The Upside to Overeating Yesterday

Hello!
Most likely you are reading this because you liked my post and you were interested in figuring out what on earth you can do today to offset yesterday's less-than-stellar eating.

GOOD NEWS!

I have some tips I came across years ago when I literally ate, read, slept and lived fitness literature 24/7.  Being a student of nutrition and fitness led to my career path in fitness and birthed a love for helping educate others!  Its al about demystifying!  So I wanted to share that here.

First, sorry for the delay - I have a daughter who was --oh-so-unfortunately awoken with a virus that would have required a trashcan (read:vomit, sorry!) if we had known at 3am and has had a fever every since so after getting her settled and 2 loads of laundry I fell asleep around 6am and meant to have this out sooner!

Thats ok tho because #life right???

SO here are the tips -

#1) Lucky you!  You overate!  But there is something that you can do to leverage that if overeating has you feeling derailed, guilty, depressed, remorseful or all of the above.  The good news is your metabolism is literally flying!  You added coals to the fire, so to speak.  So lets utilize your wicked fast metabolism in your favor by doing something easy.  Lets eat when we are hungry and lets eat the foods that offer these 4 golden points for your metabolism:
-the highest nutrition
-the highest keep you full factor AKA "satiety"
-stoke your metabolism and keep your body in fat burning mode.
-reverse cravings

These two foods are protein and fiber.  Protein is found in lean meats and fish as well as some fat free dairy such as fat free cheese and low sugar greek yogurt.  Clean protein supplements are also a super easy solution to this.

This may be implied but I will say it... if you want to leverage that metabolism, go ahead and throw out leftover cookies and treats, and don't eat the proteins and fibers that are coupled with sugar as in greek yogurt with sugar or a high fiber but also high sugar muffin, etc.  Sugar has the opposite of the 4 points above and will work against you!!

#2) As for fiber - don't over complicate - just eat fruits and vegetables with your lean protein today!  And don't worry about the "sugar in fruit"...  just eat fruits and vegetables... trust me.  Nobody ever got fat eating lean protein fruits and vegetables...thats my mantra! :)  And again - if you have fiber supplements on hand - hey hit those 4 golden points above so that works too.

#3) Enough water is not enough.  So there is this thing about what is "a lot" of water or "enough" water.  Well, here is the thing about your body.  It just adapts to whatever you give it.  So whatever YOU personally drink, make a game to try and increase that by at least 1/2 today!  trust me!  The 4 golden points above will rewards you!!!

#4)  SO you have amazing fuel for movement with yesterdays eating.  So hey - put it to use!  get up and get out!  Whatever you usually do... add to it!  Add a walk!  Already walking?  Add a lap!  Going shopping?  Awesome-thats a killer calorie burner!  Working out?  Add reps, time, or both - just a little!  And then add something else.  Maybe play in the back yard a minute.  Maybe stand at your computer.  In an office?  Take the stairs and use the bathroom 2 floors away.


The result is a sense of AMAZING pride.  The realization that you really didn't do irreversible damage and a big dose of understanding that a few small do-ABLE things added up can make a huge difference.

Thanks for reading!

Anna
PS ~ Doing this today along with my personal location in my fitness journey added to the launch of a transformation program through AdvoCare has inspired me to ask:  if I journaled -slash - coached our 180 Tribe here - would that be helpful?  I've always loved to educate and coach in writing and in person - and here I could do videos ... it offers the interaction of the comments for conversation...

or we could do this on FB.

Or maybe its not needed at all!

Im open to ideas, needs and thoughts.

And IM READY to transform.  I've done if before and taken dear friends with me and Im ready to do it again and take an army.

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oxoxox, A