How to Survive the Xmas Season With your Waistline the Size it was Before.
Tiz the season to drink lots and eat lots! Christmas functions abound and let’s not forget those BBQs. It’s been a slow start to summer but it seems most days it’s here now. This post will take you through all the strategies you can use to minimize the damage to your waistline and your metabolism over the silly season, while still have loads of fun.
Use workouts as a buffer to excessive carbohydrate consumption: If you know you’re heading for an evening of drinking and eating more sugar than usual, make sure you’ve done a tough interval-style workout that day or the day before. This will use up your glycogen stores, leaving space for any sugary ‘naughties’ that you consume to be restocked as muscle fuel rather than heading straight for your fat cells. Your workout will need to be at least 30min long (shorter if you’re doing maximal sprints) but no longer than one hour (if you can go for an hour you’re not working out hard enough). Make sure this is effective by keeping the food you eat really low in carbs until the planned event, skip sugary fruit, potatoes, bread, pasta, rice, sugar etc.
Skip the bread, pasta and rice dishes: There’s usually plenty of meat and veggies at BBQs and Christmas functions you can choose instead. Avoid the starchy dishes and save the space for a bit of nice wine or desert instead. You don’t need the empty carbohydrate calories and quite frankly all of these things don’t taste that great anyway, at least not compared to pavlova or cheesecake!
Keep on track in between events: Get right back on track after each event and before the next one. Your body can cope perfectly well with the odd indulgence, but don’t declare the whole month of December to be a goner! Eating according to my fat flush meal plan in between events is a great way to make sure your body doesn’t start running on a sugar metabolism again and it stays well able to cope with a weekly blow out! I’m going to make the latest fat flush meal plan, cookbook and guidebook available to all my newsletter subscribers for only $20, email me if you want to get your hands on it! (This plan is usually only available during select fat flush times in combination with bootcamp for $67).
Plan a detoxing get back on track programme for January: Once the holidays are over it’s a great time to do a 14 day fat flush programme (these will be starting and running every Monday from the 9th of Jan till the 6th of Feb). This will help you shed any unwanted waist you may have gained over the holidays and help get your metabolism back on track if it needs a kick-start.
There's your guide, print it out and stick it on your fridge. If you follow this plan you will not run into anywhere near the problems most people do over the holidays. Remember, it's not the what you do between christmas and new years that matters the most, it's what you do between new years and christmas!
Use workouts as a buffer to excessive carbohydrate consumption: If you know you’re heading for an evening of drinking and eating more sugar than usual, make sure you’ve done a tough interval-style workout that day or the day before. This will use up your glycogen stores, leaving space for any sugary ‘naughties’ that you consume to be restocked as muscle fuel rather than heading straight for your fat cells. Your workout will need to be at least 30min long (shorter if you’re doing maximal sprints) but no longer than one hour (if you can go for an hour you’re not working out hard enough). Make sure this is effective by keeping the food you eat really low in carbs until the planned event, skip sugary fruit, potatoes, bread, pasta, rice, sugar etc.
Skip the bread, pasta and rice dishes: There’s usually plenty of meat and veggies at BBQs and Christmas functions you can choose instead. Avoid the starchy dishes and save the space for a bit of nice wine or desert instead. You don’t need the empty carbohydrate calories and quite frankly all of these things don’t taste that great anyway, at least not compared to pavlova or cheesecake!
Keep on track in between events: Get right back on track after each event and before the next one. Your body can cope perfectly well with the odd indulgence, but don’t declare the whole month of December to be a goner! Eating according to my fat flush meal plan in between events is a great way to make sure your body doesn’t start running on a sugar metabolism again and it stays well able to cope with a weekly blow out! I’m going to make the latest fat flush meal plan, cookbook and guidebook available to all my newsletter subscribers for only $20, email me if you want to get your hands on it! (This plan is usually only available during select fat flush times in combination with bootcamp for $67).
Plan a detoxing get back on track programme for January: Once the holidays are over it’s a great time to do a 14 day fat flush programme (these will be starting and running every Monday from the 9th of Jan till the 6th of Feb). This will help you shed any unwanted waist you may have gained over the holidays and help get your metabolism back on track if it needs a kick-start.
There's your guide, print it out and stick it on your fridge. If you follow this plan you will not run into anywhere near the problems most people do over the holidays. Remember, it's not the what you do between christmas and new years that matters the most, it's what you do between new years and christmas!
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