Total Body Wellness

Just wanted to blog a bit on time and how it gets away from us and how it brings about so much stress.

I recently spoke to someone about time management this week and we spoke about how we tend to get so much behind by just dealing with our day to day life.

Ever take a moment to check your email and look up and 30 minutes to 45 minutes have gone by. Or what if in your email you notice someone has written on your facebook page. Watch out because the second you check this page you will lose even more time. Not that it is not important to keep up with your social network but these things should be scheduled in after you have done what you need to do for the day. Not as much fun perhaps but will definitely lower your stress level at the end of the day.

Scheduling your time is a sure way to be more productive.
It begins when you wake up, do you want to exercise in the morning, make a healthy breakfast, pack a healthy lunch? You can do it. Decide how much time you will need to do all this plus get yourself ready and your kids if that applys and wake up early enough.
Next is your work day, what do you absolutely need to get done today? Do that first even if it is something you hate. Close the door (if you have one) and don’t take any interruptions for as long as it takes to do those really important tasks.
Schedule a time for interruptions ( email, questions from colleques, facebook, phone calls, etc.). If you didn’t exercise in the morning, schedule it in for the afternoon. Schedule in housework as well. Schedule in time with your family as well.
If you make a little time for everything, it will be easier to not get got up in one thing and get behind on others.

It is all about balancing work and life.

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My catch phrase for my businesses has always been “choose to be healthy” and that is what I have named my blog. I came up with this phrase because we have to make a daily choice if we are going to live a healthy life or an unhealthy one.
Every day you wake up to an endless list of choices; hit the snooze button or get up, what to eat for breakfast, pack a lunch or go out for lunch, workout this morning or skip it, take are vitamis or not…. the list goes on and on.

Certainly not all but many choices we make on daily basis depend on if we have made the choice to live a healthy life or an unhealthy life. Take all the choices listed above.

If we choose to live a healthy life we will most likely get up right away so we have time to eat a healthy breakfast, have time to workout(if we workout in the morning), have time to pack a healthy lunch so we won’t be tempted to skip lunch or go out for fast food, remember to take our supplements and prepare ourselves for a healthy day.
If we haven’t made a healthy lifestyle choice we might hit the snooze button, grab a quick breakfast or skip it altogether, skip our workout for lack of time, figure we will grab something for lunch, forget to take our supplements and rush out of the house to face our day.

Now we all hit the snooze button every now and then. Of course that is not the point I am making. I am really just using this as an example as to how choosing to be healthy pretty much effects all we do. We will all make some unhealthy choices sometimes because we are human and sometimes we just want to. All we can to is try. We can aim to make healthy choices 90% of the time.

Take a moment today to look at your choices and see what small steps you can take to move you into a more healthy lifestyle. Most of you already make really healthy lifestyle choices but we can all improve in one area or another.

In the end it is a choice. It is your choice and nobody elses, so choose what is best for you!

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Elaine Maxwell:
My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.

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According to the Dietary Reference Intakes published by the USDA 10% – 35% of calories should come from protein. Most Americans should get 10%-35% of their calories from protein and should easily meet this need by consuming a balanced diet. Unfortunately, many people do not get the recommended amount of protein and might need to supplement.

Protein is needed for;

Growth (especially important for children, teens, and pregnant women) Growth and repair of muscles, bones, skin, tendons, ligaments, hair, eyes and tissues.
Immune function
Making essential hormones and enzymes
Energy when carbohydrate is not available
Preserving lean muscle mass

Protein is found in meats, poultry, fish, meat substitutes, cheese, milk, nuts, legumes, and in smaller quantities in starchy foods and vegetables.

When we eat these types of foods, our body breaks down the protein that they contain into amino acids (the building blocks of proteins).
Some amino acids are essential which means that we need to get them from our diet, and others are nonessential which means that our body can make them.

Protein that comes from animal sources contains all of the essential amino acids that we need. Plant sources of protein, on the other hand, do not contain all of the essential amino acids.

Are you getting enough protein? I think that sometimes protein gets a bad rap because we think about red meat like steak but as you can see there are so many other places that we can find protien, we just have to get creative.

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