How To Stay Healthy or Become Healthy

[LittleSally]

It's 80/20! 80% your DIET, 20% EXERCISE!

1. Diet

Diet - NOT the verb, the noun!

Buy the things you know you can find in nature. Use those to makeu homecooked meals. If you have one day - do a few meals that day and freeze them for the rest of the week.

Drink water - when you're thirsty. A lot of the time when you think you're hungry you're just thirsty.

Put lemons in your water in the morning - kinda helps with your tummy.

Eat a lot of fruit, vegetables and high fiber foods. Your body will thank you!

Don't have unhealthy foods in your house - if you have them, clean them out. Don't buy anymore - if you don't have that at home you won't eat it.

2. Exercise

Do it as much as you can - walk around, run, swim, pilates, yoga - just make sure you engage all of your muscles when you do all of this - don't just limply do them.

Make healthier life decisions: take the stairs, vacuum yourself, wash the windows...

Change things up: don't always do the same things - don't let your body get used to it - because then it won't respond in the same way to it. Dance...jump...

Your best bet is to do it in the mornings (but it depends on the person...if you're a procrastinator then do it asap in the day)!

3. Wire Your Brain

DON'T think about this as a regime or a diet or a fad...think of it as a lifestyle change. Incorporate some of these on a daily, weekly or a monthly bases - it all depends on you. Just think healthy, buy healthy things and you'll feel healthier!

[W31rd0]

Personally, I believe that there are 3 limiting factors when it comes to portion control - money, size of plate, and stomach capacity.

1. Money. You need money to buy food. Use your money wisely. Whole fruits and vegetables and grains are cheaper than the prepared foods.
2. Size of Plate. How much space you have on the plate will influence how much you can put on the plate.
3. Stomach Capacity. No one can hold infinite amount of space in the stomach. To fill you up, eat lots of vegetables and whole grains. Add meats and fats for sustenance. They can easily add in more calories into your diet, so you don't starve yourself and become calorie-deficient!

[sovetskii13]

Very nice. If only I can find time and desire to exercise. I have to wait about 2 hours after eating or I might get stomach pain. But by then I feel like having a snack. I can't eat right after exercising for the same reason. I eat very healthy food but have been underweight for like 15 years.

[Prof_Don]

"Diet - NOT the verb, the noun!"

This line is an all timer! Made me laugh out loud. :)

[LittleSally]

Haha Thank you =)

[levantine99]

good stuff. i agree that its a responsibility towards our selves, our children and earth. to eat and live healthy.

[ChocoLada]

Good advices, I always exercise and try to eat healthy.

[RainbowFanGirl]

I went to the gym 3 times in a row. Going today too haha.

[reixun]

Yess 80% food 20% exercise is what I live by

[Luci92]

Straight to the point, I like it.

[JuicyBrain]

I guess I should do that...

[Femdomina]

Nice MyTake, I do all of the above.

[ArabianPwincess197]

Good Take :)

[cupidkisses]

I do all of them !

[Robert_T]

Nice Sharing,