MORNING

Start as you mean to go on thanks to a routine

Make breakfast as early, regular and hearty as you can with an aim to increase your protein and fibre intake. Warming oatmeal with stewed fruit, eggs on wholemeal toast, natural yogurt and cottage cheese all help to keep our blood sugar on an even keel. Aim to eat food within a 12-hour window, so if you breakfast at 7am, try and plan dinner for 7pm.

Sun-gazing is an ancient Ayurvedic practice that floods the body with vitamin D and the natural energy of the sun, says Ayurvedic practitioner

Susan Weis-Bohlen. “Use drishti gaze – a slightly out-of-focus gaze – towards sunrise or sunset for 10-20 seconds, building up to a minute. Feel free to move your eyes around.”

Do some gentle stretching to ease your body into the day, ideally facing east to receive the energy of the rising sun. Try a little meditation, building daily one minute at a time.

Go for an energising walk or run and get as much early daylight as you can. Jot down your observations in a journal and see what changes season to season.