Why your weekends are ruining your progress, are making you fatter and how to stop it (without cutting out everything you love - including alcohol?)*
It’s the weekend, and if you’re like many of us - the weekend is where it goes to shit.
So, I’m going to teach you what you can do to not ruin all your progress and feel like you need to ‘get back on it’ on Monday (life doesn't have to be this way).
Firstly, don’t let a few drinks on Saturday night turn into a written off weekend.
This usually happens because of a lack of sleep… this reduces your hunger hormone (ghrelin) and reduces your ‘I’m full’ hormone (leptin).
We also are likely to crave higher calorie and higher sodium foods (this is why a McDonalds seems like the perfect thing the morning after the night before)
Tips?
1. Drink lower-calorie alcoholic drinks (see links in comments) 2. Invest in hydration tablets and milk thistle to prevent a hangover and hydrate BEFORE you drink (see comments) 3. Eat a DECENT meal beforehand 4. Upon wakening, be sure to have a nutritious meal… balanced (Protein/carbs/ small amount of fats) AND MOVE AROUND. Sitting on your ass all day feeling sorry for yourself only makes your blood thicker in your bloodstream, slowing everything down and making yourself feel like a bag of dicks.
The perfect ‘post-session breakfast?’
Eggs & Avocado on toast with a side of porridge and a Vitamin C/Zinc.
Why?
Eggs are rich in cysteine, an amino acid used by your body to produce an antioxidant called glutathione (which alcohol drains leaving you feeling shit).
Avocado, because the diuretic effect of a night on the session will wreak havoc on your electrolyte stores, so avocados will give your body a much-needed potassium boost.
Whole grain toast / Porridge- complex carbohydrates provide a slow and steady release of sugar into the bloodstream, warding off the mid-morning slump.
Studies tell us, that dietary nicotinic acid and zinc play a pivotal role in the oxidation of ethanol into acetaldehyde (accelerates and supports the processing of alcohol)
If alcohol isn't the issue and it's more about the quantity of food you're eating - be smarter:
Reduce your eating the day before and the day after, and increase your movement…
it really is as simple as calories in vs calories out (more on that next week). Get one step ahead and read the menu before you go for bonus points… (I've got plenty of tools for that in the coming weeks).
THAT'S IT.
ENJOY YOUR NIGHT.
TRY THESE AND LET ME KNOW HOW YOU GET ON!
