Healthy Inside: healthy outside - Easy tips for a healthier lifestyle after 40

Make Being Healthy a Regular Part of Your Day - Incorporate these simple tips to help radiate health from the inside out! 

It’s never too late to start living a healthier lifestyle. With enough motivation and diligence, anyone can improve their eating habits and adopt a more active lifestyle. 

Super Easy and Fast Way to Get your Fruits & Veggies: Power Smoothies

Can’t face another salad or steamed veggies?

Blend some spinach, an apple and some pineapple (or pineapple juice), water and ice for a very easy and quick way to get fiber, greens, vitamins! Yummy, too!

Start With Small Easy Steps

You don’t have to do a complete overhaul of your lifestyle to begin a health and fitness makeover. In fact, those resolutions usually tend to crash and burn in a short amount of time. It’s much better to make small, slow, incremental steps. That way, after a time, they become part of your day-to-day life and not something you even have to think of.    

Stay Hydrated

The benefits of staying hydrated are something we’ve been hearing about for decades. Nearly all of us have heard of the 8 X 8 rule ( 8, eight-ounce glasses of water per day). But how many of us actually follow that? What if you knew that drinking enough water per day can help keep your skin healthy and young-looking, can boost weight loss, alleviate headaches and fatigue, regulate blood pressure and cholesterol levels, help with digestion, regulate body temperature, and flush toxins from the body. Those are a lot of benefits from such a small, simple step.

Walk Every Day

Walking at least 30 minutes every day is another easy step you can incorporate into your daily routine. Walking every day can improve your health and wellbeing in many ways. It can reduce the risk of developing diseases like heart disease, diabetes, depression, and Alzheimer's. It can also reduce the risk of accidents so that you are less likely to become injured or even die from a fall. In order to reap all these benefits, work up to at least 10,000 steps a day. 

Take Care of Your Skin

A skincare routine is an important step in improving your overall wellness. If you’re not already cleansing morning and night, using a moisturizer, and applying sunscreen daily, then start doing so immediately and turn it into a habit. You don’t have to clear out the shelves of your local beauty supply store to begin a skincare regime, but you do have to buy the proper products and supplies. That’s why it’s best to get advice and products from a professional skin care expert. It’s possible to get professional products at drugstore prices by shopping online with companies like Ageless Beauty Pro which also advises the best skincare techniques with tips and tutorials. 

The Big Swap

You’ve no doubt heard the old adage, if it’s not in the house, you can’t eat it. Or, a healthy diet starts in the grocery store. Both of those things are true. Start today—or tomorrow if you need time to summon your willpower—and throw out all the junk food in your pantry and refrigerator. Then head to your local supermarket for fresh, healthy alternatives. Or even better, try your local farmer’s market where you won’t be tempted to pick up processed and packaged foods. Get in the habit of grabbing some grapes, a carrot, or a handful of nuts when you want a snack. 

Make it Your Business 

When you’re ready, consider monetizing your healthy lifestyle. For example, you might start an affiliate marketing blog about your money-saving wellness practices, open a yoga studio, or open a store selling sports gear, depending on wellness passion.

Do some research to see if there’s a market for your idea. Develop a business plan strategy. Read up on how to start a business guide to better understand the minimum requirements to create your new business. Write a business plan. It should describe your company, detail how you'll sell your services, describe how your business will be structured, and include what funding you'll need and financial projections. Consider how you’ll market your idea. If this is your true passion, it won’t be hard for you to start spreading your ideas and bringing everyone into your newfound healthy lifestyle. 

Don’t get discouraged and don’t give up if you fall back on old habits occasionally. Stay strong and keep trying. You’ll get there, and soon you won’t even remember when these things weren’t part of your everyday life.

 Contributed by Dylan Foster