Stick to the Plan During the Holidays

It's FINALLY Thanksgiving this week and Christmas is just right around the corner. During this time of year, it's typical of us to struggle in navigating our workouts when a ton of holiday parties are planned, difficulty in eating nutritiously when there are endless buffets of your fav holiday dishes, and $$$ being super tight because of the holiday shopping for our friends and loved ones (and for ourselves) so we taper off from spending on our workout classes that we routinely attend or personal training that we hold off until after the holidays. I completely understand the struggle. You're not alone.

With this week's newsletter, I want to provide you several tips on how to navigate through the holidays and sticking to the original plan you intended for yourself upon your health & fitness goals.

WORK SMARTER, NOT HARDER

Schedule Out Your Holiday Parties & Plan Your Workouts Around Them

Once you have these days set, you can plan your workouts better. Whether that's training a day earlier and/or later, pushing it up first thing in the morning, or shortening the workout duration, there is always a way to get your session in. Avoid the "All-or-nothing" approach.

ENJOY YOUR MEAL

Eat Well Across Your Previous Meals

There's no need to feel guilty when you are bombarded with all this good and delicious food. The cheat code to this is to stick with your nutritious, balanced meals throughout the few days before. It will even make a difference to be on a caloric deficit so that your calories TOTAL by the end of the week hasn't skyrocketed. If you do this, enjoy whatever your heart desires when that mad delicious Thanksgiving meal(s) comes around.

Another tip when it comes to meeting your Thanksgiving meals face to face is to portion control & serve with a glass of water. This will help you on not overeating and giving your stomach time to digest and to ideally be full rather than stuffing yourself like you'll never see this food again.

MORE FUEL IN THE TANK

Put the Calories to Use

Since you may be eating more than you typically eat, plan games & activities right after with your families or friends or go on a short walk after you've eaten.

Another option would be to get a workout or activity in the following day. All of that food is fully digested and you're now ready to tackle on a session to put those calories to use.

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