This post is sponsored by Pearls® but the content and opinions expressed here are my own.
Leading a healthy lifestyle is something we all want to do, right? But for WAHMs, who are being pulled in a million directions, it can feel nearly impossible. While not an expert on health, nor a billboard for the ideal body type, I do know a few things about health and wellness at home. In fact, over the past year and a half, I’ve lost 117 pounds. With a large part of my success being attributed to maintaining a healthy business and familiar boundaries, a consistent self-care routine, planned workouts at home, and a constant meal prep schedule.
Because to me, a healthy lifestyle doesn’t mean deprivation and is not measured by the way of the scale. Instead, it means a happy, active life that I can spend nurturing relationships with my family all while maintaining healthy food options at home. Options you can easily make for yourself too! Which is why I’m sharing with you today my 5 favorite tips for leading a healthier lifestyle this season at home:
1. Eat your frogs early.
One way I maintain a healthier lifestyle at home is by consistently waking up early each morning. I wake up daily at 5 am. I then set out to eat my frogs early, and by this I mean, start performing the tasks I don’t necessarily enjoy doing but must get done. Including getting into a treadmill routine each morning before 6 am. This allows me to get my last favorite activity done quickly and allows me to get on with my day. Then, by having this task done, I feel more accomplished, am in a better mood, and have a better framework to start off my day. All because I eat my frogs early.
2. Meal plan weekly.
At the start of each month, my husband and I sit down and work out a monthly meal plan and working shopping list. This helps us to eat better meals, have consistency in our portions, and to only stock our home with an easy-to-prepare plant-based meal at home. This also allows us to save quite a bit of money at the store. As instead of picking up meals on-the-go, we can have planned, prepped meals ready to make. Meals my family looks forward to eating each week.
Because by consistently meal planning, my family and I are able to eat better meals at home but also meals featuring fresh and locally sourced products that are often more zero-waste too! Especially in the fall with the affordable abundance of butternut squash, cranberry, zucchini, and pumpkin dishes that can be made on a dime!
Did I mention that we meal plan and shop for a month’s worth of meals for our family for under $200.00 monthly? There’s that too. Which is meal planning is my favorite way to save money and lead a healthier lifestyle at home! Now, if you’d like to see this month’s meal plan, click here!
3. Prep healthier snacks at home.
One of my biggest food triggers is savory foods. And when I don’t have these foods prepped at home I tend to fill the void with lower quality, processed foods. To prevent this, I keep our fridge stocked with quick, easy-to-grab finger foods. Foods that help satisfy m foodie cravings while helping me stay on target, health-wise, at home. Especially important with the barrage of fall holidays throughout the season!
Lately, I’ve been addicted to all things salty and savory. So I make sure to keep Pearls Olives to Go!® on hand. They come in a convenient little snack cups, for when you just need a little something to get you by between planned meals at home. I also love that they come in a myriad of fun flavors like Taco, Italian Herb, and Sriracha. The Pearls Olives To Go!® Italian Herb and Stuffed Green Pimento flavors are amazing though, with Italian Herb being my family’s favorite.
They’re gluten-free, keto-friendly, vegan, and obviously, plant-based. Which checks off all my snack-worthy requirements!
I can pack them in my yoga bag, my family’s lunch bags, and keep some ready in our food pantry for guests that drop by too! And if you want to try them this fall as well, be sure to use this coupon from coupons.com! You can purchase them on Amazon or use the store locator on their website. In my local grocery store, they’re located in the aisle with all other canned condiments!
4. Give yourself grace.
Even with the best of meal planning and meal prep standards in place, slip-ups happen. Because life gets busy. Which is why I also sometimes grab just a cup of Pearls Olives to Go!® and just a little cut up fruit and veggies instead of a whole meal. Sometimes I might even grab a quick vegan wrap out. A veggie sub. A burrito bowl. Or a big bowl of vegan nacho-cheese flavored popcorn! It happens to us all, and when it happens to you this season, give yourself plenty of grace!
5. Bust a move.
I’ve never loved the gym. We’ve never been the best of friends. Which is why I exercise at home and find seasonal ways to incorporate more exercise into my healthy lifestyle at home by finding ways around this. Especially in the fall when my family and I walk by our local lake, take in the sights, and enjoy all the blazing color this season has to share. Then, in the time it takes to get a few conversations in about our week while enjoying nature, I’ve been able to walk 3-4 miles. There’s something to be said about getting your heart pumping while enjoying the fall foliage!
Friends, those are my super simple tips for leading a healthier lifestyle at home this season. Tips that are neither too demanding or simplistic, but rather are small, obtainable goals that can help you be in better shape and spirits before the start of the new year! Also be sure to check out this coupon and give Pearls Olives To Go!® a try. Then be sure to leave me a comment below and let me know your favorite tips for healthier falls at home!