AIBU to ask you if a daily habit has transformed your life?

Great thread, thanks to everyone for their input 😊
As inspired by many of you, I'm going to

1. Yoga every day
2. Drink more water
3. 10 minute tidy daily

She has lots of 30 day series (which started with the 30 days of yoga series you posted). My favourite is True (which I try to do every summer holiday). Others are Dedicate, Home, Revolution, Yoga Camp.

I fell off the wagon yesterday - back to it tomorrow.

I'm loving this. Keep the tips coming folks!

I've started 16/8 and feel so much better for it. I've massively upped my water intake and switched to meat free a few days a week.

I've also bought a guided journal. I'm currently having counselling and want something to take over from that when I'm done.

Regular exercise is still alluding me. I do yoga or get on the exercise bike a few times a week and try to do a big walk one day but daily exercise isn't happening.

I’m loving this thread and am nearly a week into my Wim Hof breathing and cold showers and my 4 pints of water per day and feeling great on it, and planning to start more soon - probably miracle morning.

Is anyone using a habit tracking app? I think tracking is really helpful. I’ve tried doing this in a bullet journal but go through phases of using it and not using it - I think an app would work much better for me. Any suggestions?

Another vote for this thread to go into classics. I love it ❤️ and have been making notes while reading it over the last few days.

I have piled the weight on over lockdown.... At the weekend someone commented that my husband (who has lost about 3 stone ) has given it to me. Embarrassingly I now weigh the same as him.

I have included these new habits-

• Intermittent fasting. No eating after 8 pm has reduced the mindless snacking after kids are in bed. I find 9-11am the hardest

I have always drunk water so going to make sure it's a full 2 litres.

I want to-
1 leave phone downstairs

2 start yoga.. been meaning to since lockdown but with two under 5 can't find the time in the day

3 start praying daily

4 Go to bed by 10.45 rather than drifting off on the sofa

Thanks for everyone's tips and good luck 👍🏼🙂

I’ve managed 3 days of yoga on the trot and have started drinking more water. I started with Adrienne‘s beginner’s routine recommended upthread on Saturday and I think that was quite a good way of doing it - I had to learn the routine on Saturday, finessed my technique yesterday and was able to follow the routine more or less by listening this morning, which meant I could pay more attention to my posture and how my body was feeling. I’ve decided I’ll switch the routine at the weekend and follow it for 7 days. That way, it is familiar on weekdays when I’m more time pressured and feeling less motivated.

My good habits:-

Daily walk (or swim when local pool reopens)

Joining Audible so I can listen to audio books - I try and listen to a 'classic' every other book, which has been a very positive experience.

Only drinking alcohol and eating a pudding at weekends.

Not shaving! Not for everyone, but after years of social conditioning I decided I wanted my body to be as nature intended.

This is a fabulous thread. Another nomination for it to become a classic!

My habits

• 16:8 fasting - I've only started in the past month, but already it helps me with...
• drinking 3 litres of water a day - at least one bottle before my first coffee, and another before lunch
• meal planning each week
• leaving the kitchen tidy after every meal

Habits I'm working on

• start my exercise before 8am (obviously much easier without a commute/school run to juggle)
• 10,000 steps a day. I like the evening walk idea, so will use that on days I'm struggling to get to 10k steps

Habits I'm going to pick up

• Daily Vitamin D
• No afternoon snack
• cold shower in the morning (I've heard Chris Evans talk about it for the last year)
• Leaving tech downstairs at nigh

My biggest habit change is cutting down carbs to less than 20g a day. I was forced to do it by my dietitian for health reasons (endometriosis and rheumatoid arthritis) but it has been a revolution. I work in a very cerebral, academic job and my mind is clearer, my stomach flatter and my IBS has disappeared and I do not have that falling asleep at 3pm feeling anymore. It has been the biggest, best change I have ever made.

Just reporting in a few days on:

• 5 glasses of water (done)
• no caffeine coffee after noon (done)

I have also purchased and am nearly finished the obesity code. Not ready for full on fasting so have instead added a further breaking habit to my list this week:

• no evening time snacking after kids’ bedtime (this will be a really difficult one for me to break)

I just wanted to toss out Ashley Freeman for excellent yoga. She is Australian and has a wonderful seated yoga program on YouTube for those unable to get up and down from a mat. Using her programs helped me get a yoga routine started. Adrienne also has some nice seated yoga programs.

@SissySpacekAteMyHamster Cat Meffan is really good

Sorry haven't read all the comments, so this may have been asked and answered already.

For those of you doing yoga, do you have a recommendation for a youtube channel or such, as I find a lot of them spend so much time talking, and it does my head in!!

I haven't read the whole thread but wondered if anyone has tried Ballet. I've been doing balletbasedmovement every day since 01 April. Its for the over 50s. My posture has completely changed and my bad back and sciatica have disappeared after years and £££ on osteo etc. I could never get on with yoga so this is like a miracle.

This is a great thread.

I make kefir and eat it almost daily. Makes a huge difference to my skin and digestive health.

I tried the standing on one leg thing and managed a pitiful 5 seconds so I am going to practice that.

I also want to start walking everyday. I don’t know why I find it so hard to do this. Some weeks I barely leave the house and that is no good for my physical or mental health.

Another one for a daily walk. I go out every day for my lunch half hour at work weather permitting. Also just started couch to 5k and hoping that will get me back into the routine of running. I feel so much better for getting some exercise.

A long daily walk. I think I’ve probably given myself at least another ten years.

This is such a positive thread, can we nominate it for classics please MNHQ?

@MNHQ

I tried a cold shower this morning but had to build up to it (or down to it in terms of temperature I suppose :o)

I’ve ordered a body brush too as I thought I might give that a go beforehand.

Need to motivate myself as screen time is taking over a bit again and I can feel it making me miserable! I’ve done well reducing it over lockdown but it’s creeping back in

Love this thread - thanks OP and to everyone for such interesting stuff

I'm half way through James Clear's Atomic Habits - very good so far. I read HalElrod's Miracle Morning some time ago and (although it's very "American") it's brilliant.

My good habits include

• never go to bed with the house untidy, especially the kitchen
• I've been going for a daily walk of a minimum of 5km since lockdown started
• drinking more water - at least two pints a day (doesn't sound much but I have a very weak bladder and if I'm out somewhere and need to go, then I really need to go so I have to be careful)

My bad habits include

• working all day and then working for 4-5 hours in the evening too
• drinking tea with one sugar in
• vaping (the damn thing is never further than a foot away from me!)
• not doing exercise (aside from my walking)
• being pedantic about the house and garden being spotless

Habits I want to start include

• Yoga with Adrianne
• running again (used to love it)
• stretching (my back is shot to bits since wfh)
• mindfulness
• Bible in year app sounds fab
• Vitamin D

And I got up at 5:30 this morning. By 10am I had hoovered and dusted the whole house, watered my garden, done three washes and hung them out, finished cleaning the oven (started yesterday with the fabulous "Oven Pride") and done three rows of the blanket I'm crocheting whilst sitting in garden - happy days!

Best thread ever, this is, love it

This thread comes at a good time for me. We very recently moved abroad and everything is up in the air. All my running and healthy eating has stopped due to the heat and needing to get back into routine. I have realised that I only drink coffee, so mine this week are:

• no coffee after noon
• 5 glasses of water a day
• start getting my bedtime back to a reasonable time. Starting by by 11:30 then will see how I feel

I love threads like this :)