Going on holiday after spending months working on your physique can bring up a lot of questions…
Should you keep dieting right up until you go?
Should you spend a few days at maintenance first?
Should you track your calories?
How much should you actually care about what you eat and drink?
In this episode of Beyond Fat Loss, we share exactly how we’re approaching our own holiday — and why we’re going into it from two very different positions.
We talk about:
• Why your physical and psychological state going into a holiday can affect how you behave when you get there
• Why having some time at maintenance after a fat loss phase can make the transition into a holiday easier
• When calorie banking before a holiday might be useful — and when it may simply keep you dieting for too long
• Whether you actually need to track calories on holiday
• How to take a break from tracking without taking a break from the habits that serve you
• How we approach breakfasts, lunches and bigger evening meals
• Eating out, alcohol, desserts and all the foods we genuinely want to enjoy
• Using activity, walking and training to stay active without turning your holiday into a calorie-burning exercise regime
• What to do if you eat more than planned
• Why restraint and restriction aren't the same thing
• And perhaps most importantly, how to come home from holiday without feeling like you need to immediately start another diet.
This isn't about finding the “perfect” way to do a holiday.
We've both tried different approaches over the years — tracking, not tracking, dieting right up to a holiday, having time at maintenance beforehand and going straight back into fat loss afterwards.
The goal is to learn what actually works for you.
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Follow along with what we're getting up to on holiday on Instagram and Facebook — and see whether we actually stick to everything we said we'd do.
And in the next episode, we'll be sharing what happens after the holiday and how we're transitioning back into our next lean-building phase.
