Learn effective strategies to prevent a cold when you feel it coming on. Boost your immune system and ward off illness with these tips and tricks.

Winter is coming, and it’s a great time to get skufed! What are we talking about? You don’t have to suck in your stomach under your sweater anymore. The fast approach of darkness makes you want to sit on the couch and watch TV series. Food delivery easily brightens up dull evenings…

When ordering another pizza, remember that spring will come sooner than you think, but they still judge you by your clothes (read: by your appearance). To survive the winter without losing your health and physical fitness, here are 10 tips from a nutritionist and fitness trainer.

How to Prevent a Cold When You Feel it Coming.

1. Change your home image

We all love to walk around the house in a stretched out T-shirt and holey sweatpants. I am for comfort, but against an untidy appearance. Therefore, a tracksuit is a great idea for relaxing at home after work. You can go out in it and not scare the pizza delivery guy. Unless, of course, after my advice you change your mind about ordering it.

If you are worried about the high price of suits in official brand stores, you can always find budget analogues on marketplaces.

2. Reduce your TV time

The most important attribute of the skouf is the TV. There is always something to talk about and argue about with it. But is it necessary? Maybe it is worth analyzing the notorious screen time and realizing that watching the same programs takes up the entire evening, or even the night?

There are several options here: don’t watch, sell (if you don’t have the willpower, just don’t turn it on), donate to charity, or only connect to a certain set of TV channels. For example, with movies and series, but don’t get sucked into them, but only allocate a certain amount of time.

3. Give up beer

The second no less important attribute of the skouf after the TV is beer. I won’t give statistics. Everything is clear anyway. In your youth, you can hang out in a bar all night, and then calmly go to classes at the university, having slept for half an hour on the subway. But after 30, it is enough to simply not get enough sleep to feel broken and look rumpled all day. Moreover, drinking (especially regularly) is no longer fashionable.

4. Count steps instead of levels in a computer game

So you achieve the title of “conqueror of all orcs”, and what next? A virtual crown only makes you proud for a moment, and then it’s just a picture. It’s much cooler to overcome your inner demons: laziness, apathy and despondency.

Try to reach the daily limit of 10 thousand steps. And for this, just like in a computer game, you will need magic tools: a good pedometer and headphones with your favorite music. To constantly pump up your level of coolness, increase the limit, reach new heights. More steps, more intense walking, and maybe even running.

5. Change your hairstyle

You might even have to change your hairdresser. Especially if it’s “Aunt Valya” from a salon like “all haircuts for 150 rubles.” Clients are usually offered the so-called classics here. Alas, more often than not, this definition simply hides something terribly outdated.

Try going to a modern barbershop. Believe me, the prices there are quite reasonable. By the way, you can hint to your other half and get a certificate for a service as a gift. New Year is just around the corner.

6. Listen to your ex’s opinion

Advice for the bravest: ask your ex-girlfriend how she would like you to look. Perhaps you didn’t listen to her much at one time, but now that the passions have died down, it’s time to listen to constructive criticism. She will tell you exactly what’s wrong with you, and (she’s a girl and understands this), she will be able to advise on the best ways to upgrade.

7. Set a goal and be prepared to answer for failure

You can involve a friend or that same ex-girlfriend in the process (unless, of course, the bridges have been burned with napalm).

Set yourself 10/30/50/100 goals for the year in the areas of fitness, career, self-realization, travel, etc. If you don’t achieve them, promise to give your friend/girlfriend your most expensive thing or give him/her a very expensive gift. And it’s not about greed. Well, or not only about it! You are a man. So, you can turn goals into tasks and achieve them!

8. Buy a membership to a fitness club

Perhaps this is the first truly serious step away from the skuf. Winter is the best time. The main thing is, don’t think that everyone will laugh and point at your belly (if you already have one). I’ll let you in on a secret – everyone only looks at themselves and their progress. But you can definitely make friends at the fitness club. Nothing brings people together like common interests. And then it’s a stone’s throw to changes in other areas of life.

9. Stop being jealous and start taking action

The outside world is not dangerous, but very interesting. I will say a banality, but today the trend is towards manifestation. So remember what you dreamed about as a child. Football, dancing, acting classes, learning Spanish to go to a bullfight. Will you say something like: “Oh, all these things are for girls”? Not at all. They are for the child that is in each of us.

And finally, here’s a set of tips on how to quickly shake things up so as not to get bored:

1. rent an expensive car and drive along the busiest street in your city (it sounds a little cringe-worthy, but you’ll definitely feel cool);
2. buy a few pairs of brightly colored socks;
3. collect funny memes and throw them at cool girls (the main thing is to make sure that the information hasn’t become outdated while you were staring exclusively at the TV);
4. try strange-looking (and tasting) foods (pineapple with gorgonzola might seem really tasty);
5. take part in flash mobs. Boredom runs away when we dance in a public place and everyone is looking at us;
6. Laugh at stereotypes. Criticizing them in a humorous way is the perfect way to show that you are not a skuf!