With the busiest time of the calendar year coming up it’s important to understand you CAN drink some alcohol if you choose to and still stay on track with your health and fitness goals.
Give BELOW my TOP FIVE (5) tips a read where you can enjoy your Summer drinks while still staying on track:
- My first tip is to do with your drink of choice. If your wanting to drink, stay social and have fun at your Summer parties and still stay on track then my biggest tip is to aim to consume vodka, lime and soda drinks. The calories in these are far lower then the sugary cocktails, full strength beers and glasses of wine. To stay lean opting for vodka, lime and soda should always be your drink of choice.
- If you are wanting to drink full strength beer and have a few cocktails of choice no problem but you must understand the importance of NOT consuming these drinks on top of your daily food. This will only put you in a calorie surplus which is not what you want.
- This takes me to tip #3 where you must calculate your drinks into your daily macros. Predict how many wines your going to have or how many beers you are thinking of consuming (hard for some guys I know lol) and then simply add these drinks into your daily calories. For example if a full strength beer has 205 calories in it (www.calorieking.com.au) and 11.4g of carbs then you need to take these calories out of your daily foods prior to going out drinking. You can calculate this via ‘my fitness pal’ or the website outlined above.
- My next tip is to do some form of exercise that day which I think is an important one. This allows you to BURN some calories so if you do end up going a little over your calculated drinks that night then it’s OK as you have burnt some calories that day to give you a little buffer.
- My last tip is around the food. When we are drinking we tend to eat more and this also then spills onto the next day when we are hung over. If you’re choosing to drink calories but you also choose to consume heavy calories that night as well then there is no way this won’t put you in a calorie surplus and add unwanted body fat %. If you’re drinking then be smart with your food choices that night.
I hope that helps guys remember we never want this health and fitness lifestyle to get in the way of having fun with our family and friends over the Christmas and New Year break that’s never what this is about. It’s just all about being smart and we can do both.
If you’re wanting to look and FEEL your all time best this Summer I am now taking enrollments for the next and very LAST round of my 6 week Summer Shred Program which all kicks off on Monday 12th November.
