Health tips: Listen to your body

If I would give you advice considering health without knowing anything about you, I would say: take some time and listen to your body. What do I mean by that? Well the funny thing is that often our body knows what is and is not good for us but we just don´t listen.

Write a food diary for a week, where you write down what you ate and then how you felt directly after and then 30 minutes after. And really be honest with yourself, you might have gotten used to some cramps or pain that are plaguing you after a meal. You will soon see what effect the different types of food have on you.

Bad effects might be:

· Cramps

· Uneasy stomach

· Chest burn

· Feeling tired or hyper active

· Headache

· Feeling that you are not full even though you have eaten a full meal or feeling to full so that you can hardly move

Good effects might be:

· Feeling at ease and in balance

· Full of energy

If you find something that does not makes you feel good after a meal. Then the next step is taken by writing a food diary for another week and skip the types of food that have a bad effect on you. Consider the difference and find out what makes you feel energized and full after a meal. Then continue developing your meals after your body’s hints.

This is just a simple way for you to learn how to listen to your body. Other ways to be more conscious is, by example, to do yoga exercises and/or breathing and meditate.

There are many ways to be healthier and especially to eat healthier. You can find a lot on the internet or just listen to people that are saying this and that is not good for you. They are mostly right but if do it because you are supposed to or because someone tells you then you might not get the same benefits as you get by realizing it by yourself an feeling the effect.

The key element to a healthy diet is to have a variable and exiting menu with average sized dishes. Also don’t forget to enjoy it, good health also comes from a good state of mind.

Good Luck!