Health comes first, if you don’t have good physical and emotional health, you can’t take care of your children the way you want to. In the vast majority of families, children come first, but that’s not the reason you should forget about yourself and your needs. For yourself and for them, you should worry about your health and not forget what is better than taking care of your family.
With small gestures and changes in your routine, you can greatly improve your physical and emotional health. Today we leave you with a few tips so that just by changing some habits, you can make a significant difference in the health of your entire family.
- Start Your Day with A Hearty Breakfast
For breakfast, it is best to eat whole grain foods, which will gradually give you energy for the whole morning. Choose whole grain bread sandwiches, oatmeal with nuts, or chickpea pasta.
- Eat Regularly
We keep hearing about eating five meals every three hours. But it really is extremely important. Eating regular meals at regular times helps regulate the body, sets the pace for the metabolism and reduces the bouts of hunger, during which we are able to devour everything at hand.
- Add Variety!
Make sure that each of your meals contains a variety of foods. Try not to eat bread and ham for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Prepare a variety of pastas, cottage cheese and salads. Eat raw vegetables as often as possible.
Official dietary guidelines recommend eating fruits and vegetables five times a day. Remember that your plate should always be of color. Eating a variety of colorful foods provides nutrients and vitamins from different groups.
- Avoid Highly Processed Foods and Store-Bought Sweets
The more processed food is, the less nutritional value it has. Store-bought sweets are a source of empty calories, digestible sugar and trans fats that cause atherosclerosis. On the other hand, salty snacks, Chinese soups and prepared foods shower us with salt, sodium glutamate and the often carcinogenic acrylamide.
- Drink Enough Water
To compensate for the daily loss of water from the body, we should drink at least 1.5 to 2 liters a day. Adequate hydration of the cells allows the body to function properly because all processes in the body take place in an aqueous environment. Adequate hydration also prevents edema. We are 70% water! Let’s not forget this.
- Introduce Physical Activity
Regular moderate exercise improves physical fitness, oxygenates brain and body cells, and promotes mental well-being. After all, exercise is a rest for the mind. If you don’t have time for the gym, get out for a walk, ride your bike to work, or go to the pool as a family on the weekend instead of sitting on the couch. Exercise doesn’t have to be strenuous work.
- Relax and Reduce Stress
Make time just for yourself. Read a book, listen to your favorite music, go out with friends. Just don’t talk about your problems all the time! These simple things really help to keep your sanity. They also help reduce stress, which is the scourge of the 21st century and can contribute to disease.
- Work on Your Self-Esteem
Think about how many times you’ve criticized yourself, blamed yourself for things that don’t depend on you, and reacted allergic to compliments. Think about it, would you do that to your child? Find your inner child and at least once a day praise yourself for what you managed to do today.
- Get Enough Sleep
Don’t let life on the run take over you and set aside enough hours for sleep. Not only will you be physically healthier, but you’ll be happier, more focused and more efficient at work. Take care of your sleep hygiene as well.
- Carry Out Changes in Small Increments
Rome wasn’t built in one day. And you can’t immediately change your lifestyle to a healthier one. Challenge yourself to gradually give up behaviors that don’t work for you. Where should you start? For example, don’t salt the tomatoes on your sandwich, make a healthy salad for dinner, set aside an hour of time twice a week to relax after work. Over time, giving up more of your existing habits will become less and less of an issue.
Improving your health is a matter of habit, diet or exercise is important. But it’s also significant to spend time with your family, enjoy a conversation with your partner, or listen to your children as they tell you about what they learned in school. It’s influential to learn how to unplug in order to connect with what really helps. Kids grow up at a dizzying pace, and life whizzes by before our eyes without us even noticing it. Live at the moment, take care of your body and mind, so you can enjoy life to the fullest.
