Be consistent. Research has shown that to lose 10 percent of your body weight, and keep it off, you need to exercise for one hour, five days a week. This level of exercise is only required if you are overweight, as you have an accumulated an exercise debt that must be repaid to regain your health.
Gratitude can help you sleep better. iStock/Squaredpixels. In a study from Grant MacEwan University in Alberta, Canada, anxious students slept better when they jotted down a list of things they were thankful for before bed every night for a week than when they didn't do the writing exercise.
According to Dr. Robert Emmons, the feeling of gratitude involves two stages (2003): 1  First comes the acknowledgment of goodness in oneâs life. 2  Second, gratitude is recognizing that some of the sources of this goodness lie outside the self.