Don’t Take a Holiday from Weight Loss!
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How was your Thanksgiving? If you are like most people, including me, you probably ate more food than normal, as well as different kinds of foods than you eat on a normal day (like pumpkin and pecan pie, very tasty). You know what? That’s ok, on one condition - you don’t stretch the holiDAY to a holiMONTH - or longer.
You see it’s not Thanksgiving day, or Christmas day that stops or reverses our fitness progress, it’s when we use the holiday season as an excuse to slack off on our good nutritional and exercise habits.
Thanksgiving to New Years stretches about 6 weeks, about 12% of the year. Just about enough time to undo everything you have done for the entire year, or worse!
How long does it take to lose 10 pounds of bodyfat compared to how long it takes to put it back on? Do you really want to start over?
What are some strategies to get through the holidays and keep on progressing with our healthy lifestyle goals?
1. Keep Training - I worked out Thanksgiving morning. Do you know why? Because it was a training day, simple as that! I slept a couple hours longer than I normally would that morning, and I had a great workout.
2. Be Aware - Going to parties can be hard on your nutrition. When we are in social situations we tend to follow the crowd - and that usually means eating, and eating, and eating some more.
3. Plan Ahead - Have a plan in place before you go out shopping and to parties. Don’t be tempted to grab fast food because it’s convenient. Plan when and where you are going to eat - and choose healthy. At parties scout out the table and hit the vegetable plate first - it will fill you up and help keep you from overindulging in the other goodies.
My goal is to come out of the holiday season in better shape than I went in. I don’t want to have to by bigger pants for Christmas.
I always hated getting clothes for Christmas anyway!
