healthly living
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Lighten Your Style
Consistently eating well and finding time to exercise can be a challenge. But whatever your reason for getting fit – to look sensational for a special event, fit into your skinny jeans or simply feel better – now’s the time to take those important steps to leading a healthier lifestyle.
To maintain a healthy weight, the key is to balance the number of calories consumed with the amount of calories burned through physical activity. Take advantage of simple ways to get your body moving. Whether working out at the gym, taking the stairs instead of the elevator or even turning up the music and dancing, you’re burning calories and working toward your fitness goals.
And finding simple, realistic ways to consume fewer calories, as part of a balanced lifestyle, can be a healthy strategy for anyone. Choosing lower-calorie food and drink options – like Ocean Spray® Cranberry LightTM – is an easy way to reduce caloric intake without sacrificing the things you love.
The trick is to get moving and consume less calories in simple ways. Our healthy tips will get you started and our light and tasty recipes will help give you the nutritional boost to help you meet your fitness goals.
Healthy Lifestyle Tips
If you’ve made the commitment to being fit and healthy, we’re here to help you stay on track. These simple tips and techniques can be easily incorporated into your daily routine. It’s all about making healthy food choices and keeping fitness fun.
Think Nutrition:
- Start by making small changes in what you eat and in your level of activity. And balance what you eat and your physical activity over several days. Don’t worry about just one meal or one day. And remember that all foods can be part of a healthy lifestyle; just be sensible with your choices and enjoy all things in moderation.
- Make time to eat nutritious meals, especially for breakfast. Fortified drinks and fruit smoothies can help you get a quick nutrition boost to start off your busy day. Blend your favourite flavour juice drink with low-fat yoghurt and fresh or frozen fruit for a healthy smoothie to start off the day.
- Add important nutrients to your day by switching that afternoon soft drink to juices or juice drinks.
Keep Fitness Fun:
- You don’t need to agonize through long workouts to become fit. Aim to fit in at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity every day. And if time doesn’t allow for a full-blown workout, don't skip it altogether. Break exercise into 15-minute increments. Just doing something, anything, to get your body moving is better than doing nothing at all.
- Team up with a friend, relative or co-worker. A work-out partner can be your most powerful motivator.
- Find ways to add exercise to your everyday routine. Take the stairs at work. Walk across the office to talk to a colleague, rather than pick up the phone. Go for a brisk walk on your lunch break.
- Tighten your stomach or gluteus muscles during red lights or while stuck in traffic. These isotonic exercises will not only help you tighten and tone trouble spots, but help you utilize idle time.
- Think of your exercise time as a break from daily stress. Focus on moving your body and give your mind a break from it all.
- Taking kids to the playground doesn't just release their abundance of energy, it can help you stay fit, too. Pushing kids on a swing uses your arm muscles. But you should swing, too. Working up a high swinging motion uses your legs and stomach muscles.
- Take advantage of a full parking lot. Instead of wasting time looking for close spots, park in the first one available (the further the better) and start hoofing it. It's a great way to sneak exercise into your day, and you'll avoid the stress of staking claim to that prime spot near the door.
Use that time in front of the television to work on your flexibility. Stretching helps your body relax and being flexible reduces your risk of injury and increases mobility as you age.