Enjoying your weekend without sacrificing your health

Have you studied or worked long and hard in the week? Friday it’s time to trasition into your weekend and to have a relaxing time. What is the cost for having a nice time?

The thing that receives the least amount of attention in the weekend is how you continue your healthy choices from during the week. If you are serious about maintaining your health benefits it’s certainly something to keep in mind. The important decision lies in your hand. Do you want to have a flexible weekend to keep your sanity following your healthy week? There is no doubt that the stressfull week can have it’s influence on the end of your week.

When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life. – Monica Bellucci

If a slightly loose weekend helps you preparing for next week than that is what you have to do. Turning your life into a healthy one is more important than just having one entire week to be healthy including the weekend. Having a friday night with your friends will improve how easy you will have nice healthy week starting from monday. It certainly does add some pleasure to your lifestyle enjoying an evening with your friends.

An alternative way of taking on the weekend challenge is by not having every weekend completely the same. Some weekend go out and eat anything you want. Othertimes just go eat some pizza slices, other weekends stay home and cook a nice healthy meal. How much you enjoy a healthy meal will determine how often you can step away from the traditional ‘eat-all-out weekends’.

Everyone needs a replenishing moment where they can sometimes eat whatever they want. If you decide to plan that into every weekend then you know you will be capable of sustaining your new lifestyle for longer. The changes don’t have to deprive you of everything you liked before, it only changes your ways slightly.

What is luxury and how to avoid it?

Avoid the luxury lifestyle

As kid in the toystore we first want the small toy that looks cool. When we manage to get that one we would like the car to put the toy in, than the house and before we know it we have an entire city build around the toy. Ofcouse this is an exaggeration, but this is how we also look at things as an adult.

Everyone likes to enjoy some luxury from time to time. But how you define luxury depends on your current lifestyle. It’s your choice what you believe to be luxurious. You can call it luxury when you are going to eat out to any restaurant, or only if you are going to an expensive restaurant. The first time you go eat a fancy restaurant you don’t think much of it, you deserve it. The next time it may a little less enjoyment, even though you don’t feel it right away. Before you know it a normal restaurant isn’t enough anymore.

I’m convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.  – Jil Sander

If you would be able to live luxurious without having to spend any money for it, it would be great. However luxury comes at a cost, and not just the monetary cost. The more money you earn the more you ‘deserve’ to be surrounded with luxury. At least that is what others tell you and you will slowly but surely be implementing more expensive activities and purchases in your life.

It’s so easy to believe people when they say you deserve to buy something nice for yourself. You have earned the money so you should spend it. There is some truth in it, you don’t need to hoard all your money till you die. However with all the social media out there more and more people earn a six figure income but they still live from paycheck to paycheck.

You are the only one who can decide for yourself what is luxury and how important it is for you. If you enjoy the simple things in life and don’t focus on the big things you will feel happier with anything you do. Any slightly bigger purchase will feel like luxury that you can still live without.