How to get back on track if your good intentions went out the window ...

It's almost over, the last bank holiday of the Summer of 2014. Some of you kept healthy I am sure and watched your food, drank water, and exercised over the last few days. Others might not have been so good ... but never mind, here are some tips that I have learned that will help get everyone back on track.

• The most important thing is don't beat yourself up over what you might have consumed in food and/or alcohol. Just draw a line in the sand and move on. Use it as motivation to work extra hard for the coming weeks. If you are fed up with your lack of willpower it could lead you to consume even more junk to cheer yourself up! So don't be fed up, everyone has slip ups every once in a while, we are all human afterall!  

•  Losing weight and getting fit is not a sprint, it's a marathon. It will not happen overnight, and there will be speed bumps along the way (e.g. bank holiday weekends!). But if you work at it, your body will reward you.

• Go for a short workout as soon as you can. Even if it's a twenty minute power walk, as soon as you start moving you will feel much better. It will take you away from the fridge if nothing else!

• As I've written about before, drink water, water and more water! This will help flush out any toxins out of your body.

• Start a food diary. When you eat junk on a regular basis, it can be very hard to stop and go back to healthy eating. By writing everything down, it makes you account for every bite. Even if you have a bite of something, write it down!  

• Go shopping for healthy food. Fill up your trolley with lots and lots of green vegetables, fruit (especially low sugar fruit like berries and green apples), good fats (advocados, oily fish, nut butters, coconut oil), lean meats, fish, oats, sweet potatoes, brown rice etc. Get rid of any junk out of your house after the weekend. If you don't have junk in your cupboards, you can't be tempted.

• Don't go hungry! Your metabolism is like a fire, you have to keep stoking it to keep it going. If you starve yourself trying to make up for any overindulgence, your body will think think it is going into starvation and will cling onto any calories it can and turn them to fat. So the secret is little and often. You should eat every 2-3 hours, keeping it all healthy of course!

Hope these tips help get you back on track. Now, go on and do some exercise !!


"The distance between your dreams and reality is called discipline"