5 Self-Care Reminders for Winter

I'm not a doctor (ha! can you imagine?), so your mileage may vary. But these are a few health-related things I have to remind myself to keep up in winter months. You, too?

Drink Water
It's easy to let this slip when the temps cool off. I prefer straight water, but do drink lots of hot tea in winter. That we don't heat our house helps. :)

Moisturize, Moisturize, Moisturize
Like, right out of the shower, just after toweling off. Skin, lips, hair. I've heard vitamin E can help here, but I don't take a supplement. I do eat more fish now, though. Oily ones are supposed to help with tissue maintenance.

Wear Sunscreen
Those low angles of sunlight can be deceptive. So can cloudy skies. My daily sunscreen (SPF 15) is in my moisturizer, so I can peg two birds at once.

Get Outside
Not only can the sun be shy in winter, it's lazy too: late to rise and early to retire. I try to get at least half an hour of natural light every day: eating lunch outside, taking walk or stretch breaks in the sun.

Be Social
Har. This one's a push year-round -- I'm no butterfly. But winter's low light already affects my sleep patterns; I tend to sleep 8-9 hours a night in winter, compared to 7 in summer. I don't feel emotionally depressed, but to help prevent that I'm going to make an effort to see friends more often this winter, meeting them out or hosting them for dinner. Lucky for me, I work with most of them.

Do you have winter-related health reminders?