Stay Healthy While Working From Home

Stay Healthy
While Working From Home ❣

Right now, with the Corona threat still active, more Office workers are allowed to work from home. Some deem themselves lucky, but others are worried about having to stay at home all the time, and about how to organize their time between work and family. 

And they are unsure about how to use their unforeseen chances to exercise, diet better, and even improve their physical health while working from home. 

The only mistake you can make is trying to make too many plans what to do with all the spare time that is saved from commuting. 

Actually work is the same as in the office - nine to five, with the same regular breaks. And the children too must work - remote schooling. Yes, unfortunately, they need help from their parents... but not really more than when the parents were off to work. And there is no need either to kick the person who looked after them when the parents were away. 

The best thing you can do is keep the used routines, and enjoy the breaks together. Instead of queuing in the cafeteria, you can cook at lunchtime (and as long as you get your daily task done, who will tell on you if you take a slightly longer break?) - don't make it a habit, and don't overdo it, but you have your saved commuting time. Deliberately plan that quarter of an hour overtime exactly before or after regular worktime. 

Yes, this already looks like a lot of planning (and I of all people must be suggesting it!) But at a second glance, it's just keeping up the routines, and adding a bit of fun.

Now on to the healthier lifestyle I mentioned above: 

Homecooking - during your lunch break - together with your Family - or pre-cooking at the times you usually did - is the best way to cooking healthier, fresher food. And if you can, you could even keep this habit, when later you must work in the office again.  Meal prep works great when you work from home too! This does not just have to be for bringing lunch to work. The more you have prepared at home, the less tempted you will be to order food delivery or go out to eat.

Designated kitchen times – A common trap when working from home is feeling like you can walk into the kitchen at any time and eat something. To prevent this, have designated kitchen and meal times just like you would if you worked in an office. And if you know you or your family need to have frequent snacks, have healthy snacks at hand for everyone. Have fruit or nuts on your desk, keep granola bars on the counter, make sure your fresh fruit and veggies are visible, instead of a box of chocolate and a cookie jar. Moving around is good, even when it's only to the kitchen. But for a healthy snack.

Now I have reached the end of the page, writing gets kind of complicated and I still didn't get around to my main subjects: Improved Morning routines, movement, gentle exercises, and especially stretching!

So, if anyone reads this at all, stay tuned! This time I'll be really back soon. 

Why do Computer and Internet Geeks Need Special Exercises to Stay In Shape?

We sit at our desk all day, at home or in an office, and we spend our spare (working) time on the internet. We hardly move more than our fingers. We neglect our body attitude completely. Our figure gets out of shape. Our back is under torture 18 hours a day. Our Muscles get flabby, legs get wobbly, beer belly grows, even without drinking beer. 

And these are only the visible results of our sedentary lifestyle. We drink too much coffee, eat the wrong things too unregularily. - In fact, we might think it is ok to eat less, 'cause we think that it prevents getting fat slowly. 

While using only brains, hands and eyes (where we see search for relief and prevention of damages in time, hopefully) we forget caring for our physical condition, our metabolism, and most physical needs. 

But taking care of the body is much easier than most people think. No need to spend much time (which we don't have) in a Gym - though going there and relating with new Real-Life persons could be a lot of fun, and learning by doing the exercises is advisable sometimes - we can do so much at home, without expensive home gym equipment even. We can start almost without any preparations right here at our computers.  Let's go!

Once upon a time, there was a link to my really cool Squidoo Lens... 😭 
But, thanks to the WayBackMachine, I could rescue some of my old content! Soon to be published as brand new 👽🤩