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Just a few brighten a wintery day suggestions from someone who drove north to skip winter. J

Seasonal Affective Disorder   SAD), also known as winter depression or winter blues, is a real condition that affects many people to varied degrees.

Wintery grey skies have a lot to do with people’s feelings; sunshine has an emotionally uplifting effect.

This is the sort of thing that would lift my spirits; I would be heading to the sales to buy a nice pair of a little too tight black slacks (I bought 3 pairs J  ), to be wearing by the end of the current 12 week body transformation goal period.

Winter is a time when many people comfort eat, exercise less then want to read 7-dfbx reviews  and look for diets to do in the springtime. This is yo-yo dieters thinking, self abuse, of alternating from self neglect to self deprivation; there is a better way, of balanced consistent, healthy lifestyle.  We just need to plan ways to work through those times we know have a depressing effect on our mood and find ways to counter these effects, preferably before they get us too far down.  It would be very hard for a person in depression to rush out and begin enthusiastically exercising to get an adrenalin rush, but if we begin our exercising and have it instilled as a habit to stop getting depressed, if we are already suffering the blues, try begin by just doing something, anything active, walking, decluttering, a walk and talk with a friend.

If we are feeling emotionally down, then gradually build up to more vigorous, exercise, will give us the emotional lift that comes from exercise. Exercise with friends if you can find a buddy, is the best antidepressant there is J.  I feel great after coming home from a bush walk with Reg, especially if I know I have challenged my ability and exerted an effort to achieve something, in this exerciseJ.

I would treat myself to a pot of fresh herbs and a cyclamen in flower if in the cold climate; a tropical orchid works for me here at Innisfail where we are having a few grey skies and wet days too. I would also be on the lookout for the first pot of flowering tulips in the store, to bring home (but then I adore gardens and flowers, insert what you love), as a brightening  the grey day treat, an alternative to the sweet, fatty or salty foods you might have once eaten for comfort.

I buy the first bunch of daffodils, these are often, sold, for charity, so it is a double feel good lift and the colour yellow makes me think of the spring sunshine on its way. 

Other emotion lifters are, a session of decluttering, it is great incidental activity that burn extra calories, and it’s in preparation for an earlier, pre spring, spring clean and a brighten of the home with some, will not break the budget accessories, while the mid year sales are on.  All these mood lifters can help break the grey day, blues.  As soon as I work through my current great batch of writing, assignments I will have a big declutter of the caravan againJ.  I sorted the pantry cupboards last week and I am making sure we use up as much of the pantry stock as possible over the next two months before the near 4,000-kilometre drive home. I want to lighten off the caravan weight. It feels good to complete a project.

If you are due for your routine checkups, ask your doctor to check your Vit D levels, mine were very low, and needed boosting. In winter especially, a lot of people are not getting enough Vitamin D, it is hard to get enough through diet alone, and if you are not getting enough sunshine on skin at this time of year, your levels may be down and this has a subtle effect on everything including your mood.   

If you are weaning, off, chemicals, refined, carbohydrates, high sugar or saturated, fat, diet and more calories, than you were burning before, you are sure to feel some resistance from your body, try giving yourself, more rewards that are non-food related, and replace one habit that does not support who you want to be now, with one that does. See if any of these ideas work for you and I would love to hear your own, beat the blues, tips, if you would like to comment.

Wishing you, all the best, at getting through, the winter, grey blues. J :-)

 
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