How To Create A Wellness Routine

Being “well” or achieving wellness requires consistently implementing healthy habits, even small ones, that add up over time. This includes regular exercise, healthy eating, rest, time with family and friends, and eating good food. Once we switch mindsets and understand wellness is a lifestyle, we can find joy in caring for our bodies. Today I want to share how you can create a sustainable wellness routine. These are all things I’ve seen work in my life, and I hope you will also find them helpful. 

Get Back To Basics

Information overload is one of people’s most significant challenges when creating a sustainable wellness routine. We want to set ourselves up for success, so we research and research some more about wellness. We try to find the perfect wellness routine, eat the perfect calories, and exercise just right to reach our goals as quickly as possible.

Researching isn’t bad, but the problem arises when we research so much that we become overwhelmed with information and never take action to start our wellness routine. I suggest creating a realistic wellness routine that you can stick to and enjoy.

Don’t get caught up in fad diets; get quick fit schemes or magic wellness elixirs. Instead, get back to basics and use proven science when creating your routine. Eat healthy food 80% of the time, exercise for 30-40 minutes a day 5-6 times a week, drink water, don’t smoke, limit alcohol and sugar, and get an annual check-up and dental visit. These basic common sense things we know to do have been proven to help people stay well, so let’s start with that.

Incorporate Foods and Exercise You Enjoy

Your wellness routine should include things you like to eat and exercise you enjoy doing; this is how it will become sustainable. If you don’t like green smoothies and running, don’t drink green smoothies, and don’t run. Just because these things are on the “billboard” of wellness doesn’t mean they’re the only things you should do for wellness.

This is your wellness routine, so you should find healthy things you like to eat and exercises you like to do. You can do this by trying healthy foods you haven’t tried before or by creating healthier versions of foods you already eat. Try new fitness classes to discover what activities you may enjoy; many workouts exist. Barre, strength training, Zumba, boot camps, or classes like OrangeTheory, a combination of cardio and strength, are all great.

Once you discover healthy food and exercise you enjoy, make them a regular part of your life and continue to add and try new things along the way. This routine will be one you have for life, so it’s expected that it will change, and you will add and remove things as you learn, grow, and discover new interests in wellness.

Be Consistent With Your Routine

The most crucial thing in creating a sustainable wellness routine is to be consistent with the routine you create. As I mentioned in the last point, your wellness routine should be viewed as a part of your lifestyle, not something you are doing to lose weight for summer or get fit for a race or fitness event. These things can be a great motivator when you start, but they won’t continue once the summer or events are over.

As you create your wellness routine, it’s essential to consider your why, such as “I’m creating it so I will have a good long-term quality of life.” When you look at your wellness routine as a lifestyle, you probably won’t be as hard on yourself when you miss a workout or overeat a bit. This is bound to happen in a lifetime, and it won’t seem as big of a deal as it would if you were just doing a 3-week crash diet.

“May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy,”

— Colossians 1:11

I hope you found this information helpful, and I hope you’ll have a better idea of creating a sustainable wellness routine.