Holiday Fitness: How To Get In Better
Shape over The Holidays
By Zach Hunt - Spokane Personal Trainer
Are you are looking forward to the holidays? Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas - as well as New Years Eve and New Years Day. The holidays are great times for family, fun and eating.
With Christmas coming many people are excited for presents and gifts galore - and it's a sad site when you see that most people bring a lot more than a few trinkets or toys into the new year. Most bring with them an extra 10 or even 15 pounds of extra fat in the form of fat securely fastened around their body as a glove is to the hand.
What are you going to take with you into the new year? Are you going to bring much more of yourself into a new year or are you going to take the necessary steps to not only avoid holiday weight gain - but include fitness in your holiday plan and shed a few pounds in the process. I don't know about you, but when I think of my Christmas wish-list, I don't imagine putting 10-15 pounds of fat on that list.
How do you avoid putting even a single ounce of weight on over the holidays?
Simple - you decide that it's what you want to do. You have to decide even before you are faced with the pies, the candies, the stuffing - any of it - any temptation. It all starts in your mind - your fitness mind.
Here are some tips to make your fitness journey through the holidays easier than making your morning bowl of oatmeal (you are eating oatmeal for breakfast - right?).
- If something is in your house it will be eaten. If you don't want to eat it - don't bring it into the house. The best way to avoid food is to ban them from your house. Chances are you're not going to eat something that isn't there - those chances are usually 100%.
- Keep sweets and your favorite foods out of your own house during the festivities - enjoy your favorite foods at your families' houses and leave the food there.
- Come Halloween time only get enough candy to last a day or two at most. That way you won't have candy laying around the house to be devoured at a moment's notice.
- Don't fall for the All or None principle. Even if you have 4 or 5 special occasions where you gather together for feasting - this doesn't mean you have to turn Thanksgiving and Christmas into a 2 month event. Out of 61 days you still have at least 50-55 days where you exercise and eat healthy.
- Enjoy your holiday eating - and get right back to your regular healthy eating and exercise. Don't feel guilty about those days of pleasure - just get right back to it. Plan your holiday meals in advance and move on afterwards.
- Start a fitness plan right now - don't wait until the new year or the infamous tomorrow. Tomorrow is never going to be today - get a head start and get with a fitness plan.
- Decide today that you will be fitter and trimmer come the new year and take the necessary steps to ensure that is what actually happens!
When you have the proper guidance and a game plan to achieve your fitness goals - getting in even better shape over the holidays is not just possible - it's easy as pie, pumpkin pie that is.
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