Good habits Adopt.
1) Create and stick with a sleep routine
“You can’t really catch up on sleep. You need to get a sufficient amount every day, which is why it’s important to stick to a regular sleep schedule,” who tells her patients to aim for eight hours of sleep per night.
2) Exercise every day
Good Habits: Exercise every day
150 minutes of moderate exercise every week, and suggests people aim for 30 minutes per day, five days a week. “Living a sedentary lifestyle can lead to serious health conditions — heart attack, stroke, obesity,” cautions Fudala.
How to make the change: Break it down into smaller increments. that the half an hour per day doesn’t have to be accomplished all at once and suggests less time-intensive efforts, like a 10-minute walk during lunch, parking the car farther away and taking the stairs instead of the elevator. “These can all add up over the course of a day,”
3) Slow down when eating and take a mealtime “time out”
“We get in the habit of quickly eating our meals so we can scurry off to the day’s next task and we often tune out our bodies’ fullness cues,” However, rushing through mealtime is not the best approach as it can mask your body’s fullness .
How to make the change: taking a mealtime “time out” 10 to 15 minutes into a meal can give you time to feel your body’s fullness. Pause for a couple of deep breaths, a conversation with whomever you are eating with, and ask yourself how you are feeling. “This doesn’t mean you have to stop eating, but it may tell you that you are nearing fullness or perhaps that you are still quite hungry,”
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