5 ways to make more time for your health
Try these tips to make more time for fitness and nutrition and make your health a priority
By Dana Sullivan
Build in time for sleep
If your solution to "getting it all done" is to stay up later, or you're so wiped out while watching TV at night that you're too tired to get up and turn the thing off, it's time to enforce a strict bedtime.Lack of sleep ratchets up stress hormones which make life seem than much more out of control. It also contributes more than you might think to a wide waistline. A Canadian study of 740 adults found that people who reported getting five to six hours of sleep a night were 38 percent more likely to be overweight than those getting seven to eight hours.
If you're having trouble holding yourself to a bedtime, buy timers for the TV and all the lights in your living room. Set them to turn off at 10:30 p.m. or earlier, or set an alarm clock to ring at 10:15 p.m., an alert that time is almost up. If you tend to surf the Web at night, program your computer's scheduling software to remind you at 10:30 that it's bedtime. Bonus: Once your body gets used to going to bed at the same time every night (even on weekends!), you'll fall asleep faster.
If you're having trouble holding yourself to a bedtime, buy timers for the TV and all the lights in your living room. Set them to turn off at 10:30 p.m. or earlier, or set an alarm clock to ring at 10:15 p.m., an alert that time is almost up. If you tend to surf the Web at night, program your computer's scheduling software to remind you at 10:30 that it's bedtime. Bonus: Once your body gets used to going to bed at the same time every night (even on weekends!), you'll fall asleep faster.
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