How Can You Get Healthy? Small…Consistent…Steps.

Many of us stop and start so much when trying to get to our finish line. Using this “Dotted Line” path toward your goals, is one way to accomplish your goals and one that many of us default to because of life.

However, making incremental progress, consistently, is really helpful for actually reaching your goal rather than blasting out progress (starting) then stopping, then starting again and repeating that time consuming energetic time cycle. Just Keep Going.

Green Drink Tips and Hacks

Here’s an example that I’ve been putting into practice more recently.  I’d ideally like to have a fresh green juice every day…but I have a shortcut go-to, so I can accomplish this a bit easier. I want to stay on my health goal path to keep my immune system at a more optimal level, and help counterbalance my sugar intake, when I’m not quite sticking to my sweet reduction goal. However, I don’t have the time every day to pull out the juicer, juice, and clean up.

1.) My Really FAST Green Shot Hack:

I figured out for me what works in a pinch. I have some greens powder that I can spoon into a glass jar, add a few ounces of water, juice, or coconut almond milk (one of my new favorite dairy alternatives) and make a really fast “Green Shot.” It goes down in 1-3 gulps. Is it live enzymatic juice? No. But it sure beats many other options I could easily falter to, and I’m making a consistent step towards my “more greens” goal.

I talk about this fun hack in this episode of my Hoop Love Ya’ll Show:

2.) Next Best Blending Green Drink Hack:

If I have a little more time, I have a bunch of frozen fruits and vegetables that I can throw in my NutriBullet blender with some water, juice, yogurt, or almond/coconut milk and make a smoothie. One of my tricks to not wasting food is to get fruits and veggies cut up and into the freezer just before they head south. This works GREAT for taking advantage of on sale or discount produce–especially if it’s organic! The best part of this is that you get your juice AND the Fiber, too–which most people don’t get enough of in their food intake. That fiber helps with metabolism, is a scrub brush for your intestines, and helps give you a nice sustained, nutritious energy. Yes, please to that!

Super Immune Boost/Inflammation Reducer Hack:

FYI–Ginger is Fabulous in the freezer–I can cut it with my kitchen scissors and it lasts so much longer without shriveling up before I get to use it.

3.) Best Green Drink Option-Press or Juice:

If I have the time, and produce in the fridge, I will get out the juice press (we have an Omega which I love). It’s slower but really presses out the juice so darn well. I can also bring out the big juicer (we have a Breville) and go to town. I like to make up a bunch and store it in glass bottles for the fridge. You could freeze it…if you put it in plastic bottles (now I’ve gotta go try this). Leave a bit of space for expansion, if freezing.

Juicing is even more time consuming for me because I have gone to the veggie side and really load my drinks up with lots of vegetables and very little fruit. My husband, on the other hand–he prefers a highly drinkable juice, which for him includes much more sweetness and fruit with a hint of veggies. So that takes a while. But I love him and want to make sure he drinks it if I’m making the effort to juice it.

4.) Delegate Your Green Drinks Hack:

Of course if schedule and effort are issues, you can swing by a juice bar where they can make it up fresh for you–and to your liking. It can be pricey, but your time is definitely worth it. Plus you can save money in the long run with your improved health care costs (and perhaps no medications).

5.) Buy Your Green Drink Pre-Made Hack:

In a pinch, the pre-bottled juices at your local grocery store will do, too–although most load them up with extra sugary fruits like apple, pear and grape to make them more palatable for the general public. When you drink sweet juices, you are missing the fiber which helps properly regulate the insulin in your body. So basically you are getting a sugar rush…just a little healthier than a candy bar. Make sure to read and research your labels–there’s lots of sneaky ingredients out there you should be aware of before consuming.

No matter what you do, do something–anything–that you know will lead you in a positive direction to your goals. One thing matters. Especially if it’s followed up by another one thing, and another one thing, consistently.

“Just Keep Going.” That gets me to my goal, which is a daily effort and work in progress. Or as Dory from Finding Nemo would say, “Just keep swimming!” (Thanks to Ellen DeGeneres, the voice of Dory.)

~Hoop Love, Ya’ll!  ~ Che’ Rippinger​

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~Che’ Rippinger is Hip The Hoopla‘s CHO (Chief Hooping Officer)/Owner/Founder and head humorist, with heart. She’s been hula hooping since 2008 and founded Hip The Hoopla in 2011 – while teaching, performing and making pro custom dance hula hoops. A dancer most of her life (30+years), Che’ has also been a humor writer/columnist, illustrator and cartoonist for The Denver Post and her Touché! Cartoons have been featured in PLAYGIRL Magazine.

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