Working at a computer can take a toll on the body with lack of exercise and healthy eating habits. So take charge and turn your habits around with these helpful tips.
1. Journal and keep a daily diary about what you eat and how much activity you get each day. Make sure to get at least 10 minutes of activity daily away form your computer with healthy exercise; walking, jogging, biking, stationary-biking, something?
2. Keep healthy snacks and foods on hand like:
? Tuna
? White cheeses and low-fat crackers
? Celery and low-fat peanut butter
? Carrot and Celery sticks
? Salad (bagged and prepared is fine) and low-fat dressing
? Cucumber slices
? Snow peas
? Broccoli and cauliflower
? Wheat bread
? Veggie egg rolls
? Fresh Fruits / Fruit Bowl
? Frozen grapes
? Wheat Toast and jelly
? Bagels and jelly or lite cream cheese.
? Freezer treats (lite ice milks, low fat yogurts, flavored ices, etc.)
? Jello (with or without fruit and/or lite whipped topping)
? Pudding with low-fat milk
? Healthy beverages: teas, coffees, bottled flavored waters
3. Take the batteries out of any remote control units you have at home and get up and walk over to change channels.
4. Take your dog for a walk every evening. If you don?t have one, take your elderly neighbor?s dog for a walk.
5. Do exercises while watching television. No need to wait for commercials, for jump in there and hit the floor.
6. Pick up healthy cookbooks at the local library, bookstore and online. And find favorites to use, changing your bland, some-old same-olds.
7. Add healthy no-sugar cereals to your day, sweetening them with fresh berries (or some brands now have the fried fruits packaged right in the cereals.) You can eat cereal as a snack, too.
8. Oatmeal is healthy and good for you. Experiment by adding raisins, nuts, a little brown sugar and other goodies to make it a nice, warm meal.
9. Stock up on soups: vegetable, tomato, vegetable beef, chicken, bean, chicken and stars, chicken and rice, chicken and noodle. And stock up on a variety of crackers to go with them: oyster crackers, saltines, Ritz, Sociable Crackers, etc. Eat your heavier meal for lunch and leave the lighter ?soup? meal for dinner.
10. Invite a friends or friends over to eat. Stop hiding out and socialize. Share recipes and healthy food ideas. Plan a round where someone brings the main course, someone else brings the side dishes, another brings dessert.
