5 Daily Healthy Habits That Will Change Your Shape!

Welcome to another #Beshaped post! On our blog you will find advice on nutrition, exercise, suggestions on choosing the right clothes and a handful of tips on typical female issues.

If…

• you are often tired and clearly lack energy,
• you are irritable, have difficulty concentrating, have a bad mood and trouble falling asleep or…
• you often catch colds, your hair falls out and your bones hurt…

reading this post should be on your “to do!” list

In this article, we have prepared for you the 5 most important habits, the introduction of which into your everyday life will have a real impact on your health, skin and metabolism.

Before you proceed to create a list of golden rules based on this post that you will follow from now on, I have a few important tips for you on how to start introducing habits so that they become a routine and a part of your everyday life.

First and foremost, do not impose rigid prohibitions and absolute discipline on yourself. If we want to introduce a habit into our daily lives, it must become an element of routine that does not feel like a commandment and something negative.
If you are too strict and too restrictive with yourself, your head will start to rebel!

Accept that there are exceptions to every rule. Give yourself time and ease. Introduce healthy habits slowly and allow yourself to indulge in occasional sins. Success does not lie in persevering with rigorous assumptions for a quarter and then sinning again every day. Try to change habits step by step, without drastic changes and without being too hard on yourself.

What “No More…” policies make no sense at all, especially if being persistent and unyielding has been a problem for you so far?

• No more… ordering ready meals
• No more… bread
• No more… sweets!

Let's start from the beginning, i.e. with ready meals. There is nothing wrong with them if you verify the ingredients, order them from a reliable source and it is occasional and not everyday. Even if you have to buy a ready meal from a popular discount chain, there is nothing wrong with that. Before buying, read the ingredients carefully, if you are not sure about a substance, check what you are dealing with and make an informed decision. If you do what I wrote above, you will not have reasons to feel guilty after eating such a meal.

Bread? It is a myth that you absolutely have to give it up while on a diet. The most important thing is the issue that I wrote about above in the paragraph devoted to ready meals, i.e. what the composition is. Make sure that the bread you choose is rich in fiber and does not contain sugar. Reach for wholemeal bread, buckwheat bread or bran bread.

The end of sweets? I will ask perversely - and why? Introducing an absolute ban on eating sweets into your life is practically... impossible. Unless you are one of those lucky people who simply do not like sweets. If not, the solution is simple - instead of sugar-based sweets, choose healthy substitutes.
There are many healthy substitutes for sweets: dried fruit, especially dates, figs, apricots and raisins, honey rich in antioxidants, dark chocolate with a high cocoa content, maple and agave syrups, fruit smoothies - preferably low-calorie, berry ones. As you can see, a regular candy bar has many alternatives that are worth reaching for in a moment of crisis!

We've got a handful of tips on how to introduce habits and what not to do. It's time for 5 daily habits that are worth introducing to your life!

Discover 5 healthy habits that will change your form, skin and condition:

1. Drink more water because you're most likely not drinking enough.

An adult has an average daily requirement of around 2 liters of water - not 2 liters of various fluids! This means that you should not include all the coffees and teas in those 2 liters, which actually make us negative to some extent because instead of hydrating, they dehydrate.
Are you having trouble keeping track of those 2 liters of water? It's best to install an app on your phone and mark how much water you've drunk every time you reach for a glass. You can also use the online water requirement calculator and calculate how much water you need.

2. Are you feeling a little hungry?

First, reach for a glass of water and drink a few sips. The hunger will most likely disappear for a moment, but it will come back in a moment anyway, and you need to be ready for it then. Always have with you (to choose from) for such circumstances:
- raw vegetables - carrots, peppers, cucumbers, celery,
- apple, banana, kiwi or forest fruit - strawberries, raspberries, blueberries or blueberries,
- soaked nuts, e.g. cashew nuts,
- natural yogurt or kefir,
- from more substantial products: a sandwich (of your choice) with a hard-boiled egg, low-fat cottage cheese, avocado and tomatoes or fish - salmon, tuna.

3. Remember to train even if only for a short time.

If you don't have time for the gym and you don't have the opportunity to go to a fitness club - of course, don't feel guilty about it. Instead, do short, half-hour workouts at home, even those on a mat, with your own body weight, without additional accessories will be enough. Do such a 30-minute workout 5 times a week - your condition will definitely improve, as will the quality of your skin and your mood!

4. Supplementation.

You don't have to spend a fortune on complex vitamins and expensive supplements. But what you absolutely have to remember in our latitude is vitamin D. The dose you can safely take is up to 4000 IU per day.

5. Sleep. The basis, the foundation, and the most important healthy habit .

Introduce a routine into your life that will allow you to sleep 8 hours a day. 8 hours is impossible? Ok. Compromise, let's say 7. Absolutely do not go below 6 hours of sleep a day. If you manage to implement all the above habits, especially point 3 with physical activity, the body will need time to regenerate and 8 hours is the optimal amount of hours that we should devote to sleep.