Tips for successful healthy New Year’s Resolutions   Did you blink and 2012 zipped right by? Don’t worry.... Now it’s time to start getting ready to live more healthy in 2013! Here are the Top Tips for successful healthy New Year’s Resolutions   Every New Year offers us the opportunity feel excited about the possibilities of the coming year. It is essential that we take advantage of this 365 day cycle and allow ourselves to reflect, refresh and renew our hopes, expectations and actions for the next. Making new year’s resolutions can really make sure that we move forward – if we take a few steps to ensure that they actually do the job! Healthy New Year’s Resolutions The New Year is a great time to boost your motivation for eating and living more healthily. Most of us have room for improvement when it comes to making food and lifestyle choices. The best plan for long term healthier living and eating is to stick to some sound, non-faddy principles that will ultimately lead to stabilising your weight, boosting your energy and leave you feeling overall better equipped to face your busy life. If you are struggling with where to start, here are our top tips for a healthier you for 2012. Drink more water: Many of us have forgotten what it feels like to be properly hydrated and mistake feeling thirsty for hunger resulting in over eating and a struggling detoxification system. The NHS recommend that we drink, 6-8 small glasses or 1 – 1 ½ litres of water a day. This simple change is easy to implement, cheap and can make you feel much more alert almost instantly. Ditch the junk and eat unrefined natural food choices Fundamental to your success when it comes to eating less refined, processed, sugar filled foods is actually to FILL UP on the foodstuffs that you should be eating – that way you are not hungry for the what you should not be eating. The fundamentals to achieving this are: Eat at a very minimum 5 pieces of fruit or vegetables a day – although 6 – 8 would be better Snacki on healthy choices that you always have available in your bag, desk or car for example: fruit, nuts, protein based snack bars, seed mixes and raw vegetables. Every plate or equivalent must be half filled with vegetables, one quarter protein and one quarter carbohydrates Clear your cupboards and fridge of packaged, refined foods. If they are there you will eat them- the children do not need these either. Weight Management Make exercise a part of your everyday life Not only will you feel better, have more energy and your body become in better shape – these simple suggestions can help you to achieve weight loss goals. You do not need an expensive gym or trainer for this. Some simple ideas include: get off the bus a stop early or take the stairs rather than the lift. Always walk the dog when you get home from work. You could go one step further and join a local gym or aerobics / dance. If you are overweight, some local NHS Trusts are funding gym memberships to promote improvements in health – ask you GP. If you can try a relaxing exercise class for example T’ai Chi or Yoga. You are aiming for a minimum of 30 minutes a day where you manage to increase your heart rate or feel a bit ‘puffed’. A reliance on coffee, tea, alcohol and smoking will succeed in giving you a short term ‘perk up’ and a long term decline in your energy, weight control and overall health. These choices are just not good for us, they set the body on a blood sugar roller coaster. Whilst we are not suggesting that you should refrain forever, January offers a good chance to give your body a rest, with a view to reducing your use for the long term. Aim to lower the amount of alcohol that you drink, a good aim is to drink at weekends only for example and even then in moderation. We are looking forward to your successes in the New Year! With inputs from SevenSeasLife.com   Top | Back       Please do not reply back to this mail. This is sent from an unattended mail box. Please mark all your queries / responses to webmaster@insurefuture.co.in   Information provided on this newsletter has been independently obtained from sources believed to be reliable. However, such information may include inaccuracies, errors or omissions. www.insurefuture.co.in and its affiliates, information providers or content providers, shall have no liability to you or third parties for the accuracy, completeness, timeliness or correct sequencing of information available on this newsletter, or for any decision made or action taken by you in reliance upon such information, or for the delay or interruption of such information. www.insurefuture.co.in, its affiliates, information providers and content providers shall have no liability for investment decisions or other actions taken or made by you based on the information provided on this newsletter.