How to stop a busy lifestyle from turning you upsidedown!

During this past few months have been one of the busiest and most stressful time in my life.  Several personal events such as having a serious injury in my wife's extended family, having my wife going in for surgery herself and having some changes at work, and having a coworker going down with a serious injury of his own all compounded into a what has felt like a serious life crisis.  I quickly realized some of the big mistakes that I was making and am currently working on getting these straightened out and getting back to where I want to be physically, emotionally and mentally.

1.   Stress can activate bad health habits

Often stress is associated with leading people to drink, especially work related stress.  Its often the joke around the office too.  Right now at work, we've been two people short during a busy time with year end and the plant running at capacity.  My supervisor had a holiday booked that she couldn't cancel, so it left us with two people to run a department that is usually run by five.

What I quickly found that some of my bad habits started popping up.  I am considered one of the clean IT Techs, not drinking, doing drugs, smoking, and often my associates wonder how I survive.  However, when the stress turned up, I found two bad health habits raising their ugly head, I found myself drinking a lot of sodas, and I found myself eating greasy food.  My Fitbit page immediately alerted of what this was doing to my body as my weight starting going up and down as sugars and waters balances started going haywire and with the extra fat in the food didn't get processed like natural foods.

When dealing with a busy lifestyle and stress, you need to understand that your body needs balance and if you have developed a healthy eating habit.  With a planned and monitored eating plan, you can control the cravings to fall off the wagon and better watch your intakes and make sure your diet is balanced.  The great thing about the Fitbit system is that you can monitor if you life is more walking or moving around to know when to increase your intake.

If some of your other habits including drinking or smoking become more of a regular occurrence, you may want to look for a team of supporters to help monitor and control these habits as well.  Drinking especially has taken down many successful individuals who find losing jobs, marriages or even their lives due to letting their stress feed bad habits.

2.  Make sure you are getting your Nutritionals

When your body is stressed, it causes all sorts of unbalanced states within your body, with horomones sent to give you extra energy and battle the stress often run short.  This week I really realized that I hadn't been taking my supplements from USANA.  I found myself tied, discouraged and unable to work at top levels to help get rid of of the place I was in.

This week, I will get back on the wagon and order my supplements.  The Essential Supplements provide a balanced level of the nutritional minerals and nutrients to help balance my levels out and to improve my energy.  If you need to look at supplements, take a look at USANA or contact me for more details.

3.  Energy drinks

Often when people need to work harder than their body needs to, they rely on coffee or soda or energy Energy drinks shoot unhealthy levels of caffine through your system and although may give you a jolt of energy, they are found to provide unhealthy side effects.  Avoid these if possible, USANA provides a drink called Rev3 which uses green teas to give you a gentle boost of caffine that has long lasting effects and doesn't drop you at the end.
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4.  Sleep and Friends

This is one of the difficult balances when I found myself in this busy and stressful time to balance my sleep and friends.  Sleep is an easy escape from stressful situations.  I personally found myself searching sleep wherever I could, which affected relationships with my support team in my family.  When I took the time and realized that being with my family is an important job as well as filling me up, I find time with my family enjoyable and not a chore.

During my visit to my place of worship, one of my friends there noticed my tired condition and took me out for lunch later that week.  I was able to talk through some of the things I was going through and he helped lighten the load.  It allowed me to go back to work without some of the baggage I was carrying.  Freeing up to do my job better.  This past evening, I had a great night playing some cards with friends, and found the laughter and sharing times especially rejuvenating.

If you are finding sleep hard to find, that may be a different issue.  many doctors will recommend sleeping pills or other drugs to help you sleep.  Before taking such harsh measures, look at giving yourself a massage, or visiting your chiropractor to make sure that tight muscles or out of place spine isn't causing your restlessness.  And look at taking Melatonin to help you sleep at night.  Melatonin is the hormone that your body creates to signal your body to sleep, sometimes due to stress, this needs to be supplemented.  Visit your doctor and discuss the right choice for you.

Conclusion

Having a busy lifestyle is part of life these days, however, it needs to be monitored and controlled just like anything else.  To use tools and having good friends and family watch be accountable and alert you of warning signs is a good way to avoid these traps.  If you are having issues, always look at the way your life is and look for ways to change it for the better.  Wish you the best of luck.