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7 Healthy New Year’s Resolutions You Can Actually Keep

7 Healthy New Year’s Resolutions You Can Actually Keep

New Year’s resolutions are a fabulous motivator to start fresh. If your goal is to have a healthy 2022, we can help. One healthy move truly connects to promote another. Choose one or more of these small, manageable resolutions below, and you’ll be setting yourself up to achieve your bigger health goals. Here’s to new, happy, healthy beginnings! 

Rely less on convenience foods 

Many people rely on convenience foods, such as packaged chips, cookies, frozen dinners, and fast food, for a quick meal or snack. Though these items may be tasty and readily available, they can have detrimental effects on your health if eaten too often.

For example, frequent fast food intake is associated with poor overall diet quality, obesity, and an increased risk of numerous conditions, including heart disease and diabetes.

To cut back on your consumption of convenience foods, make a resolution to prepare more meals at home using healthy ingredients.

Rethink dieting 

Chronic dieting is harmful to both physical and mental health. Plus, most people who lose weight through restrictive dieting regain up to two-thirds of the weight lost within 1 year.

Dieting can also make it harder to lose weight in the future.

Rather than setting a New Year’s resolution to lose weight by using restrictive measures, such as a fad diet, try a healthier, more sustainable method of weight loss by focusing on increasing physical activity and eating healthier foods.

Go grocery shopping regularly 

Having a well-stocked pantry and fridge is necessary to prepare healthy, home-cooked meals.

If you’re not used to going grocery shopping, make a New Year’s resolution to go to the supermarket or farmer’s market more regularly to stock up on nutritious ingredients.

Depending on your schedule, it may be helpful to designate 1 day each week as your day to shop. Ensuring that you have time to buy the groceries you need to make tasty, nourishing meals is a savvy way to improve your diet quality.

Use healthier household products 

It’s obvious that what you put into your body can significantly impact your health. However, what you choose to put onto your body and what products you use in your home matter, too.

Make a New Year’s resolution to purchase more natural beauty products, household cleaners, laundry detergents, and personal care products to create a healthier environment for yourself and your family.

Add more produce to your diet 

Adding more cooked and raw vegetables and fruits to your diet can go a long way towards improving your health in the new year.

Numerous studies have shown that eating a diet rich in produce helps protect against various illnesses, such as diabetes, heart diseases, certain cancers, and obesity, as well as overall mortality.

Cut back on alcohol 

Though alcohol can certainly fit into a healthy diet, imbibing too often can negatively affect your health. What’s more, drinking alcohol frequently may keep you from reaching your health and wellness goals.

If you think cutting back on alcohol may be helpful for you, set a reasonable goal to keep yourself on track, such as limiting drinking to weekend nights only or setting a drink limit for the week.

If you need a non-alcoholic beverage idea to replace your usual cocktail of choice, try fruit-infused sparkling water, kombucha, or one of these fun mocktails.

Be more present

Research shows that being more present may improve life satisfaction by decreasing negative thoughts, which may thereby improve psychological health.

Making a New Year’s resolution to be more mindful and present may help you feel more content in your everyday life.

Spending less time on your phone, stopping to notice your environment, and listening intently to others are simple ways to be more present.

New Year. New beginnings. New resolutions. ABC Fit Studio has a wide variety of options and private sessions available for you to start fresh. Keeping up with your workout plan will be easier than ever. Gain a whole new level of body awareness! Schedule a class today at (949) 305-3310 and join our online community on Facebook.


Reference: [https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/realistic-new-years-resolutions#11.-Rely-less-on-convenience-foods]

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