Unique Love Triangle

Lets look at this unique love triangle!

1.     Exercise - Activity to improve, challenge and build muscular and cardio-ventricular system. In simple words, it helps you build muscles, improve your heart and lung capacity.

2.     Diet - Food that we eat which provides us with energy to survive, thrive and build immunity.

3.     Sleep - Helps you recover from physical and mental fatigue. 

As I had mentioned earlier, these are the three factors that make-up for your good health. They are so well connected and dependent on one other that I call them a love triangle.   

Now, let's look at their relationship with each other.

Exercise - Diet

·       When you exercise, you use energy and the same energy is supplied by the food you eat.

·       Type of food you eat will decide the energy levels you have for exercise.

·       Regular exercise will regulate your digestive juices and hunger pangs. This will improve the energy utilisation and choice of food that you make.

·       Choice of healthier, un/semi processed or whole food items will increase your performance and energy levels for exercise.

This cycle can work in reverse way as well.

When you don't exercise you don't use the energy produced by food. When you don't use this energy it will be stored as fat which will induce lethargy. This will make you reach out for easy\packed or fast food which in turn would spike your hunger pangs. You will eventually feel tired and not have the energy to exercise.

Diet - Sleep

·       When you eat un/semi processed food, your digestive system is not overloaded and this helps your body to be relaxed and aids your sleep quality.

·       When your digestive and excretory systems are working well, it helps you have an uninterrupted sleep cycle. 

·       Quality sleep will help regulate body sugar levels and hunger pangs.

·       This will help improve efficiency of the digestive system.

When this cycle reverses, it looks like this.

When you eat too much of processed foods,  you feel sleepy and lethargic. (??However, this sleep will not be uninterrupted or quality sleep??). This will increase the risk of acidity and constipation which will in turn disturb your sleep patterns. And disturbed sleep will invite low energy levels and abnormal hunger pangs. And as soon as you eat highly processed food, this cycle continues.

Sleep - Exercise

·       Good night sleep increases your recovery from the physical wear and tear. By adding some exercises into your routine, you will wake up fresh, active and energetic.

·       This energy will spring you out of the bed and would want you to exercise more.

·       Exercising will release feel good hormones which will make you happy and less stressed and this will gradually aid your sleep. 

This cycle can also work in the reverse direction.

Poor sleep quality will make you feel lethargic and hungry which will leave you with no motivation to do any exercises. This would result in stress and fatigue and also intervene in your sleep quality.

In order to achieve a healthy lifestyle, you will have to make them all work together in great sync! 

How to make them work for you? I will cover that in my next blog. Till then keep it healthy and happy!

Cheers...

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Dhaval Bhadeshiya

Certified Fitness and Lifestyle coach

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