“A 5-Minute Walk Is Better Than 0 Minutes”: 40 Health Hacks People Swear By

“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly”

That can apply to many things.

If meal prep is stressing you out —nothing is stopping you from getting some raw veggies and incorporating them as snacks while figuring out how to make meaningful dietary adjustments.

If you can’t dedicate an hour a day to a structured workout routine —go on a walk, take the stairs instead of always using the elevator, do 50 high knees while you wait for your coffee to heat up, stretch, or do what you can in small increments it still counts and can help.

Just because you can’t jump in headfirst doesn’t mean the change isn’t worthwhile.

Edit: By the volume of responses on this I hope you all feel a little less alone and I hope you can all find one way to make your life easier. Happy Holidays and I’m rooting for you all!!! 🫂

A 5 minute walk is better than 0 minutes.

Walking is a perfectly good form of exercise; there's no need to jog or try anything more elaborate.

Learning to say f**k it and go to sleep. Stress kills.

Embrace your authentic identity, don’t spend energy pretending to be someone you’re not.

What gets you to complete a goal isn't being so strict you never break it it's not letting set backs derail you.


Many people will be good for a bit but then have a bad weekend, get sick and binge or just give in and have their favorite foods. Once people lose the momentum they often say "what's the point" and jump back into what's comfortable. However if you want to complete your goal you got to just say "alright that was fun" and go back on to the grind for a few weeks again. Being able to jump back into your good habits is the key not being so obsessed with always staying strict to your diet/workout.

You can do anything you want, but you can’t do EVERYTHING you want so choose wisely.

Swimming is a great workout.

You've got to expend a bit of energy to get some energy. Sounds counterproductive but if you're feeling fatigued, take a brisk walk or do a short workout or get up and stretch a bit and you'll get a bit of pep back to last the distance of the day.

Figure out how to cook. It's a lot easier to stick to a healthy diet if you aren't torturing yourself with boiled chicken, steamed broccoli, and brown rice all day.

Thinking about and trying to add fiber to every meal. Now poop very good.

“Stop that or you’ll go blind” so I started learning Braille.

Stand on one foot when you brush your teeth.

A very common cause of death among older people is falling. As you age, your nerves slow down a little, your body weight moves around a little, your brain learned how to balance your body when you were about 18, and over 50 years your body isn't the same, but your brain hasn't kept up.

So, stand on one foot when you brush your teeth. I do right foot in the morning (starting off on the right foot, hah) and left foot on the evening. My balance is great. Doctor even said so, so I told him about the "stand on one foot when you brush thing" and I think he's started doing it and also recommending it to his patients.

Drink enough water everyday, have a good sleep and don't smoke.

Learn to waste food. Too many of us eat past the point of full or eat something we're not enjoying because we don't want to waste it. It's still being wasted, just you're now the trash can.

Reading the nutritional labels on stuff. You'd be amazed how so many of the seemingly nutritious food are secretly killing you with lots of sugar, sodium, cholesterol and other harmful things in it.

“The best exercise is the exercise you’ll do consistently”.

SLEEP.

Stop thinking about the past, stop worrying about the “what ifs”. Learn from the past and focus on the next step.

Eat your vegetables... or suffer the consequences!