Day 30 – Healthy Skin for Life, Incorporating the Challenge Components into Daily Living
The Healthy Skin Challenge is coming to a close. How well did you do? Were you able to incorporate some small changes into your diet and lifestyle to support healthy skin? I hope so, and I hope that your skin and YOU look and feel fabulous. Below is a recap of the components of the challenge:
Day 1 – Feed your skin with Fabulous Phytonutrients!
Day 2 – Eat a Rainbow
Day 3 – Focus on Crucifers
Day 4 – Healthy Fats for a Healthy Glow
Day 5 – Coconut Oil
Day 6 – Choosing the Right Oils
Day 7 – How our Gut and Skin are related
Day 8 – Feeding your Probiotics with Prebiotic Food
Day 9 – Nourishing the flora that live on your skin
Day 10 – Antioxidants prevent skin damage
Day 11 – Antioxidants in topical skincare
Day 12 – Chocolate is a good thing
Day 13 – Sprinkle on the Spices for Anti-inflammatory power
Day 14 – Don’t let stress sap your skin – the cortisol connection
Day 15 – Use Mindfulness as a Tool to Reduce Stress
Day 16 – Breathing away your worries
Day 17 – Toxins, toxins everywhere… achieving healthy skin in a toxic environment
Day 18 – Detoxifying Fiber
Day 19 – They call it beauty rest for a reason, the role of sleep in skin health
Day 20 – Wired and Tired
Day 21 – Hydration: The Foundation of Healthy Skin
Day 22 – Ditch the Plastic Bottles
Day 23 – Calming Inflammation for Clear, Healthy Skin
Day 24 – Inflammation: A Complicated Subject
Day 25 – AGE’s: the connection between sugar and skin aging
Day 26 – Exercise is good for your skin!
Day 27 – To Supplement or Not?
Day 28 – Mind over Matter, moving past mental blocks to change
Day 29 – Organization: The Key to Success
Day 30 – Healthy Skin for Life, Incorporating the Challenge Components into Daily Living
It’s time to put It all together. Let’s take a look at a typical day to show you how you can bring all of these ideas to reality in your daily life.
| Wake 6 am |
| Drink a glass of water with the juice of 1/2 organic lemon to stimulate digestion |
| Eat a small banana or handful of nuts |
| Exercise for 45 minutes. Drink 8-16 oz of water during exercise |
| Shower and dress — off to work |
| Breakfast: 2 organic eggs scrambled with a side of avocado and tomato slices. Coffee with 1 coconut oil. |
| After eating take a few months to look at your schedule for the day and plan the day to reduce stress. |
| Mid-morning snack: Chia pudding with raspberries and sliced almonds. Hydrate with a glass of green tea or mineral water |
| Lunch: Salad made of 2 c baby greens, 1/2 cup red peppers, 1/2 cup carrots, 1/2 cup mushrooms, 1/4 c chick peas, 2 tbsp pumpkin seeds, topped with olive oil and vinegar. Cup of miso soup. To drink: Kombucha tea, water or sparkling water. |
| Afternoon stretch break: Take 5 minutes to stretch and release those tight muscles from sitting in front of a computer. Close your eyes to let them rest too. |
| Afternoon snack: raw sugar snap peas and celery or other veggie with hummus with a glass of green tea or water |
| Dinner: Salmon with roasted vegetables and sautéed spinach and a glass of red wine and water |
| Snack: 3 oz of dark chocolate |
| Prepare for bed beginning at 9:00. Take a relaxing bath with Epsom salts and lavender oil. Listen to soothing sounds or music as you write in your gratitude journal. Transfer troublesome thoughts to a pad to be dealt with tomorrow during you’re am planning time. Let negative thoughts go and focus on the good thing that happened today. |
| 10:00 pm: Lights out, time for sleep. |
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