November 23rd, 2009
| Team Fitness America Top Ten Ways To Stay Fit Through The Holidays |
It is never easy to stay fit through the Thanksgiving and
Christmas seasons. With everything from the big holiday
dinners to sugar induced office parties, it is almost
impossible to stick to a regular fitness routine and healthy
eating plan. Here are Team Fitness America’s top 10 tips to
stay fit, remain trim, and protect you from having to do a
post holiday, crash diet.
Eat before you go to any event or holiday party.
Eating before you go to a place full of great tasting food,
allow yourself to be full, giving you the ability to avoid all
the heavy hors d’oeuvres stockpiled at each holiday
event. Holiday parties and events are full of high fat foods
and pastries. The time between Halloween and New Years
proves, each year, to be a period full of high calorie
events that can leave you only to be depressed from the
addition of unwanted pounds. We have all kinds of events
from the Harvest Festival to a Christmas Gala and even the
Pineapple Festival, which each are all themed around
different types of food. If you go with your stomach already
semi full, then you will notice that most of the foods are not
as appealing to eat. Munch on a few items and still have a
good time, but by not going to your event hungry you will
still feel satisfied, not tired from overeating, and
accomplish not offending your hosts.
Get on a solid, effective nutritional plan.
Knowing what to eat is half the battle. Most people, deep
down inside, know what foods are bad for them to
consume but neglect to go with their “gut feeling” due to
the lack of a plan or regime. Other people honestly do not
have any idea and might think, “Cheese has milk and is a
protein, and therefore cheese is good for me.” Well, some
cheese is good for you and some is not. With a solid, easy
to follow nutritional plan, you will know what foods to
avoid, what is good to eat, and what to venture towards at
a holiday buffet, party, or other food event. A nutritional
plan that covers your food choices, giving you foods that
you like to eat, and the correct amount of caloric intake you
should have will assist when you need it most.
Be accountable and stick with it.
Track your food in your online journal. An online journal is
a great source for tracking, providing you with the ability to
enter all of your food choices for the week, and if you have
one, sync it to your PDA for ideal results. That way, if you
are at a party or event and you want to see what might fit
into your daily-allotted calories, then you will find yourself
less likely to overindulge with unnecessary calories.
Always be ready and plan ahead.
If you know at 3pm, the office fills up with cakes and
cookies, then plan ahead. Allow yourself one sweet at that
time and plan healthy meals around that sweet so that you
do not fill up on junk all day.
Lose the “I ate badly this meal so the whole day is shot”
mentality.
So what you ate the doughnut for breakfast. Have a healthy
lunch and counteract the bad food downfall. Assuming that
one bad food choice has wrecked your whole day is not
true and it is simply an excuse to eat badly for the rest of
the day. Stop that behavior before it becomes a regular
thought.
Make tomorrow today.
Most plans for eating healthy tend to be delayed with the
thoughts of tomorrow or “When January rolls around I will
have a great New Year’s resolution.” Every day you wait to
eat healthy and exercise is one more day that you are
further away from reaching your fitness goals. Instead of
thinking about what you plan to do better tomorrow, just
buckle down and do it today. Dig your heels in, make the
call to a fitness professional, and get started today.
Support throughout the holidays is exactly what you need
both physically and mentally.
Hire a personal trainer or fitness specialist to get your
fitness goals on track.
Seeing your relatives and friends once a year is now more
common than ever, especially since we all are so
geographically spread out, and you need to make the best
impression possible. If you slack on your exercises or do
not want to track your own progress, then a fitness trainer
will stay on top of you and your goals. Some of us simply
will not exercise unless we know that we have someone
coming over to our house to make us do it. So hire a
personal trainer to jump-start your exercise routine.
Use a service that emails you updates every day.
Some of us need more than just a personal trainer a few
times a week and need daily encouragement with
continued motivation. Some services, like Team Fitness
America, provide daily nutritional and fitness updates with
encouragements to keep us on track while we are
attempting to meet our fitness and health goals. You can
even upload before and after pictures so you can track
your own progress visually and print out shopping lists to
take to the store with you so you do not make impulse buys.
Refuse a junk food sale.
A lot of us buy things we do not really want or simply
because it “is on sale”. Just because the potato chips are
buy one get one free does not mean you should buy them.
If you look at what sales are posted and where they are
posting them, then you will notice that the high fat cookies
and chips are usually on sale while being exactly at eye
level with colorful, eye-catching wrappers and inviting
pictures. Think of the grocery store prying your hard-
earned cash out of your hands as you lift that gallon of ice
cream into your cart. You do not need it, your body does
not want it, and see it for what is it, a marketing tactic to
get you to buy it. Ever notice the healthy food is tucked
into a small corner, a bottom shelf, or usually in the
backside of the super market and you have to ask where it
is?
Refuse the dollar menu at the drive through.
Almost all of the dollar items are cheap, easy to make, and
filled with empty calories and high fat. Take a second look
at the menu and order the more healthy options, such as a
salad without the hefty dressing, grilled chicken, or the
many other healthy options that most fast food restaurants
have place in their menu as opposed to the dollar double
cheeseburger or fried onion rings. Because it is cheap
does not make it healthy or good food for you, it simply
makes it cheap food.
Keep in mind that as the holidays approach you need to be
ready to tackle them with gusto and be ready for whatever
parties and unhealthy eating events that take place.
Companies, such as Team Fitness America, can assist with
you with both the nutritional and exercise side of your life
while keeping you accountable as you reach your goals.
Christmas seasons. With everything from the big holiday
dinners to sugar induced office parties, it is almost
impossible to stick to a regular fitness routine and healthy
eating plan. Here are Team Fitness America’s top 10 tips to
stay fit, remain trim, and protect you from having to do a
post holiday, crash diet.
Eat before you go to any event or holiday party.
Eating before you go to a place full of great tasting food,
allow yourself to be full, giving you the ability to avoid all
the heavy hors d’oeuvres stockpiled at each holiday
event. Holiday parties and events are full of high fat foods
and pastries. The time between Halloween and New Years
proves, each year, to be a period full of high calorie
events that can leave you only to be depressed from the
addition of unwanted pounds. We have all kinds of events
from the Harvest Festival to a Christmas Gala and even the
Pineapple Festival, which each are all themed around
different types of food. If you go with your stomach already
semi full, then you will notice that most of the foods are not
as appealing to eat. Munch on a few items and still have a
good time, but by not going to your event hungry you will
still feel satisfied, not tired from overeating, and
accomplish not offending your hosts.
Get on a solid, effective nutritional plan.
Knowing what to eat is half the battle. Most people, deep
down inside, know what foods are bad for them to
consume but neglect to go with their “gut feeling” due to
the lack of a plan or regime. Other people honestly do not
have any idea and might think, “Cheese has milk and is a
protein, and therefore cheese is good for me.” Well, some
cheese is good for you and some is not. With a solid, easy
to follow nutritional plan, you will know what foods to
avoid, what is good to eat, and what to venture towards at
a holiday buffet, party, or other food event. A nutritional
plan that covers your food choices, giving you foods that
you like to eat, and the correct amount of caloric intake you
should have will assist when you need it most.
Be accountable and stick with it.
Track your food in your online journal. An online journal is
a great source for tracking, providing you with the ability to
enter all of your food choices for the week, and if you have
one, sync it to your PDA for ideal results. That way, if you
are at a party or event and you want to see what might fit
into your daily-allotted calories, then you will find yourself
less likely to overindulge with unnecessary calories.
Always be ready and plan ahead.
If you know at 3pm, the office fills up with cakes and
cookies, then plan ahead. Allow yourself one sweet at that
time and plan healthy meals around that sweet so that you
do not fill up on junk all day.
Lose the “I ate badly this meal so the whole day is shot”
mentality.
So what you ate the doughnut for breakfast. Have a healthy
lunch and counteract the bad food downfall. Assuming that
one bad food choice has wrecked your whole day is not
true and it is simply an excuse to eat badly for the rest of
the day. Stop that behavior before it becomes a regular
thought.
Make tomorrow today.
Most plans for eating healthy tend to be delayed with the
thoughts of tomorrow or “When January rolls around I will
have a great New Year’s resolution.” Every day you wait to
eat healthy and exercise is one more day that you are
further away from reaching your fitness goals. Instead of
thinking about what you plan to do better tomorrow, just
buckle down and do it today. Dig your heels in, make the
call to a fitness professional, and get started today.
Support throughout the holidays is exactly what you need
both physically and mentally.
Hire a personal trainer or fitness specialist to get your
fitness goals on track.
Seeing your relatives and friends once a year is now more
common than ever, especially since we all are so
geographically spread out, and you need to make the best
impression possible. If you slack on your exercises or do
not want to track your own progress, then a fitness trainer
will stay on top of you and your goals. Some of us simply
will not exercise unless we know that we have someone
coming over to our house to make us do it. So hire a
personal trainer to jump-start your exercise routine.
Use a service that emails you updates every day.
Some of us need more than just a personal trainer a few
times a week and need daily encouragement with
continued motivation. Some services, like Team Fitness
America, provide daily nutritional and fitness updates with
encouragements to keep us on track while we are
attempting to meet our fitness and health goals. You can
even upload before and after pictures so you can track
your own progress visually and print out shopping lists to
take to the store with you so you do not make impulse buys.
Refuse a junk food sale.
A lot of us buy things we do not really want or simply
because it “is on sale”. Just because the potato chips are
buy one get one free does not mean you should buy them.
If you look at what sales are posted and where they are
posting them, then you will notice that the high fat cookies
and chips are usually on sale while being exactly at eye
level with colorful, eye-catching wrappers and inviting
pictures. Think of the grocery store prying your hard-
earned cash out of your hands as you lift that gallon of ice
cream into your cart. You do not need it, your body does
not want it, and see it for what is it, a marketing tactic to
get you to buy it. Ever notice the healthy food is tucked
into a small corner, a bottom shelf, or usually in the
backside of the super market and you have to ask where it
is?
Refuse the dollar menu at the drive through.
Almost all of the dollar items are cheap, easy to make, and
filled with empty calories and high fat. Take a second look
at the menu and order the more healthy options, such as a
salad without the hefty dressing, grilled chicken, or the
many other healthy options that most fast food restaurants
have place in their menu as opposed to the dollar double
cheeseburger or fried onion rings. Because it is cheap
does not make it healthy or good food for you, it simply
makes it cheap food.
Keep in mind that as the holidays approach you need to be
ready to tackle them with gusto and be ready for whatever
parties and unhealthy eating events that take place.
Companies, such as Team Fitness America, can assist with
you with both the nutritional and exercise side of your life
while keeping you accountable as you reach your goals.
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