Boost your energy and feel amazing

As I mentiond in the few posts i'm feeling completely wiped. Work is a main factor these days, working long hours, just re-org'd. One day blends into another with no let up. To tired to run when I come home in the evening, i head to my comfort zone-yunk food.

I guess I just don't pay enough respect to what i'm doing to my body.

I have come arcoss an article that gives us tips on how we can improve how we feel...maybe you can take something from it too.

So here are 20 top tips to keep you on track and feeling full of energy:

• Ensure you get the right amount of calories per day.

• Ensure your food balance is correct and made up of the right amount of carbohydrates, proteins and essential fats.

• Drink at least two litres of water per day, more if you exercise.

• Eat small meals throughout the day instead of nothing all day then a huge meal at night when you least need the energy before going to bed.

• Ensure you get enough quality sleep every night. Preferably seven hours uninterrupted.

• Take part in at least 30 minutes of activity everyday. It all adds up: walking to the shops instead of driving, taking the stairs instead of the lift or cycling instead of driving, all make a difference.

• Avoid tea and coffee because of the caffeine it causes energy peaks and troughs.

• Avoid cakes, biscuits and chocolate during the day as the high sugar content will cause energy peaks and troughs leaving you feeling wiped out.

• Bread can make a lot of people feel very tired shortly after eating, so try to cut down on sandwiches and see if that makes a difference.

• Eat the recommended five portions of vegetable or fruit per day.

• Try not to rely on alcohol as a means of unwinding of a night. It has very negative effects physically in terms of muscle recovery, weight gain and on sleep patterns. Or, if you can’t give it up, try and have a glass of wine rather than the whole bottle!

• Join a gym or try to start some sort of structured physical activity that gets you training about three times a week. Ideally this is on top of your 30 minutes of daily activity.

• Dedicate just a few minutes a day to doing some stretches. If your job involves sitting, using a computer or involves repetitive movements, muscles will tighten very quickly and this is often the cause of lower-back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain and more.

• Sit down and examine your work load. It could be the case you are trying to do more than you are capable of in terms of private life and work life.

• Appreciate any stress you are under and try to have time periods where you are not carrying problems around with you constantly. This is another advantage of the gym; for that couple of hours you don’t think about work related problems.

• Consider having a therapeutic or sports massage once a fortnight. Again it helps keep tension out of the muscles and gives you time to yourself to switch off.

• A hobby is another really good escape route from stress. If you don’t have time, you may have an unsustainable work load which could result in illness.

• Sit down with your partner and / or business colleagues and look at time management. There are always ways of cutting work load by increasing communications and working together better.

• Plan frequent short breaks. Even if you just get in the car and decide to drive somewhere you have never been to before. The old saying, “a change is as good as a rest’ is true.

• Try not to put things off. If you take action against something rather than delaying it you will get a lifting sense of achievement and a positive feel.

• Make a list of all the things that are bothering you and plan when you can sort them