Don’t let a Holiday Weekend Ruin your Diet
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It’s late Memorial Day evening and the coals are just starting to dim on the barbeque where you and all your relatives just got done making Smores. The local ice cream truck’s music is fading into the darkness. You have that perfect glow when your belly is full on decadent food and drink. Now is not the time to ruin that feeling and start to feel guilty from the calories you piled on or the lack of exercise during these past 3 days. You can take solace that you are not alone on this and that I’m writing this for many people that find themselves in a similar position.
The average human being needs around 2000 calories a day to maintain their current weight. This number is just an average meaning that it is adjustable throughout the year by certain factors. Remember when you were sick for 3 days in the winter with a cold? Or maybe you had a tooth pulled or some other surgery that made it almost impossible to eat anything. You might have helped your neighbor pull a big tree from his property and you exerted so much that the sweat poured down your face. Those episodes are the balance when you eat too much of the wrong foods and help to maintain that push and pull of diet and exercise.
In order to not be caught up in excessive weight gain you have to know knowing that the honey dipped chicken wings may have tasted really good, especially with those frosted mugs of beer, but should not be eaten every single day. What I’m really saying is that you can party and go a bit excessive from time to time. You just need to understand the difference between party time and good diet time.
Now another item that you need to be sure you take under advisement is to get back on the treadmill, exercise bike, elliptical or what other machine you use and get it going again. Before sitting and talking and eating becomes so much of a habit that exercise becomes a thing in the distant past.
Remember that glow I talked about in the beginning of this post? Well you can get another type of glow by getting into a rhythm of exercise at least 5 times a week for about 30 minutes each time. The feeling comes from the workout your body has just gone through and the blood and oxygen getting to your muscles.
I hope you took pictures to remind you of the good time you had so that you can look back when you’re a good deal older. The exercise food choices will help you reach those golden years.
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