Getting healthy and staying that way can seem like a daunting task, but luckily, we’re alive during a time when keeping track of our wellness habits can be as easy as downloading an app.
Are you drinking enough water? The CDC states not getting enough H2O can lead to foggy thinking, constipation, and a host of other problems you can avoid by staying hydrated. Plant Nanny is an app available for free on both iOS and Android platforms. You pick out a cute little cartoon plant that gets watered every time you log that you’ve drank your ounces. You can customize it to send you reminders if you’re falling behind on your intake. In the end, if you neglect yourself and your plant, the virtual vegetation withers away and dies. Think of it like those old digi-pet keychains of the 1990s, only it’s you that suffers if you neglect your plant. If you want reminders without games, iTunes offers Water Alert to notify you when you’re slacking and to keep track of your consumption.
Do you have portion distortion? Sometimes our eyes can seem bigger than our stomachs when it comes to our plates. What looks to me like a handful of cashews is actually double a serving size. The Dairy Council of California has come up with this chart to help us determine the correct portion sizes of a few foods. The FDA required nutrition labels will help you learn the proper portions of the foods you cook at home. Once you get into the groove of eating proper portions, you’ll be able to gauge it without a cheat sheet when you dine away from home.
Are you moving enough? The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says that only one in three adults gets the recommended weekly amount of physical activity. Samsung Health and Apple Health both have step counters, exercise trackers, and you can enable notifications to let you know when you’ve been too inactive throughout the day. Mayo Clinic suggests taking a break from sitting every thirty minutes can help combat the harm being sedentary can do to your body, and using an app can help remind you to do that.
Are you getting enough sleep? The CDC estimates one in three adults aren’t getting the recommended amount of slumber, increasing their risk for a myriad of ailments such as heart disease and obesity. Practicing good sleep hygiene, like limiting screen time before bed and avoiding naps throughout the day can help but seeing how much sleep you’re getting can also give your ZZs a boost. Both Samsung Health and Apple Health have sleep trackers that allow you to manually log your restful hours but getting the right wearable tracker can be beneficial if you’re concerned about tracking the quality of your sleep. Fitbit and Polar both make smartwatches that not only keep a log of the hours you slept, but the restfulness of your night. Fitbit breaks your bedtime down into its natural stages and shows the quality of each one, such as REM and deep sleep.
Apps make it easy to be mindful of healthy habits, because they remember the complicated stuff for us.
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I feel inspired and pretty optimistic that there is always someone in the pack , who actually cares enough to reach out to someone outside of their group, to enlighten those who hope to hear some encouraging words of well…hope. Hope doesn’t have to come in lofty packages of frilly wrappings. It does have to come in common sense, applícable, and achievable, goals. Hats off to those who are seeking and trusting, that it shall be found.