Healthy Eating for the Muscle Builder
Look, we all know it is near impossible to stay away from all the great foods, pies and treats during the holiday season. There is nothing better than those great smells of ham, turkey and sweet potatoes out of moms kitchen or cookies and pies fresh from the oven. All these are what help make the holiday season and everyone needs to enjoy them, but you cannot forget that you are trying to build muscle and stay healthy.
When it comes to eating, it is more about what and when you eat and how you tie that into a work-out that will help you digest and burn those calories. If you go eat a huge dinner and then a nice piece of pie and then sit on the couch, you are telling your body to go ahead and store all those fat calories for later, that is not what you want to do. You need to stay active after those great meals and make some attempt at exercise to make your body burn some of those calories off. It could be as simple as a long walk or a 10 minute cardio in the garage, but you need to do something so that when you can make your next trip to the gym, you will not have to work off all those extra calories that your body has stored. Once you are at the gym, focus on an extra long cardio to get your body's metabolism up to speed and then on your next work-out try to use a routine that works all the muscle groups. That way when you go back to your muscle-building routine, your body will be back on track.
Another trick to helping fight that extra food in your holiday system is to drink extra water. Water is the perfect flush to help your body process those food you would not normally eat. We are all guilty of not drinking enough water, it is amazing how much water your body can take in and how much your body really needs. Every time you eat a treat or snack during the holiday, drink at least 8 ounces of water, by drinking water with your holiday eating you will allow your body to efficiently process your empty calories and push it through your system. Drink the water and do some cardio and your body will stay on active mode during these fine eating experiences! You have to eat and during the holidays, you have to allow yourself to eat fun stuff, it only happens once a year!
We also need to look at each dish and plan how we will eat. If you just throw a scoop of each item on your plate and then go pound it, you not only eat too much but eat to many of the high calories things that you really just needed a taste not a wheel barrel full of! Eat lot's of the proteins served and cut the condiments in half, you will still get the good taste but not the calorie intake. Cut your treats in half and only have a piece of pie and just a dab of whipped cream, remember, you are after the taste not to impact you system with so much food you feel like a beached whale! Stay on your fitness program and think about each dish as you serve it up and you will see how easy it is to enjoy the holidays and food without screwing up your fitness plan!
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