Its that time of year again, and most of us are looking forward to a bit of a rest from day to day life, now I love Christmas but I get asked the same thing every year, “how can I keep the weight off over Christmas?”, well here’s a few interesting facts first of all to help you think about this, Ocean Spray cranberry sauce conducted a survey a few years back on 1500 Brit’s this is what they found: the average person consumed 5551 calories on the day, 2820 of that in just one meal, the rest in over indulgence, the average person gained 5.47lbs on Christmas day alone!
A calorific intake of that amount would take two back to back marathons to burn off, the health implications aren’t good either, the body would produce way to much insulin which would only help in storing all the excess as body fats, its also one of the reasons you get sleepy! So what could you do? Treat the day as every other, have normal meals at normal times, of course have a little more at the main meal, but whilst the turkeys cooking go for a nice long walk if you can, this way you will hopefully have a little deficit on those calories, as for training, take the day off if you want! We all need rest days in our training, but if your waiting for the new year to start your new fitness lifestyle, don’t wait, start today and don’t put it off, just think, if you do, an extra 5.47lbs to add to your goals to shift! The best advice, be sensible and enjoy the day.
Merry Christmas from the team at PT Fitness x info@pt-fitness.co.uk
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