4 Easy Habits that Have Improved my Health this Year

Eating Vegetables for Lunch

My only news years resolution this year was to eat more vegetables, which is harder than you would think in my household as I often get home too late to prepare dinner and so it’s left to my fiancé to cook, who would rather go without any veg. Iv started to prepare us both a vegetable soup each week, we’ve had leek and potato, and carrot and onion soups so far which both tasted really good. One of my fiancé's  specialties is making bread so we always have a nice crusty rustic loaf to go with the soups. This week I am making tomato soup with a basic cob loaf, Adam, my fiancé isn’t very well so I attempted the bread myself (with his supervision) 

Juicing Fruit and Veg

Another way I’m try to squeeze some more fruit and veg in is by juicing them, once a day I try to have a juice. This has brought our juicer out of retirement as it had become invisible on our kitchen counter top. I usually go for some sort of green juice, but I'll add an apple, pear and some lemon juice to make it sweet so I'll want to drink it again. I cant stand the healthy juices that look great when you see all the healthy ingredients going into your body so quickly , but they just make me wretch, plus this is the only time I will eat any fruit.

Drinking Enough Water

I've got a well established habit of drinking enough water everyday as I take my 500ml glass bottle with me everywhere, I now feel kind of lost without it. I always have a whole bottle while I do my makeup in the morning, then I just tell myself that I need to drink the whole bottle by 1pm, another by 5pm and another by 8pm, this means that I drink 2ltrs of water by the end of each day, I also have a coffee and mint tea in between.

Squeezing in a Workout Before the Day Starts

Iv just got into the swing of getting up half an hour earlier to squeeze in a quick workout on weekdays, I use T25 which is a 25min workout with a 5min stretch afterwards, and this works out my whole body over the week. I love it because I don’t need to think about what I need to train, I just do it in the comfort of my own home and at my own pace, and I feel so good afterwards, so much more awake and ready to go.

I haven’t had to compromise much at all with these habits and they barely take much time, I prep my lunches at the weekends like I always did, and really enjoy drinking a juice each day. My motivation comes from the fact that I want to look good at my wedding in five months time but it’s something I want to continue after as I think it’s essential as I head further into my 30's, I start to feel my age when I don’t do anything. Other than these few habits I am fairly relaxed at what I eat, and I do what I want at the weekends as I have no workouts planned, I do try to get up early at the weekends but I’m not quite there yet as I like to socialise and enjoy having a few cocktails time to time!