Food, Wellness, and Exercise Ideas for Busy People

Food, Wellness, and Fitness Suggestions and tips (ideas) for busy people 
- Do mini exercise bursts 5 mins here , 10 mins there 
- Find ways to exercise in mini bursts throughout your day , jog up stairs, do hand , and other stretches at work (just make sure your muscles aren't cold first ) 
-Prepare bases and make quick simple meals from that ex. make a big bowls worth of quinoa and then throughout the week just add a few ingredients to a portioned out amount of it ( grapes and walnuts ), (a frozen pack of mixed veggies and lemon juice ) etc. You can easily have 5 minute or less meals this way . If you take the 30 or so mins to prepare a larger quantity of a base ahead of time .
- Make large amounts of healthy food and then eat "left overs" some days/ nights . ex.Soups, large pasta dishes , fruit salads ,grain salads ...
- Keep healthy durable food in your car( dehydrated fruit,like prunes, apples, pineapples , etc. ) homemade vegan trail mix, a bag of healthy popcorn etc. ) . Don't buy fast food
- Take tiny meditation breaks just stop and do it for say 10 breaths 3 x . You can easily build and reap the benefits of regular meditation this way . surely we'll all give you a minute ?!
- Refuse the myth that you have to do formal meditation for 30 minutes or more a day to be doing any good. Try 5 to start with.
- when you are tired take a power nap ( 5-20 mins) if you can
-Make lists . If you make lists such as shopping lists, or to do lists and so forth ahead of time you will cut out time making decisions, contemplating, brain storming and searching during the day . You will be more efficient and on track , forget less things , and make fewer mistakes . It eases stress generated from these issues too .
-Use your comfort basket ( you made one right ?)
-Soak beans before cooking if you don't already. It reduces cook time substantially and takes only a few seconds .
-Plan and prepare healthy snacks ahead of time examples, celery sticks and nut butter or tahini , grapes, herb popcorn .This will cut back on spontaneous trips to the store for munchies , and feed you when you've run yourself hungry and just need a little something to give you an energy boost and tide you over to a bigger meal.
- You can also section off snack size portions which saves a little time and gives you a better idea of how long they will last
-Incorporate exercise and stretches when you are doing other things . Use your imagination ( and accurate safe techniques ) . You can do both stretches and exercise while you are talking on the phone, watching tv what else? Stretches can be done while reading , in mini breaks while cooking . When else?
- Hum, chant , sing, repeat a mantra , affirmation , or think of something that makes you happy while you are doing household chores , down in the dumps, and while you are becoming physically stressed
- Do plan your meals for the week. Rigidity and perfection aren't that important and, so what if you feel like having Tuesday what you planned for Thursday and do it. Make that all work . But try it(planning your meals for the week ) once you get used to it it'll save you a lot of time . And probably money too.
- Get social just to be social or fun regularly like every week . Set up a time and do it consistently , this can mean a weekly phone call to a friend , an afternoon or a couple hours on a social network and writing friendly emails , a tea date , " kids" play date, or countless other things .
- If you are lonely and are making yourself busy to deal with that . Date yourself .Especially , If that sounds horrifying or ridiculous , Yeah , break in some new shoes ( metaphorically ) and go out and do things you'd enjoy doing with a date , go have coffee or tea alone, go for a nature walk alone , a craft bizarre, art exhibit and so on . And uh don't hesitate to talk to strangers at these places, I mean you obviously have something in common and you're lonely . You'll be less lonely talking to someone else then yourself even if it's just a hi , do you know where blank is .
-Put your feet up ! You can do this while reading , while watching tv , right before sleep , before you get out of bed in the morning . Restore balance ! Put your feet up elevated above your head a stack of pillows , a wall (google that so you don't hurt your spine )are options .
- Go breath in some fresh clean air if you can in a nature heavy setting ( a mountain , the woods, by a river or lake or ocean perhaps )
-Journal, generally if you put things down they stop demanding so much of your thinking time .