When you are on a new exercise or diet plan and you have to attend parties or a wedding, it can be the ultimate test of your will power. How do you enjoy yourself and watch your figure? Is it even possible or do you have to make peace with the fact that you will spoil your diet or exercise plan? Well the answer is YES; you can have fun and not spoil your good intentions. Here’s how:
1. Substitute smartly
Make smart substitutions like the following:
Choose mini meatballs over biscuits with cream cheese and sweet chili sauce
The mini meatballs contain about 10 grams less of fat as the cream cheese biscuits. But don’t eat more than 4 meatballs as they are still relatively high in fat.
Choose peanuts over samoosas
Samoosas are high in the bad (saturated) fats where the peanuts are full of the healthy fat.
Choose chicken kebabs over sticky chicken wings
Opt for the chicken that is skinless as chicken skin is very high in fat.
Drink sparkling wine/wine spritzer over cocktail of strawberry daiquiri
For drinks rather go with the sparkling wine or the wine spritzer. The strawberry cocktail is loaded with calories and sugar.
Choose fruit salad over ice cream
When you are luckily enough to choose, go for the fruit salad over the ice cream.
2. Eat something before going to the party
Fill yourself up before going to the party and you will eat much less. Good food choices would be soup, a salad or a whole wheat sandwich.
3 Watch your alcohol intake
All your good intentions will fly out the door if you have too much alcohol. So stick to no more than 3 drinks.
4. Don’t mingle around the food tables
Standing around the food tables can make you eat more without even noticing it.
5. Say no to seconds
Politely decline when the host offers you more chocolate cake.
When you did indulge
It is ok if you didn’t eat the right foods and if you where seduced ny all the yummy food, just counter it with exercise and by eating foods for burning fat . A good cardio machine is the motorized treadmill, you can jog, walk and run on it.
The above tips are sure see that you still enjoy yourself while also not piling on the pounds. But when you did eat or drink more than you should, you can always counter the extra consumed calories with extra exercise – cardio are excellent for burning off excess calories.