How Change Can Help Our Health

Written By Colēgia

Our health is one of the most important things we need to take care of. When we're in good health it's a lot easier to appreciate all of the wonderful things we have going on in our lives. Depending on our habits sometimes we'll need to make changes in order to help ourselves. Today we want to talk about how and why change can benefit our health.

Change And Sleep Habits

In our fast-paced world, sleep can feel like a luxury at times. We might find ourselves pulling an all-nighter with studying or work pretty often. Occasionally this isn't a problem but when it becomes our new normal is when something has to give. One good metric in seeing how our sleeping habits are affecting us is seeing how tired we feel. Exhaustion can make even the most simple of tasks harder to do and it can even affect us subconsciously. A sleep journal can help make it much easier to track when we're going to bed and what time we wake up. It allows us to monitor any changes we might encounter such as consistently waking up at certain times of the night. In order to facilitate change we must first be aware of it.

“One good metric in seeing how our sleeping habits are affecting us is seeing how tired we feel.”

Change And Our Diet

Our diet forms the foundation of our health since it is effectively energy that we're using to get through the day. Some of the most common things we'll find in our diet are an excess of sugar and salt. Both of these can be very debilitating and in the case of processed sugar, it serves little to no nutritional value. Having a balance of enough healthy fats, carbohydrates, and protein can make our bodies function with ease and without the worry of burnout later. Knowing what to include more and less of in your diet is essential to our well-being but doing it gradually is oftentimes the better approach. A slower change is one we'll be more receptive to since it won't feel as drastic.

“Our diet forms the foundation of our health since it is effectively energy that we're using to get through the day.”

Change And Exercise

Exercise is crucial to do on a regular basis since it can help us improve our physical condition along with functioning as a means to relieve stress. Oftentimes one of the biggest problems when it comes to exercise is that we simply don't get enough of it. It's easy to fall into a sedentary routine but it's something that we need to work on. Usually, it's motivation to exercise that can be the issue. We want to figure out something we enjoy doing that doesn't feel like work for exercise. A great example of this can be doing a team sport since our minds will be more focused on having fun. The same can apply to other exercises such as hacky sack or even longboarding. Balancing both aerobic and anaerobic exercises can help too since things like weight training can improve our muscles. Change is something that should be welcomed since it can drastically improve the quality of our health.

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