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Guest Fatim Jarju
25 Habits To Let Go By The Time You Hit 25, Cuz YOLO Only Looks Good In Texts
~2.1 mins read
Turning 25 is a year of many milestones. You are now a true adult who is expected to hold a job, have completed at least your graduation if not your masters. While a lot of things are expected of you, there are a few you should expect out of yourself as well. Here’s a list of habits and things you should let go off by the time you reach 25. Because you might feel like a kid, but you’re not. You’re closer to 30 now than you are to 18.
1. Binge-drinking your face off at open bars and making a complete fool out of yourself.
2. Thrift shopping, because the key to adulthood is--buy little but buy good. Shopping at Sarojini Nagar is affordable, but not sustainable.
3. Your entitlement. You don’t “deserve” something unless you have truly worked for it.
4. Believing in cheat days rather than having a balanced diet all throughout the year.
5. Believing that your body is okay without any physical activity.
6. Thinking that not responding to someone is sweeter than politely rejecting.
7. Live in a bubble that everyone has “the one” assigned to them. No, sis!
8. Being proud of your attitude rather than fixing it.
9. Asking for money from your parents despite being employed. High time you became financially independent.
10. Financial independence also means it is high time you start investing and saving money for a rainy day.
11. Wanting people to react or act the way you want them to.
12. Attaching yourself to your partner so much that you both are left with a MIA friend circle.
13. Being rude to someone because you don’t like them. Suck it up, girl, life is not your parents’ home.
14. Not tipping at parlours and restaurants.
15. Living your life on your parents’ terms.
16. Thinking that your clock is ticking and you need to get married.
17. Not packing a tiffin for work. You’re not just saving money, you’re getting up early and ensuring you eat home-cooked food.
18. Comparing anything in your life to that of friends and influencers on social media.
19. There is no pride in staying up late at night, except for some occasions.
20. Thinking short-term is the biggest hindrance to your goals. Have patience.
21. If you’re making excuses, then you probably didn’t want it that bad in the first place.
22. Don’t expect people to stick around if you cannot agree to let go of your controlling behaviour.
23. Your dependency on social media, phones, television and everything you while away hours at, because it is a form of addiction at the end of the day.
24. Delaying a task. Get your work done now so that you are free later and the next day, or even the whole week.
25. Overall give up on an unhealthy lifestyle all together--eat healthy, stay fit, think good.
By Idiva
1. Binge-drinking your face off at open bars and making a complete fool out of yourself.
2. Thrift shopping, because the key to adulthood is--buy little but buy good. Shopping at Sarojini Nagar is affordable, but not sustainable.
3. Your entitlement. You don’t “deserve” something unless you have truly worked for it.
4. Believing in cheat days rather than having a balanced diet all throughout the year.
5. Believing that your body is okay without any physical activity.
6. Thinking that not responding to someone is sweeter than politely rejecting.
7. Live in a bubble that everyone has “the one” assigned to them. No, sis!
8. Being proud of your attitude rather than fixing it.
9. Asking for money from your parents despite being employed. High time you became financially independent.
10. Financial independence also means it is high time you start investing and saving money for a rainy day.
11. Wanting people to react or act the way you want them to.
12. Attaching yourself to your partner so much that you both are left with a MIA friend circle.
13. Being rude to someone because you don’t like them. Suck it up, girl, life is not your parents’ home.
14. Not tipping at parlours and restaurants.
15. Living your life on your parents’ terms.
16. Thinking that your clock is ticking and you need to get married.
17. Not packing a tiffin for work. You’re not just saving money, you’re getting up early and ensuring you eat home-cooked food.
18. Comparing anything in your life to that of friends and influencers on social media.
19. There is no pride in staying up late at night, except for some occasions.
20. Thinking short-term is the biggest hindrance to your goals. Have patience.
21. If you’re making excuses, then you probably didn’t want it that bad in the first place.
22. Don’t expect people to stick around if you cannot agree to let go of your controlling behaviour.
23. Your dependency on social media, phones, television and everything you while away hours at, because it is a form of addiction at the end of the day.
24. Delaying a task. Get your work done now so that you are free later and the next day, or even the whole week.
25. Overall give up on an unhealthy lifestyle all together--eat healthy, stay fit, think good.
By Idiva
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Guest Fatim Jarju
Cheating Is Good For You! Just Cheat On Your Diet, Not Your Partner
~1.8 mins read
All of us have tried out different diets at some point or the other in our lives. Diets go in and out of fashion just like clothing styles do. In the ’80s and ’90s, fat-free diets were all the fad, now very opposite is true with the high fat keto diet. In fact, the keto was so popular that it was Google’s most searched diet last year.
The thing with diets though, is that they are hard to stick to. We start out all motivated and willing to see it through, but somewhere along the way, we start faltering and then we break down and go on a junk food binge. Human willpower can only go so far.
Cheat days are the answer
How do you deal with this pesky problem of losing the will to continue on a particular diet? Cheat days. For once in your life, cheating will actually be good for you.
We need to remember that we are not machines. We can’t just readjust our settings and recalibrate how we live our everyday lives. Human beings are adaptable but we’re not automatically so. We need time and space to adjust to changes, especially to lifestyle changes.
This is why having a designated cheat day (or two) is the best way to avoid ruining a well-set diet plan. Give yourself a day where you can eat what you want. It could be a Friday where you want to celebrate the end of the work week or a Saturday so you can enjoy a night out.
A cheat day lets you blow off steam. By the time we’re almost done with a week on a regimented diet, most of us are like a pressure cooker ready to blow its lid off. Instead of letting ourselves explodes, we should gently release the pressure. A cheat day does exactly that.
Another important reason to observe a cheat day is that it keeps you motivated to stay on a diet. If you expect yourself to follow a strict diet every single day 100% of the time, when you do crack and end up binge eating, you immediately end up feeling demotivated. Most people give up on a diet as soon as they slide and end up junk food bingeing.
You shouldn’t let one setback make you quit altogether. As clichéd as it is, failure is a stepping stone to success. We’re human and we should cut ourselves some slack. Nobody can be perfect, especially a person on a diet. So, give yourself a cheat day and chill.
By Idiva
The thing with diets though, is that they are hard to stick to. We start out all motivated and willing to see it through, but somewhere along the way, we start faltering and then we break down and go on a junk food binge. Human willpower can only go so far.
Cheat days are the answer
How do you deal with this pesky problem of losing the will to continue on a particular diet? Cheat days. For once in your life, cheating will actually be good for you.
We need to remember that we are not machines. We can’t just readjust our settings and recalibrate how we live our everyday lives. Human beings are adaptable but we’re not automatically so. We need time and space to adjust to changes, especially to lifestyle changes.
This is why having a designated cheat day (or two) is the best way to avoid ruining a well-set diet plan. Give yourself a day where you can eat what you want. It could be a Friday where you want to celebrate the end of the work week or a Saturday so you can enjoy a night out.
A cheat day lets you blow off steam. By the time we’re almost done with a week on a regimented diet, most of us are like a pressure cooker ready to blow its lid off. Instead of letting ourselves explodes, we should gently release the pressure. A cheat day does exactly that.
Another important reason to observe a cheat day is that it keeps you motivated to stay on a diet. If you expect yourself to follow a strict diet every single day 100% of the time, when you do crack and end up binge eating, you immediately end up feeling demotivated. Most people give up on a diet as soon as they slide and end up junk food bingeing.
You shouldn’t let one setback make you quit altogether. As clichéd as it is, failure is a stepping stone to success. We’re human and we should cut ourselves some slack. Nobody can be perfect, especially a person on a diet. So, give yourself a cheat day and chill.
By Idiva
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