If you’ve ever tried to lose weight you know the mantra eat less and exercise more. This same prescriptions can help you decrease the effects of stress in your life. Here are a few helpful tips:
- Aim for 30 minutes of exercise at least three days a week. This includes simple steps and changes in your lifestyle. Take the steps in a building instead of the stairs. Park further away from your office or the store. If you have steps in your home make the trip up and down the stairs twice instead of once. You’d be surprise how much more activity you can get by simple changes in your lifestyle.
- Stretch – stretching can keep your muscles feeling relaxed and helps to relieve stress.
- Accept the aging process– many people have trouble coming to terms with their body’s changes as they age. Remember aging is a natural process. But that doesn’t mean you don’t do things that will make yourself feel good and be happy. Your hair may turn grey but that doesn’t mean your muscles have to turn to flab.
- Don’t just drink water, enjoy water. It’s important to drink 8 – 10 eight ounces of water each day. It doesn’t have to be a chore. Put a slice of lemon or a few strawberry’s in your water it will not only be fun to look at but add a little flavor.
- Hide or throw away the scaleif you tend to weight yourself too often. A scale can be an ingredient for disaster when it comes to self improvement and loosing weight. The scale doesn’t tell all. You can gain muscle mass and loose body fat although the scale won’t move because muscle weights more then fat you will be doing exactly what needs to be done and more.
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