Mums… Forget Your New Year’s Fitness Resolutions!

Instead of setting grand, but vague, New Years Fitness Resolutions like: ‘I’m going to exercise more’ ‘I will eat more heathily’ or ‘I’m going to lose weight’ -  get specific, get measurable, & start NOW!

Here’s 3 to be going along with…

• ‘I am going to exercise for at least 15 minutes, EVERY DAY’. You can do this one! Starting today! You really can. And if you start today you’ll have done 4 1/2 hours of exercise before that vague ‘must do more exercise’ swims guiltily around your head along with the New Year’s hangover!
• ‘I am going to make a conscious effort to drink more water’. Start with a glass before every meal of the day. It reduces hunger pangs, you’ll eat smaller portions & that’s at least 3 extra glasses for starters! Plus replace one coffee or tea every day with a herbal or fruit tea.
• ‘I’m going to eat real food’. Doesn’t sound too hard does it? If the next thing you reach for comes with a label, check it. If you can’t pronounce the stuff on the label, don’t eat it. Can you identify the food’s original source? IE when you look at the food you’re about to eat, can you recognise a real food in there? Meat? Fish? A vegetable? A grain? If not, try to find something a farmer grew or reared, & not something that was made in a lab or a factory.

Try it… yes, even over Christmas!

Enjoy a glass of wine if you fancy (unless you’re pregnant or breastfeeding, in which case go for a ginger beer or tonic with lime) – but match every glass with a tumbler of water.

Enjoy a few chocolates if you fancy – but don’t eat the whole box (you KNOW it just makes you feel crap).

Just ENJOY! Have fun & don’t feel guilty about anything. Instead make choices that give you pleasure & make you happy.

Daily fresh air & exercise, enjoying ‘real’ food & staying hydrated & relatively sober should meet all of those criteria!

Have a wonderful Christmas!