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2 Editorial

4Health Goals - How to make them stick 6 Going the Distance

8The New Normal 10 5 Ways to support your immune system 11 The Healthy Cell Concepts’s Attitude Avenue 12 Product Brochure 14 Healthy Weight Management with AIM 17 GinkgoSense: An Ashwaganda Good Change 18 The Journey Home 19 BarleyLife is the Best 20 My AIM-azing Journey 21 It’s a virtual event 22 Zandru in the Wind 23 Kidz Corner

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Vol. 24 No. 2

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Health Goals

How to make them stick!

By Charlotte Meschede - Nutritionist

It seems like a Déjà vu from each goal for the years or months before. The list is a long one, starting with lifestyle changes, diet and weight, career goals and relationships. We try our best. However, as time goes by, we might be feeling burnt out and give up. The list that we thought was doable and possible, especially in January when everyone makes resolutions now appears to be insurmountable. With winter slowly creeping closer, this might be the best time to start working on health and fitness goals. If you can stick to an exercise routine and eating healthy foods during the cold months, you should be able to manage it more easily when it warms up again, and before you realise it, you have turned your new behaviour into habits.

So what can we do to make these resolutions stick? Firstly, simplify! Take the most important goal and make it attainable. Setting unrealistic goals will set you up for failure!

Usually, our health goals bounce around various personal health issues such as weight loss (the most common), becoming fitter and more active, and last but not least, making sure our emotional well-being is better than it’s ever been before.

Setting Realistic Goals for your health

The most popular health goals are exercising more (50% of the population), saving money (49%), eating more healthily (43%) and losing weight (37%). Since this article is not of a financial nature, we are going to focus on increasing our fitness, eating more healthily and losing weight.

Fitness Goals

The rule of thumb is that you need to do a minimum of 150 minutes per week in order for exercise to have a beneficial impact on both your weight and your health. What exercise I hear you say? Well any exercise is better than none, but in today’s crazy, busy and hectic lifestyle, planning to do hours of gym, running or any other physical activity can sometimes be too difficult to sustain long term. First and foremost, decide what type of exercise you like doing, and what is sustainable in terms of both your time restrictions and your budget. Secondly, plan your exercise as if you were planning an assignment. Put specific times in your diary and work out what you are going to do each time. Thirdly, start slowly and build up over a set period of time. Even 15 minutes a day is a good start. You also do not have to join an expensive gym, pay the earth for a personal trainer

or run a marathon in order to get fit. Frequency is as important as duration, so doing 30 minutes a day for 5 days a week is a lot more effective than doing 2 ½ hours in one long session on a Saturday. Fourthly, exercise with a family member or friend, if not every time, at least one or two sessions per week. This makes it not only more fun, but also makes you more accountable. If you do not know what exercise you should be doing, then speak to a health coach and get some professional advice. Be careful not to injure yourself as this is a sure way of losing all hope of achieving those fitness resolutions prematurely. The AIM products that can help to keep you healthy and get the most out of your body from an exercise point of view include AIM Peak Endurance, which provides ATP for energy. Proancynol 2000 and AIMega to keep your inflammation levels to a minimum.

In order to keep you motivated, remind yourself of the benefits of exercise: • Reduces risk of coronary heart disease (heart attack) and stroke by 35% • Reduces the risk of Type 2 diabetes by 50% • There is a 50% lower risk of colon cancer in those who exercise regularly • Exercise lowers the risk of breast cancer by 20% • Individuals who exercise regularly are 83% less likely to suffer from osteoarthritis • Hip fractures are 68% less likely to occur in regular exercisers • Exercise releases endorphins which are your ‘happy hormones’ and help keep depression at bay

Eating more healthily

Firstly, identify what eating habits you have that are unhealthy. Change ONE thing at a time but remain focussed. Get to know yourself better and admit to habits that won’t change and try and find some that you CAN change. Setting measurable goals and being consistent is key. Apply the SMART principle which is as follows:

To make sure your goals are clear and attainable, each one should be: • Specific (simple, sensible, significant) • Measurable (meaningful, motivating) • Achievable (agreed, attainable) • Relevant (reasonable, realistic, resourced, results-based) • Time-bound (time-based, time limited, time-sensitive)

AT ALL TIMES REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE WORTH IT AND YOU CAN ONLY BE THE BEST VERSION OF YOURSELF!