A Healthy Pledge

Hello to you!

So you may know that I am constantly in a battle with myself to keep healthy, and when I am determined I am very driven but when it comes to being healthy I always seem to fail!

So now I have decided to make a pledge to myself of some simple rules to stick to, so I can make myself healthier in simple ways! Here is my healthy pledge:

1. Drink at LEAST one bottle of water every day (preferably 2 bottles, but usually I don't drink out of bottles so this will be hard to measure accurately).

2. Eat slightly smaller portions. Even if it means using smaller plates, there is no need to eat a huge plateful of food if you are feeling full but we have a tendency to want to finish EVERYTHING on our plate rather than waste it. Instead of doing this, if I have eaten enough I will put the rest of it in the fridge to save it to eat later if I get hungry or maybe use it as an ingredient in a meal the next day!

3. Swap chocolate & crisps for some fruit. Now I do love my twixes or salt & vinegar crisps, but recently I have been swapping them with tinned peaches which has been really lovely! Tinned peaches is now my go-to snack, and now as we are getting nearer to summer I hope to be buying some more great tasting fruit like raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, cherries, etc!

4. Do 20 minutes of yoga a day. Yoga is a really simple form of exercise which helps your flexibility and calms your mind, as well as being a good way of doing some simple exercise! I have a daily yoga app which I plan on using every day over summer as I think it is really useful.

5. Do a 10 minute workout every day. 10 minutes may not seem much but it is enough time to get you sweating if you're working hard enough! Whether this is a short run or a proper workout using an app, as long as i'm getting 10 minutes of cardiovascular exercise a day that's good enough for me. (Obviously for some people that sounds like nothing, but for me even leaving the house is a chore on some days!)

So there you have it. These are the 5 rules I would like to stick to for the foreseeable future so I can create good habits, & maybe one day in the future I will look back at this post & see how well I stuck to it!!

Are any of you trying to create some healthy habits? Do you want to get healthier & fitter before summer so you can get that perfect bikini body, or are you looking to make healthier changes for life? I'd be really interested to hear from you, let me know what you think about this in the comments!!

xo