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
Get out your planner and get creative
Oftentimes, what seems a lack of time is actually lack of prioritizing. Start by sitting down with your planner. If you don't use one, get out a notepad and sketch out what every day during the week looks like, including what time you get up, what time you go to sleep, and everything in between.
Then dust off the same problem-solving skills you use at work or with the kids and look for places where you might trade one activity for another. Can you watch 30 minutes of TV each night instead of 60 and use a slice of that time to exercise or put together a salad for tomorrow's lunch‚ or walk on the treadmill while you watch? Can you bring lunch to work three days a week rather than two, giving you tme to sneak in one more walk at work? Can your kids take the bus to school a couple of days a week or carpool to get to sports games, leaving you free to do chores so you can get to bed on time? Where there's a will, there's a way.
Then dust off the same problem-solving skills you use at work or with the kids and look for places where you might trade one activity for another. Can you watch 30 minutes of TV each night instead of 60 and use a slice of that time to exercise or put together a salad for tomorrow's lunch‚ or walk on the treadmill while you watch? Can you bring lunch to work three days a week rather than two, giving you tme to sneak in one more walk at work? Can your kids take the bus to school a couple of days a week or carpool to get to sports games, leaving you free to do chores so you can get to bed on time? Where there's a will, there's a way.
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