When you do any of these things with intention and purpose, they will help you feel better: mind, body, and spirit.
And you definitely deserve that!
8 Ways to Love Your Body Today (& Every Day)
1. Get outside for some fresh air and sunshine.
Being outdoors helps you relax, lightens your mood, boosts your vitamin D, and even helps with healing. Even better: find a park or other tree-filled area, and spend at least 15 minutes enjoying nature.
2. Read a book.
Let us count the ways reading a book is good for you: it strengthens your brain and prevents cognitive decline, builds empathy, improves your vocabulary, reduces stress, fights depression, and helps you sleep better.
Plus, it’s linked to a longer lifespan! If you need a book idea, check out Jay Shetty, Think Like a Monk.
3. Get in your workout.
You already know why 🙂 It helps lower your risk of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. It lifts your mood, helps reduce depression and stress, and is great for your brain.
Plus … it strengthens your bones and muscles and can keep you feeling active and strong. It helps you sleep better; it’s linked with a better sex life, and it boosts your chances of living longer.
4. Make time for a 10-minute stretch session.
Stretching helps you feel better in so many different ways: it improves your circulation, activates the part of your body’s nervous system that helps controls rest & relaxation; and triggers the release of feel-good endorphins, - just do one off youtube - there's loads.
5. Listen to your favorite music.
Music has a powerful influence on our bodies AND our moods - which is why it’s important to choose upbeat songs that make you FEEL good.
[maybe put on something that reminds you of 'fun times' - even if its 10,20,30 years ago!!]
For many people, music can lead to better learning, it can improve your memory, help you focus, boost your mood, ease depression and anxiety, up your energy, and help you workout longer/harder!
6. Treat yourself to a warm bath.
Studies show that a warm (not hot) bath can help you relax by reducing stress hormones in your body. Plus it’s great to help you get to sleep afterward.
But that’s just the start of it. A warm bath also can help reduce tension in your muscles and relieve aches & pains (try adding 300 grams of Epsom salts for even more benefit).
Note: a hot soak sounds appealing but it can actually leave some people feeling dizzy and weak. This is NOT what we are aiming for.
7. Look through old pics that make you smile.
A little visual walk down memory lane can give you perspective and help you feel gratitude for all the amazing people you’ve met along the way (and all the adventures you’ve had).
8. Cook a delicious dinner of your healthy favourites.
When was the last time you treated yourself to your favorite meal? If you’re the cook in your household, chances are you usually choose foods that other people will enjoy.
Tonight, choose something YOU want. 🙂
Hope this helps,
Jamie
Happy Friday!
Another week nearly gone, it's going quite quickly I think.
Today brings the next 3 week review and hopefully a bit more clarity on how the next few weeks are going to look (optimistically hoping to have a reopening date which will be brilliant!)
That's looking forward
Now to look back
As you probably heard during January we had the ladies doing our January Jeans Challenge.
So the results are in!
The biggest aim of this challenge wasn't the weight loss.
It was actually just to get the ladies involved and give them something achievable to focus on over January.
We could have made it stricter and has bigger results but the focus was to make it ACHIEVABLE especially at an already stressful time with everything going on
Here's a quick list of some of the ladies to take part and their results:
Sian 14 lbs!
Dawn 11 lbs
Diane 9 lbs
Sue 7 lbs
Becky 7 lbs
Rhea 7 lbs
Amazing!
Between them the ladies lost 115 lbs! (over 8 stone)
Average loss for those taking part was 6.75 pounds
We are delighted with this
Also a load of new recipes learned and all members now have access to the plan so they can do again if they like.
We are actually approaching the end of the Feb plan too so updates to follow next week.
Building on from the dieting mid week post, we know that our ladies are busy and stressed a lot of the time so we don't want to add another stress to their life (diets or extreme exercise).
We do a lot of the work for them and set them up for success.
Have a great weekend,
Jamie Stedman
PS We have now opened a waiting list to be the first to know when we reopen for the first program. If you want to join this list simply reply with 'waiting list' and I'll add you to it
