Getting Healthy: How Do You Find the Time?

Always Have Breakfast

If you don’t ensure that you have breakfast every day, then you are probably regularly feeling tired by mid morning. Once that happens, you can’t think of anything except lunch. When lunchtime comes, you wolf down a meal packed with carbohydrates, and then by mid afternoon you’re feeling sleepy, and like you have to drag yourself through the rest of the day. The point is that if your body is to function properly it has to have regular fuel.

From the time you go to bed at night until you get up the next morning, eight or more hours have elapsed. Your body has to get itself going, and it needs fuel for that. Blood sugar levels need to be raised, and this means taking the time to eat breakfast. This gives your body the fuel it needs to get through the first part of the morning. If you eat breakfast regularly, you will find losing weight easier, and will have more energy for the exercise you need to do to be healthy and keep in shape.

Just Five Minutes

No matter how busy you are, you can find five minutes in your day, in which you can get up from that chair and walk around, either in the office or out in the fresh air. Being cooped up all day in a small space isn’t healthy. People, like every other living thing, need fresh air and sunshine if they are to function properly. In fact if you don’t get enough light you can be deficient in vitamin D, and this can eventually make you ill. So take those five minutes each day to soak up that life enhancing nutrient, and you will really notice how differently you feel, and the difference in how you handle stress in your day.

Have Healthy Food to Hand

You might not have enough time for three healthy, sit down meals each day, but you can ensure that you always have healthy snacks at the ready, so that your body has a steady source of good fuel. Examples of good foods for this purpose include fruit (fresh or dried), carrot sticks (perhaps with a ranch dip), cheese, yogurt, and granola. Grocery stores these days stock these items in convenient packages, which make this easy. Have some in your car or in the office, for those times when your energy levels need a boost.

It might not be easy to find enough time for getting healthy and staying that way, but if you use these tips, you can make a start.