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Stick to Your 2020 Health Resolutions

Ah, New Year’s Resolutions, do you still remember yours half way into January? While it’s easy to go into the New Year strong, I want to share 5 clever ways to stick to your Health Resolutions all year long.

5 Clever Ways to Stick to Your 2020 Health Resolutions

1. No matter what you vow to change in 2020, whether it was to lose weight, get more fit, eat better, or sleep more, there is one thing that is essential to any health goal: WATER! Start your day with a tall glass of WATER, every morning. Not only does this help hydrate you, but oftentimes we eat when we are thirsty, so make sure you are drinking at least 8 glasses of water a day.
2. Every night review what you intend to do the next day. This will relieve stress, help you sleep better and allow you to focus. Also, studies show that when writing something out, you retain it better, so keep writing!
1. Take a walk after dinner. It doesn’t have to be long, but make it meaningful, at least 10 minutes. This is a good time to digest your dinner while giving yourself some downtime, or time with your family. If you are able to eat together then make this your new routine as well!
2. Write your resolutions down each day as a reminder of what you are working towards.
3. Get a friend to hold you accountable. Better yet, if your goal is health-related, work with me and I’ll hold you accountable!

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2020 is not only a new year, but it’s the beginning of a new DECADE! I’m offering new clients 10% off any of my services in the month of January. I would love to team up with you and help you reach all of your health goals, contact me today.

Discover Wellness Now With These 4 Pillars

There are 4 pillars of wellness.. Did you know, with them you possess the key to your own well-being? That’s right, you have complete access to living a healthy lifestyle and being your best self! Wellness can be broken down into these four pillars: Nutrition, Mindfulness, Exercise, and Prevention. Here’s a little breakdown of each pillar.

Nutrition

Whatever you put into your body is considered your fuel. Your brain and body need healthy, non-toxic, real foods full of nutrition to function properly.

Mindfulness

Bringing your attention to the present moment allows you to focus, as well as reduces stress, sadness, and anger. It can also improve physical problems. The benefits of mindfulness include reduced overeating, procrastination, and depression.

Exercise

Activities that require physical movement to improve not only your physical but mental health. Through exercise, you will grow stronger and see improvement throughout your day to day life.

Prevention

There are thousands of toxins and chemicals in products you use every single day. By making small changes in what you purchase to use on your body, or put into your environment, you can prevent unnecessary health problems. Hashimoto’s, Celiac’s, sluggish thyroid, unexplained weight gain, mood, and behavioral disorders, infertility.

Extra Weight? It’s NOT Your Workout OR Your Diet

After recently speaking to a few friends and clients, there seemed to be a common issue: extra weight. Even though they are making healthy lifestyle choices, it’s still a struggle with weight gain, particularly around the stomach. This is because of ingredients that are affecting us all whether you know it or not. The issue is caused by Endocrine Disruptors. Stay with me for a moment.

Your Endocrine system is extremely important for your bodies’ overall functioning as it is responsible for your:

metabolism
reproductive system
thyroid
mood and behavior
immune system
growth and development
and more…

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Do I have your attention yet?

These disruptors trick our bodies by imitating hormones, increasing and creating the production of hormones, even telling cells to die prematurely. The worst part is, they are, everywhere, because they are found in:

plastic
fragrances
pesticides (food, wine, coffee, tea)
makeup, nail polish, shampoo, conditioner, lotion, skin-care
synthetic clothing
paint
cleaning products
furniture
digital devices
and the list goes on and on and on…

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OKAY, OKAY, I have your attention, so the MAIN POINT of my message is if you are trying to:

get pregnant
raise a well-balanced, calm, intelligent child
lose weight

Or would like to:

have continued success in the bedroom
sleep well
be healthy

Then begin ELIMINATING these harmful chemicals out of your life, for you, for me, and for our aquatic life. Because every time these chemicals are used, they end up in our drinking water and our water sources, creating a vicious circle of toxicity.

So, what can you do NOW to protect yourself and your family?

Stop:

drinking, cooking, eating, and storing food in plastic.
buying things with fragrances: your laundry detergent, shampoo, cleaning products, toxic plug-ins (car pulgs too) take them out now.

Start:

phasing organic produce in your diet.
buying non-toxic makeup, and skincare- your skin is your largest organ and everything you put on it absorbs quickly and goes straight into your bloodstream.
drinking filtered water: for the record bottled water does not have to be filtered and it is mostly in plastic where by dioxins, BPA, BPE and BPS leech straight into your water.

When you learn to make mindful choices, you help everyone, because all the drinking water and produce are cleaner. It’s a WIN! WIN!

This only touches the surface on how our Endocrine System is being disrupted and what you can do to improve it. Contact me to dive deeper and understand how plastic is making you fat, or how your nail polish has caused your thyroid to be sluggish, or how the fake fragrance in your hallway is preventing you from getting pregnant.