12th January – warm bath at bedtime
🛁 Have a soak in a warm bath before bedtime. This is one of my favourite healthy habits, and it’s so simple, yet so effective. There a several benefits to a warm bath. 🛀🏼Firstly, for me it is just “me time”, the kids are in bed and it’s quiet and if I’m in the tub I literally can’t be doing anything else. In contrast, if I was trying to sit to have a quiet few minutes anywhere else I’d be tempted to go and just do whatever chore I had remembered needed doing that moment… A warm bath at bedtime can help you get a good night sleep in a…
8th January – Reduce alcohol (know your limits!)
Advice to reduce alcohol might seem like an odd thing to post on a Friday night, but shortly after I walked through the door after a very long day at work, my lovely well-meaning husband handed me a gin “because it’s Friday night!” But when I’ve stopped to think about it, “because it’s Friday” is not really a good reason to have a drink! It’s so easy to think that having a drink is a good way to reward ourselves with a glass of wine or a gin after a hard day. It’s something we see all the time on social media and memes all the time – “it’s wine…
3rd January – Go for a walk.
Go for a walk! One of my top healthy habits is to get active and moving – in whatever way you can. Walking is probably the easiest way to get moving, because doesn’t have to require any special kit or clothing, and you can do as much or as little as you want. Today’s walk was a bit more of an ice-skating, mud-wading adventure than a brisk walk, but it is very pretty out through the winter field and lanes, even if it was all a bit boggy and/or flooded! Movement will feature in my top 30 healthy habits for January in various different forms, and I make no apologies…
