The 30 day holiday weight loss plan that reduces stress, boosts health and keeps you happy. Want to look fabulous on New Year's Eve and start the new year lean and healthy and ready to focus on a resolution that has nothing to do with your weight? Follow the 7 step plan below for great results in under 30 days.
1. Plan your meals around veggies & fruits
Focus on what you can eat and eating healthy is so much easier. Plan your meals around 5-10 servings of veggies and fruits a day. Veggie omelettes or fruit and protein smoothies for breakfast, orange and almonds mid-morning, 1/2 turkey sandwich with salad or veggie soup for lunch, apple with peanut butter mid-afternoon, salmon or chicken with steamed veggies and couscous for dinner.
2. Indulge your cravings in small amounts every 3-4 days
Make room in your healthy diet for small treats that keep you satisfied and you're less likely to lose control when presented with trays of unhealthy holiday treats. Keep the portions small and satisfying i.e. 1 small brownie square, 2 small cookies, 1 crab puff, 1 glass of wine. Plan treat days around the parties to make it easier.
3. Get at least 8 hours of sleep each night
Being tired causes false hunger and intense carb and sugar cravings making it ever harder to resist high calorie holiday foods. Get your beauty sleep at night and you're less likely to overeat and binge due to fatigue plus you'll have enough energy to exercise and burn off calories. Get started with Good Night: The Sleep Doctor's 4-Week Program to Better Sleep and Better Health
4. Plan 25 smart workouts before the end of the year
25 workouts from Dec. 1 through Dec. 31 is totally doable if you focus on working out smarter vs. longer. Smart workouts are short but effective, intense but not hard, fun and regenerating vs. tedious and draining. Get started with any of the Quick Workouts.
5. Take all right supplements to keep your body in fatloss mode.
A multi-vitamin with minerals, whey protein, a probiotic along with supplements that support the liver and kidneys guarantee that your body gets all the nutrients it needs to use the foods you eat as fuel, burn stored fat, and eliminate what your body doesn't need. The Tenacious Fat Solution Kit from Defense Nutrition has all that and more.
6. Boost oxygen intake with exercises that expand the ribcage and lungs
Oxygen is vital for fatloss plus it helps the body detox itself of waste and there are certain exercises that really work to expand the ribcage and get more oxygen. Backwards arm circles, downward dogs, plank rotations, medicine ball chops, jumping jacks, and side angle pose. Try any one of these at the beginning of your workout for increased fatloss.
7. Get 10-20 minutes of fresh air and sunlight each day
Getting fresh air and sun keeps you happy and when you're happy you are more likely to stick to healthy habits that burn the fat. Have your lunch outside or try weekend workouts outdoors. Get started with any of the Fatloss Workouts.
