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Your healthiest habits and how you stick to them?

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C1239 · 24/02/2023 13:29

I feel a little stuck in a rut and I want to try and get some more energy so I feel more motivated to start exercising again so I’m looking at what ways I can improve things.

Im thinking walking more, drinking more water, reading for a small amount of time each day, making sure I have some fun, taking some vitamins.

What are your healthy habits and how to you make sure you stick to them?!

OP posts:
Badger1970 · 02/03/2023 19:23

My two very active dogs ensure that I walk at least 12k steps a day come rain or shine. I get very antsy if I can't for any reason.

Snowinsummer · 02/03/2023 19:28

I take Solgar VM Prime for women, Solgar magnesium citrate, vitamin D & I've just started taking Ancient & Brave collagen.

Mojoj · 02/03/2023 19:33

No snacks between meals and no eating after 7pm.

Twattergy · 02/03/2023 19:36

Flax seed on cereal or yoghurt - just keep a pack somewhere visible, it lasts for ages.

Lots of sleep (usually 10pm til 6.45 ish)

V minimal alcohol (peri meno makes it not enjoyable anyway)

Consistently HiIT class x2 a week and I'll always go unless I'm literally not in the area. No 'I'm tired or its dark' excuses.

Spanielsarepainless · 02/03/2023 19:41

Walking two dogs each day for at least an hour.
Drinking a pint of tepid water first thing in the morning (goes down easier than cold).
Taking various supplements, but unmissable are cod liver oil, kelp and glucosamine.
Seed mixture on muesli.

Selinaserena · 02/03/2023 23:13

AlienatedChildGrown · 24/02/2023 16:54

Drink large glass of water with Meds
Needing to pee desperately so Get Up On Time
Feed chickens
Walk Dog for one hour at a cracking pace
Practise Morning Gratitude on the walk (vaguely in the sun’s direction if I can’t actually see it.)
Eat fish or flaxseed infested breakfast (usually sardines)
Tidy Up Routine
Daily Stoic listening while tidying
Clear head for work with New Day coaching (very zesty)
Set out top 3 priorities
Note additional goals
Check diary
Meditate
Deep Work
Back, shoulder and neck 10 minute guided seated stretching
Eat fruit and wholemeal something for lunch
Binaural Beats 25 minutes power nap (may include dribbling)
Invigorate head with Work Day coaching (very Stoic)
More Deep Work
Pootle About A bit
Cook
Clean up
Take other meds
Relax in any fashion I feel like
Induce relaxation via night time coaching session (v. soothing)
Up to bed with the next morning’s glass of water

About 15 months ago my sole habit was to be the worst example of ADHD in Self Destruction Mode. Poor diet, poor sleep, dehydrated, made a sloth look like Kobe in comparison, I dithered through my days more by accident than design.

No I’m not sponsored by them. I’ve paid for 2 annual subscriptions and will keep doing it. Won’t work for everybody, but worked like a charm for me. Fabulous app. It’s called The Fabulous on their website, not a .com, might be .co (company ?) I use it in conjugation with Tiimo app and a mood tracker (free) to help me stay on track. I fall off the wagon from time to time. But miss the good feeling life has when I’m following the app religiously. It’s a very gradual curve and you can brake or accelerate based on your own needs and rhythms.

Changed my life. Very much for the better. Not all my days are Fabulous, I screw up, get sick and fall over. Just not all the time now. And only for a limited period. I’d go without food for three days if that’s what it took to make sure I had enough in the kitty to cough up for the new annual subscription. Try the free version first though. IIRC they gave me a free month of premium as well to try it out before I decided to upgrade from the free, but more limited, setting.

I feel like it works cos it’s the softest, loveliest, kindest velvet glove and is so nice to me that it makes me pull out my inner little bit of steel to make my hand hard enough to keep Lovely Glove open and on me all the time. If that makes sense 😂 Whatever it is, it’s not will power. Cos I didn’t get the gene.

This is wonderful. I've just got myself that app. Thanks for the recommendation.

ComeTheFckOnBridget · 02/03/2023 23:39

A simple skincare routine which I do daily (cleanse/moisturise/spf am).

Making my bed daily - even if just before I get into it!

A Place For Everything And Everything In It's Place.

Evening wind-down routine, which includes no caffeine after 6pm and lighting which gets progressively softer as the evening goes on. I also have my phone and laptop scheduled to switch on the blue light filter a couple of hours before bed and dim all screens being used from 8pm onwards.

tresleches · 02/03/2023 23:56

I tried 16:8 or whatever a while ago and I don't really do it now but it did have the effect of making me realise I don't really want or need breakfast most mornings. So now I have two coffees with milk, then into a tupperware pot goes: frozen mixed berries and frozen cherries (Lidl), flaxseed, chia seed (sometimes), pumpkin and sunflower seeds, cinnamon, Lidl greek yoghurt and Lidl kefir. I take it and the second coffee to work and eat it at around 11am. That pushes "lunch" much later and I usually don't want much, more of a snack. I don't do it every morning, but maybe 3-4 a week. I do love yoghurt though..

I gym and swim regularly too. After a lot of stop-starting and faffing I just decided it's as important as brushing my teeth so it's non-negotiable, in the sense that if I do it, I know that everything else will be better. Plus I'm 44 so there's a bit of "if not now then when" going on

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