Stay fit and healthy over Christmas.

How to balance your day to day, all christmas events and parties and how to stay fit and healthy all at the same time? Actually there shouldn’t be any difference to how you normally would handle things. If you are having feelings of worry that you will lose momentum, fitness and progress. Worrying that you will have foods you are not supposed to have. Or that you feel like you will overeat or drink. Then something isn’t quite right. These thoughts are not solved by setting strict rules of if you can’t have this or that, if I do then everything is ruined. Or that you can’t cut back on your exercise because you will completely lose the momentum. 

The solution to stay fit and healthy over the Christmas period

Its to Value sustainable Integrations. This will require a bit of mindset work and perhaps work out of a restrictive mindset that food and exercises are only there to help you lose weight. 

To stay fit and healthy over the Christmas period you will need to make decisions that you truly feel good about. Restricting certain things because whatever reason might make you feel good for the moment. If you worry you will slip at any point that is not truly feeling good. Same if you use exercise only to  compensate for eating and drinking a certain way that as well is not truly feeling good about the decision. 

Work on habits that integrate into your lifestyle.

Since this period tends to be quite hectic, habits that integrate with your lifestyle are going to be key. Such as 

• Use your commute to get daily movement in
• Don’t skip meals (even if you ate more the you intended to on a Christmas event the day before)
• Prioritise sleep
• Habit stack – whenever you get up from the desk stretch your chest out and roll the shoulder a couple of times in each direction.
• If you can’t get to you exercise classes or sport – do a home workout, 30 min is enough

If you fall off the wagon don’t put yourself on the shame wagon, it won’t do you any favours. Recognise your feelings and how you felt when making decisions you don’t feel good about after. Learn from it, restore some integrity and move forward.