Beat the Bloat and Get Party Ready

Let’s give our digestion, liver and blood glucose levels a little rest over the next few days, prepping us ahead of New Year’s Eve. So step away from the mince pies, port, cheese and gingerbread cookies! Instead embrace the following tips to help you get back in shape over the next few days.

Ladies, look forward to put on your sparkly dresses for New Year’s Eve and hit the Boxing Day sales. It is the perfect time to revamp our wardrobes during the sales and make great purchases.

1.            Increase your fluid intake, through herbal teas, water, coconut water or freshly made smoothies. Homemade soups also allow us to increase our fluid intake. Increasing your hydration will support the body in flushing out toxins, may help with satiety, and improve the glow of the skin.

2.            Aim for a few days of ‘Clean Eating’. A term often used in a misleading way, it basically involves cooking from scratch with freshly sourced ingredients and no added shop bought sauces. Choosing colourful condiments and ingredients can turn a simple dish into a creative one. Getting party ready does not involve sudden deprivation but flavoursome meals eaten slowly, where each bite is enjoyed. This is the basis of mindful eating.

3.            Get moving with cardio and weight training sessions

With a few days off, we have more time to hit an exercise class or gym session. It is important to remember that muscle is more metabolically active than fat, which means the more muscle we have the more calories we can burn in a day. In the long run, keeping toned with 3 sessions of resistance training per week can help us in reaching our goals. Seek advice from a personal trainer at your local gym or challenge yourself with a body pump class. Organised classes take away the stress of looking up exercises on YouTube or Pinterest as they simplify everything for you.

4.            Increase your intake of protein especially at breakfast and dinner

Protein is needed by every cell of the body. The body uses protein to repair muscle and tissues. We use protein to make enzymes, hormones, and other body chemicals. Protein is essentially an important building block of bones, muscles, cartilage, skin, and blood. Besides the importance of protein for health, it fuels you for the day ahead and helps to sustain your hunger. We suggest replacing your carbohydrates over the next few days at dinner time, with healthy forms of protein, fibre and greens. By increasing your protein intake, lowering both your sugar and carbohydrate intake over the next few days, this will enable the body’s metabolism to work in an efficient manner. You will feel lighter and buzzing with energy in a matter of days.

Try Amazing Meal in a delicious smoothie or simply stir into a glass of milk of your choice. With 11+g of premium plant based protein and 6 g of cleansing fibre per serve, Amazing Meal can be used to curb the hunger pangs and sugar cravings. Amazing Meal provides a balanced set of all essential amino acids from organic hemp seeds, organic brown rice, organic quinoa and organic pumpkin seeds. Pick the right flavour for you and go ahead!

5.            Beat the bloat with greens, probiotics and digestive enzymes

Be kind to your digestion and beat the bloat! Digestive enzymes will help break down the food we struggle to digest while probiotics will help flourish the intestines with healthy bacteria. Amazing Meal provides 5 billion of probiotics per serve, your blend of greens, vegan sources of protein and digestive enzymes! Keep a sachet handy when you are out!