80% of the weight Americans gain occurs each year during the 6 weeks between Thanksgiving and New Years, and we are the fattest nation on Earth because of it. While my readers do NOT represent the average American, the holidays are still a minefield of temptation for your fat cells. With all the food, parties, and demands on your time, these 6 weeks can wreak havoc on your healthy lifestyle.
#1. ENJOY THE HOLIDAYS IN THE HOLIDAYS: Set some parameters in advance about when you will start and stop indulging and stick to your plan. For example, you could say that from noon to bedtime on Thanksgiving, I can eat anything, as long as…
#two. DON’T GO CRAZY: Enjoy moderate and satisfying portions, don’t get carried away with festive food. It’s entirely possible to rack up 10,000 calories on a binge, which means you can gain several pounds of fat in a day if you just go crazy and eat everything and anything on the site because this is your only “freedom” day.
#3. SAY “NO” TO BOBOY TRAPS: Do not take the pecan pie, filling, or sauce home. Leave them with the relatives who really couldn’t care less about what they look like without clothes, their heart, their pancreas, etc. Recent and very expensive research in the Journal of Very Esoteric Science shows that if you have garbage in your house, you will eat it, and that eating garbage makes you fat. Don’t leave land mines around your home, maintain the sanctity of your home by keeping only healthy food in there.
#4. DISCOVER HOW YOU REALLY ARE: I have yet to find myself as a single totally objective person in my life, especially when it comes to his own reflection. One day you look fat, and the next you look great, and there’s usually no rhyme or reason why it changes from minute to minute or day to day. The numbers, on the other hand, are wonderfully cool, objective, and brutally honest.
Choose a day of the week to measure where fat accumulates: in the belly button for men and in the hips and belly button for girls. Say Monday morning or Monday right before you work out – keep the day and time consistent based on your weight, size, etc. it fluctuates every hour, and weighs and measures the important parts. Track it on paper and then you can see if you gain weight, lose weight or keep it off.
#5. ESTABLISH DEFINITE LIMITS: Set an absolute upper limit on how big your waist and/or butt can get. If you’re a man with a 32-inch waist, that’s great, never let it go above 32 ½ or 33. Use your weekly measurements to make sure you’re not kidding yourself by looking in the mirror and saying “oh, it’s not that bad, I can put on a little weight, I still look good.” Stopping after gaining just an inch in your waist and still looking good is MUCH, MUCH easier than letting go and doing nothing about the problem until you finally put on weight.
You can lose an inch from your waist in a month without much trouble, but if you really put on weight, it will take several months and hard work and deprivation that are not so pleasant. Also, sudden fluctuations in weight are terrible for your health and cause fat cells to multiply AND NEVER unmultiply. Ultimately, which makes it that much harder to be skinny and that much easier to be fat.
#6. KEEP ON MAKING TIME TO EXERCISE: Vacations come with lots of parties, travel, and friends and family in town. All of these demand your time. One thing you should absolutely get into the habit of doing is planning out your weeks and days before they start. Some people think this sounds complicated, or that it will make them anal and stiff. Nonsense, planning gives you freedom.
Sit down on Sunday night, afternoon or whatever, write your fixed obligations on the days of the week in your planner (if you don’t have one, buy one NOW). Then check your exercise plan. How many days a week and how many minutes are you supposed to exercise on that day? How long will it realistically take you to travel to the gym? And back? Now put that time on your calendar and keep the damn date to yourself.
Are guests coming to town? Ok, enjoy them, but keep keeping your date with yourself. A party you want to go to? Excellent! Go out and have fun, BUT plan when you’re going to work out, and if it doesn’t fit any other way, wear your outfit to the gym, work out, shower at the gym and show up stylishly late and feeling fantastic about yourself because you didn’t let the pointless excuses go they get in the way of creating the body you want.
It’s not rocket science, just make the time ahead of time and show up for the appointment, even if it means using the dreaded N-word: saying NO to something if it keeps you from exercising. It’s that simple, but it’s not that easy, but then again, it’s also not ashamed to take your clothes off, go to the beach or swim, or have triple bypass surgery, or lose a foot or your vision because of diabetes. It is the accumulation of the choices you make or don’t make now that determine how you will look and feel in the future.
(Side note: I’ve never met a person who takes time management courses and plans their weeks ahead who says stupid things like “I don’t have time to work out” or misses workouts because of “lack of time”. .” Because they know that we all have exactly the same amount of time, and that the difference between those with great careers, great bodies AND a great family life and those who just work a lot, stress themselves all the time and say “I don’t have time. to work out” is just how they choose to spend their time. They both have the same 24 hours in a day, one thinks about his goals in advance and plans his time accordingly and the other is just trying to do his best so he can exercise and, of course, he almost never does).
#7. EAT BETTER THE REST OF THE TIME: You and I both know you’ll be eating quite a bit of junk that fourth week of November, so eat better for the rest of the month to create a little buffer zone. If you have 4 normal cheat meals per week, cut back to 2 or 3, so you start that week a little less than usual, so you can really enjoy Thanksgiving without gaining net fat.
#8. GREEN FACE TO THE RESCUE: If you’re at a party, dinner or whatever and you’re at your junk food limit that week, then use Rachael Cosgrove’s “Green Faces” strategy to stay on track. Just choose the vegetables, the meat (which was or will be expensive), and a little healthy fat. You will be satiated, you will feel good physically and emotionally for keeping your promise to eat well 90% of the time.
#9. DRINKING WATER: As much as you should enjoy your holiday meals, you can offset the negative impact it will have on your body by choosing to drink water or diet soda instead of wine, beer, punch, or any other beverage loaded with sugar or simple carbohydrates. in Game. You can easily eliminate 20% of the caloric impact and much of the toxicity (alcohol is a neurotoxin) of the day simply by drinking water, and you won’t feel bad when you wake up the next day.
#10. KEEP DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING: Above all, keep doing what you’re doing if you already have good clothes. If you’re one of my clients and you eat right 90% of the time and do highly effective workouts 3-5 days a week, then don’t treat this any different than any other six weeks of the year. All of this means that your cheat meals are with your family rather than friends.