Any of you who have been away for a short break or holiday, will have on thing in common if you are a regular exerciser and practice healthy eating.
It can be ENORMOUSLY difficult to get back into good eating after you have been away.
Most of the time you will either eat in the hotel, restaurant or café and for most of them unless you specifically ask, it will mean a ton of extra saturated fat, lots more salt in every day and no shortage of sugar!!!
This can send the calorific value of each meal you eat to stratospheric levels!
Everyone expects to put on a couple of pounds from such trips, but there is an even bigger danger that you do not even think about, but seems to get everyone when they return home.
By eating every meal which is much richer than normal, your taste buds can change very quickly and by the end of your stay, richer food soon becomes the norm for you.
So getting back to normal when you get home is a bigger task than you think.
Eating plain natural foods on a regular basis suddenly is much harder again! The plain porridge doesn’t taste as nice as usual, fruit seems “boring”, the vegetables you eat taste “different” compared to the ones cooked with a lot of salt on holiday, and unprocessed white meat and fish seems a harder dish to swallow than when you first went away.
So although we promise ourselves that we will “get right back into it” when we get back, the reality is often very different, and the get right back into it turns into a 2-3 week delay in knuckling down to good eating!!!
The holiday pounds seem much harder to shift and exercising seems much harder than normal, not a great combination.
So if I get an “early warning” out to you and tell you how its going to be, you have more chance to prepare and make the first week you get back the “hard week” in terms of getting your taste buds used to the right kind of eating that you know is tried and tested, and get you dropping fat right away as well as getting you back to the standard of performance you had before you went away!!!
This early warning system can work so wherever you go this year, be prepared for the time it takes to get back to “normal”!!!
