Eating for the Silly Season

We appreciate that the silly season can be an endless stream of Christmas parties, social outings and events. We are faced with food and drink that is usually carb-filled and sugar laden. Some of us may find our cheat day turns into a cheat week (or month!).

Here are our top tips to stay on track this silly season:

1.       Sunday Meal Prep – Try and keep this habit. Keep your meals clean during the week and then the weekend blow out won’t be as bad.

2.       Eat before you go out – If you can, fill up on a nutritious homemade meal or snack. This will help resisting the party pie/sausage roll tray J

3.       Keep moving – Try and get to the box 3+ times a week, or if this isn’t possible google ‘at home WODs’ there is a huge range of workouts you can do with no equipment in your lounge room!

4.       Water intake – substitute water for a sugary, high calorie beverage. If you want to try a healthier alcoholic alternative - try a vodka soda & lime instead of  wine or beer…

5.       Sleep- Try and get 8 hours sleep a night, its shown that if you get a good amount of sleep each night you are less likely to make a bad food choice the next day.  

 Finally, don’t beat yourself up if you indulge. You have worked hard all year and you are entitled to treat yourself - it’s ok every now and then (just not in excess). If you think you have overdone it, don’t stress! Regroup and focus on meal prep and moving again!