Maintaining a healthy lifestyle: Attitude
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| Positive changes to your lifestyle can make you healthier and feel better about yourself and your life. |
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Positive Attitude
If you follow the above tips and combine it with being more active, more often you will notice that your energy levels and general well being will increase.
Stay realistic
Eating well, doing more physical activity and maintaining a healthy weight are some of the steps to feeling great. However, sometimes we all have moments of feeling less positive and slip from our healthy lifestyle routine. Don’t worry, reflect on the good work you have been doing and celebrate the changes and how they have made you feel. Write down the ‘triggers’ that made you want to slip back into your old unhealthy habits.
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Learn to deal with stress
For many people, reaching for the comfort habits (e.g. food or cigarettes) gives the feeling of dealing of release. However, in the long term this then brings on a negative cycle of guilt.
Before this happens again, is there any another way that you could manage those stressful situations? It could be going for a brisk walk around the block, phoning a friend or visualising yourself in a calmer situation.
Habits
Human behaviour has a tendency to develop long lasting habits that become a very important part of our lives. One of the great things about habits is that new ones can be created and become more of a focus than old negative ones.
Building habits that work for you, and try to avoid habits that get in your
way. Being aware of your habit-potential and gaining some control, makes
you feel more positive than just accepting what life brings along.
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| If you are not eating one of the food groups on a regular basis, you may be denying your body vital nutrients that are needed to assist in staying healthy. |
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Cravings
Cravings are not a physical addiction, but are a response to a certain trigger. Decide why you are doing what you want (e.g. wanting to eat a large cake for lunch instead of the healthy alternative you made earlier) and the how you will feel from doing both options.
Making a conscious choice can help you overcome cravings and feel more in control of what you do.
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