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When you go on vacation all you care about is relaxing and having a good time, which generally means you pay less attention to what you’re eating and drinking. If you feel like an ice cream you have one; if you want to have a drink you have one or two!
The only problem comes when you get home and step on the scales, as it doesn’t take long to discover you’ve put on a few pounds. You then have to go about losing the extra weight you’ve put on, which can be a real hassle. However, if you had fun on your vacation you may not be too bothered.
It’s amazing how quickly you can put on weight, though, as it takes only one or two weeks away for you to pile on the pounds. It may take you a couple of weeks to gain 3½Kg, but the chances are it will take considerably longer to lose that weight.
Indeed, you should be aiming to lose between ½Kg to 1Kg a week, as this is regarded as the most sensible target to aim for. You may want to lose 3½Kg in a week, but you’d have to virtually starve yourself to do this and even then you probably wouldn’t keep the weight off.
Thus, you have to go about weight loss in the same old boring way; you have to reduce your calorie intake and start doing more exercise. It may be more convenient to focus on diet alone, but to lose weight without keeping active you would have to reduce your calorie intake pretty substantially and it is incredibly difficult to follow a very low calorie diet plan for long. If you try to cut your calorie intake too drastically you won’t have any energy to exercise, which isn’t ideal.
Consequently, you have to reduce your calorie intake, but ensure you consume enough calories so that you get the right balance of nutrients and have the energy required to do some exercise. You can reduce your calorie intake by eating less junk food and concentrating on getting your calories from healthier sources, such as fruit and vegetables, wholegrain pasta and rice. You also have to bear in mind portion sizes, as you can’t fill up your plate with food at every meal time and expect to lose weight.
Often, the last thing you feel like doing after a nice, relaxing vacation is going on a strict diet and starting a hardcore exercise program, but you definitely have to ease yourself into consuming fewer calories while burning more if you want to get back down to your normal weight.
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