Tips to survive the Festive Season

Don’t get caught climbing your bottle this Christmas

It's that time of the year again, early daylight, strong mid summer morning breezes and Christmas parties are upon us, its so easy to have an all summer long drink. You can reduce the impact of Christmas parties by taking some of my special Santa hints...
                
Tips to survive the festive season

• Taking the time to walk daily after meals and drinks will give you a better chance off the keeping the weight off and help digest your food.

• Get moving before the parties’ begin

• At the start of every festive day with daily outing to the beach, don’t forget to pack the freebie and  get a game of cricket going or better still catch some waves in and run back out ,you will get the added benefits of keeping cool as well as getting a great workout.

Pt Perry to Pt Arkwright

This is an interesting walk with a mixture of large boulders, beaches and rolling bays to gaze at!

Don’t forget to grab your snorkels just in case you want to get up close to some of the interesting marine life in the area, the bays offer some protection for snorkelling  depending on the wind and tide. If you feeling challenged walk up the stairs from each of the bays and keep a look out for the pair of osprey that live along the cliff at Pt Perry riding the thermal looking for prey.

Find out more about the Pt Perry to Pt Arkwright walk

Mt Coolum

A walk up Mt Coolum during the early hours of the morning is also another way to start the day, don’t worry about walking to the summit just walk up to the rocks before it veers to the left the view from there is spectacular and there is also a beautiful breeze to keep you cool and don’t forget a cuppa and water.

Find out more about the Mt Coolum walk

Stumers Creek

If you get down to Stumers creek with the kids and dogs at the turn of the tide you will be surprised how much fun the family can have catching little waves in and out of the channel and its very safe for toddlers

Find out more about Stumers Creek
 
Avoid Christmas parties

I think getting on a role can be dangerous, “getting the taste for it” can be very addictive and progressive and before you know it you look 3 months pregnant, it seems the only way you will feel good about yourself is climbing back into the bottle again. Well don’t because that’s not recommended, bite down and get it together there always more parties to go to in the future! Don’t feel obligated to follow the flocks, stand you ground have less, go home early it’s always your choice

Food and Booze

When eating always keep to fresh whole foods all the time. If this means mainly eating Turkey, Chicken and Smoked Salmon for Christmas Lunch then that’s great. This leaves just room for us to taste and enjoy all the sweet goodies just so long as you don’t over indulge you will be fine. I am hoping you will be way to full of protein based foods to fit much more in!
When drinking alcoholic beverages it’s probably a good idea to navigate away from any sugary alcoholic based drinks and stick to things like White and Red wine which are packed with anti-oxidants and will help you digest the festive feast. Too much beer is also a common pitfall so steer clear and it does pack the calories and leaving you feeling bloated

Exercise

For those who still like to train during the festive season follow your usual routine. You can party and train, no rules here! Maybe an incentive to train hard, deplete your body of carbohydrates and then replenish with loads of food again. This could be a good opportunity to start something new, any new activity will certainly challenge the body and burn the extra calories.

Enjoy!

It is the festive season so do your best to keep some form of routine but most of all don’t stress to much about it, have fun enjoy your family and friends and if you consider moderation as you starting point the rest will take of itself.

Just remember sleep as much as you can, eat fresh foods, keep clear of sweet alcoholic beverages and don’t think about work or next year enjoy for now and stay safe.


Stay strong, Stay healthy - I'll be asking you what your New Years resolutions are next month!

Tony