Healthier you
You know the saying, you can take a horse to the water, you can’t make him drink. I am taking you to water via different routes. Enjoy it.
- Don’t eat food in portions larger than your fist.
- Do-it-yourself. Do you own laundry. Dust your won shelves, buy your own groceries. Don’t leave it to your domestic help.
- Takes the weight off you.
- Avoid buffets. Be the diva and get the chef to make you something special. Ask nicely.
- Therapeutic massages help control stress and put your body in a state of relaxation, allowing it to internally start a healing process. And no, it has nothing to do with sex.
- While oil and carbs are the big guns of bad health, the word is out that no carbs and no oil is even worse. Low carbs is the mantra.
- The bad news. You can stay on the treadmill for hours and not lose weight. The good news. You can stay on the treadmill and watch your calories. It works wonders.
- If you are a chronic sufferer of migraine, blood pressure, and other ailments that refuse to go away, ask your doctor to enrol you for a biofeedback reading. It enables you to monitor your body, to recognise stress build-up and to make you more aware of when the monster is going to strike again. Our grandmothers were right: Prevention is really better than cure.
- Change your routine. While there is great comfort in habits, health and fitness experts claim that changing routines frequently keeps you alert because you are entering new territory which could throw up surprises, good and bad. It helps the body cope with new obstacles, lower immunity to situations and generally helps you cope better with life situations.
- Stay balanced. If you have a sedentary lifestyle, join a dance class, a trekker’s club, in short, stay active. If you are a travel guide, join a book club, watch movies that make you laugh, in short, stay passive.
- When you are tempted to take a second helping, give yourself 20 minutes before you do. Research shows it takes that long for the stomach to signal to the brain that it has had enough.
- Rise with the sun, sleep with the moon. Ancient wisdom. Still applicable.
