5 Simple Habits That Can Help You Be The Healthier You

If you want to be a happier and healthier person, you will have to work for it. There’s no shortcut that you can go through. You have to make changes in the lifestyle that you’re used to in order to arrive at the one that you want and know is better for you in all aspects of your life.

Sometimes these changes don’t have to be big and drastic, even small ones can go a long way if you’re able to be consistent about them. Here are some habits that you may want to adapt to help you be a better and healthier you.

1.      Start Small

Usually, the reason why people fail at trying to lead a healthier lifestyle is because they try to go all in. Approaching any goal with big sudden effort is bound to fail sooner or later. Why? That’s because it’s our natural reaction to feel tired or move away from something that feels restrictive and depriving. So if you’re trying to lose weight, for example, don’t go into a diet plan that is completely different from what you’re used to. If you’re a big meat eater, don’t try to be straight vegan all of a sudden because chances are you’ll start slipping off that diet. Do it slowly. Instead of eating meat (or whatever unhealthy food you eat) every day, cut it down to 4 days a week, then three, down to one. But don’t cut it out completely. Then learn to cook healthier options for your meals. This way you won’t feel like you’re depriving yourself.

2.      Drink A Glass Of Water Before Every Meal

Drinking water has a lot of health benefits for our body. It doesn’t just keep you hydrated but it also helps improve your digestion, clear the skin a bit, as well as keeps you from drinking sodas. But aside from that, if you make it a habit to drink a glass of water before every meal, it will fill you up you that you don’t overeat.

3.      Make One Meal Really Healthy

Making healthy meals 3 times a day or more is ideal but definitely hard to keep up. So instead, just commit to one really healthy meal a day. You could take home-cooked lunch to work or do a simple skinless chicken breast and some cucumbers for dinner. This way, you won’t have to think about eating healthy, because you just will.

4.      Have A Weekly Physical Challenge

We all know that working out is great for our body. However, busy everyday schedule can make it difficult for you to go to the gym every day. So instead of stressing yourself out about missing gym sessions, how about set yourself a weekly physical challenge to complete. It doesn’t matter if it’s a 60 minute Zumba class or a 5-mile hike as long as you enjoy it. Doing it this way ups the chance that you’ll actually do it and the most important part is that you get to work out your body.

5.      Take Those Little Health Problems Seriously

Those “just a stiff neck/back pain” or “just a headache” leads to bigger or more complicated conditions when not addressed accordingly and right away. Leaving them untreated because they are ‘not that bad’ can overtime, harm both your overall health and your quality of life, so taking a positive step towards solving these issues, like making an appointment to see a good chiropractor, will probably have a bigger positive impact on your day to day life than you’d ever imagined.

The spine is where our body and mind meets. So when something goes wrong with your spine it immediately sends a message to the brain, which sends signals to the nervous system telling our body how to respond. When that happens, you’ll experience disturbances in the natural function of your body and mental state, like back pain and headaches.

In this case, chiropractic care is the best approach to proactive care, spinal hygiene, or preventive wellness care. Singapore chiropractors understand how the spine, nervous system, health and lifelong wellness are inter-related which is why they offer holistic approach for their patients.

If you truly want to change your life, change your ways of living it, and seek help from professionals that can help you get there if necessary.