Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is the easiest thing to do, provided you know the right tricks. Its all up to u to decide you willing to do it and what so not. Okay, back to the topic,excess stress jolts your mind and you will see its spill-over effect in every aspect of your life. The key to counter daily pressures and stress is to lead a healthy life and develop healthy habits. You will find your productivity visibly enhanced and your mental framework quite positive actually only if you follow a healthy way of life. What I'm going to tell brings you some valuable tips on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Read on and know the secrets behind a wholesome life.
So here's the tips, try it!
Go for A Healthy Diet
The first thing you should bare in mind as to maintain a healthy lifestyle is to eat healthy. Poor nutrition adversely affects your health, so guys, you need to ensure that all the essential nutrients are well balanced in your diet. Healthy food will enhance your physical and mental stamina, enabling you to cope up with the pressures of daily life more efficiently. Include vitamins, proteins and minerals in your diet, so that your body gets its due share of nutritions.
But for people who's on diet, you guys have to take special menu.When selecting a low fat diet plan, make sure you are consuming a balanced and complete diet. Your assignment is to set realistic and attainable weight loss and diet goals. Start by following the simple guidelines below.
Nutritional and Low Fat Diet Guidelines
- Commit to consuming 4 - 6 small meals and snacks everyday.
- To succeed, you must plan ahead by packing your foods the night before. Thus, you should always have fresh and low-fat foods around.
- Keep it simple. Don't get too caught up on the specifics or your diet. Start by simply just counting calories.
- Eat your foods slower.
- Make healthier food selections like fruits, vegetables, whole grain cereals, and beans, low-fat or nonfat dairy products, low fat meats, fish and skinless poultry.
- Avoid foods that are high in fat and calories.
- Avoid foods that are high in sugars such as pastries, candy bars, pies and candy.
- Use a variety of fruits and vegetables in your nutrition plan. Start by trying to eat 5 total vegetable and fruit servings every single day.
Here is a sample low fat diet plan (1300 calories).
Breakfast | ||||||
Amount | Item | Protein | Carbs | Fats | Calories | |
12 ounces | coffee-w/caffeine | 0.40 | 1.40 | 0.00 | 8.00 | |
1 each | Bagel-plain, Lenders Bake Shop | 8.00 | 42.00 | 2.00 | 210.00 | |
2 tbsp | Peanut butter- creamy | 8.60 | 5.70 | 16.40 | 190.00 | |
1 tbsp | Cream, fluid, half and half | 0.44 | 0.65 | 1.73 | 19.55 | |
Total: | 17.44 | 49.74 | 20.12 | 427.55 | ||
AM Snack | ||||||
1 each | apple-medium with peel | 0.30 | 21.10 | 0.0 | 81.00 | |
Total: | 0.30 | 21.10 | 0.0 | 81.00 | ||
Lunch | ||||||
3 ounces | chicken breast/ white meat | 26.40 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 140.25 | |
12 ounces | Coca cola- diet w/ caffeine | 0.00 | 0.40 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
.25 cup | Croutons-plain | 9.00 | 5.50 | 0.50 | 30.50 | |
1 large | Salad-lrg. Garden w/tomato and onion | 2.60 | 19.00 | 0.80 | 98.00 | |
4 tbps | Thousand island-reduced cal. Kraft | 0.00 | 12.00 | 4.00 | 80.00 | |
Total: | 38.00 | 36.90 | 8.30 | 348.75 | ||
PM Snack | ||||||
1 each | apple-medium with peel | 0.30 | 21.10 | 0.0 | 81.00 | |
Total: | 0.30 | 21.10 | 0.0 | 81.00 | ||
Dinner | ||||||
3 ounces | chicken breast/ white meat | 26.40 | 0.00 | 3.00 | 140.25 | |
1 cup | pasta, corn cooked | 3.68 | 39.07 | 1.07 | 176.40 | |
1 small | salad-sm. Garden w/tomato, onion | 1.30 | 9.50 | 0.40 | 49.00 | |
2 tbps | thousand island- reduced cal. Kraft | 0.00 | 6.00 | 2.00 | 40.00 | |
Total: | 31.38 | 54.57 | 6.42 | 405.65 | ||
Grand Total: | 87.43 | 183.42 | 34.85 | 1343.95 |
Grocery List
Food | Quantity |
Apple - medium with peel | 14 each |
Bagel - plain | 7 each |
Chicken Breast / White Meat | 42 ounces |
Coca Cola - diet | 84 ounces |
Cream, fluid, half and half | 7 tablespoons |
Croutons - plain | 2 cups |
Pasta, corn, cooked | 7 cups |
Peanut butter - creamy | 14 table spoons |
Salad - large garden | 7 large |
Salad - small garden | 7 small |
Thousand island - reduced cal. | 42 table spoons |
Exercise Regularly
Regular exercise is as important as healthy food habits, to maintain a competent lifestyle. Some people eat well, but avoid working out. The benefits of exercise have been proved time and again and don't need any further advocacy. If your working schedule is too hectic to allow you any time for exercise, try to find other ways of working out. For instance, shun the elevators and climb up the stairs to your office. You can also walk till the market, rather than rolling out your car every time you want to buy something.
Try to spend your time in gym or at least outside for more than 15 minutes.
Take Proper Sleep
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle will become impossible with a lack of proper sleep. Never compromise with your sleeping hours, under any circumstance. Less sleep hampers your efficiency by making you feel lazy and inactive. Try to establish a fixed bed time routine and follow it religiously. You should get up in the morning feeling fresh and active, raring to go!
Take Time-Outs And Relax
No matter how busy you keep, take a breather once in a while, to rejuvenate your mind and recharge your batteries. Life, especially in the present times, is too demanding and challenging, and as such, it becomes important to relax. Chill out to de-stress yourself. To maintain a lifestyle that is healthy, it is important to feel happy and stress-free. You can also go on occasional vacations, to dump all your worries aside and get on with the fun in life.
Organize Your Activities
In the run up to a healthy lifestyle, we often fail to prioritize, rather organize our activities well. You may want to incorporate some form of exercise in your daily routine, but end up completing some other important task in your scheduled workout time. Always remember that an organized lifestyle is a competent lifestyle. Systematize your tasks and get rid of the habit to procrastinate. There is nothing like a well-arranged day, to live a healthy life.