So tonight and tomorrow there is a beer festival at Macc Rugby Club.
And I’m going.
And, I will drink a reasonable amount of beer.
People are often shocked when they find out we drink.
Or that we occasionally have none ideal food (the odd ice cream for example).
Because they think all FitPros just eat chicken and broccoli.
Or lettuce.
Because most FitPros hide their real lives from their customers.
I’ve known many, many FitPros who’ll happily get hammered at the weekend and spend all week telling people they don’t drink.
And that they should follow their example.
The thing is, we don’t want to live like monks.
And don’t expect you too either.
It’s about making smart choices.
And getting a good overall balance.
Our food is good 95% plus of the time.
If you have cereal, toast and juice for brekkie and a sandwich, crisps and diet soft drink for lunch in the week and then have a few at the weekend, it’ll have a very different result to eating proper food on a good balance of protein, fats and carbs all week then having a few at the weekend.
Most of the time we make smarter drink choices.
G&T for me.
Vodka, like and soda for Matt.
Waters in-between drinks.
Even if everyone else is on the beers and trying to take the Mickey.
Usually only having beer when it genuinely is situationally dependant (ie: you’ve been invited to a beer festival with a bunch of school dads who you feel it’s important to develop relationships with).
Not using any social situation as an excuse to knock back a few pints.
And then not using ‘feeling rough’ the next day as a justification to eat crap all weekend.
I probably won’t feel great tomorrow morning.
And I might ‘feel’ like I want something less good than my normal breakfast and lunch choices.
But I learnt long ago to separate what I ‘feel like doing’ and what I know I need to do.
You get the point.
You don’t have to live like monks.
But, if you are going to drink you can hugely minimise the effect on your waistline by:
- Making smarter drink choices
- Eating well 95%+ of the time
- Not ‘writing off the weekend’ and eating crap after a few drinks
Much love,
Jon ‘Hope I won’t be too rough tomorrow as I’m looking after my nephew and niece’ Hall and Matt ‘Back from hols on Sunday and ready to smash stuff up’ Nicholson
P.S. We’re just over two weeks out from the find-out-more Briefing Meeting we have each month for the next ’20lbs in 8 weeks challenge’ – myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting.
