What is wellness

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 A wellness lifestyle includes several dimensions of wellbeing:

Emotional:	Having good mental health, positive attitude, high self-esteem
Environmental:	Be aware of the state of the earth and the effects of your daily habits
Intellectual:	Possess curiosity and strong desire to learn
Physical:	Balancing nutritional practices, getting regular exercise and adequate sleep. Paying attention to your body’s warning signs.
Social:	Having positive interactions with and enjoying being with others
Spiritual:	Finding your place in the universe- the quest for meaning, value and purpose

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Back in shape, one week later

It’s now exactly one week after I started my get back in shape after pregnancy program. It’s been quite ok. You can of course no expect any major results after a week. The big question is did I actually manage to implement the program.

Walking is great. My sons (3 and 4-years old) are on their bikes while I walk with the baby in the stroller. The boys are pretty fast on their bikes so I end up jogging more than just walking.

The yoga exercise sun salutation did not work as well. It’s perfect for my back, shoulders etc but it gave me afterpains. It’s now 5 weeks since I gave birth and the afterpains stopped after a week or two. To do an exercise that makes them come back doesn’t really feel right. Instead I simply contract my stomach muscles regularly, while I watch TV, breastfeed or sit in the car. It feels like a good start.

Changing my eating habits has been much easier than I expected. I made sure there is no candy in the house and I’ve been drinking a lot of water in the evenings. Whenever I feel like eating something I know I shouldn’t I drink I big glass of water. It works wonders! Watching less TV also works really great for me since I always feel like putting something in my month when I watch TV. Less TV also helps me to go to bed early. And I don’t eat when I sleep plus I get more of the rest that I so desperately need.

As a summary I think the last week has been good. Feel really motivated to continue.

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Do organic clothes have to be boring?

I don’t know if it’s just me but I find it very hard to find normal, cool, organic clothes on the internet.

Most organic clothes I find are yoga inspired, pyjamas and bathrobes. Nothing wrong with that, I love yoga but it’s not what I want to wear all day. I read about designers who make really cool clothes from organic textile but they all seam to sell their clothes in a small specialized store in a big city far away.

Why can’t they make a fantastic internet store so that I can find and buy them? Those clothes would probably be too expensive anyway.

Maybe I should settle with organic underwear and linen. It’s better than nothing of course. Ops, I’m forgetting the yoga outfit. I can get many of those.

I hope it will change as more and more people choose organic clothing and a more natural way of life. And until then I’ll just keep searching the internet…

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Getting back in shape after pregnancy

I loose my breath after walking one block, my clothes don’t fit and my stomach feels like jello. It’s definitely time to take action.

4 weeks ago I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. It’s absolutely wonderful to have a baby but it’s also great to finally be able to move again. At the end of the pregnancy I felt big and heavy and I was in quite a lot of pain. The last 2 weeks I could hardly walk.

So now it’s such a relief not to have to carry all that extra weight around. Still I’m sooo out of shape and I’m really longing to fit into my normal clothes again. So I need a plan and I’ve decided to:

1. Slowly, slowly start exercising.
2. Get rid of my bad eating habits.

I’m going to start my exercises by walking and doing yoga. I have to bring my sons to school every morning and pick them up in up in the afternoon so I’m going to walk to school. If I walk an extra block to two I’ll easily end up walking 30-40 minutes twice a day. That’s a good start.

Then the yoga. I love yoga it is wonderful how the tension leaves your body when you exercise. I’ll start slowly with a daily sun salutation. Since I’m pretty bad at changing my habits I should probably say at least 5 days a week.

Last but on least, changing my eating habits. Brrr, I eat too much candy and I’ve noticed that I still eat something before going to bed. I needed to eat just before bedtime during my pregnancy otherwise I’d wake up hungry in the middle of the night. But now, there is absolutely no need for it. So from now on I can only eat candy during weekends and after dinner (that I preferably should eat before 6 PM) I can only have water, herbal tea and fruit.

Sound like a plan. Will I manage? We’ll see.

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