Motherhood is a beautiful journey in life, where our feeling gets cheerful, glad, and unbeatable, despite changes that take place both physically and mentally we sometime skip following a healthy lifestyle.
Lots of variations take place during motherhood, right from pregnancy, giving birth till raising a child.
Around that time, transformations occur in daily routines starting from the food we take, the exercise we do, our body shape, sleeping habits, etc.
And finally, when we look at our old photo or favorite dress that is unfit now, we realize that we are missing many things. Have you faced this?
Then take a deep breath with a smile, Yes you heard it right.
You are not the only one who faces it while many of us do.
Never allow worries to overcome you! And let us face it together.
Many of us have come across various healthy lifestyle tips to follow before entering motherhood or during the motherhood journey.
But have we implemented in our daily life and following in our routine. And sometimes, we tend to forget about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle in a rush to finish our chores.
How to lead a healthy lifestyle:
According to the World Health Organization, “A healthy diet means there should be a balance between energy intake (calories) and energy expenditure. WHO also recommends limiting sodium intake to less than 2 grams per day (equivalent to 5 grams of salt), reducing free sugars to less than 10% (ideally 5%) of total energy intake, and shifting fat intake away from industrial trans fats”.
Let me reveal those secrets one by one
- Schedule your sleep time and wake up early
- Never skip breakfast
- Take home cooked food
- Exercise as part of your routine
- Stay hydrated, avoid sugary drinks
- Stay positive to maintain a healthy lifestyle
- Mindful eating
- Get sunlight every day
- Meditate to achieve a healthy lifestyle
- Have me-time
1.Schedule your sleep time and wake up early:
Why to maintain a schedule ?
- Maintaining a schedule of when to sleep and wakeup, not only help us in time management but also paves a way in sustaining good health.
- Just imagine if we miss getting proper sleep at night time what happens? Our new day gets ruined because of drowsiness.
- Many health issues arise if we miss enough sleep like problems of indigestion, stress, tiredness, lack of concentration, and so on. And now we can understand why sleep is so vital in our routine “sound sleep at night makes a day better”.
- Waking up early in the morning helps kick start a day with a lot of enthusiasm and energy.
2.Never skip breakfast:
Why should we never skip breakfast?
- In our busy world, we feel it is okay to skip breakfast. But have we ever thought of the consequences we face because of it?
- Starting from Hypertension, high blood pressure, obesity, migraine are some of the consequences we encounter because of it.
Quotes by Anne Wilson Schaef, “Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.”
- Skipping breakfast generally makes us more hungry, which leads to excess eating, lack of concentration, low energy level, and so on.
3.Take homecooked food :
- Taking homecooked food makes us healthy, happy where we consume less amount of sugar and processed food which helps us maintain a healthy lifestyle.
- It gives higher energy levels and better mental health.
Importance of home cooked food
- As we cook food at home, we can choose those ingredients which have more nutritious value and include them while making food, by doing so we can cut down poor diet.
4.Exercise as part of your routine:
Why is it necessary to exercise?
- Exercise need not be the hard workout that we do in the gym, as it can be simpler to keep us active throughout the day.
- We can start our day by doing a simple workout at home,30 min walk, swimming, doing household chores can also be a great way of exercising.
- If you plan to lose weight, then it must be done safely.
- Besides helping in maintaining our body tone, exercise helps in increasing our energy levels and sense of comfort.
- Try doing some workouts after delivery.
5. Stay hydrated, avoid sugary drinks:
Benefits of drinking water:
- Drinking 4-6 cups each day is generally healthy.
- Consuming Water helps in carrying nutrients that our body needs.
- Flushes out toxins
- Helps improving skin complexion.
- Prevents constipation, kidney stones, etc
- Aids in weight loss.
- Avoid sugary content to reduce the risk of overweight, obesity, dental problems, etc.
6.Stay positive to maintain a healthy lifestyle:
How does staying positive help?
- Staying positive helps us to reduce depression, improves our life span, enhances physical and mental well-being, and so on.
- Staying around positive people, identifying the negativity and rectifying it, opening ourselves to humor, a smile on our face, stop overthinking about the future, and living a present moment happily.
- Never compare yourself with others, as we are unique and beautiful in our way.
- Stop worrying about other person opinions and do what is good. Because perceptions differ from one person to other.
7.Mindful eating:
What is mindful eating?
- Focus and eat your food without any distractions, as it is a technique to keep track of your eating habits.
- It helps us promote digestion and keeps us full with less intake of food.
- Take more veggies and fruits to improve your health benefits as it contains a good source of minerals and vitamins.
8.Get sunlight every day
Benefits of exposing to sunlight:
- As we know exposing to sunlight helps to improve our health and well-being.
- Aids to relieve stress and improves sleep.
- Enhances our mood.
- We get vitamin D which helps in supporting bone health, prevention of disease, promoting good psychological health.
- But we should also remember anything too much is not good. Being exposed to the sun for some time is good, but overdoing it is harmful to our skin.
9.Meditate to achieve a healthy lifestyle:
How meditation helps?
- Meditation helps improving concentration, bringing ourselves to the present moment, address stress (positive or negative).
- Helps improving lower blood pressure, heart rate, breathing, metabolism, control anxiety, etc.
- Playing Mindfulness music while meditating.
Quotes by Buddha, “To keep the body in good health is a duty…otherwise we shall not be able to keep the mind strong and clear.”
- In the real-world it helps be a more confident person, increases productivity, improved focus and concentration, being kind, reduce negative thoughts, reduces anger, helps to tackle a complicated situation with ease.
10.Have me-time:
- Have some time only for you without any compromise.
- It is not about couple time or time with kids but a relaxing and enjoyable time for you.
- Remember having a Me time isn’t a selfish.
- It is a crucial factor for maintaining a healthy lifestyle too, as we take charge of our health, happiness, become more productive with tremendous energy.
Some tips for me time:
- Listening to music, a walk in the garden, breathing deeply, pampering yourself, having a coffee looking out the window or balcony, watching a movie, like these we all have our option of me-time that we enjoy in spending.
These are more important hacks needed to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Though we face some social constraints to attain a healthy lifestyle, we must ensure that it is for our well-being and try to inculcate in our life.
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