Designing a Healthy Lifestyle

Make Health and Self-Care Priority

Overworking and never stopping to assess your mental and physical health can be detrimental. Many of us fail to prioritize our health and self-care. Work demands and family obligations compete with one’s tendency to prioritize the needs of others first. Making unhealthy lifestyle choices can increase stress levels which are detrimental to already stressful lives. Adopting a healthier lifestyle can significantly reduce premature mortality and increase longevity for all adults in the United States.

Designing a Plan of Action

Healthy Dieting

• Drinking 8 to 12 glasses of water 
• Dark Green Vegetables. Eat dark green vegetables at least three to four times a week
• Whole Grains. Eat whole grains at least two or three times daily
• Eat a bean-based meal at least once a week

Get in Activity

• Aid in weight management
• Lower blood pressure and improve heart health
• Improve your quality of sleep
• Reduce feelings of anxiety and depression
• Combat cancer-related fatigue

Hydrate More

• Lubricates joints.
• It Lessens the burden on the kidneys and liver by flushing out waste products
• Carries nutrients and oxygen to cells
• Regulates body temperature
• Protects body organs and tissues

Reduce Stress

• Keep a journal.
• Laugh more
• Meditate
• Get enough sleep
• Assert yourself
• Practice deep breathing
• Manage social media time

Practice Gratitude

• Practice positive self-talk
• Pray more
• Keep a journal
• Give compliments
• Take a daily gratitude walk
• Practice no negative thoughts

Establish Positive Social Circles

• Ask more than you speak
• Be polite
• Use open body language and non-verbal communication
• Fake it until you make it
• Look inwards
• Put yourself in their shoes
• Clubs, classes, and teams are great ways to meet like-minded people