Walking
Bike Riding
Although winter comes as no surprise to us; we should look at methods that would create a plan of wellness during the season and here are some suggestions that might work for you.
1. Bring out the crock pot! Emphasis slow cooked, warm, moist meals this season. Soups are a perfect match for the cold, dry days.
2. We gravitate toward richer foods in the winter for good reason — we need to stay warm, lubricated and healthy. Allow yourself to indulge in high quality dairy, nuts and seeds, dried fruits, organic meats, and healthy fats — you can feel satisfied without jumping on the sugar train.
3. With the increase in heavier foods, be sure to increase spices and foods that help keep digestion lively. Many of these foods and spices have the added benefit of boosting your immune system because they are antibacterial. Try adding dark leafy greens, berries, garlic, onions, ginger, cumin, oregano, and cinnamon to your recipes whenever you can.
4. Pay attention if your skin feels tighter these days; you may need to switch to a hardier your days more special and when you need a little extra pampering.
5.) Create work out fun for yourself by doing the work out with your friends, significant other or even just yourself with distractions to avoid thinking about the cold by listening to music or listening to tapes for studying or just for furthering your knowledge. Listen to the internet or tunes while you exercise. As your work out goes on you won’t feel so cold and have distracted yourself from the thought of feeling like you want to stay inside the house and do nothing. Those who say I couldn’t do that than do work out inside your home with just sit ups to even doing exercise programs on the TV that you buy on DVD’s or those TV shows for work out that are even free. For those you can go out but not able to work outside in the cold weather an good exercise in just walking in a mall is better than nothing (good cardiac exercise). Than there is the other option that is more expensive like buying exercise equipment for in the home. Types of examples would be a tread mill where you do walking right in place or riding on a stationary bike or buying a stationary exercise machine that fits you. Some of these machines can run easily under 100 dollars (even 50) but go up to over one thousand dollars it all depends on what you want to loose, how fast you want to lose it and how you want to go about it financially. Another aspect is considering is it to lose your weight or just maintain the weight you are and this you can figure out after a little investigating.
Happy Holidays all my readers but be careful this week with the weather in the 40’s-50’s this past Saturday and Sunday and then winter temps freezing coming back throughout the night and early morning and now 40’s down to 30’s…so don’t get sick; dress appropriately!!