PhitPhuel Blog

• by Heber Nicolath,
• on Feb 25 2022

What’s Missing in Your Health Regime Today

Have you been wondering how you can improve your health? With the winter ending and the spring season arriving, you are left to consider how you can make better choices to support your longevity. Unfortunately, your health can become secondary with higher demands placed on work. During the ongoing pandemic, this becomes more difficult if your job invades home life.

When working more than 12 hours per day, it becomes nearly impossible to engage in self-care. The truth is no one is going to care for you the way you can. Therefore, you must take responsibility for yourself. To prevent yourself from getting to the point of no return, you must rearrange your priorities.This requires recognizing your bad habits, such as overeating, lack of exercise, and eating too many fried foods.

You can start by clearing up 2 to 3 hours of your day. Rather than dedicating those hours in the office or at home, you can be doing something more useful. In other words, adding that time back into your schedule will permit you to replace your bad habits. For instance, you can break away from your sedentary lifestyle, get back to going to the gym, and make a healthy dinner, instead of ordering fast food.

However, if you do not start making changes in your life, there are consequences. When these habits accumulate over the years, this leads to illnesses that cannot be prevented but must be managed with medicines and treatments. Oftentimes, these typical treatments end up causing other unwanted medical issues. This is why it is important to understand why the choices you make now can affect your future.

3 reasons why you need to put your health first:

• Lack of proper health management and sleep increases your body’s stress levels

• Due to severe stress, your immune system may weaken over time

• Then, you may become more susceptible to long-term problems (high blood pressure, heart disease, chronic pain, inflammation, and insomnia).

  Identify Unhealthy Patterns of Thinking

  Because of these potential problems, it helps to understand what leads to self-neglect. Perhaps you are perpetuating patterns that put your health at risk. For some of you, this looks like engaging in negative self-talk, making excuses why you are not capable of losing weight or eating better, and being closed off to an alternative lifestyle. Just by realizing that is an issue is the first step toward real transformation. When you spend time working on these maladaptive thoughts, you are no longer bound to them. You can be set free from the power they hold over you. As a result, you can become aware of what other possibilities exist. When you break your restrictive mental and physical habits, this allows your health to come first.

  In fact, according to our previous article, prioritizing your wellness requires being open-minded to supplements. This is because relying on conventional medications may not always be effective. Using these alternatives minimize negative side effects, while also boosting your energy levels and immune system. Instead of the one-size-fits-all solution, you have other options for immediate self-improvement.