Let’s face it, so many of our problems will be taken care of automatically if we were to have a healthy, fit body, which will allow us to focus on various different issues in our busy and hectic lives. Nutrasphere brings you the top 10 tips that will help you to maintain a healthy and fit body to help you live an easier life too.
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1. Stick To A Proper Sleep Schedule Every Night
Sleep is the time when your body recovers itself from a variety of factors whether it is workout or stress. Getting the required number of hours of sleep every night is associated with higher productivity levels, increased the ability to perform at the gym, and higher concentration at work (or studies).
2. Check Your Posture
Almost each one of us is guilty of it; sitting at computers all day in a way that is super harmful to our body posture (and so painful in the long run). It will contribute more to injuries than muscle imbalances and poor alignment. Make a habit of standing up and stretching out your entire body at least once an hour. Practise working out those shoulder blades back and down, by rotating them clockwise and anti-clockwise.
3. Eat Less Sugar
As hard as it sounds, try to start drinking your tea without any sweetener and your coffee black. Switch to a portion of fruit instead of biscuits or ice cream to go with them. The combination of caffeine and sugar in sodas and energy drinks will cause you to fill up on the bad kinds of calories in the long run.
4. Do Not Take Unnecessary Stress
Relieving stress is important to live a healthier life. You can do so in so many different ways and fun activities. Try playing basketball or football, write it all out in a journal, or take to meditation and yoga that will relax your mind and body both at the same time.
5. Sit Less, Move More
It need not be running and jogging all the time, of course, but there should be some sort of moderate physical activity in your daily life. If you are particularly looking to get rid of a few pounds fast, you can simply go on a brisk walk. Stretch your limbs out every chance you get, and go around jogging at set intervals, like every hour.
6. Cleanse Your Body
Your body needs to detoxify itself and throw out the harmful toxins that are gradually accumulated over time. Follow a ‘clean’ diet, consisting of fresh fruits and juices (not the packages juices), and cut down on spices as much as you can. This will help in purifying your blood stream and make your body feel a lot lighter and healed.
7. Drink More Water
Dehydration is a leading cause of headaches, as well as mental and physical fatigue. It is well-known that drinking adequate water throughout the day will help you keep a check on your weight management. Do not ever confuse hunger with thirst, or else you will end up eating more than you need to when it was actually water that you needed when you reached out for food instead of a glass of water.
8. Keep Track of Calories And Food Intake Per Day
Keep a regular track of how many calories you put in your body and accordingly plan out your physical exercises. Plan out your meals and take in more of the healthy kind of calories than the average person does. Remember that achieving a fitter body will always involve doing more physical exercise than the calories you consume.
9. Stay Away From Bad Coping Mechanisms Like Smoking And Excessive Drinking
It is not a secret that smoking and consumption of alcohol or tobacco can put you at risk for serious ailments like lung cancer and heart diseases. It leads to disruptive sleep patterns and puts on empty calories. And it is also not a secret that social influence, peer pressure, situations and emotional turmoil are the reasons that force people into thinking that it is a way of coping with stress and issues. What is also not a secret is that all of these substances do more harm to the body rather than bringing health altogether. Stay away from these to not just get a fit and healthy body, but also to restore your body’s hormonal balance, immunity and body energy. Save those drinks only for special occasions.
10. Address Your Emotions
Instead of closeting your negative emotions and feelings deep inside, no matter what they may be, start giving your mental health enough importance to stop yourself from feeling so tired, unhappy, distressed and uncomfortable for long periods of time. And if you do not address your underlying reasons for not feeling well, they will contribute to a host of health-related issues. Seeking that therapy that will bring you a sense of calm, listen to music, talk it out to loved ones, write in your journal, or even confront the people that are the cause of discomfort and find solutions, to break away from negative emotional and mental turmoil.
Thus, we can see that a healthy and fit body requires more than just exercise and healthy eating; you should also strive to achieve a mental and emotional calm to really be healthy and fit throughout.
