Here's some simple tips to ensure that you lead a happy, healthy life
We all know the importance of healthy eating and maintaining a proper lifestyle, and how they help us throughout our lives. The very first step knows how to prepare for it. There is an effective way to inculcate healthy eating habits, and motivating yourself to achieve your health goal balanced by a realistic self-assessment and self-motivation.
-Maintain a Healthy eating habit: Having a healthy diet throughout the day is essential for leading a hassle-free life all along.
-Plan your meal ahead of time: Plan your schedule specifically asking questions such as: What you will cook? What do you need? Consider the type of food you and your family like along with food preparation methods and the time and energy required for preparing meals. This helps prevent confusions and stress in the last moment.
-Make a shopping list: You can shop at a local grocery store but try to get fresh fruits and vegetables from a local farmer or market.
-Keep a food journal: A journal can help you identify the link between your emotions and food. Practice awareness of internal food rules and external food rules to make healthy food choices. Use senses to savor food with kindness, not with anger, guilt, or fear. Develop eating habits with awareness rather than any judgments or distractions.
-Opt for nutritious foods:
Energy-boosting foods: Include complex carbohydrates such as whole grains and cereals, oats, brown rice, nuts, and oilseeds in your daily breakfast as they make a great source of energy-dense food.
Immune-boosting foods: Eat green leafy vegetables and yellow-orange colored fruits loaded with vitamins C and E, minerals, herbs, and spices.
Muscle building foods: For growth and development of bones and muscles, include protein-rich foods in your diet, such as homemade smoothies, oats, eggs, lentils, milk, and cottage cheese as they help keep hunger at bay for a longer duration.
Keep yourself hydrated: Consume plenty of fluids such as buttermilk, coconut water, and fruit-infused water to ward off symptoms of tiredness, loss of concentration, and headache.
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(The author is an experienced Nutritionist and freelance writer)