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What do you find the biggest barriers for uni students to leading a healthy lifestyle are?
Leading a healthy lifestyle is something that is really difficult without all the added extras. But, unfortunately, that’s life and even though sometimes we don’t want to, we just have to suck it up and keep at it. There are a multitude of barriers like money (because fresh healthy foods are really expensive), knowledge, effort but the main one for myself and I could imagine with most people, is time.
Being 47 and a mum, I've had plenty experience with cooking and time management and everything else that uni students fresh out of high school may have not have so much experience with. It is hard, I wont lie about that, but the benefits really do outweigh the time and effort.
What is the best advice you could give to other university students trying to lead a healthy lifestyle?
The best advice I can give is to be organised and prepared! I can never stress how important that is.
Someone once told me “By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail” (which I think was originally said by Benjamin Franklin). It was something that always stuck with me and it really is so true
Take an hour or two on Sunday to prep your meals for the week, not only then is it all done and you don’t have to worry about much cooking during the week, it means that the right foods are all there in front of you just to chuck in the microwave. So if you’re feeling lazy, its all there – no opting out for fast food because you cant be bothered to cook for the night.
Plan for your tomorrow today - by that I mean work out everything you have to do the next day and find a small amount of time you know your going to dedicate to doing some exercise. If you have to get up a bit earlier, you have to get up a bit earlier.
Yes, sleep is just as important but exercise will actually help you to sleep better at night and feel more energised for your day then what that extra hour of sleep would have done. You have to do what you have to do!
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