General Health Archives - Meraki Lane

How to Reinvent Yourself When You Feel Stuck | If you're looking for ways to feel motivated to change when you feel stuck, this post has tons of ideas to inspire you. Whether you're looking for inspiration to help you figure out how to completely transform your life, or you just want to take a few small steps to better yourself, remember that it's never too late to change! If you're in your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, or beyond, these little habits can give your life the makeover you're craving.

How to Reinvent Yourself When You Feel Stuck: 10 Tips and Ideas

How to Balance Blood Sugar Naturally | If you want to know how to lower blood sugar levels through lifestyle changes and diet, this post has lots of great tips to help. We're sharing tons of great information - symptoms of both low blood sugar and high blood sugar, smart tips to lower and control blood sugar, and a list of foods to lower blood sugar plus diet foods to avoid. Whether you have diabetes, hyperglycaemia, or hypoglycaemia, these natural ways to balance blood sugar will help!

How to Balance Blood Sugar Naturally: 8 Tips that Help

16:8 Intermittent Fasting for Beginners | Intermittent fasting has gained popularity in the weight loss and maintenance space, bit it offers many other health benefits too. It can help decrease visceral fat, improve cognition and brain function, decrease insulin resistance, lower blood pressure and cholesterol, and reduce inflammation! There are many different intermittent fasting meal plans and intermittent fasting schedules to choose from, and this post has tons of tips for beginners!

Weight Loss that Lasts: 16:8 Intermittent Fasting Tips for Beginners

11 Ways to Stop Hunger Cravings for Unhealthy Foods | If you find it difficult to resist cravings for sugar, sweets, junk food, refined carbs, salty snacks, or all of the above, this post is for you! We're sharing common causes of food cravings, and our favorite tips and hacks to help kick cravings to the curb once and for all! Whether you struggling specifically with hormonal PMS cravings, or late night snacking is an everyday occurrence for you, these tips work!

11 Ways to Stop Hunger Cravings for Unhealthy Foods

7 Walking Workouts for Weight Loss | If you want to create a walking workout plan for weight loss, this post has lots of tips and workouts to choose from ranging from 10 minutes, 20 minutes, 30 minutes...all the way to an hour! You can make these as easy or hard as you want. Whether you like to workout at the gym, at home, outside, or a combination of the 3, we'll help you get your steps and miles in each day!

7 Walking Workouts for Weight Loss for Beginners and Beyond

How to Apologize | If you want to know how to say I'm Sorry to your boyfriend or girlfriend, to your husband or wife, to your child, to your best friend, to your mom or dad, or anyone else who has significant meaning in your life, this post is for you! We're sharing tons of great tips to help you know what you SHOULD apologize for, what you SHOULD NOT apologize for, and how to say I'm Sorry sincerely. If you've done something disrespectful to a friend or at work, we've got you covered!

How to Apologize: 13 Ways to Say ‘I’m Sorry’ and Move Forward

15 Lifestyle and Diet Tips to Improve Metabolic Syndrome | What is metabolic syndrome? Are there symptoms? What are the treatment options? What is the best diet to follow if you have it? These are all great questions, and while there is no diet plan or exercise plan designed specifically to reverse metabolic syndrome, there are lifestyle changes you can make and a list of foods you should and should not eat to help. If you want to know how to cure metabolic syndrome, give this a read!

Syndrome X: 15 Lifestyle and Diet Tips to Improve Metabolic Syndrome

9 Lazy Meal Prep Tips for Weight Loss | If clean eating is your goal, meal planning and prepping is a must. The key to any healthy lifestyle change is to keep it easy and simple, and we're sharing our best tips and hacks to help! Whether you're specifically tackling one meal (breakfast, lunch, dinner, or snacks), or want to completely overhaul the way you plan your weekly grocery list based on the recipes you plan on making, this post has it all!

Eat Clean in Less Time: 9 Lazy Meal Prep Tips for Weight Loss

33 Powerful Mental Health Quotes to Keep You Grounded | Raising awareness about mental health struggles should be a priority, and this collection of quotes, sayings, and mantras is a great resource. Perfect for parents, for family, for students, for kids, for teachers and everyone in between, these short, simple, and inspiring quotes and affirmations about mental health will help calm your mind, reduce stress and anxiety, and allow you to feel calm and accepted when life gets hard.

33 Powerful Mental Health Quotes to Keep You Grounded

What To Do When You Feel Overwhelmed | If you want to know how to stop feeling overwhelmed, and what to do when you get stuck in 'analysis paralysis', this post has tons of ideas to help. From our best time management and productivity tips, to simple life hacks to teach you how to manage stress, to household management tips we swear by, these strategies will teach you how to stay calm, how to prioritize, and how to stay focused so you can execute like a boss!

What To Do When You Feel Overwhelmed: 9 Tips and Ideas That Help

How to Stop Ruminating Thoughts | If you're looking for tips and coping strategies to help you stop obsessive thoughts from controlling your mind, we're sharing 9 simple ideas you can start using today to help you relieve stress and anxiety and feel more in control. If you lay awake at night ruminating and worrying about things that have gone wrong in the past, with friends, in a relationship, or even at work, we're sharing our best psychology facts and hacks to help you get unstuck.

How to Stop Ruminating Thoughts: 9 Tips to Help You Stop Overthinking

How To Get Rid of Menopause Belly Fat | From hot flashes, to night sweats, to mood swings, perimenopause and menopause can cause many uncomfortable symptoms. Many women gain weight during the transition to menopause, particularly around their midsection, which can lead to metabolic syndrome and other health-related conditions. The good news is that it IS possible to lose weight after menopause, and this post includes lifestyle changes plus diet and exercise tips to help!

13 Tips to Prevent and Get Rid of Menopause Belly Fat

How to Reduce Cortisol Levels Naturally | Symptoms of high cortisol range from insomnia and fatigue, to belly bloat and weight gain, to IBS and high blood pressure and more. If you suspect you have an imbalance in your stress hormones and want natural tips to help lower cortisol secretion so you can sleep better, lose weight, and improve your health, this post is for you! We're sharing everything you need to know about cortisol, along with 9 natural ways to reduce it and live your best life!

How to Reduce Cortisol Levels Naturally: 9 Diet & Lifestyle Tips

7 Remedies for Athlete’s Foot | Also known as 'tinea pedis', athlete's foot is highly contagious and is pretty uncomfortable. We're sharing everything you need to know, including the signs, symptoms, and causes, prevention tips, and home remedies to teach you how to get rid of athlete's foot once and for all. From hydrogen peroxide and baking soda, to tea tree oil and neem oil, to apple cider vinegar and sea salt, this post explains how to treat athlete's foot naturally!

Tinea Pedis: 7 Remedies for Athlete’s Foot to Ease Symptoms

8 Bedtime Workout Routines For Weight Loss and Sleep | Can't find time to exercise during the day? Want a quick and easy routine you can do before bed to help you tighten and tone your body without compromising your sleep? Perfect for beginners and beyond, these evening workout routines are the perfect pre-bed at home exercises to help you meet your weight loss goals when you're pressed for time. If you want a flat stomach, toned legs, and strong core, take the challenge!

8 Bedtime Workout Routines For Weight Loss and Better Sleep

How to Reduce Stress Naturally | If you're looking for tips and ways to reduce your stress levels, this post has tons of practical ideas you can implement today! While yoga, deep breathing exercises, journalling, and meditation are common stress reducers, there are lots of other effective ways to destress at home. From calming foods and exercise to essential oils and sleep, these stress relieving activities offer natural ways to relieve stress, reduce tension, and combat anxiety fast!

How to Reduce Stress Naturally: 13 Tips and Hacks

How to Become a Morning Person | If you're looking for tips and hacks to help you transform yourself from a night owl into someone who wakes up early for school, for work, or with kids, this post is for you! We're sharing small habits and lifestyle changes you can start making TODAY to help you become an early riser without a super early bedtime, elaborate morning routines, and endless cups of coffee. Being a morning person is surprisingly easy - the trick is not to overthink it!

How to Become a Morning Person: 11 Tips & Hacks

Thirty 30-Day Spring Challenge Ideas to Try | Spring is the perfect time to check in with your resolutions, measure your progress, and adjust or set new goals. Whether you want to lose your winter weight through healthy eating, train for a 5K, practice mindfulness, commit to self-care, or tackle your spring cleaning list, we're sharing tons of simple and creative ways you can break big goals down into manageable 30-day challenges to keep your motivation up.

Reboot Your Life: Thirty 30-Day Spring Challenge Ideas to Try

26 Calcium Rich Foods For Bone Health | Whether you're looking for calcium rich foods for women or for men who follow a vegan diet, for toddlers who are picky eaters, and/or for kids who follow a dairy free diet due to foods sensitivities or allergies, this post is for you! We're sharing some background information on hypocalcemia / calcium deficiency, including signs, symptoms, causes, risk factors, and the role of vitamin D, plus a list of foods that are delicious and high in calcium!

26 Calcium Rich Foods To Eat For Better Bone Health

48 Celiac Disease Recipes | If you're looking for a collection of easy and delicious gluten-free recipes for yourself (or for kids), we've curated the best of the best! From breakfast, to lunch, to dinner, to snacks and desserts, these recipe ideas will not disappoint. We've also included a list of foods to eat and avoid on the celiac disease diet to help you create a grocery list and meal plan, as well as a little background info including the symptoms and causes of celiac disease.

Celiac Disease Diet: 48 Gluten-Free Recipes for Beginners

How to Get Rid of a Crick in the Neck | If you're looking for remedies for a crick in the neck, this post has you covered! While neck and shoulder pain caused by a crick usually goes away on its own in a few days, there are stretches, exercises, and other natural remedies you can try for fast relief. And if you want to know how to sleep with a crick in the neck, we're sharing tons of tips and tricks to help reduce inflammation and relax your muscles for a good night of restorative sleep.

How to Get Rid of a Crick in the Neck: 12 Tips and Remedies