Health And Diet During Holidays
Holidays are a perfect time to enjoy and chill out with families
and friends. Parties with wide variety of food on display tempt
one and all to indulge in mouth watering delicacies. If you are
the kind who swears by a fitness routine, you might tend to
enjoy less of yummy foods and spend more time worrying about the
increasing waistline. You can still stay healthy and fit by
savoring all the delicacies. Little of planning, a dash of goal
setting and dose of old fashioned discipline and control over
your self will let you enjoy the holiday season without any
worries. Let me list down few ways wherein you can follow your
diet and stay in great shape too.
- Holidays are just an excuse to go off track from your fitness
program. The mindset of people is that since we follow our
fitness regime all week / month / year long, we can indulge in
gorging over those cakes and ice creams. Aim to stay on track
with your fitness program this and all other holidays. By
skipping workouts, eating more, exercising less one tends to
gain weight. It's like going back where we started off from.
Make a decision to stay in shape with all the food around you.
- Holidays are a hectic time. All premeditated schedules can go
haywire. To stay on track, create a work out time table listing
down all the parties, dinners and so on. Keep the time table at
such a place where you are forced to look at it every day. This
serves as a reminder to stick to your time table religiously.
- If you think you would like to lose 25 lbs during holidays
despite enjoying parties, set a goal much before and start
working towards it. Goal can also be to gain few kilos
also.
- With so much lip smacking, gorgeous food all around, you will
feel tempted to just give your fitness program. Keep one day
aside where you can treat your self to all your cravings and
give in to all your bingeing. Stick to your fitness program rest
of the days. And don't feel even one iota of guilt while
satiating your self. Schedule your day to cheat on fitness
routine when you have major event lined up.
- If you skip one day of exercise, don't despair. Get on with it
the next day. Nothing goes waste. One day of holiday in your
fitness schedule should be a motivating factor for you to get
back on your fitness regime.
- If you have planned a big dinner, you might tend to skip
either morning or afternoon meal. Avoid changing your eating
pattern. Treat the big dinner party at night just like regular
dinner time and eat how much you would eat normally.
- Control food portion size in holidays. Eat your favourite
foods in moderation. Overindulgence will show around your
waistline.
- One always has choices, no matter where you are. Make the best
possible choice based on the alternatives available in front of
you. If it's impossible, eat a small portion than a big one.
- Drink 8 - 10 glasses of water daily. Drink few glasses of
water before dinner to control your appetite and not kill those
hunger pangs. If you just drink and not eat a well balanced
meal, you will bloat. Drink water throughout the day to maintain
a steady state of hydration.