The Super Bowl Sunday Diet Challenge - Tips on how to survive without completely blowing it
Super Bowl Sunday (SBS) presents a huge challenge to dieters. It is hard enough to stay on track on ordinary days, but add house parties, giant bowls of potato chips, free-flowing beer and the best food advertisements America has to offer and you can almost hear your will-power cracking.
What's a dieter to do? Here are a few tips that may keep you from completely blowing it:
- Get your workout in before the partying starts. Add an extra 15 minutes of something tougher than usual (faster walk, higher level on the stationary bike, pushups on your toes instead of your knees). Be careful not to let this make you feel so self-righteous that you add an extra 1500 calories to your SBS food intake.
- Have some low calorie snacks around...you know, the usual fresh veggies with low calorie dip. Eat them first. And then, chug down a large glass of water. This will go a long way towards filling you up before you start automatically reaching for the chicken wings.
- Stick to lite beer or wine diluted with water, or diet soda.
- Everytime your team scores, jump up, cheer, and then run around the sofa, pumping your arms in the air (Rocky style). Burns calories and, well, it is just plain fun.
- Skip dinner. You probably ate enough during the game to keep you from starving. If you doubt this, click onto PEERtrainer and log your food intake including every chip and dip from the beginning of the day. You may find it enlightening.
- At the end of the day, renew your resolve to lose weight and get healthy. Tomorrow is another day. Get right back on track with your diet, exercise and PEERtrainer log-ins.
Here's rooting for you...