How 2020 is making us rethink our health – Showing Up For Your Health

COVID Response to Nourishment and Movement

For many the simple act of meals and food and nourishment and activity and exercise and movement has shifted. It began to look different for better or worse. How would cooking most meals at home look or doing more exercise in and around the home look like. Many figured it out and found ways to create space for more home cooked meals and maintaining or introducing new ways of moving; while this season and time created more barriers for those who were working their way to better health. Some examples include:

Quarantine 15 – Gaining more weight during this stay at home time, due to less activity and more eating out of boredom and being at home
Not eating at work and now at home – Eating out every day and not packing a lunch or eating at your desk amidst distractions can make us eat mindlessly. Many may have lost weight during this time due to eating more food at home and not from restaurants as frequently (even though supporting local and restaurants at this time was and does continue to be crucial and comforting).
Making more meals and sitting around the table more – many families started to do this more and appreciated it, allowing space for family time, making time for a meal daily that often is busy with after school activities, sports, evening work engagements or traveling.
Not having enough food for you or your whole family and having to use pantries or food banks (or less trips to or deliveries from stores) and having to be even more creative with meals – especially with kids at home that may get free meals or reduced meals at school that don’t need to be considered in your food budget and potentially being unemployed at this time – this impacts how much food you get and money left for the month, adding additional stress to an already stressful situation.

How has 2020/stay at home time impacted your physical health – from a food and movement perspective? What challenges or opportunities have you experienced during this time with food and movement?

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What a better time than now to assess where we are with are health and where we want to be. 2020 has been a uncertain, scary, challenging year for all. It also has led to opportunities, time with loved ones, and time spent focusing on what matters most.

It brought us home together with those we love juggling way too much.

It brought some of us into the workplace more helping those who were sick while missing our family and friends.

It brought us questioning how we spent our time at home, work, traveling, etc.

It brought us away from those we connect with daily and weekly and may have brought us closer to those under our own roof.

It left us unemployed, without some basic needs, under roofs we may not have wanted to be under and left many wondering what life would hold in the months to come.

What matters most now…in light of everything that is going on and happened in 2020?

What matters most to me and is something I need to consistently give time and attention to daily even when I am tired or frustrated or overwhelmed is…my family, including some active time for me, and continuing to work on my passion.

What matters most to you, now as you reflect on the past few months? Message me at bommer26@gmail.com, or through IG – https://www.instagram.com/showingupforyourhealth/ or respond below to get a conversation going.