Now that the holidays are over and you’ve been eating until you feel like your pants were going to burst, it’s about time to keep your new years resolutions and start being healthy! There are so many ways to eat and stay healthy this spring and there are some easy ways to avoid gaining weight in college.
One way that you can stay healthy this spring is make sure you EAT. Eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Skipping meals and then binging on food is often when you begin to feel like you’ve gained weight.
Staying healthy is even harder when you are on a college campus. According to Kevin Bailey, founder of Bailey’s Fitness Inc., “When you’re on a meal plan, sometimes you have to do the best of what you’re working with [and choose] the better of the bad choices,” he says. “He advises students choose dishes that are more natural and include vegetables and leaner meats” (Fox Business).
It is also very difficult to eat healthy when you are stuck in the library and so when you do get to eat you eat whatever you see and a lot. A good way of preventing this from happening is to eat smaller, healthier meals more often throughout the day. It will help keep you full that way when you get to your meal you don’t just eat whatever is in sight.
Another way of staying healthy this spring is to get out of your dorm or apartment and go for a walk, or get to the gym. Staying active is a key way of relieving stress, burning some of those extra calories, and to have some fun for those who enjoy exercising. Exercising is not only good for keeping a sound mind but also a sound body.
There is one aspect to college life that deters students from keeping a healthy lifestyle and that is sleep. Students tend not to get enough sleep. One thing that should be on your radar is getting more sleep. Even though it is difficult it is important to get more sleep.
Dr. Samuel L. Krachman, a professor of medicine and director of the Sleep Disorder Center at Temple University, says that “[Students] can develop symptoms of a disorder called insufficient sleep syndrome, where people have repetitive nights where they’re not sleeping the normal amount of time that they need to,” he says. “It leads to feelings of not only fatigue, but gastrointestinal irritability, difficulty concentrating, and general body ache” (Fox Business).
It is very difficult to stay healthy (especially in a college environment) but follow a few of these tips and you might be able to keep that new years resolution or start keeping it if you haven’t already. It is important to stay healthy in order to keep your body running the way it is supposed to be. So, follow a few of these tips and you will see the difference!