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How To Make The Weekend Healthier?

 Hello my friends, weekends, either they make you or break you, I know, I know, little bit dramatic, but all jocks aside, it is kind of true. For most people weekends are a huge challenge to stay on their healthy journey.

It doesn’t matter how old are you, what’s your family status and so on, weekends are a huge game changer for what ever routine you are trying to maintain. I remember, many years ago, weekend was for me, lots of food, way to much, binge watching on TV shows with a friend, and some extra hours in the gym (I had to pay for the extra food I eat 🙂 .

But it doesn’t have to be like that. As a matter of fact you can use the weekend exactly the opposite, you can use it as a stepping stone over and over, to prep yourself for a healthier week. we will leave this for future post. let’s say that we are not there yet, and we are starting our journey to be just a little bit healthier every week.

Here are my few tips on how to get yourself ready for a healthier weekend:

  • Set your limits for your weekend. Let’s say you like to have alcohol during the weekend. Starting Friday night ending Sunday night, make a decision with yourself, preferably written, that this weekend, (I don’t want you think of a huge commitment, so just for this weekend) you will have only 50% of your average consumption, or whatever you know you can do. This “small” action is a great tool to practice self disciplining and commitment to your own decisions.
  • Set a healthy goal. Choose an “healthy” act that you can do and decide to do it every day of the weekend. For example. This weekend I will eat a total of 15 fresh fruits. This one, believe or not, will help you motivate yourself to make more healthy choices, it will make you feel so good, that you will want to repeat it over and over.
  • Do things a little bit different. We are creature of routines, and even though we tend to think that are weekends are different, we kind of heaving our weekend routine, whatever it may be, dinning out more, movies, shopping and so on. make a decision this week to break your routine, for example, if you normally sleep in during the weekend, get up earlier then your average sleep in time, choose something and make it work. This is a great way to teach ourselves adjusting easier to change and be in “control” over the change instead of letting it take control over us.
  • Get comfortable with being bored. For some reason, most of us don’t know how to be comfortable with doing simply, NOTHING, and eating, drinking, exercising, socializing, and so on is still doing something, so get comfortable with being bored. One of my favorite tools to teach ourselves awareness over what we are feeling and thinking, it is almost asking you to start meditate but without all the “rules” around it.

There are many more tools that we can use, I gave you some basics ones that can, with time, literally transform your life, all you need to practice them, sorry, you must practice them if you are aiming for a healthier living, keep this post or even better, do it this weekend, and email or text it to yourself to receive it next Friday and then do it again. I trully belive if you will commit yourself to this task for the next 6 or 12 months, you won’t believe where it can take you.

Hope you enjoyed this post, please share.

with love and gratitude Ilan Halfon.

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