A Complete Guide to Healthy lifestyle

You all have heard the term healthy lifestyle, but do you really know the meaning of it?

The first thing that comes in our mind after asking this question is. “A healthy diet and exercise!”( you must be eye-rolling on me for asking such a basic question.)

But what if I tell you a healthy lifestyle is much more than diet and exercise, in fact, it is the way how you spend your whole.

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, lifestyle is a way of life that reflects the attitudes and values of a person or group. This means that how you spend your day determines that whether your lifestyle is healthy or not.

The question here is how can you make your lifestyle healthy?

Do not worry! In this article, we will tell you about all the possible ways by which you can make your lifestyle healthy.

So without further ado, let’s get started!

What Is A Healthy Lifestyle?

First things first, in order to live a healthy lifestyle you need to know what actually a healthy lifestyle means?

The World Health Organization described “A complete state of mental, physical and social well-being not merely the absence of disease.”

Your daily life activities determine that you’re a healthy person or not. Healthy people do not smoke, they maintain a healthy lifestyle, incorporate vegetables and fruits in their diet, exercise on regular basis. A healthy person knows how to manage stress, how to maintain a good sleep cycle. In short, a healthy person does everything in a balance.

All of these things might seem too much, and our jobs and personal commitments have made them even more difficult to follow. But you just don’t need to adopt all of these habits right away. Take your time. Be slow but be consistent, as we all know, slow and steady wins the race.

Start with having an extra glass of water every day, walk a thousand more steps each day, or include fruit in your breakfast or salads in your lunch and dinners. These baby steps would help you in the long run. You just need motivation and consistency and your unhealthy lifestyle can make a shift 180 degrees.

The Essential Components of Healthy lifestyle

Want to start a healthy lifestyle!

Here’s a kicker for you!  The most important components of a healthy lifestyle. Follow them and you can live the life of your dreams.

Eating healthy

You need several Vitamins like vitamin A, B, C, E, and K and minerals like calcium, copper, iodine, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, selenium and zinc, for the proper functioning of your body. A single type of food can not give all of these things nutrients to your body.

A healthy diet not only helps in preventing several diseases but it improves your lifestyle and improves the quality of your life when you get older. You need to eat a combination of fiber, proteins, carbs, lipids, etc. to fulfill your daily requirement for vitamins and minerals.

According to the American guidelines states, you need the following combination of diets in order to live a healthy lifestyle:

• Grains (pasta, rice, lentils, etc.).Nine to eleven servings per day
• Vegetables (especially green vegetables).Four to five servings each day
• Fruits. Three to four servings each day
• Protein( beans, fish, meat, and nuts)Two to three servings per day

This is the ideal diet you can opt for if you have plans to live a healthy lifestyle. It allows you to eat your favorite foods at a limit so you do not have to be so strict on yourself.

Adopt An Active Lifestyle

An active lifestyle is a healthy lifestyle. You need to think about how do you spend most of your day. If you spend a big part of your day only sitting you are already prone to many lethal diseases like diabetes, hypertension, heart diseases, and obesity.

Besides doing regular exercise for at least one hour there are many ways you can increase your activity like by walking more and sitting less. The next question that pops in your mind will be, “ But our work revolves around the laptop, we have to sit behind the screen to get our work done.”

An adult person who walks about 10,000 steps is considered active, but if you are taking 7000, this is also a good number for you. this seems a lot, don’t panic. Let me tell you how you can incorporate walking into your lifestyle in some easy ways and ditch excessive sitting.

• If your workplace is within walking distance, try to go there on your feet instead of a bus or car. It would save you fuel costs and increase your activity.
• If you sit on your desk all day, try to work on a standing desk for at least two hours a day. It would help you a lot.
• Walking while you are on long phone calls, is another excellent way to increase your daily steps.
• Ditch your office or apartment elevators and take the stairs.
• Try to keep a track of how many steps you have taken in your day. it will help you in achieving your goal and motivates you.
• Wear comfortable clothes and shoes, they won’t make you tired at the end of your day.

Be Kind with your mind

It is easy to maintain good physical health rather than maintaining good mental health. If you have some fever or pain you immediately take medicine to treat them. But this is not the case for your mental health, it often goes unnoticed. You need to take good care of your mind because you a healthy body and a healthy mind go hand in hand.

You can take care of your mental health by following ways:

 Meditation

Take 15-30 minutes from your day to meditate. Do the things that make your mind happy. Meditation does not mean you have to sit on a mat in some pose and inhale or exhale, we are not saying that you should not do this, if you love this go for it.

Meditation can be any activity that relaxes your mind, be it walking in a park, painting, cooking, or dancing. Just take a me-time of 15-30 minutes, you will feel amazing!

Smile more

Smiling and laughing with all of your heart has more power than you think.  A hearty laugh boosts your immune system, reduces the risk of heart disease, decreases stress, reduces blood pressure, acts as a natural painkiller, keeps diabetes under control, and energizes your mind.

So, laugh more and worry less and live a healthy life with a healthy mind.

 Have a good sleep

Having a peaceful and adequate sleep is so important. A beauty sleep of 7-8 hours is not only good for women, but also for men. A night of good sleep reduces your stress, stops the aging of your mind and skin, and repairs your body. So make sure to a good and adequate sleep at night.

Remove negativity

Be optimistic and positive even when it is hardest. Cut out the people who are the reason for negativity in your life. If you have a toxic friend or significant other, try to talk to them, work through the negative situation.

But if you still can’t figure out a solution, do not shy to take help from a psychologist or some specialists.

Stop caring about what other people think, toxic people are not worthy of your attention and your energy. Just be true to yourself, and you will end up being with people like you.

Balance is the key

A healthy lifestyle means a spiritual, physical, emotional, social, mental, and financial balance. A balance between your work and your family. It may seem like a lot on your plate. But trust me with mindful thinking you can easily achieve it.

Keep your work at your workplace. Spend a good and happy time with your family, spare a couple of hours for your spouse, parents, and your children. Play games and plans some outings with them. You will see a visible difference in your mental health as well as the mental health of your family.

Wrapping Up

In a nutshell, the key to a healthy lifestyle is moderation. Be mindful of your activities and do whatever makes you happy. Living a healthy life is so important.  A healthy lifestyle brings you happiness and the life you have always dreamt of.

So,  Start today and take a step toward a healthy lifestyle. You do not need to make drastic changes and ended up burdening yourself. Changes need some time, take one step at a time but be consistent. You will be surprised how these small things will end up making such significant changes in your lifestyle. And you will be able to be happy and make the people happy around you. Because at the end of the day you will have what you want, after all, you attract what you think. Check out some of our healthy eating ideas that might help you on your way to be useful on a healthy living lifestyle.