It's now or never!

It's six days past 2018, have you started on your healthy new year resolution yet? Studies have been made that 85% fails on their resolution on the 3rd or 4th week of January but for me 99% of those being interviewed lied because for me failure comes as early as Day 1. So if you have not started yet, these are simple tips to get the ball rolling.

Log on everything you eat. Eat 5 to 6 times a day in moderation that's breakfast, lunch and dinner plus snacks in between. Eat everything except ice cream, soda, deep fried, cake, pastries and junk food. Rice is your friend, eat only half serving of the rice and add palm size of any meat pork, beef or chicken but take out the fat, skin and marbled portion. Eat your fruits and veggies before starting your meal.

No deep fried and no sauce please. Have your meat grilled, pan fried or roasted. You don't need a weight scale to measure food, just track and write it down.

Step into a weighing scale. Monitor your weight at least every 2 days for the first 2 weeks, twice a day one in the morning as you wake up and the other when you get home before having your dinner. Weighing scale is a constant reminder to keep you on track if one is gaining or losing weight.

Exercise at least 4 times a week. Exercise does not mean you have to get into a gym. A simple walk around the park would do the trick. Example, walk for 1 minute. Brisk walk for one minute then jog for 2 minutes, then do 10 push-ups, 10 squats and 10 jumping jacks. Repeat the whole process at least three times. So estimated you will be done in less than 30 minutes. As you get stronger, increase intensity by doing one minute brisk walking, oneminute jog then run for 30 seconds plus 10 push ups, 10 squats and 10 jumping jacks. Repeat 4 to 5 times depending on how strong you feel. Try checking out some cool down yoga video in youtube, do it 30 minutes before going to bed.

Water therapy: Drink all you want. Have a glass before meal, before going to bed and as you wake up. Boil it with lemon grass to make it an anti inflammatory drink, add a lemon and ginger to make it ad cleansing drink. Adding Lemon grass makes it diuretic so make sure to plan your long trip.

Love your Coffee! A cup of coffee in the morning may provide more than enough energy boost. And aside from boosting energy, there are new studies and research that coffee have some health benefits such as preventing diabetes, lowers the risk of liver cancer, perhaps protect against Parkinson's disease and promotes a healthy heart. But again, one must be cautioned and regularly check with their doctors. Some may have already a pre-existing heart condition or sickness that may have adverse reaction with coffee. However, if you add sugar and milk, it's a different story. For one, black coffee contains around 2 calories only while adding sugar and milk shoots up its calorie. Although benefits empahizes only on moderation, that only one or 2 cups a day appear to be beneficial.

Fruits and Veggies! Your gastro intestinal tract measures about 25 feet in length, meaning, that's how far it takes a food to travel from the time you put it inside your mouth and by the time it goes out to your anus. Transit varies from individual. It depends on the type of food you eat like high fiber or high in fat. Diets associated with higher fat like carbohydrates, animal products such as meat, diary and eggs typically contains higher amounts of fat compared to fruits, vegtables and grain.

It's now or never because time flies fast and all you know 2018 will be coming to an end again and how you wish you have started on Day 1.