6 Tips For A Healthy Lifestyle In School healthy lifestyle mental health

 1. Prep your meal and meal plan in advance. Fast food is too readily available wherever you go, especially around uni campuses. It's too easy to give in to the temptation of picking up pizza, subway, tims, etc when on packed schedules with school, work, and sports. If you prep meals on the weekends before the start of the week in bulk, it will make it easier to not have to resort to fast foods.

 2. Limit alcohol. There are ways around going out and drinking and staying healthy. I could make this easy by saying stop drinking altogether but this is university, you’re gonna drink let's not kid ourselves. Just know you’re limits when it comes to cravings. After a night out, we don’t exactly reach for apples and grapes or Greek yogurt in our fridge. You know what late-night food shop you stop at after a night out, mine was 24-pizza. But along the way, I started prepping a post-night-out healthy snack that consisted of Greek yogurt, grapes, and granola. This way I had food to look forward to that had actual nutritional value. Also, drink 1L of water before bed after a night out. Not just to prevent a hangover but drinking severely dehydrates you, you don’t realize just how bad but water after drinking can greatly reduce the dehydration. 

3. Learn to cook. It’s healthier and cheaper than eating out, should be common sense. 

4. Buy in bulk. Aim for non-perishable foods that have long shelf lives and are more cost-effective when bought in big amounts. 

5. Choose seasonal produce. Buy fruits and vegetables that are in season, which are usually cheaper and fresher—local farmers' markets have good deals on fresh produce. 

6. Time your meals and snacks, this gets you used to eating at specific times and prevents you from being hungry at random times and getting random cravings. This is obviously hard when you have shifting class times but try to fit consistent meal/snack times as best as possible.