So maybe my problem isn't Super Bowl Sunday.
Maybe it's the weekends.
As I try to get into a routine of exercising during the week, I was surprised this weekend to find that one of my bigger obstacles may be to get healthy on the weekends.
On the plus side, I did go for a long hike again on Saturday morning. But I also like to go out on the weekends. Many times that involves dinner out. It also may involve some wine or beer. Now I know those calories add up. It's not something I'm willing to give up just yet. Maybe by the end of this 10 weeks I'll find out that I should. We'll see.
In the meantime, here are some good troubleshooting tips from a Greensboro trainer and nutritional consultant, Leigh Peele.
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Much as I miss it, I rarely drink beer any more -- calorie & carb-wise, it's just not worth it. Wine or fresca-vodka for me from here on -- and even that, only once a week.
Sigh.
Weekends are tough for everyone....and I know Amy likes herself some beer.
I have heard people say they "take the weekend off". Don't do it, Amy, Not a good approach. First b/c of the mindset - if you are doing it right, you won't want to take a day off - you'll actually start to crave the workouts and the healthy food. Second b/c it is very easy to take in thousands of excess calories over two days when you are completely uninhibited - when you worked so hard to get them off the other 5 days. Now that doesn't mean complete abstinence from alcohol or even a french fry but as with weekdays frequency and portion sizes are the key. Get a workout in, try not to skip meals (which is easy to do b/c days aren't as routine as they are during the week), and try the wine or low cal vodka/gin drinks as Dawn suggested....IN MODERATION!!!!!!!....and you won't feel so bad on Monday morning. Good luck, girl. I am proud of ya!
First off I hope you liked the tips.
I find there are some ways to not become a complete hermit when you are trying to lose fat.
-BYOB-No, not beer;) Bring your own baggy. If dining out order your meals no oil, no butter, no nothing. THEN when it comes pull out your own condiments. It can make a difference of a few hundred calories doing that alone.
-Choose lower caloric beverages.
Difference between a long island iced tea and a crown and diet coke?
Crown (1 ounce) and Diet Coke with lime=90 calories
Long Island Iced Tea(10 ounce tall)=789 calories
So stick to one, one ounce non-sweet drink at a time.
If you want something with a little fruit taste go with a Cape Cod=160 calories
For Wine a 4oz. glass has roughly 80 calories.
Beer of Choice-Michelob Ultra or Yuengling Light=95 calories
Now what to do after you drink to help lessen the effects? When you drink it essentially suffocates fat oxidation. So empty calories aren't the only bad guy here. What do we do to help clean out that aspect as fast as possible (especially for women).
-Water and lots of it. For every 1 ounce of alcohol you take in, you need 3 ounces of water.
-Multi-Vitamin-supplement-If you get the right combination of vitamins in your system (especially B-12, Zinc and Vitamin C) will help transport it out of you at a quicker pace.
-Good Fats-Since you are suffocating free fatty acids in the body you need to give them a wake up call. Taking in a nice plate of Omega 3-scrambled eggs, some Flaxseed sprinkled whole grain toast and some smart balance light butter is my number one prescribed post-drinking meal.
A disclaimer: Andrea and I were roommates in college, when we both on occasion drank a little too much beer. :)
But she's also an expert on this stuff. She's about to finish her Ph.D in nutrition from Johns Hopkins.
Here's a question that I could probably very easily Google, but I'll just put it out there and hope it doesn't make me sound like an alcoholic.
Why is wine any better than beer? I thought they were equally as bad. I know beer has a lot of carbs but doesn't wine have a lot of sugars?
Amy, I'm sure an expert could give you the "real" reasons. For me, drinking a beer is like eating a big ol' bagel. Here's a page at about.com that gives more info on alcohol related to carbs.
http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/whattoeat/a/alcbev.htm
(sorry, I don't know how to make that link "hot")
You can be for or against the whole low-carb thing, but here's what I've found to be true about low-carb: When I eat (or drink) a bunch of carbs (especially refined grains & sugar), my blood sugar spikes up and then crashes, making me feel hungry 2 hours or less later, making dieting SO much harder. For me, keeping my carb consumption down is simply a way of controlling cravings, keeping me away from those dang snack machines (especially our new ice cream machine!). Sorry for the sad news about beer.
Oh, and about the so-called low carb beers (Michelob Ultra, for example) -- I find that if I drink those, they're so light and unsatisfying that I drink twice as many, and where does that leave me?!
Try that black cherry fresca & vodka, if you must have a drink. Yummy!
Oh yeah, did I make it sound like Amy was the only one of us who likes beer???...oops! However, of late, I prefer wine. Wine is better for me personally as I tend to drink it slower than I would drink a rail drink or beer. So, for one, I inherently drink more moderately when drinking wine (in generally - there have been those times!!). And as was mentioned by someone else - per usual serving (an important note - 5oz) red wine is usually somewhere around 80 to 100kcals, so not too bad on that end. And BONUS- red wine has high levels of a compound called resverotrol, which is thought to have life-extending properties and also appears to good for cholesterol. So, for me, I kind of feeling like I am doing something good for myself, too. Perhaps a justification....but it works for me.
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