- exercise regularly (to stimulate blood flow to all parts of your body)
- eat plenty of grains (to add healthy fiber for well-rounded digestion)
- have creative habits (to stimulate both your brain and your soul)
How to Change Your Habits ÛÒ And Your Life
If you are really serious about changing those bad health habits and losing extra pounds there are a few things you can do ÛÒ but it will take some focus. And, you may even need to enlist the help of your family and friends.
- First, in order to really be able to make progress, you have to decide you are going to make the necessary changes and stick to them. One way to truly be sure that you will stay on course is to write down the changes that you wish to achieve. This will help you in seeing just exactly what you want to do and where you want to end up.
åÊ - Next, you need to let your loved ones know that you are serious about making some positive health related changes. This will help in attaining their support and encouragement ÛÒ and it might also prevent them from offering you unhealthy foods when you are spending time together. In addition, you will likely find a great deal of encouragement and support from them as they will want to see you succeed. Ask them to join you for walks or hikes. Make it a group effort.
åÊ - You should also maintain a positive outlook on the new changes you are initiating. Sure, there will times when you get discouraged and the temptation of junk food may seem to get the best of you ÛÒ but continue to keep your mind focused on the goal you are trying to achieve.
Replace Bad Habits with Good Habits
When making healthy life changes, you will also need to replace former unhealthy habits with better ones. For example, rather than spending time going out for expensive and high calorie meals, it might be better to spend your time cooking healthy food and then taking a nice walk after dinner.
In order to make sure that you maintain your good habits for the long term, you will need to stay committed and consistent. This will entail taking regular daily actions for breaking your former bad habits and subsequently turning around and regularly taking part in more healthy habits.
You could also help to move yourself forward by allowing some type of reward for taking small (but successful) actions towards making the desired changes in your life. It is the continuous daily actions that will help you in not just getting to where you want to go, but keeping you there.