Memorial Day holiday weekends usually mean barbeques, gatherings of friends and family members, and generaly fun times. Beer and wine is pletiful, burgers with the buns, chips and of course, desserts. Uh, oh...kiss goodbye your weight loss efforts. No!!!!!! You can still partake of all of the fun, make your food choices high protein, and really be judicious about the alcohol usage. The other thing to remember is this: during the entire year, there will be holiday weeks, your birthday week, vacations, etc., and there will be a good chance that you cannot lose weight that paritcular week. As a physician who treats people for weight issues, I do not expect my patients to give up all the food/beverage sources that accompany celebratory weeks. What I do recommend however is a vigilance as to what the "damages" were that week, i.e. get on that scale at the end of the weekend and see how much weight you may have gained. Then, have a gameplan as to what you are going to do to "undo" the damages of the preceeding week and get back on track. We get into trouble when we do not monitor our weight and human nature is such that when we know the scale will give us distressing news, we tend to avoid getting on it.
Have a great weekend and please log on daily as I will most definitely be posting stuff to try to help you navigate around the weight gain that often occurs on holiday weekends.
By the way, this has nothing to do with weight loss, but you baseball fans out there...can you believe how bad these overpaid Mets are playing? If all of us were less than mediocre at our jobs, we would have been fired by now...but yet these guys are getting paid millions and millions of dollars to play pathetic baseball. Sorry, just had to throw this rant in.
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