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Take your time and don’t just stuff the festive fare in your mouth if you want to stay on target for a slimmer and healthier 2014.
If you’re eating a large meal full of high-calorie foods, a simple adjustment is to take your time whilst eating.
It takes time for the brain receives the signal from the stomach saying that it is full, so between bites, put your knife and fork down, be more sociable and engage in conversation.
This will also encourage you to chew your food better, the longer you chew your food, the more the enzymes in your mouth can break it down and improve healthy digestion – healthy digestion is key when it comes to keeping your metabolism going as fast as possible.
Wolfing down your food as quickly as possible will lead to higher food consumption and also people will stare at you like you are some sort of animal … surely, you want to avoid both of these.
The key is to enjoy the festive period without hampering your health and physique goals.
It is hard to have a good time if you are busy measuring every ounce of roast potato placed on your plate or if you are late for Christmas lunch because you were out doing your high intensity interval training schedule – HIIT for short!
It is important to remember this when feeling guilty about perhaps making one wrong choice or if your friend who is visiting from overseas invites you to go for a nice lunch instead of your carefully-prepared meal.
The festive period is more about damage limitation than it is about making terrific progress.
I’m not saying that you cannot make progress over this time if you plan ahead and keep positive, but don’t stress yourself over this small period of time out of the year – you have roughly 350 other days in the year to really make great progress outside of this timeframe.
If you would like to explore great ways to utilise these 350 days please check out www.tjhealthandperformance.com for all my information.
