Today I’m going to share with you my top 7 tips to getting and staying fit while working from home.
Working from home can present a unique set of challenges when it comes to your health.
I myself had to transition from an active life working outside the home to a more sedentary life when I had my kids and started working from home.
So trust me I get it!
If staying fit and healthy is as important to you as it is to me, then you’ll love these 7 tips that will help you stay fit and healthy no matter what.
I have a special treat for you today because I’m giving you my tested and proven structure to achieve your best body ever, and keeping it while working a home-based job.
Let me share my personal story. When I went from running a wellness studio 12 hours a day and working as a medical massage therapist. I was active, on my feet, and using my body, so I easily stayed fit and healthy as I was moving my body all day long.
Fast forward many years where I was fortunate enough to be able to work from home and raise our kids. Again, I was moving all day long until they went to school!
I transitioned into a computer work roll with online nutrition coaching that had me sitting most of the day and the active person I was, experienced a screeching sedentary halt!
I saw a huge change in my body in those first few months of just being sedentary, and sitting when working from home.
I knew that I absolutely had to put something in place because I was not happy with the changes that I saw in my body.
So these are the top 7 tips that I can share with you so that you can experience success when working from home.
STAYING FIT
Tip 1 – Prep Your Meals
If you have a plan then you know exactly what you’re going to be doing and eating through the day. It’s easy for you to calculate your macronutrients if that’s something that you do. But either way, you have to have an eating plan. Otherwise, you go surfing into the kitchen, and you just start grabbing things and snacking every few hours, and those calories add up really, really quick. I have a great resource to help you with this below.
Tip 2 – Don’t Work From The Kitchen Counter
A huge mistake I made in the first bit of being transitioned to a home-based business. I would just flip my laptop open in the kitchen, and if you’re working from the kitchen you open the fridge often… LOL! It’s easy to go in and grab things over and over and over. Try to set yourself up in a workspace away from the kitchen.
Tip 3 – Set A ‘Mealtime’ Timer To Eat
What I noticed personally, and in my clients running a home-based business, is that in the morning they get in their zone, it can be 2:00-3:00 PM before they hit that pause button and grab food. At that point in time, you’re responding to a drop in blood sugar. This makes you more likely to overeat. Set a timer to stay on track with your meals. And if you are really tracking fitness goals, you’re probably eating every two and a half to three hours. So just set a reminder into your phone for you to get up, go to the “cafeteria”, and grab your food.
Tip 4 – Drink Plenty Of Water
That is such a vital thing. It’s going to do a few things for you. Giving our bodies the hydration that it needs to flush out fat from our bodies, to flush out what our bodies aren’t using is super important. That also helps hunger cues. When you’re super hydrated, you’re not going to feel as hungry as frequently.
Tip 5 – Treat Your Kitchen Like A Cafeteria
It has open times, and it has closed times. That’s going to help especially if you’re setting a reminder for yourself to eat. You just need to know that once you’ve had your designated meals that the cafeteria is closed.
Tip 6 –Work With The 50/10 Rule
That means you’re going to work for 50 minutes, you’re going to get up, and move your body for 10 minutes! In that 10 minutes where you’re going to get up, and you’re going to move. So this is going to do a few things for you, especially if you’re working from a computer screen. It’s going to really help save your eyes. It’s going to help alleviate eye strain, you know having headaches from that.
It’s also if you have like a Fitbit or a tracker watch, especially an Apple watch, it may vibrate and tell you, “Hey, it’s time for you to stand. It’s time for you to move.” Standing up multiple times a day is going to help our concentration.
But in those 10 minutes, if you do implement the strategy it’s going to help with your productivity and your fitness level, here’s the little fitness challenge I do…
Tip 7 – Pick A Move For Those 10 minutes & That ‘Fit Move’ Changes Daily
So I’ll work for 50 minutes, I’ll get up for 10. I may do 10 push-ups. I may do 20 air squats. I may do 10 jumping jacks, but I pick something every day, and every hour on the hour I will complete my little fitness move. I will do those moves, and it has definitely helped keep my body in the shape that I want to be in for my happiness and my health and my wellness.
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Let me know in the comments below if any of these resonated with you? What wisdom nuggets will you implement immediately so that you can stay fit when working from home?