21st January – Hydrate
Human beings are 80% water. Water is essential to all the structures that make up the body, and the processes that make the body work to function healthily. 🚰Many people don’t drink quite enough. Usually it’s not enough to cause sudden or serious problems, but being slightly dehydrated can lead to:🤕headaches💩Constipation🤭Bad breath😞Dry, dull skin🥱Fatigue📈Weight gain – because often thirst is mistaken for hunger, so people eat more thinking that they feel hungry, but actually they are thirsty. How do you know if you are drinking enough? Look at your wee! 🚽Urine should be a pale, straw colour, and there should be plenty of it. If your urine is darker yellow…
13th January – avoid refined sugars
Avoid refined sugars Anyone else still got piles of Christmas treats lurking at home?🍫🍫🍫As I said right at the beginning of the month, I hate diets – as soon as you tell me I “can’t” have something, that’s the one thing that I really want. So, how can I reduce refined sugar intake without turning it into a huge mental battle? Other people have told me that planning a treat into their meal plans works for them.But when I have tried rationing myself previously, I find it incredibly difficult with sweets and chocolates to limit myself to “just one” or “just a couple”… once I start nibbling, i just can’t…
5th January – eat a plant-based diet
Eat a plant-based diet 🍆Tonight’s dinner: baked aubergine stuffed with homemade spicy mixed bean and tomato stew, served with a mixed leaf salad, tomatoes and olives. 🥬Plant-based doesn’t have to mean plant-exclusive, so it doesn’t have to be full vegan or vegetarian, although both of those can be equally healthy options too. ⭐️There is an incredible wealth of evidence of out there for following a Whole-Food Plant-Based (WFPB) diet, just some of the benefits are: 🍎Lowers risk and may even treat and reverse some chronic diseases🍏Reduced risk of heart disease and cancer🍎Reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes by improving insulin sensitivity to the metabolism works more effectively, protecting beta…
