It's approaching party season again and you are faced with
the ultimate dilemma! You want to stay on track with your
health and fitness goals but don't want to be tea total
over the party season. Wouldn't it be great if you could
drink during the party season AND not blow your waistline?
The good news is YOU CAN DO IT, if you follow these simple
principles.
Eat
Before...
Eat foods high in good fats and protein prior to drinking
alcohol. Drinking alcohol, particularly drinks with added
sugar, causes a rapid rise in blood sugar which can leave
you craving food a few hours later (kebab anyone?). Eating
foods high in fat and protein before and with alcohol can
prevent this occurring and keep your post alcohol food
binges at bay.
After...
Make sure you have a good quality multivitamin to consume
before you go to bed (especially one that contains high
levels of vitamin B and Vitamin C). Not only does drinking
alcohol provide you with barely any nutrients but it can
block the absorption of several vitamins and minerals. This
again will leave you craving certain things the day after.
Drinking a pint of wheatgrass or good water soluble
multivitamin, will keep those post alcoholic binges at bay
and reduce a hang over.
Drink Drinking water imbetween your alcohol drinks and
afterwards will drastically reduce the damage alcohol can
have on your waist line. Diluting these toxins with water
will help the body remove them and prevent the body from
having to store them in adipose tissue - That's Fat.
Drinking better quality alcoholic drinks can also reduce
the amount of toxins that your body has to deal with.
(Remember where it likes to store toxins!) Many beers and
lagers also have chemicals added to make them clearer and
lighter, avoid these if you want to avoid the mother of all
hangovers!
And Be Merry
Laughter - Fun One of the main ways we can reduce the
damaging affects of alcohol is bizarrely to make sure we
have! Laughter and deep breathing stimulates the PNS which
is responsible for the activation of white blood cells and
removal of toxins from our body. Doing something you really
enjoy whilst drinking, or the day after drinking can reduce
the damaging affects of alcohol. Have you ever wondered why
sometimes you don't seem to get such bad hangovers?
Sleep The earlier you go to sleep the more time your body
will have to detoxify itself. With a decent amount of water
before bedtime, allied to a decent soluble multivitamin,
you can get rid of a lot of the toxins before you wake up.
This is also why the three o'clock in the morning drinking
sessions can give you the two day hangover.
Stress If you are drinking to avoid a stressful situation
you are merely adding a chemical stress to a physcological
stressor. Since all stress is cumulative this will have a
rather detrimental affect on your waist line and fat
levels. If you are suffering from physchological stress, be
it from family or work at this time of year, then identify
the problem and do something about it. Remember that FEAR
can stand for two things...False Evidence Appearing Real or
Forget Everything And Run decide which it is and act
accordingly!
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John Limpus is the Head Coach and Founder of the Urban
Vitality Company, West London's Premier Specialist's in Fat
Loss and Sustainable Energy. Download our free report on
Fat Loss Fundamentals
http://www.theurbanvitalitycompany.co.uk
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