August Bank Holiday – last of the summer wine …
spirits, champagne, lager, beer, BBQs, kebabs, fish and chips, pizza, icecream …?
If this sounds all too familiar, that’s because there are entire flotillas of frying human flubber floundering on the far flung beaches of the Mediterranean right now as owners let their folds of flesh overflow, poolside!
On the other hand, it’s perfectly reasonable to assume that sensible readers here would still keep an eye on their eating and drinking while allowing themselves a little treat here and there to enjoy their holiday.
Even keeping cool by constantly drinking liquids can be perfectly OK as long as they’re not sugar flavoured drinks. Chilled water – natural or sparkling – is of course, best. And water doesn’t have to be boring either. Add a hint of flavour ( no, not vodka!) by trying lemon juice, orange, pineapple mint, sugarless aniseed extract, etc.
Of course, everyone loves to just loll around on a sunbed, say, with a book or magazines, plenty to drink – and snacking on and off throughout the day! Yep – all those little extra snacks like ices, crisps or chips will all add up to one nasty surprise when stepping onto the bathroom scales on the first day back home! Or second day, more likely.
Too depressing for words!
Avoid the post holiday blues – try and snack instead on items like baby tomatoes, celery, radishes, apples, natural yoghurt. Same principle applies when eating an evening meal at a restaurant – choose grilled fish or lean meat served with vegetables or a plain salad with fruit salad or sorbet for dessert rather than cake, pastries or yet more ice-cream.
Enjoy yourself on holiday, let yourself go a little bit but try and eat healthily, too.
It makes the return to a post holiday ‘ getting back into shape’ fitness plan all the more easier….
uring the ride I kept to a routine of supplement intake and fluids whilst riding :
