Healthy Lifestyle Tips!

Hiya! Hayl here. Today I'm writing this blog post about tips on staying healthy, I guess. Before I start here are some disclaimers...

• This is NOT a diet! 
• This is not for losing weight, but maintaining it, and keeping your body healthy overall. 
• This is mainly for people who don't do sports, yet if you do I suppose you can still take some of the tips I suggest here.
• This is partially from personal experience and my not work for all body types.

Now that we got that out of the way... Here are some little tips for staying healthy!

1. Take a jog with a friend (or by yourself! I don't judge.) once in a while! Even if it's just once every couple weeks, running is one of the best exercises you can do.
2. Do crunches and pushups everyday before bed. If you just do 10 pushups, 10 crunches, and alternate about five times every single night, you'll eventually see that you can endure so many more as time goes on! I remember I started doing pushups everyday, I could only do about 15 in the beginning, but I got up to 40 in about two weeks!
3. Run up and down the stairs about 20 times, a couple of times a week. 
4. Listen to music and dance like there's no tomorrow! Dancing is a really good workout too. Do this once a week for about thirty minutes.
5. Eat lots of vegetables! They have lots of nutrients that the body needs.
6. Fruit instead of junk! Fruit isn't as good for you as vegetables due to the high amount of natural sugars, but it definitely is better than processed junk food. So whenever your craving sweets and whatnot, just eat some fruit!
7. Treat yourself once a week. What I do is have dessert just once a week, usually on Saturdays.
8. No soda, and go easy on milk and sweet teas. Soda is very carbonated and just overall bad for you. Milk is loaded with fat, too. Yes, it has calcium, but you can find much healthier ways to get calcium! (I'm not saying to completely cut out milk, just don't drink it as often.) Sweet tea is packed with sugar, too.
9. Whilst "treating" yourself, pick dessert type things over candy.
10. If you eat meat, (or if you're a vegetarian -- even better!) don't eat too much red meat. Red meat isn't good for you at all, and should only be eaten once a week. Chicken is much, much better for you than red meat, but still isn't that great if you eat it too much.
11. Drink lots of water! Sugar free juices are also good for you as well.
12. Multivitamins! It's good to take vitamins just so you make sure you get all the nutrients you might be unintentionally missing out on.
13. Wash your hands a lot! You don't want to get sick!

...And that's all for the tips! Thanks for reading! If you have any tips that I didn't mention, please leave them in the comments below! Cya!

Xoxo,

Hayl