The Top 9 Tips to not just Survive but THRIVE this Festive Period

The Top 9 Tips to not just Survive but THRIVE this Festive Period

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Hi Friends,

How are you going? 

Are you exhausted?

Are you excited about the Festive period or dreading it? 

If you are the person who could overeat and put on 5 kilos out of nowhere or drink to drunken behaviour like in the movie, pay attention?

Have you regretted that photocopier incident, that kiss, that “I love you”, your reputation, your relationship, your waistline, and of course your health, then you may need to pay attention.

Below are not just my tips based on my 15 years of research and training, but the longest lived communities in the world. The ones who live in the 'blue zones'.

Lets start this week with your  PHYSICAL HEALTH

1. Over eating? Give yourself permission to try a bit of everything this Xmas period with your work break up, family and try all of your Mum’s home cooking. Apart from that day, try the 5 second diet. Ask yourself after 5 seconds, do I really need to eat or drink this? Have a peppermint tea after big meals to aid digestion and include a walk, otherwise it sets like concrete as you will probably have felt. I know I have. The simple carbs (bread/ rice/ pasta), anything white and processed, your body converts these to sugars and you’ll probably put on weight!

Eat only to 80% full like the longest living communities.

2. Over drinking? Drink more water and less alcohol, or one alcohol to one water if out at a party. If drinking is a problem for you, please have the courage to seek help, for yourself, your liver, your relationships, even your bank account. Drink filtered water where possible. Have you seen the filters after they need changing? Either buy a filter or become a filter.

3. You don’t have to catch up with every friend, attend every Christmas or New Year party, eat all the food or drink all the free alcohol. Be selective, be smart and ask yourself which ones you really want to attend. That advice you got or should have got when you were 18, ‘pace yourself’ and you might actually not damage your liver, brain, stomach or reputation, or put on 10kg.!

4. Avoid soft drinks, sport drinks, and energy drinks, they will make you feel worse in the heat and the sugar converts to fat if you are not burning it off and they irritate your stomach. For more energy, get a better night’s sleep. Avoid stimulus and meditate before sleep.

5. Its BBQ time of year. Go easy on the sausages and red meat. It is the worst fat. It blocks your arteries. The main artery to your heart is only 1/5th the width of your little finger!! That’s why the longest living communities in the world only eat meat about once a week or less!

6. The science is out, you eat fast, you die faster. Eat slower, put your knife and fork down in between mouthfuls to slow you down. You will need 1/3rd less food to be full and you will absorb 20% more…

7. Get into those salads, there are hundreds, add quinoa or chickpeas as a protein with every meal and you’ll look better, feel better, trim down and have energy and vitality to burn….

8. The longest living communities in the world don’t go to the gym, or run or ride!! You don't have to go to the gym to stay fit. Move more, stretch more, walk more. If you don’t, you will lose your body's conditioning! Commit daily to basic pushups and pilates planks, swim, run, ride or play a sport to maintain or start some toning and core strength. This will help your back too. Along with your daily minimum 30 min walk, you will be feeling and looking better in no time. 

9. Avoid most sunscreens and moisturizers which contain mineral oil (petrol) based ingredients, moisturizers and preservatives with ‘benzylidene ‘benzoates’ (also called parabens). You can now get clear Zinc ones without nano particles. See your local Health Food store or good Chemist.

Look after yourself. You are worth it.

With love this festive period.

Derek

The Top 9 Tips to not just Survive but THRIVE this Festive Period

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