As the holiday months are upon us, I am focusing my articles on managing your healthy lifestyle and arriving at January 1 feeling great! This is defin...
As the holiday months are upon us, I am focusing my articles on managing your healthy lifestyle and arriving at January 1 feeling great!
This is definitely a challenging time of the year for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Not only are the holidays filled with endless opportunities for eating, finding the time for regular exercise may be an added challenge.
Plan ahead
So, how can you continue the healthy habits you created the rest of the year?
#1 - Make a plan! Physical activity is unlikely to happen without planning for it each and every day, particularly during this time of the year.
Consider all the opportunities you have to add more movement into your day. A few minutes here and there may not seem worth the effort. But I know from personal experience and from the many clients I have worked with that not only does exercise help us to burn calories, it helps us to feel energized which allows balancing all of the rest of the challenges through the holidays just a bit easier.
What can you do today to move your body, give yourself that energy boost you may need and maintain your healthy lifestyle? Make it a priority and make it a plan. I guarantee it will be worth the effort.
Heal Your Gut, Heal Your Brain
The phrase 'Going with your gut' is a common idiom for a reason. On one level, people have understood the gut’s vital role in decision-making instincts for decades. Often called the body’s second brain, experts call this little brain the enteric nervous system or ENS.The Connection Between Gut Health and Inflammation
Your chronic inflammation may mean something else entirely, such a poor gut health. It bears repeating: your gut has a significant impact on your overall wellbeing.Get rid of constipation with a nourished gut
I want to dig deeper into one of the main solutions to this problem so many millions of people struggle with – nourishing your gut. Making food and lifestyle choices to prevent constipation can go a long way, but also a healthy gut is key to prevent and manage any gut dysfunction that can lead to constipation.It is always easier to prevent illness than to treat it. So adopting healthy lifestyle choices before dealing with chronic constipation is ideal. But when that hasn’t been the case, there are choices you can start making today to get your gut on track.