Today’s Health Tip

Wellness Necessities: Collagen Peptides

Something new to try: Collagen Peptides.

If you want longer thicker hair and nails, if you are looking to have a healthier gut, less creaky joints and stronger bones then you might want to add some collegen peptides to your routine.

I love a scoop of this in my morning coffee.  It is tasteless and odorless.  You can mix it into any liquid and it's great in smoothies.

You can read more here: www.vitalproteins.com/blog

Want to give it a shot?  Order from Amazon here: https://amzn.to/2PMzb0V 

Wellness Challenge Sunday: Detox

Today, let's give our bodies a rest and spend a little time thinking about detox.  Please consume lots of fresh filtered water to help your kidneys flush toxins from your system.  Add a little lemon to your water and you add some alkalinity help to neutralize your pH levels.  

Find a way to sweat - an infrared sauna if you belong to a fitness center or wellness club, some HIIT exercise, or just a simple hot bath.  Heat up the body, open those pores and sweat out those toxins.  (Note: Not for folks that are frail or have high blood pressure.  Always consult your doctor if you make sudden changes to your health routines.)

Start your day with a Green Juice.  Go light on the fruit and heavy on the kales, cucumbers, and celery.  You're cells will do a happy dance. Continue by eating clean through out the day.  As many raw foods as possible.  Keep it light.

 

Bet you will be feeling great tomorrow.

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Wellness Challenge: Get out and move

If your exercise routine is a bit of a bore, today's wellness challenge is just for you.

Find a way to move today that is not in your usual routine.  A new class, a new hike, a night of dancing, weightlifting.

Find a new way to move, a way to enjoy the feeling of movement.

Some ways in which you might move include:

Swimming

Barre Method

Dancing

Rock Climbing

Yoga

Kickboxing

Running

Stair Climbing

Hiking

Pilates

Weight Lifting

Which movements feel the best for your body?  Today, let's explore that.

Wellness Challenge: Better Stress Management

Working on stress management is important.

If you are anything like me, at any given time there are upwards of 25 things to get done TODAY!  I can either let these to-dos rattle around in my head and drive me crazy or WRITE THEM DOWN.

Even if you don't feel like you have too much to tackle I encourage you to start your day with a list.

Getting it out of your head and onto a blank sheet of paper can shape your day, give you goals and some sense of order.

Best feeling ever?  Crossing all of those things OFF!

We're in this together....Wellness First!

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Wellness Challenge: Better Sleep

If you don't get enough sleep or sleep through the night this wellness challenge is for you.

Start a sleep routine or rituals.  Washing and brushing and maybe a bath.  Getting to bed the same time everynight and awaken at the same time each and every morning.  Even on night's out try to get to sleep at a reasonable hour.

This is what helps me to wind down each night.

What works for you?

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Wellness Wednesday Challenge: Breathe

Have you been accepting our wellness challenges?  Eating fresh, whole foods, staying hydrated and today we expand on this by really focusing in on our breathing.

3 deep breaths today - a few times.

In though your nose, hold at the top briefly and then exhale through your mouth.  Slow, conscious breaths.  Really feel your chest and belly expand with each breath in.  When you breath out, slowly, with purpose, feel your stomach and chest muscles contract.

Just this.  A simple breathing practice can give you a little reset, perk you up and keep you buzzing about your day.

Tak care of you.

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Wellness Challenge: Stay Hydrated Today

Today - shoot for 64 ounes of pure filtered (not bottled, not tap) water.  That's 8 glasses of 8 ounces.  Get yourself a refillable water bottle.  Something large of enough to hold enough water for the morning but not so large that it's too heavy or cumbersome.  Remember unless we are taking alot of B vitamins our urine output should be nearly clear. Dark urine is a sign of dehydration.

Staying fully hydrated helps your body flush out toxins more efficiently.  You'll perform better if you are fuly hydrated.  In fact, your physical performance can be severely impacted if you lose as little as 2% of the water in your body. The result of this can be things like fatigue,  and performing exercise will feel a lot more difficult from a mental and physical perspective.

Dehydration is usually the root cause of migraines in many people. However, new studies show that drinking water can be an effective way of treating and even preventing headaches from happening in the first place.

Join me on Facebook and tell me how it feels to be fully hydrated!

Wellness Challenge: No Bag, No Box.

Hey friends, great job last week working together on mindfulness.  We will be revisiting mindfulness often in the future but you are into daily meditations I highly recommend the Headspace app (also available on Alexa) www.headspace.com 

Today's wellness challenge is about healthy eating.  Specifically today we are choosing real live foods and eating nothing in a bag or a box.  I once heard that bags are body bags for food; boxes are coffins.  All foods in bags and boxes are, for all intents and purposes, "dead" foods. With much less nutritional value than living, raw foods.  Choose an apple over chips for a snack.  A green salad with a protein over a burger with a processed bun for lunch. A veggies-heavy dinner with a nice portion of lean meat or fish.  Snack on things like hard boiled eggs, raw nuts, carrots and celery.  

Try it today.  If you feel good...give it a few more days.  When you grocery shop, stick to the outer edges of the store where you'll find produce, dairy, frozen foods, fresh baked products.  You'll take in many less preservatives, additives and chemicals.

And stick with filtered water for your main beverage. Nothing in a bottle or can either.

Up for ther challenge?

Hit me on Faceboof www.facebook.com/theguudcompany

Or DM me on Instagram www.instagram.com/theguudcompany and let me know how you feel!

Self Care Sunday - Get Mindful

It's Sunday. You have the time.  Fill it with something rewarding like a 5 minute mindfulness practice.  Whether you focus on an object or your breath, whether your meditation is moving or still...make the time to take care of yourself.

Remember - the better care we take of ourselves the better we can show up for others.

Happy Sunday.  

Turn it around with small mindful moments

When things go awry having a coping tool can make the difference of whether you can manage what's before you with grace or if experience an complete upheaval.

If you can make it 5 minutes today and practice a mindful exercise you can develop this new tool for yourself...it's your secret weapon.

A little encouragement and some Mindful Awareness

Bringing awareness to simple every day tasks.  Turn these touchstones into a mindfulness practice.  And take it step further and add a small bit of gratitude for a really powerful exercise.

Learning to let it go is LEARNED and must be practice.  Come join me on this odyssey of mindfulness.

(join me on instagram too: www.instagram.com/theguudcompany )

Internal Auditing

What's your default setting?  Do you over work and over think things?  How about you try "just being".  And I don't mean zoning out or chilling.  It is a learned practice we need to cultivate.  You can.  So can I.

How about we do nothing together?

Listen in for how to do this.

Come visit me on Instagram.  Lots more content over there and you get to see my face!  www.instagram.com/theguudcompany 

Mindfulness for Everyone: Mindful Observation

Quiet yourself and find a point of focus for this quick meditation.  Observing something in detail - as if for the first time. When you find your mind starts to wander let it pass ~ then bring your breath and focus back and look for one more detail on your focal object.  Conclude with a deep breath in through the nose and out through the mouth.  Your moment of mindfulness is complete!

Mindful Tuesday - Find a moment

TOday - the challenge to you is to find a moment or two to give this mindfulness thing a whirl.  Remember, no experience required.  Start where ever you are.  Just like anything new it takes practice so no judging yourself.  You get full credit or just trying.

During your commute, while you are in the shower, walking down to the mailbox...  Find two minutes to quiet your mind and work on focusing on your breath.  Clear your mind, breathe deeply.

Come over to Instagram and join me this week as we work on being mindful.

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Monday's Moment of Mindfulness

Ok, it's Monday.  With Mondays come anxiety for me as I look at the week ahead and the 6 trillion things that need to get done.  

Join me this week as we work together through some simple, quick mindfulness exercises that you can do just about anywhere - anytime you are feeling pinched.  Its an east way to reset, rest your busy monkey mind, and take yourself out of whatever stress you are feeling.  Practice being in the moment by focusing on your breath.  For a minute or a few minutes depending on the time you have.

It's free. No experience needed.  But now is the time to start.  It's part of taking better care of YOU! Listn in and join me on this mindfulness exercise.

Self Care Sunday

Just take a little bit better care for yourself today on this self-care sunday.  Today's focus is STAYING HYDRATED with filtered water.  Get yourself a stainless steel water bottle and a high quality filter (our picks are over here http://bit.ly/2IzQks1 )  

Wellness Challenge

Today - your wellness challenge is to GET OUTSIDE and GET MOVING for 30 minutes.  We know you'll feel better for it.

Come join me today on our instagram story here: www.instagram.com/theguudcompany

Lower your risks of breast cancer

Get moving.  150 minutes a week of moderate activity every week PLUS strength training.  I am going to show you how I aim to get this amount of activity in on the daily.  Come and hold me accountable at www.instagram.com/theguudcompany.

And for the record, I love my medical doctors and this segment is in no way bashing doctors or western medicine.  I simply ascribe to the philosophy of DO YOUR RESEARCH.  If someone, anyone, is suggesting a new drug for you, a supplement or even a work out routine it is UP TO YOU to look into it.  If something doesn't feel right YOU HAVE THE RIGHT to question it.  We are not all the same.  What works well for one doesn't always work well for the other. OWN YOUR HEALTH and WELLNESS.

Check out www.pubmed.com which is a repository of all sorts of verified medical studies.

Join me on instagram and let's take this wellness thing to the next level.

Breast Cancer: Mitigate the Risks

Hey - listen in for my commitments to my health in thinking about mitigating my cancer risks.  See how I'm eating, how I am moving and what I'm doing to live a more healthy lifestyle over on our Instagram page and our stories there. www.instagram.com/theguudcompany Hold me accountable as I work hard to make better choices and simple changes on the daily!

Things like drinking less alcohol, quitting cigarettes, getting daily exercise....can lower our risks of all cancer but also Breast Cancer.

PS  You can also listen to my puppy whining in the background of this episode. :)