Five ways to deal with your stress

Everyone's felt stressed or may experience stress at some point in life. Stress is no good for the body. There are things you can do to help relieve that stress. It's important that you put your health first. 

Here are a few things you can do to help relieve stress:

Going for a walk

Get you walking boots or shoes on and go for a relaxing walk whether you live in the countryside or a city going for a walk is simple. It's something that can help you cool down literally (if you live in the UK during the winter) a chance to get some fresh air and think without anyone around you. Sometimes you just need your own time to breathe and think.

Stretching

Stretching can help prevent any injuries before you start exercising. It can help improve your posture. It is also great for stress and can help you focus on your body. You can do some stretching 2-3 times per week. For each stretch you can hold for about 10-15 seconds. You will feel good after you stretch and it can help you feel a lot calmer. Don't forget to stretch before your workout and after your workout!

Eating better

Make sure you are eating a balance diet. Plan your meals for the week, so you eat better and have the food ready to cook. Make sure you get your three meals a day and include some fruit and vegetables. This will help improve your immune system and help you feel stronger when you feel stressed.  Make sure you get your daily fuel!

Exercising

Exercise is great for stress. It takes you away from what is stressing you out and helps improve your mood. Once you have done a bit of exercise even if it's 10 mins or an hour you will feel less stressed and more happy. Get yourself out of the house and away from any stressful situations. You can go for a run to help you feel better. Always make sure that you keep hydrated during your workout. You don't want a headache as well! Make sure you push that stress away! So get up and get moving!

Sleeping enough

It's so important that you get enough sleep to help repair you brain. Sleep is just as important as eating a balanced diet. A good amount of sleep will help you stay focused and improve your mood. You will wake up feeling more refreshed when you get the right amount of sleep. Sleep will help strengthen your immune system during those stressful times to. You should get about 8 hours sleep each night. Your mind and body need to rest to prepare you for the next day.

I hope this has helped!
Don't forget to take care of yourself during those stressful times!

Healthy is wealthy Facebook group

Been a long time since I blogged! But I'm back and ready to roll! Woop, woop!! I've been working on my personal training course and thinking of ways I can help motivate, uplift and put a smile on your face! Fitness, health and happiness are all very important to me. I love to help others make a positive change to their life. I will help a lot of people and I will make a huge difference. It makes me feel good when I help others improve. I'll be very honest and caring, so anyone can tell me their struggles. I understand life can be difficult and challenging and it happens to everyone. I mean I've been through a low point from bad things that happen in life but I just keep going. You should keep going too! I can say that honesty is the best policy! It's not about how many followers you have on social media and trying to impress others. It's about taking care of your health and others around you. Fitness and health can be made fun and exciting, in fact there are many things you can do for your health. 

Why did I create this Facebook group?

I created the Healthy Is Wealthy Facebook group so that anyone can join. If you want help with motivation, happiness, health, fitness tips and putting a smile on your face this group will be positive for you. I'm a positive person and put my all in to helping others to. I mean health and fitness can only get better! I plan to make it such a positive and happy place and to help make you and others feel better. There is always time to better yourself. I can help you gain confidence, strength, a positive mindset and a huge smile! These days kindness costs nothing and it is always needed. You never know who will need them words or that act of kindness!

What else can I help you with?

I can help you exercise safely and using the correct techniques. Using gym machines safely. You can ask me about stretching and the benefits of it. I can help you with your balance and posture. I can help you work on your body confidence. I will help push you and get you buzzing! I can help you feel great on the inside and out! I will help you feel handsome or beautiful, always! You'll be glowing and confident if you ask me for help. I'll help you have a brighter future with lots of happiness and health.

Your health and the way you think matters! 

I'll always be happy to help, that's why I'm here! Don't be afraid to drop me a direct message! I hope you smile as much as I am in the picture. Well wearing red is my signature look! Take care of yourself, your mindset and your happiness. Love your body and the positive changes you can make to it!

Remember I'm always here for you!

Why workout?

Confidence

Being confident can feel amazing. You should feel confident with yourself and your body. When you workout you will see the positive results and have more confidence. This is why exercise can be so great for confidence. Exercise will give you a great confident boost! Feeling confident is so wonderful.

Power

Doing exercise gives you the power to make amazing changes to your life. You're the one in control. The one who will make the change. The one who can power through workouts. Making a positive change to your life, having the power to just do it. You're the one who will push to better yourself. You have the power to make a difference and take control of your life.

Strength 

You won't just be strong physically, you'll be strong mentally. You'll feel so great and will be able to achieve anything when you put your mind to it! You'll feel on top of the world! I mean who doesn't like feeling strong?

Health

Well health is the main important thing to fitness, to help you live a healthy and balanced life. Once you workout and eat a balanced diet, you will notice that your health improves a lot! When you have a balance diet, you will notice you have a happier mood too. Trust me!

For yourself 

You should always do something for yourself. You should do things that make you feel happy and great. Doing a few workouts each week, is something positive that you can work on. It's something you can feel good about for working on yourself. You might have many goals you'd like to reach with your workouts.

Taking longer than everyone else to achieve something

Have you ever felt like you were behind everyone else? 

Sometimes other people will be ahead of you. Maybe at school you didn’t get the grade you wanted or you haven't started toning up yet and lost all the weight you want yet. But someone else has. Oh how frustrating! Not having something at the same time as everyone else may seem frustrating, but really you don’t need to worry about it. Let’s not focus on where they are let’s focus on where you are. 

You see it doesn’t matter if you are far behind your mate or another person. Life is not a race, you take your time and enjoy where you are for now. No you might not be where you want to be, but you can be when you start working hard. 

It’s really not a bad thing to be far behind or to take longer to do something. You will get there, it takes some time. But you will get there at some point. Put the hard work in and you will see what I mean. 

As you grow you will see that everyone is at different paces and there are people who will take longer than you to get there. 

So it’s okay you don’t need to worry, just remember that. 

No you have not failed; you only fail if you stop trying at something. So keep working hard and trying. You are not a failure, you are going to succeed. 

You can do it! 

Summer weather and getting the camera out

Sun, sun, sun...I just love it!

How lovely was that early summer weather we had last week? We have been soooo lucky to have this rare warm weather. I mean you can't complain after all that horrible snow we had a few months ago. Got to make the most of this warm weather, it's the UK. It will be back to near arctic weather in a few days or just raining a lot! Typical British weather.

Ah summer the most exciting time of the year for me. I just loveeee being able to relax in the garden, catching those sun rays and getting my vitamin D. Being able to wear light clothing and sunbathe in the sun is one of the best things. I do enjoy a nice ice cold drink too. Oh yes and definitely a few cocktails. Sooo refreshing! I do love going down to the pub more in this warm weather. I mean who doesn't want to go chill at the pub? It's great! I just loveeee summer! There's something about summer that just boosts my mood even more, it's amazinggg!! If you know what I mean? Got to love the summer vibe!

I'm definitely looking forward to outside workouts in the warmer weather. Obviously when it's cooler during the morning or early evening. But it's soooo excitinggg!! I enjoy working out all year round, the summer weather just makes you appreciate the outside space more, without being freezing or getting soaked! I would just workout inside during the colder months. Nice to workout somewhere different for a change, and there are many places to go outside to workout. Parks, fields or even  in your garden! All great places to workout for a change. 

As the weather was so lovely and there was so much light, I decided to get the camera out. I took a few pictures of my cute dog Spence. He's so photogenic (I have to say I'm a tad jealous you know) aha! I do love getting the camera out and taking good quality pictures. So I thought why not take some pictures, with such fab weather? I do loveeee taking pictures. Yep there's a lot of things that I loveeee.

I hope you made the most of those sunny days we had last week? 

Always be proud of yourself for trying

I do think that sometimes everyone can be a bit too hard on themselves, at some point in life. You’re only human! It’s more that you are disappointed, that you are not getting what you wanted even if you worked so hard for it. 

Sometimes as you will know in life, you don’t always get what you want. Sometimes you don’t get where you want very quickly. But you could get somewhere in the future. So don’t stop trying! 

Be proud of yourself for trying, for working hard, for getting where you are now. 

The truth is you’ll always want to do something even after completing something else. There will always be something you want to improve and work on. So be proud of that journey and how hard you are trying. 

Don’t be too hard on yourself, use your energy to work hard. At least your trying. That’s much better than not trying at all, right? 

That’s why you should be proud, you started and you’re going to get there! No looking back, just looking forward. Don’t stop what you started.

Keep trying and always be proud of your hard effort. 

Remember every time you try, you keep learning and improving no matter how bad or good it is. 

Believe that you can do it

There will have been difficult times where you probably doubted yourself a little bit. It's okay you are just being human. You’re not alone many people have felt like this at different times during life. 

If something is making you think you can't do it, tell someone your fear or if you are not sure. Talk to someone, ask them what they think. Don’t be afraid to ask or tell them how you feel, they’re just there to support you. 

You need to believe in yourself that is so important. You need to believe you can do something, trust yourself, have a go. The worst that can happen is you not trying something, as you fear you can’t. But how do you know you can't do it, if you haven’t tried? 

Tell yourself you’re wonderful, brave and strong. Tell yourself you can do it. Tell yourself that it will all be ok. Take your time and breath you’ve got this! 

Always believe you can and throw the doubt in the trash. I mean you could even write down doubt on a bit of scrap paper, and get rid of that negativity. It’s only a suggestion so it kinda feels real. 

You’re brilliant and should believe in yourself. 

Don’t forget to throw this kind of negativity in the trash! 

Why you don’t see results straight away after a workout

Some people think that if they do a workout or two, they’ll start seeing results straight away. 

Wouldn’t it be great to see results so quickly? 

Oh I hate to break it to you, but results don’t happen over night! 

The thing is fitness is something that needs to be consistent. I know that some may give up after the first week, as they don’t see many results they had hoped for.  In order to see results, I’m afraid you’re going to have to be consistent. I don’t mean workout every day, as it’s important you let your body rest and recover from the workouts you’ve done. You just need to keep at the workouts and not give up. 

Results are one of the things that will show in time. Give it a few more weeks and you’ll start to notice a lot more difference, not just from your body but the way you feel. You will feel a lot stronger, healthier and happier. That’s what I love about fitness it strengthens your mindset and then you will see the results. Then you will want to keep at the workouts. What a great feeling! 

Another thing you need is patience. Patience is sooo important when you’re working out. You can’t skip straight to the results, you have to work hard for the results. So you need to push through all the difficult parts and not give up. No those liquid diets and slimming pills are not going to speed up the results and they are not healthy at all. You just need to be patient. 

One other thing that will help you see results and no not straight away is a balance diet. A balanced diet that includes healthy carbs! You need to make sure you eat well while you train. Your balanced diet is what will help your body improve too. They do say abs are made in the kitchen! I can tell you that is very true. Also, when you workout your body needs good fuel to help you work hard during the work out. When you eat better you’ll feel less sluggish and more energetic and you’ll feel a lot stronger too. 

Don’t give up on something so positive! You’ve got this! Don’t forget stay consistent and patient, you’ll get there! 

It’ll be worth it in the end.