Looking to look and feel your best? We’ve got a few tips on how to make it easier to stay fit and healthy.
Sometimes life happens and we get caught up in our priorities – making sure the work gets done, being there for the people we love and making the sacrifices necessary to make things around us better. But in the blink of an eye, it’s happened. We’re just not looking and feeling our best anymore.
It’s gradual – and then sudden.
It happens to the best of us when we’re being the best for everyone else. There’s nothing wrong with that.
If you’re reading this post, chances are you’re in a place in your life where you can focus on yourself a bit more and get things back on track.
For that reason, we’ve put together an effective and reasonable set of 5 ways on how to stay fit and healthy.
The list starts from the simplest change you can make today and works its way up to slightly more sophisticated means that can help you become the amazing self you really are.
Our hope is that this piece will spark the fire in motivating you but also provide a framework that’ll keep you going.
Getting started is important. But having a system that keeps you consistent is what will get you to where you want to be.
Having said that, let’s get started!
1. Stay Fit And Healthy With Good Sleep
Sleep seems to be the one thing that people sacrifice on a regular basis. Sometimes by choice and sometimes involuntarily. Certain people, in particular, are affected more in their mood when their sleep consistency is disrupted.
These mood shifts can lead to an inability to put off our impulsivity and end up making bad decisions like skipping out on our workouts and eating junk. Make sure you’re going to bed early every night and getting enough sleep before waking up the next day.
If you’re having trouble with sleep, look into ways you can improve your sleep hygiene.
You may have a restless mind that needs to be calmed down a few hours prior to jumping into the bed, either with something like watching a TV show or meditating. Maybe you need to work out during the day to wear you out when the night rolls up.
Whatever the case may be, you want to make sure you’re in complete control of your sleep schedule. It tends to be very foundational in terms of making all your other efforts count. So make sure you have this fundamental mastered before anything else.
Recommended Reading: 7 Ways Sleep Can Help You Lose Weight
2. Stay Fit And Healthy By Staying Hydrated
Although this isn’t necessarily the case for everyone, there is a tendency for our brains to mistake hunger with thirst. We’ll often think we’re hungry and start eating more than we should. But as it turns out, it might just be thirst.
The next time you “think” you’re hungry, go for a glass of water instead and wait it off a bit. You’ll find that it was all you really needed. If you’re not a habitual water drinker, it is worth being actively mindful of your water consumption for the first 21 days in order to establish the habit.
Over time, you’ll automatically reach seek the hydration. The benefit of being hydrated is that it also helps a great deal with skin elasticity as you’re making the effort to get back in shape.
Recommended Reading: 6 Reasons Why Drinking Water May Help You Lose Weight
3. Stay Fit And Healthy By Exercising Consistently
When it comes to exercise, done is better than perfect. It is often the case people will skip out their entire attendance at a gym or class because there isn’t enough time to cover the whole thing in perfection.
The problem with this all-or-nothing approach is that nothing starts to become habitual and can easily snowball into days upon weeks of just not having done any exercise. If you find yourself absolutely pressed for time and just can’t seem to make it to the gym, set up a backup exercise routine you can do either at home. Doing anything is better than nothing and keeps you in the habit of being active.
The game here staying consistent.
4. Stay Fit And Healthy By Partnering Up
The bottom line is we’re social creatures. We’re wired to work together and cooperate for the benefit of each other. That being said, there’s no reason to exercise alone. In fact, it’s a lot more enjoyable in a social setting where you and others can reinforce each others motivation.
If you really want to make the effort count and keep going, get a friend or several friends involved and keep each other accountable. You’ll be less likely to skip out when you’re messaging each other about when you’ll all be in next.
Recommended Reading: The Health Benefits Of Working Out With A Crowd
5. Create Conditions For Success From The Very Start
The first 4 tips in this post are foundational habits that are simple to put into action and will help keep you going. But of course, you want to make sure you start off on the right foot by creating conditions for success from the very beginning. When it comes to staying fit and healthy, we’ve seen the most success with people who got serious about their lift off point.
Normally, people who work together with a fitness trainer and nutrition expert see higher success rates. But in recent years, the approach has also been updated with the inclusion of body sculpting treatments. The reason for this is that body sculpting sets up a conditions for success from the very start by adjusting your fat cells so that they don’t put up a resistance towards your efforts.
How Body Sculpting Creates Conditions For Success
Body sculpting is an effective tactic that creates conditions for success. The way it sets this up is by undermining the strength of fat cells. This is done either by freezing (cryolipolysis) or heating (hyperthermia) the fat cells to reduce and eliminate the fat in the targeted areas.
As a result, it sets the stage for you to make your efforts count for a lot more when you’re keeping up with your fitness health routines. Not to mention, it’s also a non-surgical procedure with no downtime. So people come in and do it in a matter of minutes and they go in with their day.
Of course, you don’t need to get a trainer, see a nutritionist or do body sculpting in order to stay fit and get healthy. You can just make sure you get your sleep, staying hydrated, and make sure you’re staying consistent with your diet and fitness routines.
But if you’re looking to make sure you start things off on the right foot and really want to guarantee your success, body sculpting is certainly not a bad option in upping the odds.
Next Steps
We hope you enjoyed today’s post and found it insightful. At this point, you have a few options:
Option 1: Take what you’ve learned and run with it.
Now that you have a better of understanding how you can stay fit and healthy, you can go out there and just do that. We also invite you to share the information with friends and family so they can get benefit from it as well.
Option 2: Let us help you.
While you could take the information outlined here and get plenty done with it, we also want to be sure to provide you with the resources and support to facilitate your success. If you feel that body sculpting is something you’d like to consider as part of getting back in shape and staying healthy and fit, we would suggest you contact us to ask questions and perhaps schedule a consultation to see if this is something worth your while.
Here at Lantry Aesthetics & Skincare Centre, we offer truSculpt iD as a body sculpting treatment, which uses the heat method to target fat cells. People often describe it as a hot stone massage sensation in terms of similarity. It’s done a lot of good for our patients and we’d be glad to discuss how it can do the same for you.
We hope you enjoyed today’s post and we look forward to hearing from you. 🙂