For better health and physical and mental performance pick some of these new life’s resolutions. Or follow all of them. Or just keep adding one at the time:
1. Eat less red meat or go red meatless.
2. Don’t eat processed meats like sausages, hot dogs, lunch meats, salamis at all.
3. Lift weights (strength train) all major muscle parts in your body 2 nonconsecutive days per week.
4. Do cardiovascular exercise like running, swimming, rowing, bicycling, kayaking 3 – 4 times per week for at least 30 minutes.
5. Don’t drink your calories. Drink only water, teas, mineral water, coffee – all without any sugar or honey or anything sweet in it.
6. Eat at least 3 cups of legumes like beans, garbanzo beans, lentils, peas and others per week.
7. Eat some protein and add little bit of healthy fat like olive oil with every meal.
8. Eat some sardines at least once per week.
9. Have a big nutritious breakfast everyday and prepare it yourself. Muffin doesn’t count.
10. Stretch or do some yoga for 20 minutes everyday.
11. Switch to low fat dairy products.
12. Don’t eat sweets and candy bars at all.
13. Eat fish, particularly fatty fish like mackerel, sardines, herring 3 times per week.
14. Eat 7-10 servings of fruits and vegetables everyday.
15. Don’t have more than 3 alcoholic drinks per week.
16. Have always fresh fruit instead of desert.
17. Prepare your own food for work at least 3 times per week.
18. Don’t eat out more that 2 times per week.
19. Don’t eat any commercial baked goods like cookies, breads, muffins and other stuff you can buy at grocery store.
20. Have an active vacation at the ocean at least once per year.
21. Organize your house for 10 minutes everyday.
22. Don’t spend more than you earn.
23. Spend every weekend in the nature running, hiking, swimming, biking, moving.
24. Never eat fast food meal.
25. Get at least 7 hours of sleep everyday.
26. Read or listen some inspirational literature for at least 20 minutes everyday.
27. Eat some kind of leafy green vegetable like spinach, kale, lettuce, brussel sprouts everyday.
28. Don’t use sugar, brown sugar, honey, maple syrup and other sweeteners anymore.
29. Do cardio-interval training 2 times per week.
30. Stop being that serious and laugh a lot everyday.
31. Make sure you break the rule occasionally and have some dark chocolate or whatever you want.