Good habits can make a massive difference to your health and well being

I have decided to build a new habit for myself –

I am going to leave my phone upstairs on my bedside table after I have put my girls to bed on a Friday night.

I have realised that I am constantly on my phone, checking my business pages, checking emails, answering client’s queries and I’m totally submersed in this world for hours at a time.

I want to be the best Coach I can be to my clients and they deserve my full attention but I HAVE to learn to switch off.

This will in fact beneficial to them and myself and my family. You have to have some time for YOU to recharge your body and soul, spend time with your loved ones.

Many people have acquired bad nutritional habits, and they practice these every single day, such as:

• Skipping breakfast
  Snacking between meals and grazing all day instead of tuning into their body’s hunger signals.
• Drinking too much coffee instead of eating food.
• Adding sugar to drinks or snacks.
• Buying takeaways rather than home cooking.
• Drinking too much alcohol.
• Staying up late and late night binge eating
  Many, many more bad habits.

As you can see it’s not just a case of counting calories or tracking numbers for everyone, it’s about breaking and improving habits. And, if you have lost your with your lifestyle, nutrition and training, then looking at creating good habits can be a great start.

To form a good habit, you want to have specific intention.

Ask yourself, what habit do you want to create exactly?

Get really specific here – this will help you know exactly what’s happening and you’ll then be more likely to follow it through.

What will you do, at what time and where?

Examples:

• I will walk for 30 minutes on my lunch break each day.
• I will drink 2 litres of water each day – 1 litre at home and 1 litre at work.
• I will eat lean protein with every meal.
• I will do 5 minutes of foam rolling and stretches at 9.30pm to ease my body and relax my mind before bedtime.

Being realistic and not too  extreme in your new habit choice. You should be able to easily carry out this habit 6 days out of 7 and not get super stressed with it. A habit should feel do-able right from the start.

Link a new habit to an existing one to make it easier

This will of course help you remember to do your new habit when you get caught up in busy daily life.

If you don’t, you’ll probably forget to consistently take the action needed to form the new habit.

Here are some ideas:

• To help you walk more, take your trainers to work and keep them under your desk. Add a alarm reminder on your phone, a post it note on your desk.
• To drink more water – have a 1 or 2 litre bottle on your desk and at home/work, so you can visually see how much you have drunk so far and how much you have left. Rubber bands around your smaller bottle to keep on track is a great one too.
• To do foam rolling & stretching, you could keep your mat and roller by the side of the sofa.

Record/Track your habit

This can be a fab motivation tool. You can either write out yourself and cross off, write on calendar and cross off or use my funky table…

…DM me your email address and I’ll send it over : )

Like I say, aim for 6 days out of 7

If you miss a day, that’s ok, then just make sure you never miss twice.

Get back on it the next day and you’re on the right track.

Be the best version of you.

Sarah ‘