goes away, making room for relaxation, mindfulness, and even creativity. Once you’re back to work, you’ll find it easier to focus and will get more done.
- Prepare your food
If you want to take care of your well-being, you should rely on good foods. Don’t just ditch junk food, also be mindful of what you’re putting in your body: measure it, have fixed times for meals, and prepare it yourself.
This will all happen over time, of course. Such healthy eating habits, however, will impact the rest of your life. Researchers have found that home cooking leads to healthier living.
But wait! There’s more. . .
You’re building discipline by saying no to eating on the go. You also build benefit from buying groceries yourself and then getting creative in the kitchen. This process makes the meal something to appreciate— you build a new skill, track your intake, and the food satisfies you way more now that you’ve worked it.
You don’t need to buy anything that comes in a package. Finally start using your kitchen. You’ll soon begin researching more health tips yourself, what ingredients to include, how to combine foods, etc.
Such a mindful preparation, and the delicious meal that follows, are great ways to keep your relationship with your loved ones, family, or roommates strong (they will love you!). Meals are a chance to bond, and eating is much more pleasant when it becomes a social activity. No need for fancy restaurants — you’re saving money by cooking your food, too.
These healthy habits will be enough to change your life in many ways. Begin today. By buying omega-3, by putting a glass beside your bed, by journaling a few thoughts, or by getting outside and walking around the neighborhood for 10 minutes. . . You will feel it.
To live healthy is easy. Just make these part of your daily routine.