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You've started on your new health program: you exercise 5-6 days per week, drink way more water than ever before (hello bathroom breaks!) and have totally revamped your diet.

And while these are all positive and necessary changes, you may not realize that wellness is an overall encompassing state, and it involves more than just exercising and eating properly. 

Wellness takes into account everything from your career to your finances to your home and your relationships. 

If you feel like you are making changes that just aren’t leading to success, it may be that you aren’t addressing all the areas that your health and wellness entails. 

Here are a few areas to pay attention to that you may have missed: 

Your hormones play a role in so many aspects of your life that you may not even realize how often they are at work!

Governing everything from your mood to your happiness and how you feel; impacting your regular daily functions, reproduction and digestion, and even dictating when you sleep, they certainly are an area of your health and wellness that deserves your attention, and more than that need to be in tip top shape. 

For many of us though, that’s not the case. 

Whether you find yourself regularly down and blue, feel low in energy and lethargic, or you are like several women who suffer from skin breakouts and irregular cycles, your hormones may be more out of whack than you think. 

Before you go see the doc though, try these natural methods of getting things back on track:

You wake up in the morning, kind of tired of your usual oatmeal, or green smoothie and are thinking that you would like to try something different. 

You give it some thought, coming up with a few ideas, only to think yourself, “yeah, but I can’t have that, because it’s not breakfast food!” 

You might not think of veggies as breakfast food, and instead be inclined to have fruit, but with their lower sugar and carbohydrate content, and rich nutrient profile, arguably, veggies are one of the best things you can eat to start your day. 

Turn your pre-conceived ideas of acceptable breakfast foods on their head and try these delicious ways of integrating veggies into the most important meal of the day: 

If you’ve been seeing a lot of images popping up in your newsfeed about new Pilates studios, a new Pilates workout, or your friend trying out a Pilates class, it’s for good reason. 

This core focused fitness trend, is an amazing way to build core strength, and improve your overall physique. 

It is low impact and serves as a great way to reduce several other pains and maladies within your body, which, without you even realizing, may be from low core strength and stability. 

Check out these benefits of Pilates, and why you should give it a try:

When it comes to this time of year, we always focus on spring-cleaning our house. 

We clean out cupboards, get rid of old clothes, de clutter the kitchen, and maybe even tackle the garage. 

But it’s also a great time of year to put some extra time and love into your health and focus on cleansing your body physically and mentally. 

As the winter is now far behind us and summer is approaching, set yourself up for the fresh season ahead by engaging in some of these spring cleaning activities: