What you need to do after the New Year and Xmas excess?

What you need to do after the New Year and Xmas excess? 🤔

At this time of year, after the Christmas and New Year inevitable excesses it’s natural to want to ‘get back on it’ and you may well think the way to do this is to go into overdrive – exercise excessively, slash your calories down to under 1000 a day, maybe do a ‘detox’/ ‘cleanse’ or throw money at a diet fad, cut carbs or other food groups… You may be beating yourself up and calling yourself a failure for eating so much over the holidays … Or you may just think ‘f*ck it’ and give up completely and continue over eating…

None of this will actually make you feel better or get you where you want to be.
Exercising excessively will only make you tired, prone to injury and likely to eat more. Slashing calories down to unsustainably low levels may work initially but won’t last and you’ll end up rebounding and overeating more – and you’ll be miserable! ‘Detoxes’ or ‘cleanses’ are just an expensive way to cut calories/replace meals – they result in rapid initial weight loss from water loss but aren’t sustainable and definitely don’t ‘remove toxins’ – your liver and kidneys do that for you just fine! Cutting food groups out has a similar effect – yes you’ll reduce your calories but unless you plan on never eating those foods again it’s not sustainable and it’s pretty sad to cut foods you love totally out of your diet for life.

Saying ‘f*ck it’ will be very liberating but if it results in you continuing to overeat then long term it probably won’t feel that good! Whilst you definitely don’t need to lose weight if you aren’t happy with your weight then you’ll certainly want to regain some control right?
Beating yourself up is definitely no good. It’s so hard not to but let’s be honest, you enjoyed a few weeks of good food and drink with family and friends, is that really a bad thing? Does it make you a ‘failure’ or a bad person? No! It makes you human and it’s not something to feel bad or guilty about!

So what should you do?
Go back to your normal exercise routine, eat balanced meals avoid all detoxes/ diet fads and save your money! Oh and remind yourself you’re a brilliant human being!
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