Are your lifestyle habits keeping you from thriving?

Genetics play a role in your overall health but they aren't the end all be all when it comes to your well-being. Lifestyle choices related to sleep, nutrition, stress management, physical activity, alcohol intake and many others are the largest contributors to living healthfully.

"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”- Hippocrates

Sleep and wellness.

Not getting enough sleep consistently doesn't just affect your charming personality, it also has a vital impact to your health. While an occassional late-night binging on your favorite streamed series may not be problematic, if you're sleeping 6 hours or less per night for a long period of time, it's time to re-evaluate your sleep habit. Poor quality and being sleep deficient can be detrimental. Consequences may include; obesity, mood disorders, impaired immune function, chronic medical conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease.

Poor diet and health.

What you eat does matter. Let's get real, we love food and we love celebrating with food but if your life depends on it, isn't their an opportunity to change some things? A poor diet isn't just about weight, it has an effect on your organs, your brain, and the ability to function fully. Conditions such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, immune function, gout, nerve pain, and even dementia can be linked to a substandard diet. A diet lacking in proper nutrients can also alter your immune system. Causing damage to healthy cells and increasing chronic inflammation that leads to constant pain in muscles, tissues, and joints.

Chronic stress.

Stress can serve a purpose and isn't always negative. For example, a basketball player that experiences physiological symptoms of stress before making the winning shot may actually help them perform better. Chronic day to day stress is not a natural state of being and can have negative impacts on your health.

Stress isn't just a state of mind, the whole body gets involved. When you're chronically stressed you experience an overexposure stress hormones can disrupt your body's processes and puts you at risk for conditions like; digestive problems, headaches, pain, mood disorders, sleep problems, cognitive impairments related to memory and focus, inflammation and cardiovascular disease.

Being physically inactive.

Whether you started working from home during the pandemic, you have an office job or your glued to couch, not taking time for physical activity can decrease your mental and physical health. Loss of muscle mass, an increased risk of type 2 diabetes and the development of certain cancers, feelings of depression and anxiety are just a few potential outcomes of not moving your body.

Progress over perfection.

You don't have to be perfect to benefit from lifestyle changes. Small habit modifications can produce big improvements to your well-being. What might that look like? It can mean one less alcohol drink at dinner, some extra veggies, dancing for 10 minutes in your living room, an after lunch walk, breathing techniques for stress reduction and so on. Building one new habit at a time in ways that are doable for you.

The few lifestyle habits discussed above aren't meant to create a state of doom and gloom. Rather, it's to identify areas of your life that you CAN control. Every day is a new opportunity to make a different choice. Working with a health and wellness coach can get you one step closer to achieving your habit changes. Can you do it alone? Of course you can but you don't have to. If your're looking for some extra support, guidance and accountability, a coach can be the perfect ally in reaching your goals.

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