Most people who train hard, keep on improving year in year out, don’t see keeping fit as a chore, don’t see eating well as a hardship, achieve a lot by keeping a strong balance and a sense of perspective. In between bank holidays, this strategy has never been so important.
These people’s “in the week” nutritional habits are strong, their foundation is a lot of fresh food and strong efforts working out, aiming to consistently get better.
Then when the next weekend, the next bank holiday comes, the odd drink, the odd meal out, the odd takeaway doesn’t matter too much.
If we eat well 80% of the time, have treats occasionally and put the effort in at the gym/online workouts, then we have achieved a good balance in life.
Throw that balance over to 80% eating badly, hardly ever training and you will have a problem not only with the way you look, the way you feel etc, but your general health and wellbeing will suffer too.
Being on some kind of spartan regime eating strictly ALL THE TIME doesn’t work long term, but having a balance does so you appreciate those occasional treats when they come much more.
One more thing, try and be active the day AFTER you have a treat especially.
Having a good sweat the day after not only burns a large part of the night before off, it makes you feel so much better despite the initial discomfort, and sets you up for a proper day of recovery too, meaning you are back in balance not only physically but mentally too.
This is the first proper day this week when you need to go ALL OUT to get the balance back in your life, no excuses, put the work in and feel better afterwards in all ways.
