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Effective Healthy Lifestyle Habits

Maintaining a balanced and healthy lifestyle is not the easiest thing to do, primarily if your lifestyle was once poor for a long time. Of course, people have different definitions of what a good and poor lifestyle is, but the critical thing to remember is you have to feel alert and stable most times to say your lifestyle is grounding and ultimately beneficial for you. ‘To each his own’ as the saying goes, however, there are general things we must do ensure a balanced lifestyle whether you are always functioning on a strict or flexible schedule every day, here are some effective lifestyle tips to improve your physical and mental health.

Never Skip a Meal, Especially Breakfast

Mornings tend to make us feel sluggish, for some anxious, this is because it is during mornings that people prepare for a long day ahead. To avoid overeating during lunch and/or dinner, always eat a healthy breakfast composed of fiber, protein, and carbs as fuel for the rest of the day. You can get a balance of these through eating fruits, vegetables, healthy breakfast smoothies, and nuts. Always remember that skipping a meal might lead to low blood sugar and glucose levels that might make you feel sluggish and irritable throughout the day. As for lunch and dinner, ensure that you are getting a balanced meal through preparing a meal plan suitable to your health condition and health goals.

Make Time for Exercise

Although it sounds completely impossible given your tight and hectic schedule, exercise is vital for a healthy lifestyle. Exercise can be low or high intensity based on your health condition. Squeezing in any activity that makes you move your body, burn calories, and strengthen your muscles will make you reap great results in the long-run. Jogging, cycling, hiking, and trekking are good cardio workouts, while pilates and yoga are great for toning your body.

Practice Self-Care

Always know and gauge your body and mind’s breaking point. Never go past this breaking point as this will make you, and you will not like that. If you feel like work or the house is being too much, feel free to take a break and clear your mind to calm your body. Without proper self-care, anxiety and depression may spring up as a result of pushing yourself too much or being too hard on yourself. Always do things that make you feel genuine happiness and pick that above anything else.

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Do Something Therapeutic

Like the previous point, make it a habit to de-stress and calm your mind regularly is always a good idea. Finding a hobby or any activity that serves as a creative outlet would ensure your peace of mind and serenity in everything you do. It could be painting, sculpting, gardening, anything that makes you feel happy and relaxed.

So those are the essentials in balancing your lifestyle. These principles are often advised by anyone who has mastered the art of a balanced lifestyle and peace in life.

Kitchen Hacks You Wish You Should Have Known Before

When it comes to cooking, it is essential to know some cooking hacks at home that you can use to either speed up your cooking prep, keep your greens fresher for an extended period, and make the food tastier. While having your unique style in keeping things in your kitchen, it wouldn’t hurt to have a couple of useful hacks on hand, especially this coming holiday season. And besides, pulling up a recipe that eats a lot of time and needs considerable effort to complete can sometimes discouraging, so learning some kitchen hacks can be super useful.

Below we have listed some straightforward kitchen hacks that you are going to wish that you should have known earlier.

Hack #1 Use a paper towel to keep your greens fresh

There’s nothing more frustrating than seeing your greens wilting even after keeping it on your fridge. To make your greens last for an extended period, wrap them with a paper towel and place them in a plastic container. The paper towel is handy for absorbing excess moisture coming from your greens while the container prevents your greens from getting crushed.

Also read: Practical Cooking Tip: Vegetable Blanching

Hack #2 Use marshmallow to keep your brown sugar soft

For those who love to bake, keeping brown sugar soft at all times is quite challenging, especially if you don’t have the proper storage for it. To ensure that the sugar doesn’t harden, store it in an airtight container and put at least two pieces of marshmallow on top of it. You could also use a slice of bread as an excellent alternative to marshmallow. It will keep your sugar soft and ensure it doesn’t harden over time.

Hack #3 Use the oven for cooking hard boil eggs

If you haven’t mastered the boiling water method, then using the oven to cook hard boil eggs is an excellent alternative, especially if you have to boil a lot of eggs at the same time hard. To do this trick, heat the eggs in the oven for at least 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Then gently submerge the eggs in ice water for another 10 minutes.

Good read: 5 Reasons Why Instant Pot Is The Best Slow Cooker

Hack #4 Use a dry towel to dry your fish before cooking

To cook the fish perfectly can be tricky, especially if you want the browning to stand out. One way to get it right is by patting your fish dry using a paper towel before putting the fish on the hot pan. The paper towel removes the excess moisture from the fish that prevents it from browning. By getting rid of the wetness of your fish, it makes the browning to stand out much easier.

Hack #5 Use a plastic or metal container to peel garlic cloves quickly and easily

We all know that peeling garlic can be incredibly time-consuming, especially if you have to peel lots of it. To easily peel garlic gloves quickly, break the bulb of garlic into individual cloves, then place them into a plastic or metal container and vigorously shake the garlic. If cloves are still difficult to release, shake longer and more vigorously.

Knowing these simple yet straightforward kitchen hacks can be very useful. Try it and you’ll surely appreciate them.

Here’s Simple, Easy-to-Follow House Cleaning Schedule (+ Guide!) for Busy Moms

I thought I knew my mother. I thought she really liked drinking cold coffee, you know, making hot coffee then waiting for it to be cold before she drinks it. That’s how I’ve always seen her do it. Now that I am a mother too, I finally understand why. A mom’s daily life is so busy, she always ends up drinking her coffee cold in the afternoon, when all household chores are done.

know most of you can relate to the very busy daily schedule of a mom. We cook, prepare the family for the daily routine (kids going to school husband to work), clean up, more household chores and usually a short pause to take a bath while also cleaning the bathroom.
We just can’t do one thing at once right? Like when we take a bath, we have to maximize our time and resources (sayang ang tubig!). And even if we get advice such as stop multi-tasking, it really is what makes us who we are.
Being a mom is not easy and I know you are doing an awesome job but you know you can actually make your life easier. Even if we choose to do more than one thing at a time, we can really make our life easier by choosing the right products to use in our homes and by creating an effective cleaning schedule.

Here’s an Effective Cleaning Schedule For Moms

An effective cleaning schedule will help you in maintaining your house clean with less effort. With an effective cleaning schedule, you are assured that every aspect of your house is given the right attention with less fuss. Cleaning schedules are divided into categories depending on how frequent you need to clean. We have a daily cleaning schedule, a weekly cleaning schedule, monthly, and yearly.

How do you start planning your cleaning schedule? The first thing you need to do is list all areas in your house that need cleaning. Divide that list into 4 and that will constitute your weekly schedule. Let me share you my weekly cleaning schedule:

What should be on your daily cleaning schedule? Cleaning chores that won’t take an hour long should be on your daily schedule. Examples are sweeping the floor, quick dusting, putting out toys, making the bed and simple tasks that won’t take too much of your time.

How about the bathroom — especially the toilet bowl? We all know it’s one of the more difficult (not to mention dirtiest) tasks around the house. Quick bathroom cleaning can be done while taking a bath. Deep bathroom cleaning can be done weekly. The tricky part is achieving a clean and fresh-smelling bathroom all the time. But there’s a solution to that — try using Mr Muscle® Fresh Discs to keep your toilet bowl clean and the bathroom smelling fresh.

How to use Mr Muscle Fresh Discs

Make sure you clean the toilet bowl first before using the Fresh Discs (I also used Mr Muscle® toilet bowl cleaner).

Step 1. Slide the two pieces of Mr Muscle® Fresh Discs together so the button on the tube clicks into the
handle.

Step 2. Remove cap and position end of gel tube near the rim on inside of bowl.

Step 3. Press and hold button down while pushing unit against bowl’s surface. When button clicks into the next
hole, pull unit back to leave a gel stamp. Ensure the disc is placed near the rim where water would flow
on to it when flushed.

FLUSH! Each disc lasts up to 7 days! That is why you can enjoy a week of a clean and fresh-smelling bathroom.

Try watching this video on YouTube from Mr Muscle® Singapore to see it in action.

Where to buy Mr Muscle Fresh Discs? Check out leading supermarkets and store, It’s available in two variants: Lavender and Citrus.

This article is Sponsored by Mr Muscle® but all opinions are mine. To know more about Mr Muscle Fresh Discs and other Mr Muscle products, follow Mr Muscle on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MrMusclePhilippines/

Monthly Cleaning Schedule
Scheduled cleaning that is done every month includes household chores or cleaning that needs a lot of time or attention. As I have mentioned with our weekly schedule, use only 4 days a week so you can devote 1 or 2 days a week for your monthly cleaning schedule. Since this kind of cleaning needs time and effort, the most effective way of doing this is to divide it into 4.

Here’s a sample:

Kitchen and dinning
Bedrooms and bathroom
Living Room and hallways
Outside

Each one on the list gets a day from your weekly cleaning schedule. What are the examples of cleaning chores that are usually done on a monthly basis? Deep clean appliances such as the refrigerator, gas range, washing machine, oven, and electric fan. Changing of curtains, deep cleaning of carpets, and deep cleaning of walls.

Other household cleaning schedule that you also need to consider are those that is done every 4 months such as air conditioner cleaning, pest control, and deep cleaning of windows. Cleaning of roof and rain gutter are done every year. Cleaning/draining of the septic tank should be done every 3 years or 5 years.