Simplifying and decluttering your wardrobe
Good morning! I hope you are having a great week. A key task for me to complete by the end of this week is changing over my wardrobe to my winter clothes. I only started changing the clothes in my wardrobe for winter/summer back in 2016. Prior to that I would have all of my clothes in the wardrobe all of the time.
Making this change was one of the easiest ways that I not only simplified my wardrobe but also saved myself significant time across the week. Having only clothes that you know you will wear for the season in the wardrobe means making decisions about what to wear quicker to make and you can easily find what you want to wear. If this concept is new to you, head to this post How to simplify your wardrobe, as it shows step by step (with photos) how I went about this the first time. I limited my wardrobe to 37 items per season. To women who are finding that they have a lot going on and want to make getting dressed less stressful, I highly recommend this approach.
I normally do this change over process in April as that is when the warmer clothes need to come out in Melbourne but I have been putting it off this year, I think because I am just not ready for winter! You can see a previous winter change over I did here - decluttering clothes for the change of season.
I have also started buying a couple of new items for my winter wardrobe and like in this post - Tips for a simple, sustainable winter wardrobe, I am aiming to make it sustainable. If you are keen to see what my winter wardrobe looks like this year and my op shop finds, let me know in the comments below and I will write a post about it!
Have a great week!
Nic
Sleep and how Adapt Drinks Relax can help
Do you have trouble with getting to and staying asleep? Then Adapt Drinks Relax might help you! L-theanine is a key ingredient in Adapt Relax that has studies showing a positive effect on sleep.
In one study, 30 healthy adults were given either 200 mg L-theanine or a placebo daily for four weeks. The participants taking L-theanine took less time to fall asleep, had fewer sleep disturbances, and took fewer sleep medications, compared to the placebo group. One bottle of Adapt Drinks Relax contains 132mg of L-theanine.
If you are not familiar with what L-Theanine is, it is an amino acid that is not common in the diet which promotes relaxation without drowsiness. L-theanine works to help you with sleep as it:
Boosts levels of GABA and other calming brain chemicals. L-theanine elevates levels of GABA, as well as serotonin and dopamine. These chemicals are known as neurotransmitters, and they work in the brain to regulate emotions, mood, concentration, alertness, and sleep, as well as appetite, energy, and other cognitive skills. Increasing levels of these calming brain chemicals promotes relaxation and can help with sleep. {source}
Also, just the act of substituting Relax for your usual glass of alcohol at night might help improve your sleep. Alcohol is a sedative and as a consequence when we drink alcohol and then attempt to go to sleep it actually sedates us. We lose consciousness but don't fall into our natural sleep cycle.
Alcohol also makes us wake up more frequently during the night (even if we don't remember it) so we have greatly disrupted sleep - a reason why we often wake up feeling very tired after drinking alcohol. This 90 second video from Dr Matt Walker, Professor of Neuroscience at UC Berkeley and author of the best-selling book Why We Sleep explains in more detail the negative impacts alcohol has on your sleep.
Click here to head to Adapt Drinks to order your carton.
Have a great rest of the week.
Nic