PERFECT BODIES OR HEALTHY BODIES?

🧐Perfection is attainable to those who photo shop their photos!

🧐Don’t imperfections make us real people?

🧐Being healthy is what we should be striving for!

🧐Being Strong / Fit / Energetic /Happy are more important goals?

🧐We all know more than we think about being healthy? Just make sure your information is from a reputable source!

❓Are we living the life we know would bring us good health or just doing the diet thing for short term gain?

❓Think about what healthy means & then make your life reflect this - that’s the path to good health & often to a better body inside and out!

❓Think about the nutritional value of your food & drink choices? What nutrients do you get from what you eat?

😡If you're overloading your body with foods of low or no nutritional value then what energy levels are you expecting from your body? Why are you surprised when you feel lethargic!

👍🏻Here are some boxes that need ticking:

☑️eat a balanced diet (protein; meats, eggs, etc carbohydrates (not sugar/starchy laden ones),

☑️healthy fats; avocado nuts etc

☑️hydrate with water

☑️don’t upsize your meals

☑️get active and stay active

☑️Don’t weigh yourself every day! but consider your body fat vs muscle

☑️get enough sleep (everyone is different)

☑️find healthy ways to reduce stress (exercise is excellent for this)

☑️make ME time (what do you love to do & do it often 💗)

☑️spend time with friends & family making memories

☑️have regular check ups and don’t delay a doctors visit for 🙏🏻smears/prostrate/mammogram/bowel/eyes/dentist/cholesterol/bloods

☑️smile & laugh & remember some things in life are free to enjoy! ❤️

💛I discussed the medical checks above in the gym this week, it’s a good time to book some of these into your year, which is what I’ve done.

💛Preventative medicine with checks & many of the above list of ideals ticked off is the best way to enjoy a long life!

💛I did enjoy the SARDINES this week as part of the try something NEW & I had them on some toast, you may have seen my post! I then finished off the tin the next night!! 😋 yum!

🍁Have a great week & I hope you try to make some of the above happen in May! It maybe getting cooler but nothing a jacket, some gloves & a hat won’t fix.

Happy Mother’s Day 💐 to mums, stepmums,grandma’s, aunties, or good friends, dads who are also mums, mums of pets...💕