3 Healthy Habits That Will Change Your Daily Life

It’s 2 in the morning, you are scrolling through your social media feed and imagining how tomorrow you’ll wake up and change your life immediately. You’d definitely start your day with some yoga, reduce the time on Instagram, and go to bed before midnight. But since you fell asleep late, you have no energy to start your new life the way you wanted. Does it sound similar?

This is the mistake we all make. We are convinced that it’s easy to change our habits and develop a new daily routine at once. There can be a lot of ways to start a new healthy life but you should do it step by step.

Doing more sports, eating more vegetables, or thinking of how to stop drinking for a while — everything needs its time. In this article, we are discussing only three healthy habits which would be a great start for you. However, we should mention that this article is useful only if you don’t have health issues or any kind of addiction. For example, if you notice that you started drinking too often and it seems like a consultation on alcoholism is needed, better talk to a doctor at an alcoholic rehab and fix your health first.

Ventilate your room more often, especially at bedtime

With a lack of oxygen, a person experiences drowsiness, malaise, and fatigue. In addition, dry hot air, especially during the heating season, dehydrates the skin and upper mucous membranes of the respiratory tract. This leads to a decrease in the overall tone of the body, it becomes easier for a person to become infected with viral and bacterial infections, such as sore throat or SARS. Moreover, such air can cause angina, heart attack, and high blood pressure.

Any room should be ventilated at least two or three times a day – regardless of season and weather. Both in the office and at home, at least one window should always be open. Even if the temperature outside is low, you should open the window or switch the window (if it is plastic) to micro-ventilation mode. Use supply ventilation if you work in an open space or install a humidifier and ionizer on the premises.

Now almost all apartments and offices have sealed plastic windows. On the one hand, they protect against street dust and city noise, on the other hand, due to the same tightness, there is no natural air circulation, as was the case with the old wooden frames. At the same time, the air in a room where most people spend up to 90% of their time is on average five times dirtier and ten times more toxic than outdoors. Hence – frequent headaches and various respiratory diseases.

In winter, it is better to use the volley method for ventilation: open the window for five to ten minutes and leave the room. It is especially important to do this at bedtime: if you sleep in a stuffy room, you are more likely to wake up with a headache. For a comfortable stay, the temperature in the bedroom should be about 18-20 degrees – this can be achieved with central heating, only a well-ventilated room.

Bring your own lunch to work

First of all, a home-cooked lunch is an opportunity to control the composition of dishes. In inexpensive places, food is prepared from cheap and not the highest quality ingredients. At best, instead of brown rice, a piece of meat and fresh vegetables, you will be offered white rice, minced meat of unknown quality and frozen “spring mixture”. At worst, the dish will be based on sugar, salt, starch, a mixture of oils and flavor enhancers, which should mask the origin of the products.

Lunches help to control the portion size and achieve the set goals (gain weight, lose weight or keep it at the same level). If you want to reduce the consumption of some foods and eat more often – its’ all in your hands. This is not just for vegans and allergy sufferers: tasks like “I want to eat more vegetables” or “I need more vitamins” are also easier to solve with homemade food. After all, when cafes compile menus, they do not write how many vegetables and fruits are included in the dish: suffice it to say that they are there.

There are usually two arguments against lunch boxes: “I don’t know how to cook” and “I don’t have time for that”. Both problems are easy to solve. First, when preparing dinner for yourself, make several servings at once. Anything you don’t eat today will be your lunch tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. Make it a habit to make double and triple side dishes: rice, buckwheat, lentils, bulgur and quinoa are perfectly preserved and easily converted into rice with vegetables, buckwheat with cutlets, lentil soup, and a bowl of hummus and quinoa. Second, check out Pinterest or any other site: 30-minute meals contain hundreds of recipes. Five or six at first is enough to not miss the banal dishes learned in high school.

Learn to use seasonings and sauces – the same meatballs will taste in a new way if you cook them with oregano, garlic, basil, tomato sauce, and yogurt after all.

And, of course, buy a lunch box that will be nice to carry, wash and fill with new food. Otherwise, the desire to start a new habit will break into another ugly container, which no one has yet associated with happiness and success. In any case, do not force yourself: if you do not want to cook, find another way to follow a healthy diet within your budget for food.

Drink less alcohol or quit drinking for some time

Try to drink less alcohol and you’ll feel that it’s much easier to wake up and start the day. Here are some tips on how to stop drinking on your own or drink less:

The Ministry of Health also advises quitting drinking and says that alcohol consumption can also lead to the development of acute respiratory distress syndrome, which is one of the complications of COVID-19.

What not to do while having alcohol intoxication:

In addition, the Ministry of Health cites a study by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which shows a direct relationship between the amount of alcohol consumed and the development of certain diseases, for example, some types of cancer. So