11 Healthy Lifestyle Changes to Boost Your Health & Happiness

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Are you satisfied with your current self? or do you want to change? maybe you just want to make yourself a little bit more productive, healthy and happy by living a healthy lifestyle

But healthy lifestyle changes consist of more than just keeping yourself hydrated. It’s a way to change your attitude towards life. So, that you no longer see yourself as someone who is drifting through life but as a person who is strong, independent, healthy and confident in his/her actions

You can binge-watch a couple of videos to make yourself feel good. But true happiness is about satisfaction. When you know that you are on the right track and slowly but surely you are moving towards your goals

Maybe you want to be more healthy, find love or enlightenment. whatever it may be if you are not moving towards your ultimate goal then you won’t be happy. Telling yourself that you are happy all day long when you know that your weight is affecting your looks is not going to work

So, stop lying to yourself and start changing yourself in a way that you are proud of yourself. You are proud of who you are and what you are going to become. Take action and transform your mind and body to its full potential

It’s now or never. Here are 11 lifestyle changes you can incorporate in your current lifestyle that will help you in taking control of your life, your health, happiness, and productivity

a girl sleeping

1. Wake Up Early

The first lifestyle change is to incorporate a proper sleep schedule

How you start your day will inevitably determine how you go through your day. You can stay in your bed or wake up and do something you love. Don’t take a passive approach toward life. After waking up immediately go to the bathroom and while looking at your face in the mirror

Tell yourself, “I am ready for the victory”. In order to ensure that you start your day with the right mindset

Sticking to a sleep routine is so simple and yet most people avoid it. This is the main reason for lack of energy throughout the day

I know its hard to maintain a proper sleep schedule when you can just surf the internet endlessly trying to find a funny cat video But you have to do it

Having a proper bedtime will make your life infinitely more organized. You will have more energy throughout the day for things that are important. A study even suggests that poor sleep cycle can affect your weight

People who are sleep deprived are more prone to weight gain

Benefits of following a proper bedtime routine:

  1. You will be more active throughout the day
  2. You will be more organized
  3. You will have more energy
  4. No need to rush into things in the morning
  5. You will have time for breakfast
  6. You will have more time to meditate and exercise

Lifestyle Change 1: Go to bed at 10:00 pm and wake-up every day at 5:00 am

woman performing meditation

2. Start Your Day With Meditation

Life is up and down. One moment you’re up and feeling all good, the next you’re down. For me, it was too easy to get stressed over things. Living in a constant state of stress, anxiety, and depression is not healthy for your mind as well as your body. But there I was being stressed out about literally everything

I looked at life as a victim. The only thing I believed in was my inability to accomplish anything. Most of the times the problem is not the problem, the problem is your attitude about the problem and my attitude made it impossible for me to even pay my rent, let alone live comfortably

Then a friend of mine helped me in changing my attitude. Long story short it worked like a charm. I realized that sometimes people around you are not as positive as you think and if you are lucky someone will help you out otherwise you may never get the chance to leave that place

For me changing my outlook, managing stress, anxiety, depression was too big a task to accomplish. It took me around a year to just stop thinking of myself as a victim and take on life head-on. Meditation is something that helped me from the Day 1

Starting your day with meditation will help you focus your thoughts and energy in the right direction. Constant worry about the future, your love life, your family, health, goals makes it impossible to focus on what’s right in front of us. Meditation, on the other hand, will help you in gaining focus

I know a lot of people utilize meditation to reduce stress, anxiety, and depression. But you can also utilize meditation to increase your overall focus. By meditating constantly you can literally hardwire yourself to stay focused at a task for hours

There are a lot of ways to meditate. I meditate by focusing on the tip of my nose while breathing slowly. At first, you will feel a little bit of headache but as you get used to it your overall ability to focus will increase exponentially

You can also meditate by focusing on an object in front of you

Moreover, Breathing while focusing will help you in reducing stress. A study conducted on 3500 adults showed that meditation indeed helped them in reducing stress. After focusing for 5-10 minutes. I shift to affirmations and refocusing my subconsciousness

Lifestyle change 2: Meditate for 10-15 minutes in the morning

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3. Refocusing Subconsciousness

You may think I waste a lot of my time on these useless tasks but these small lifestyle changes are the main reason for my overall productivity, health & happiness. These small actions help me in becoming certain of myself

At the beginning stages of our life, we have goals, ambitions, dreams which we want to achieve. But as we grow through life, we start doubting ourselves and our ability to make a difference. Rather than thinking ourself as a master of our destiny, we start to think ourself as a victim to the actions of others

Our dreams for the world, ourselves, and for people around up all gone. Never to be felt again. The reason behind this is the people surrounding us. They fill us up with doubts and uncertainties

Maybe they are not doing it consciously, or in my case maybe they are. But what we are left with is indecisiveness, hesitation, confusion, lack of certainty in on our own actions

Just drifting through life as a victim. This is the reason for stress, anxiety, depression, and suffering. Because all those uncertainties pile up and when we face a problem, deep down we know we have nothing inside of us to fight the problem and emerge as a winner

We are told again and again to be a good girl/boy. But never to be a strong girl/boy. As a result, we become good and forget about being strong. If I remember correctly, I felt stressed out just looking at myself and thinking about what others will think about me

This is where refocusing your subconsciousness comes in. It helps in growing parts of ourselves we forgot about. In order to achieve anything successfully, you need a connection with your subconscious self. You need to develop a sense of authority, a crystallized consciousness, a gut feeling that nothing can stop you from getting what you want

Completing a task with perfection requires confidence. You want to be healthy but deep down you doubt your ability to lose weight. Then every time you take an action doubt creeps in and stops you from completing it with perfection

This happens literally all the time. You have an important business meeting that may help you gain the financial freedom you desire and finally live happily after paying your Mortgage

But here you are doubting your actions and getting stressed over whether you can make the meeting successful or not. This doubt is what is going to make your meeting a living hell. I know it cause I have been there and done that

Start your day with some sort of focusing and positive affirmation routine that can help you in gaining certainty. So that you can fight your problems head-on. Here’s a video on reprogramming your subconscious mind using the law of attraction to help you in crystalizing your consciousness

6 steps to refocusing your consciousness, you need to follow

  1. Realize your goals again
  2. Visualize yourself one year from now
  3. Accept all the hard work and pain you need to go through to reach your goals
  4. Accept your past
  5. Love yourself for who you are
  6. Start utilizing affirmations, the law of attraction to move in the right direction by reprogramming your subconscious mind

Remember happiness & health are more dependent on your mentality than your actions. No matter how much trouble you are in, you will not stress out if you believe you can solve it

After you are done with refocusing your subconsciousness prepare for a jog

Lifestyle Change 3: Refocus your subconsciousness to help you move in a proper direction using the law of attraction and affirmations

4. Jogging for 1 Hour

After preparing yourself mentally it’s time to prepare yourself physically. I know jogging for 1 hour seems tough but it isn’t. Start slow, go out, and just walk for 1 hour if you have to. Just expose yourself to some sort of physical activity in the morning. One hour of jogging will burn around 400 calories and even walking will help you in burning up to 200+ calories

So, you can always walk for an hour if you don’t feel like jogging. Jogging is a simple, yet effective way to lose weight as well as to maintain it. From strengthening your muscles to improved cardiovascular fitness, benefits of jogging are literally infinite

Moreover, jogging every day will help you in dealing with stress as you will get a chance to think about yourself and enjoy nature. Try jogging for a week before deciding whether or not you are going to add it in your routine

Lifestyle change 4: Jog for an hour every day. Try it for a week

a glass of water

5. Drink more Water

Maybe you don’t consider drinking a specific amount of water every day a priority but 50% of US adults who try to lose weight increase their overall water intake and there is a good reason for that. Water is a natural appetite suppressant and your body needs water to burn fat

The very first step toward metabolizing stored fat by a process known as lipolysis is hydrolysis. So, drinking enough water is essential for burning fat

Benefits of drinking appriopriate amount of water

  1. Boosts your skin health making it appear more fresh, soft and glowing
  2. Regulates body temperature and helps in maintaining optimal body temperature
  3. Can help you in reducing your overall liquid calorie intake
  4. Helps in preventing dehydration
  5. A natural appetite suppressant

According to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, adequate daily fluid intake is:

  1. 15.5 cups or 3.7 liters of fluids for men
  2. 11.5 cups or 2.7 liters of fluids for women

Note that this recommendation covers fluids from water, food, and other beverages

Lifestyle change 5: Drink an appropriate amount of water every single day. Remember it’s a priority, not a choice

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6. Zero-calorie Foods

No doubt, when you are hungry following your diet plan is not the first thing in your mind. But keeping yourself away from food or starving yourself is not going to get you any further

Rather you should consider consuming foods that are low in calories and can help you in satisfying your hunger. Consuming low-calorie foods commonly known as Zero-calorie foods can help you in curbing your hunger. These zero-calorie foods contain fewer calories and are nutrient-dense making them perfect for weight loss

Here are few zero calorie foods you can add to your diet today:

  1. Apples
  2. Broccoli
  3. Kale
  4. Watermelons
  5. Raspberries
  6. Strawberries
  7. Lettuce
  8. Cucumber
  9. Cauliflower
  10. Grapefruit and many more

Consuming zero calorie foods is a great way to satisfy your hunger while staying lean

Lifestyle Changes 6: Start consuming zero-calorie foods

7. Have a Great Breakfast

Skipping your breakfast or keeping it light will not help you in losing weight. Rather the opposite, a light breakfast will make you crave more food throughout the day making it difficult for you to stick to your diet

A study even shows that people who eat less for breakfast snack more often throughout the day and crave more food. Not only that skipping breakfast will slow down your metabolism making it difficult for you to burn calories

Having a big breakfast in the morning as compared to a large dinner will let you burn twice as many calories. So, avoid skipping breakfast and try to consume a substantial amount of calories in the morning so that you don’t crave snacks

Lifestyle Change 7: Eat a big breakfast to have a metabolism advantage

8. 1 Hour Reading

Having a healthy lifestyle requires a positive mindset, a healthy body, and the ability to be productive. For a healthy body, you can exercise every day. For developing a positive mindset affirmation, meditation, and refocusing your subconsciousness can help you but there is one more thing you can do every day to push past your limits

Utilizing your free time for leisure reading is not a bad choice. You may think, reading is for nerds but I think you should reconsider

Your life is a result of the actions you take. Your actions are governed by your mindset. Your mindset is the result of your habits. Developing new habits is a great way to change your life

Yes, you can spend 1 hour of your free time on Instagram, and there is nothing wrong with it. It’s just you can also utilize your free time in much more pleasurable and less mediocre tasks. The choice will always be yours

Trust me, Reading is fun and benefits of reading every day include

  1. Reading every day will help you in developing your personality
  2. You will have more confidence
  3. Reading every day will make your more intelligent
  4. Raise your overall intellectual level
  5. Make you a better person
  6. Increase your vocabulary
  7. A great way to spend your evening

Just read a book or two on a topic you find interesting. It can literally be anything. The first book I read was Angels and demons

Lifestyle change 8: Start Reading for pleasure

standing back bend pose ANUVITTASANA

9. Yoga

Yoga consists of various poses, breathing techniques, and mental techniques you can practice every day to improve your overall health

Performing yoga every day can boost your immunity, improve your sleep quality, improve lung functions, help you in gaining mental clarity, improve your posture, help you in maintaining as well as in losing weight, help you in toning your body, and can also improve your heart health

If you are a newbie you can start by performing simple yoga poses. Even if you are overweight there are still hundreds of poses you can perform to gain the benefits of yoga

I recommend performing yoga after the jog

Lifestyle change 9: Add yoga to your lifestyle

10. Organize Your Next Day

Always organize your day the night before! If you are not organizing your day this way then you will feel stressed out and overwhelmed with your tasks. Moreover, your overall productivity will be negligible

Make sure you organize your day a little bit realistically So, that it’s easier for you to stick with the routine

Lifestyle change 10: Organise your day realistically the night before

family

11. Family Time

Spending time with loved ones is something to desire. I understand that maybe your work routine makes it impossible for you to get a break but still, It’s not a good enough reason to avoid spending time with your family

I am a firm believer in the fact that everything is for love. Life is short, and there are a lot of things to distract you from your goals but your family is not one of them. Try spending a little bit more time with your family

Being with your family is the only thing that will make you feel loved and satisfied

Lifestyle change 11: Family

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Rudra

Hi, I am Rudra, a computer engineer, and a certified procrastinator. I started FitnessGained in 2018 to help me stay fit despite all my desk time. Now I run this blog as a hobby. Here at FitnessGained, I will share what I do to stay fit & more. Our motto is "Reaching True Potential with Effort."

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