You know, I don't promote or push any extreme measures, diets, detoxes – Why? Because it's not sustainable and any results from them are very temporary. So, today, like I've probably said several times now, just move on and get back to normal
on Friday and every day thereafter.
At the end of the day, it comes down to what you've been doing the other 364 days of the year. So, the only strategies that I would suggest are a few of the ones I have said before -
1. Eat the foods that you love - hopefully, you are already doing
this.
2. Eat till 80% full.
3. Don't starve yourself all day for anticipation for your holiday meals.
A note on working out!
My husband and I have a holiday tradition of doing a quick and short rest based
workout before the day gets busy. This is not to negate calories of any sort. If anything, I'm lifting heavy to build some muscle because during the holidays I'm usually in a calorie surplus or maintenance mode.
If you want to look at that or use extra calories, the sanest and healthy approach would be priming those muscles for the food that you will be eating. See, when you lift the things (train
compound movements such as squats, deadlifts, pushing and pulling exercises) the muscles are ready to suck all those nutrients up to repair themselves. However, this is not burning as many calories as possible, it's quite the opposite. Doing a strength training workout will also rev up your metabolism.
Lifting the things are part of our lifestyle and we enjoy it. We keep things as normal as
possible even during the holidays. We know that we will be sitting a lot tomorrow, so a quick workout works great, and it doesn't take time away from loved ones.
Two of my girls from my Maintain Don't Gain Accountability & Consistency Coaching group did the workout already. They couldn't believe that they got a great workout in 15 minutes.
