Hey there, are you trying your level best to look better, feel great, live longer, and be healthy? Well everyone knows Life isn’t easy, it’s already busy and filled with unexpected surprises. So why contribute to the chaos by making health harder than it has to be?
Even slight lifestyle changes can bring magical mood-boosting benefits. According to Harvard Public Health, your health and your mood are inseparably linked; improve one and you improve the other. Is there anything easy you can do that might have an effect shortly thereafter? Are there any easy targets to aim for when pursuing optimal health? And yes, is the response.
You can try some healthy life hacks that take almost no time away from your busy life. So doesn’t it sound better to start with small, manageable changes that can easily fit into your day and lead to a healthy lifestyle?
Everyday life hacks for a healthy you
Seven to nine hours of regular restful sleep
A night of regular restful sleep is the key to Healthy Lifestyle. Seven to nine hours of sleep every night can keep your brain sharp and sky-high energy level. Also, it lowers developing risk of serious health issues by boosting your immune system, relieving stress, and strengthening your heart. It gives you radiant skin, improves your mood, and productivity, and sharpens your memory. If you don’t get enough sleep you will end up feeling tired and lacking in energy and you function below par – both physically and mentally.
So getting Better sleep has to be your aim for good health benefits. Making small lifestyle changes by adopting some life hacks can help your mind and body to relax. Try life hacks such as creating a nighttime routine, turning off the TV half an hour before bed, wearing a sleep mask, and putting away your phone, tablet, or any screen, you can use in the morning.
Be a Morning Person
Waking up early is another important life hack with tons of benefits. It improves productivity, promotes mental health, improves sleep, gives you time to exercise, and helps to maintain a healthy diet. It also makes you go to bed earlier which gives you sufficient and consistent sleep. This improves blood pressure, basic brain functions, and mood and also gives your body enough time to repair itself. Kickstarting the morning with warm lemon water flushes your system, keeps your digestive system healthy, and gives you more energy.
Is it possible for you to become an early bird, then? A few routine changes will help you like getting on a good sleep schedule, improving your bedtime routine, moving your alarm so you will not snooze, having no screen before bed, sleeping with your curtains open, and waking up at the same time every day, even on weekends.
Follow a consistent workout routine
Physical Activity or regular Exercise can have immediate or long-term health benefits and reduce the risk of developing several diseases. Following a consistent workout routine is a proven method for slashing stress, anxiety, and depression and for mood boosting.
Adapt any exercise routine; you just need to get your sweat on. Exercise regularly improves energy, promotes better sleep, enhances sex life and quality of life, and helps maintain a healthy weight. To maintain disease-free and perfectly fit health, a minimum of 30 minutes of daily physical activity on most.
Meditation is the key
Meditate to clear your mind for 10 minutes daily. Deep belly breathing is shown to lower blood pressure, delay the process of aging, and improve focus. It’s incredible how much research supports meditation’s health benefits. It dials back your anxiety, even helps you sleep more soundly, reduces stress, and improves immune function. Practicing life hacks like Meditation, listening to music, solving puzzles, etc. for mindfulness and boost your brain health and memory.
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Exercise without exercising
Many people don’t get enough time to exercise or hate exercise but want to find a way, what if you can still exercise without exercising? Sounds good? Let’s see how. Go for 15 minutes simple walk or what about dancing? You’ll be sweating within 10 minutes.
Opt for some outdoor games, take the stairs instead of the elevator, or do squats while brushing your teeth or watching TV. While working switch to an adjustable standing desk, walk and stand more at work, and take a stretch break to boost your energy and improve focus and mood.
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Drink More Water
Stay hydrated, and Drink More Water. Double your water intake, it’s advised for the average person to drink up to 2 liters of water a day. Drinking water promotes energy levels, and this in turn can make your skin and hair shine and make you feel amazing. Also, it lets you burn weight by improving your metabolism and lowering your energy intake.
So, keep a bottle of water handy in your car, your bag, or at your desk.  You can even set a water-drinking reminder on your phone.
Take a shower
Taking a shower is another important life hack that has an impressive array of benefits. One cold shower will improve circulation, increase metabolism, tighten pores, boost immunity and alertness, and speed recovery from a tough workout. A warm shower before bedtime can lower body temperature slowing down metabolic functions such as heart rate, breathing, and digestion, relax muscles, remove toxins from the skin, and ease your way into sleep.
Never skip your Breakfast
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Starting your day with protein for amplifying energy boost, fiber to stay full until lunch prevents you from overeating, and also kick-starts your metabolism, helping you burn calories throughout the day. Skipping breakfast might make you feel exhausted and you’ll be more likely to overeat later in the day.
Eat your greens to love your health
Eat your greens. According to research having vegetables in an unmodified or uncooked state can seriously decrease feelings of depression. Regular vegetable consumption can lead to a healthier, happier life as it’s a most concentrated source of nutrition. You can have vegetables the way you want, make a salad, or make various recipes using them. If you struggle to eat bitter and often unsavory veggies simply make a juice or green smoothie.
A piece of fruit a day keeps the doctor away
Add Fruits to your daily diet. Fruits help to keep you hydrated, they pack tons of disease-fighting antioxidants and are rich in vitamins, fibers, and minerals. A great option for breakfast, snacks, or dessert is fresh fruits. Always put fruity snacks on your desk to avoid junk. It will also fill you up quickly as it contains high water content. Fruit is a much better hack to satisfy a sweet tooth so you can replace desserts with fruits.Â
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Healthy eating is important for your health. Fermented foods are probiotic powerhouses you can find almost anywhere. Probiotics are live good bacteria that keep your digestive system healthy and your body functioning perfectly by helping food move through the gut. Always choose fresh or frozen over canned. Canned fruits are often packed full of excess sugar whereas frozen fruits and vegetables maintain more of their nutritional value.
Know your food intake
Slash your food intake, eating too much food, especially unhealthy food can cause everything from weight gain to increased blood pressure to diabetes. Is there a way to find the appropriate amount? It is simple. Use smaller plates for portion control and you could reduce your calorie intake by 20%, or fill up on salad before meals.
When you eat quickly your body may not realize how full you are causing overeating. To overcome this you can use the 80-20 rule, most foods take at least 20 minutes to digest so pause eating at 80 percent of your normal portion and if needed continue eating. Also eat without distractions because when you eat mindfully, you naturally slow down and eat as much as you need.
Drink your coffee black
Enjoy black coffee but without milk, whipped caramel sauce, or sugar. Having 3 to 5 cups of Black coffee daily decreases the risk of cancer, improves mental focus, and possible protection from Alzheimer’s disease. For a flavorful kick to your coffee, try a sprinkle of cinnamon. Cinnamon lowers your cholesterol & blood sugar, improves brain function, and is packed with antioxidants for a better life. But avoid caffeine after 5 p.m. for better sleep.
Chew some gum or some dark chocolate.
The consumption of dark chocolate regularly (150 calories or less) can reduce your risk of heart disease by up to 30%. Also improves your metabolism and helps regulate the stress hormone cortisol. Chewing gum can also reduce cortisol levels.
Walk to the grocery stores.
A quick walk to the grocery store followed by carrying your groceries back home can help you build stamina as well as strength. Never go grocery shopping on an empty stomach as it can increase the chances of impulsive shopping and you might end up buying lots of unhealthy food. Also always shop for your groceries with cash because you’re more likely to buy calorie-loaded snacks if you use a credit or debit card.
Follow a “no-tech” rule
Putting away phones, laptops, smart tabs anything that emits artificial or blue light out of sight and earshot for a couple of hours each day improves your sleep patterns and induces a night of deep, seamless sleep.
You can follow a magical cure for a healthier, happier life and that’s a Digital Detox i.e. 24 hours with no computer, phone, and internet anything. This will improve your self-esteem, lower stress, and insomnia, fix your posture, and improve empathy, makes you more focus, and creative. Play a board game, read a real book, cook something, go out for coffee, walk in the park, or have a nice conversation with someone.
Take care of yourself
Ask yourself how you’re doing just to name your feelings. Have a hearty laugh. Laughter has incredible health benefits from boosting your immune system, lowering stress, reducing pain, and preventing heart disease, and is nature’s best medicine for both mental and physical health.Â
Listen to the music
Listening to music is one of the life hacks and an amazing cure for boredom and also a way to improve performance, increase motivation, and reduce distraction. Learn something new to keep challenging your brain with new information.
Get some fresh air
Spend time outside at least for 15 minutes a day for better mental health, positivity, happiness, and emotional stability. Get some fresh air and you’ll also get the energy needed to get through your day. Â
Listed above are some easy life hacks to step towards a healthy lifestyle. They might not be all right for you or need to be implemented instantly. Try out some of these life hacks or come up with your own life hacks and learn to change your habits for a fit, healthier, and happier YOU…