Stay Protected Against Blue Light

Whether you’re staring at your phone, laptop screen, tablet, you name it – the blue light emitting from the screen to your face and eyes for hours on end can’t be good for you.

We’re all on our phones or laptops more than we’d like to admit. Some people work office jobs and have no choice but to stare at a screen all day.

Blue light can strain your eyesight, give you headaches, and even cause faster aging for your skin.

Here are some ways to minimize the effects of blue light:

1. Blue light glasses – I have a pair of glasses I wear every time I know I’m going to be staring at a screen for an extended period of time. They look like regular glasses, but the lenses soften the blue light and make your eyes see it as a soft-yellow tone.

1. Protection spray – Believe it or not, cosmetic brands make sprays to mist your face with to help with blue light blockage. The brand I use is Volition Beauty. It was actually gifted to me from my coworker. There’s not a day where I haven’t used it!

1. Lowering the brightness on your screen – This one’s pretty obvious, but many, including myself, sometimes make their screens brighter than necessary. There’s no need to have your screen lighting up the room. Take it down a few notches. It’ll be better for your eyes and skin in the long run!

While getting my hair done last week, one of the hairdressers was talking to me and my hairdresser about her struggle with her vegan diet she had just started. She talked about how she’s lacking energy and had to stop going to the gym because she simply cannot make it through a workout without feeling drained.

This immediately made me think of when I was doing a vegan diet for almost two years. I had stopped for the same reason. The amount of exercise I did was too much to keep up with such a restrictive diet.

Yes, veganism can be healthy if you eat the right amount of every macronutrient, but that’s one thing many people cannot do.

There’s no perfect diet for everyone. Everyone’s body is different and reacts differently to certain diets. Some swear by keto, some live for Paleo, Whole30, veganism, you name it. There’s no perfect diet.

Collagen is an important protein found in animals and that makes up around 70 percent of the protein in our own skin. It gives us healthy looking skin, muscle health, joint health, healthy again and more.

There’s no downsides of incorporating collagen in your life!

As someone who has counted calories for about five years, I wanted to let that go in 2020. I had struggled with anorexia and orthorexia in the past, but even after recovering, I never let go of counting calories. Counting calories made me feel like I had some control over my diet, but I always found myself aiming for the lower-calorie option when I was eating.

Over the holidays, I did my best to go to the gym and try to keep my calorie counting app around for part of it. On days like Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day, the most you can do is just shrug it off and say “I’ll try again tomorrow,” but I kept letting myself get upset over it.

This year, I ditched calorie counting apps entirely, which actually happened by accident. When I say by accident, I mean that I became extremely busy and had to make more time for school and work.

The good things that came out of my busy schedule are not pinning myself to the gym everyday and eating intuitively by not letting an app make caloric decisions for me.

Intuitive eating has given me much more mental peace over counting calories. I’ll eat when I’m hungry, but won’t stuff myself if I’m not hungry. I think it’s a great balance, and I’ll occasionally go to the gym here and there. 

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