Hey guys! Happy Friday! How are the first few weeks of January going for you?
As I’ve mentioned before, I love the feeling of a fresh clean slate this time of year (I’m all for long-term goals and a focus word!), but I’d be kidding myself if I thought I could do a complete overhaul in a matter of weeks. It’s just not realistic! But full disclosure – I used to be SUCH a sucker for a hardcore new years resolution – like ‘get to my goal weight in 30 days’, or ‘eat completely clean for two months’. Needless to say these were tossed as soon as Friday wine and cheese time rolled around. It’s almost like I set myself impossible challenges because that made them easy to discard. Funny that! And because our new year’s resolutions can often be a reaction to the excesses of the holiday season, they so rarely represent actual achievable lifestyle changes that can be maintained and are more guilt related than anything else.
But in the last two years, instead of creating such strict (aka terrifying) resolutions, I tried to focus on integrating a few simple healthy habits, ones that were achievable and might actually work! And whilst I’ve still got a long way to go, I’m happy to say this approach has worked so much better than my previous ones, mainly because it encourages balance and long-term changes, rather than short-term punishment and sure-fire failure. It also allows a bit of flexibility which I’m all about, meaning you don’t have to kiss wine and cheese goodbye. So, because I can’t not share my successes with you guys (regardless of how tiny) we decided to put together a new Healthy Habits series, to help you kickstart a healthier year, without all the fear and propaganda that can paralyse you in January. Yay!
Starting Monday, we’ll be sharing tips, tricks and hacks to help you (and me!!) integrate more healthy habits into your day to day. From ways to embrace a habit, creating better sleeping habits and hacks for tackling healthy eating, we’ve designed this series with you guys in mind so it’s going to be fun and most importantly, easy. I’m so excited!
Before we kick off for real, I thought I would also reshare this Healthy Habits Daily Countdown – it’s a great basis from which to check yourself every day. You guys pinned it an incredible amount of times when we posted it in 2017 so we thought why not reshare it as a little reminder? This is a great one for printing and putting in your notebook or somewhere around your house.
Keen to make an early start on some healthy habits?
In the event that you’re keen to get started this weekend on integrating more healthy habits into your life, we thought we would share with you some further reading, posts that we’ve shared in the past.
The Ultimate Guide to Making Granola
Or ready to cook something healthy? What about Chia Jam, Cauliflower ‘Rice’ Pilaf or Banana Protein Pancakes?
Question
What Healthy Habits Do Your Struggle With?
Because you guys are just so amazing when it comes to sharing your experiences, we would love this series to reflect YOU… the experiences and challenges you might have faced in the past and anything else you feel is important relating to healthy habits. We’d love to hear what habits you struggle the most with, any successes you’ve had integrating healthy habits into your lifestyle and really… Just anything!
Stay tuned for our new Healthy Habits series that starts next week!
Illustration by Natalie Ong.
I always love your helpful charts and diagrams! I always struggle with healthy snacks, especially in the afternoon when I crave something sweet. Do you have some tips for that?
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Have you tried bringing fruit and some dark chocolate for an afternoon snack? It seems like the best solution in these cases is planning ahead and having healthier versions of your favorite snacks on hand.
Thanks for that!
Thanks so much for the question, I’ll definitely include this in our content coming up!
Sounds like a really good series idea!
Thanks so much love!
This sounds like such an interesting concept already! I’m excited for it <3
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Yay! So happy to hear that x
I’m excited to see something on meditation. I have an app on my phone that wakes me up with a meditation, so I get a regular 10 minutes in in the morning. It also helps me to think of “wait time” as meditation time. If I have to wait for an appointment, instead of playing on my phone, that can be time to practice some mindfulness meditation for a few minutes.
Thats such an amazing idea, I’m excited to share more of this series!
I’m all about this healthy habit series! I’m really excited to follow along this year. Thanks for the amazing graphic and wonderful roundup of helpful resources and readings.
-Helen
http://www.sweethelengrace.com
Thanks so much honey I’m so glad you like them!
Sounds like a great idea for a series! Do you know what brand those sports bras are? They’re exactly what I’ve been looking for.
They’re from Grana! xx
I like two hours of no phone time before bed the most!
http://www.simplenchic.com
Its one of the best things for you, like ever!
Your infographic is sooo helpful! 🙂 Hoping I can achieve all of this this year too! <3 Thank you so much for sharing!
XO, Elizabeth
http://clothestoyouuu.com
Thanks so much honey, so happy you like it! I think it’s soooo useful x
Great initiative, Geneva! This is so in alingment with my new year’s resolution. Thanks!
Yay! I am sooo happy to hear that. Cant wait to share more!
Thank you so much love!
Amazing! You sound so so healthy x
Hey Geneva, great – I have also just decided to live healthier (again) and be mode careful about my sleep and my vitamins 🙂 Am currently having the flu for the 3rd time in 5 weeks, this needs to stop 🙁 And I’m sure our (unconscious) eating habits have so much to do with a weak immune system! So cheers (with an extra green smoothie) to health food that’s also fun 🙂 Biggest problem: eating well takes TIME! (esp. the preparation)
Vera
P.S.: I recently started brewing yogi tea in a big pot on the stove once, twice per week – SO restorative and good for the soul! Yummy.
More about this soon on my blog 🙂
http://frau-k-aus-d.blogspot.com
Can’t wait to see what you share with us =o) I have started meditating every morning for five minutes and it has been so energizing and gets me through the day. I definitely need to work on getting in those 8 hours of sleep though, that’s my hardest habit I need to start doing more often
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I liked it, thank you very much for the advices ☻
Fantastic idea for a series <3