Words of Wellness with Shelly
Do you get confused by all of the information that is available regarding ways to improve your health and wellness? Do you often become frustrated or overwhelmed with decisions on how to be your healthiest? We all know and understand how important our health and wellness is to the vitality of our lives, however navigating the wealth of health and wellness information available can often feel overwhelming. Understanding the significance of our well-being in leading fulfilling lives is crucial, yet determining what steps to take that are essential for our health can often be confusing.
Welcome everyone to "Words of Wellness"! In this podcast, hosted by Shelly Jefferis, M.A., a seasoned health and wellness professional with over 35 years in the industry, all of your questions will be answered and clarity will be provided through personal stories, education, tips and inspiration. Throughout her profession, Shelly has always had the heart and desire to help others feel their best and live their best lives through her supportive and compassionate approach. Through engaging solo and guest episodes, several topics will be addressed, questions will be answered and clarity will be provided in an effort to lead you to a healthier, more energetic life. With a master’s degree in kinesiology, extensive experience as an educator, speaker, coach, and entrepreneur, Shelly brings a wealth of knowledge and a genuine passion for empowering others to feel their best. By featuring industry experts and relatable individuals, the podcast promises personal stories, practical advice, and inspiration. She is excited to come to you weekly sharing all she has experienced, learned and discovered through the years. Whether you're seeking to elevate your well-being, gain practical insights for personal health, or simply be inspired to live a high quality vibrant life, this is the podcast is for YOU! Be sure to tune in weekly and join us along our "Words of Wellness" journey and embark on a path toward a healthier and more fulfilling quality of life full of happiness, energy and joy!
Words of Wellness with Shelly
Healthy Travel Hacks: Shelly Share's 5 Tips for Staying Healthy on the Road
Are you ready to travel without compromising your health? Join Shelly as she explores the best strategies to maintain your wellness journey while on the go. From staying hydrated to packing nutritious snacks, these five simple tips will help you stay on track with your wellness goals no matter where your travels take you.
Discover the importance of hydration, especially when navigating through different time zones or busy airport terminals. Shelly also shares how packing healthy snacks can save you from unhealthy impulse buys and set you up for sustained energy.
Learn how to maintain your nutrition routine while traveling, including carrying essential supplements or sticking to your daily regimen, ensuring you remain energized throughout your trip. Shelly also emphasizes the role of exercise, as she offers suggestions for getting workouts in while on the road, and let's not forget the significance of prioritizing quality sleep, even amidst the chaos of travel.
Don't let your wellness take a vacation! Embrace this journey of healthy traveling and discover how small changes can significantly impact your overall well-being. Tune in, take notes, and get inspired to embark on your next adventure while staying aligned with your health goals.
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Do you get confused by all of the information that bombards us every day on ways to improve our overall health and our overall wellness? Do you often feel stuck, unmotivated or struggle to reach your wellness goals? Do you have questions as to what exercises you should be doing, what foods you should or should not be eating, how to improve your overall emotional and mental well-being? Hello everyone, I am so excited to welcome you to Words of Wellness. My name is Shelly Jeffries and I will be your host. My goal is to answer these questions and so much more to share tips, education and inspiration around all of the components of wellness through solo and guest episodes. With 35 plus years as a health and wellness professional, a retired college professor, a speaker and a multi-passionate entrepreneur, I certainly have lots to share. However, my biggest goal and inspiration in doing this podcast is to share the wellness stories of others with you, to bring in guests who can share their journeys so that we can all learn together while making an impact on the health, the wellness and lives of all of you, our listeners. The ultimate hope is that you leave today with even just one nugget that can enhance the quality of your life, and that you will. We all will, now and into the future, live our best quality of lives, full of energy, happiness and joy. Now let's dive into our message for today.
Speaker 1:Hello everyone, and welcome back to Words of Wellness. My name is Shelly Jeffries and I will be your host, and I hope everyone is doing well, and I hope everyone is doing well. We have a beautiful spring day out here in Southern California, so I know that the weather is not quite like this in other parts of the country, but it's just beautiful and it's nice to have all of the sunshine here, and it just kind of gets you in the mood for spring, summer traveling. And so it brought me to the idea of sharing a few tips with you all when it comes to traveling and keeping your wellness goals somewhat intact, you know, keeping your health in the best condition that you can while you are away from home and what I'm going to share with you. I'm going to share five tips that really helped me, and I want to preface it by saying that it doesn't mean you can't enjoy yourself when you're away. It doesn't mean you can't enjoy yourself when you are on vacation. That is not what this is about. Enjoy yourself when you are on vacation. That is not what this is about. What this is about is feeling your best and having energy and being able to keep your routine somewhat going, even when you go out of town. It just can really help with how you feel when you're away and then, especially, when you come back. So I just wanted to share a few things that help me that, I think, will really help you.
Speaker 1:And this is really fresh on my mind right now because we my husband and I are in a big travel season because it's baseball season for us, which is very exciting. Our youngest son is currently playing for the University of Michigan and then our middle child, our older son, is a D1 baseball coach for Northwestern College, so very exciting. And we are blessed to have our daughter, who is our oldest. She lives closer to home, so we get to see her a little bit more frequently. So that's really nice to be able to have her come home more frequently and we go down and visit her in her area, and so it's just a lot of fun to be close to her.
Speaker 1:But that's kind of what is going on with us. It is springtime, so it's a going on with us. It is springtime, so it's a busy time for us, and next month I'm actually doing a business trip, so I'll be gone for a few days for that. So it just got me thinking today about travels and what we bring with us as we travel and what helps me, personally, kind of stay with my wellness routine and keep that regimen going with what I follow on most every day of my life. So I know that it's not always going to work out and it's not always going to be perfect any way, shape or form, but I did want to share these five tips with you all and hope that it will help you when you go away, whether it's for just a short weekend trip or whether it's vacation time. You know it's again, summer is just around the corner, and that's, of course, the time when many, many of us plan our vacations, our family vacations, and so I just wanted to share a few things to help you with keeping yourself healthy, keeping your immune system strong, as you travel and as you go out of town, whether it's by plane, train or automobile, for that matter, right.
Speaker 1:So one of the first things I want to recommend is staying hydrated. I personally have a hydration electrolyte drink that I drink every morning and I'm happy to, of course, share that with any of you who would like to know more about it. But I drink that every morning. It's the first thing that I do, and I take my electrolyte drink with me when I travel. They come in little sticks so I can pack them very easily. So that helps with my hydration. But the main thing I wanted to say about this is to drink plenty of water.
Speaker 1:I find that it can be challenging to get in all of our fluids when we are out of our routine, when we're traveling town, especially when we're heading let's say, driving to the airport to head out of town. I always make sure that I bring a big container of our clean, filtered water and drink it on the way to the airport, so that I'm just hydrating myself before we get to the airport, before we get on the airplane, and I want to encourage you to do that. We recently traveled from California to Texas. It was a very short trip but a lot of fun, and we had a very, very early, early flight. So our flight left Friday morning at 6 am, so we left our house about 3.30, 3.40 am, so that was a little crazy, but I still grabbed my water, took it with me, drank it in the car and just made sure to hydrate my body before we left and jumped on the airplane. So I want to encourage you to do that, and it's one of the first things that I always look for when we travel. If we're staying in a hotel, I always make sure that we have plenty of water, and so that's the number one tip I can share with you.
Speaker 1:Number two is to pack some healthy snacks. It's so easy when we are at the airport or on the go to grab something quick, and that quick something isn't always the best choice for us and so I always will bring some healthy snacks, and I always bring some goodies too. I love, like some little bit of dark chocolate, pretzels or some little snacks like that. I bring those with us as well, but I also will bring some trail mix, some protein bars. If I have space, I will bring a little bit of fruit, bring some apples, and you know it's always great to have that and then you also don't end up spending money at the convenience store or at the airport, where everything is so outrageously priced. So healthy snacks is really helpful, and I tend to grab. I know this last week I grabbed like three bags of different bags of trail mix and nuts, and sometimes that can be a little heavy and weigh down your bag. But you know, grab something that will work for you. That can be a quick, easy and somewhat healthy snack when you're on the go.
Speaker 1:The next tip, number three do you follow a nutrition regimen? And if you do, I want to highly encourage you to continue it, even when you are away. And I can tell you that for over the past 10 years I have had a nutrition wellness routine that I have followed daily. I have protein shakes that I drink every single day. I have certain supplements, I have my collagen, I have adaptogens, I have our coffee that I love, that's organic and tested for mold, so it's very clean. I bring all of this with me and I have for years, and I want to encourage you to do the same, whatever it might be.
Speaker 1:If you take supplements, if you take protein shakes, whatever it is, it's part of your nutrition routine on a daily basis. Do your best and bring it with you and you know what. You might miss a day, and that's okay, but if you can stick with your routine, the best that you can, again, it's going to help with your energy. It's going to help with your energy. It's going to help with your immune system. It's going to help keep you hopefully prevent you from getting any kind of sickness when you were traveling. That's kind of when we're more prone to, you know, getting some kind of a bug when we're on the airplane or in a hotel room, whatever the case may be. So I want to encourage you to take your supplements, your protein shakes, whatever it is that you consume, on a regular basis, bring them with you. And I've always been so grateful because the nutrition program that I follow and the company that I am with makes it really simple. We have a lot of different packaging that makes it really easy to travel with. So I'm very, very grateful for that.
Speaker 1:Number four exercise. And why do I share this? Well, again, it's going to help you with your mood. It's going to help you with your energy. Exercise helps also reduce stress, but it also helps strengthen our immune system. So I can share with you this past weekend. Again, it was a very short weekend, quick travel, and Friday was just a complete travel day. Once we got into Texas, we went to to my son's baseball game, and so there wasn't time on that day to fit in any exercise, and I knew that would be the case, so that was okay. But the next day my husband and I went to the fitness center and then the following day I went for a run. And I want to encourage you to do something, get out, go for a walk, take advantage of the fitness center at at a hotel you might be staying at Again, stay in that routine the best that you can. And that exercise again helps with our mood, it helps with our energy, helps with our immune system. And the other thing I want to share about that is when we travel, many times we're traveling to a different time zone and that can disrupt our routine. But if you can still get outdoors and get some fresh air and move your body, it again helps keep you feeling your best, even when you are away from home.
Speaker 1:And then number five, the last one I want to share with you, is sleep. Now, this can be a little bit tricky, especially, like I said, if you're traveling to a different time zone, and sometimes it works in our favor, for example, friday, when we were up in the middle of the night when we went to Texas. It's two hours later there, so we were, of course, ready. We were ready to go to bed at like five o'clock at night pretty much, but it can help in situations like that. Five o'clock at night pretty much, but it can help in situations like that.
Speaker 1:And I just want to encourage you to still do your best to stay on a sleep regimen. I know for me personally, I aim to get at least seven hours of sleep a night, and I do that when I travel as well, and sometimes that sleep can be a little bit more disrupted. Maybe we're not as comfortable where we are staying and that can, of course, affect our sleep. I do bring some natural sleep spray with me, so I always have that when I travel for this very reason, so that I can be sure that I can do my best to get a good night's sleep even when I'm away from home. And it's so important to follow to the best of our ability our routine to maintain our health, maintain our wellness and to just maintain feeling good and to reduce our chance of getting ill while we're away. And it's interesting because the first four tips that I gave you drinking the water, having healthy snacks, your nutrition and then exercise. Those all help with our sleep right. So keep this in mind when you are traveling, when you are going away from home and I know everyone's circumstances are different. I appreciate that Some of you might be traveling with small children and gosh.
Speaker 1:I remember those days when we are at the airport and I see moms and dads with the big stroller and zipping the big stroller in the stroller bag and carrying that along. And we did all of that and my gosh. It was a lot of work but we survived it. But your situation is probably different than mine. I mean, my husband and I are traveling. It's just the two of us. So you know, we don't have to keep track of our little ones anymore. So that makes it a little bit simpler. And, being the fact that it's the two of us, it makes it a little bit easier to do our routine, to go work out at the fitness center and, you know, grab the healthier food and bring our snacks and do all those things.
Speaker 1:So I just felt like I wanted to hop in here and share just a few tips to help you maintain your wellness, your health, even when you're traveling. And again, I will never say it's a perfect scenario, but I hope these suggestions really do help you and that you can incorporate them to some degree when you are traveling, whether, again, it's a weekend away, or whether it's a vacation this summer with your family, whatever it looks like for you, these tips will really help. And again, just to give a quick overview, number one was drinking water, making sure you're keeping your body hydrated and you're replenishing those fluids. Number two bring along some healthy snacks that you can just eat when you're on the go, so that you're not tempted to grab a candy bar or any junk at the airport. Healthy snacks can really, really help us get through when we're traveling. And then bring your nutrition with you. If you're drinking protein shakes, if you're taking supplements, whatever it is you're doing on a regular basis, bring it with you, stick to it the best that you can, and then, of course, still enjoy yourself by all means right, and then fit in a little bit of exercise.
Speaker 1:Just going outdoors and getting some walking and moving your body can really help with the energy, with your mood and, again, with your immune system, and I just want to emphasize that. I know I'm saying that a lot, but that tends to be the time that I think many people tend to get sick, whether we're enclosed in a bus, in a train, in an airplane, we're in a hotel, we're around a lot of different people and you want to keep your immune system strong so that you can fight back any germs that you might come in contact with. Because, let's face it, when we're out of our routine like that, we're more prone to getting those germs and getting affected by them. I know for me personally, the times that I've gotten sick over the last two, three, four years have pretty much always been when I've come back from traveling, and I rarely, rarely get sick, but when it has happened it has been after traveling. So keep that in mind. And again, the last one I mentioned.
Speaker 1:Tip number five sleep. Do your best to stay, maybe not on the exact same sleep schedule, because again we might be in a different time zone, or maybe we're going to events, maybe we're going to a conference and we're up later than normal, or we have events with our family, or whatever the case may be. But do your best, again, to to stick with some good sleep getting again, the goal for adults and what's recommended is seven to nine hours of sleep a night, and I don't know how many of you are getting that. And if you struggle with your sleep, let me know. I have some supplements that may be of help to you, and I know for me personally, once I switched and started this nutritional protocol that I'm on and have been for years, it really, really made a difference with my sleep as well. I never really struggled that much, but I do know that it definitely helps me sleep and it helps me get in that quality sleep which is so, so critical.
Speaker 1:So, again, I hope you find some value in these tips. These are just a few that I think will help you with your travels keeping healthy while you travel, getting some quality nutrition in your body, the best that you can, while, of course, you are still always enjoying yourself. Life is meant to be enjoyed and I will always always say that. So, with that, I hope you get out today and do something for you and your personal wellness and, until next time, have a beautiful, blessed rest of your week.
Speaker 1:Everyone, thank you so much for tuning into today's episode. I hope you gained value and enjoyed our time together as much as I did, and if you know someone who could benefit from today's episode, I would love and appreciate it if you could share with a friend or rate and review words of wellness so that more can hear this message. I love and appreciate you all. Thank you for listening and if you have any questions or topics you would like me to share in future episodes, please don't hesitate to reach out to me through my contact information that is shared in the show notes below. Again, thank you for tuning in to Words of Wellness. My name is Shelly Jeffries and I encourage you to do something for you, for your wellness, on this day. Until next time, I hope you all have a healthy, happy and blessed week. Thank you you.