Welcome to Fit to Be Real.
And a little extra.
We're going 12 Hacks of Fitness.
Yes, we are talking about fitness and food today.
Pertaining to the holiday.
The holiday season, the craze and how to basically keep yourself in check
and so that you're not miserable in January.
Yeah, check yourself before you wreck yourself.
We're going to get a lot of things for Christmas and I hope one of them is.
Different personality.
Different jokes.
Oh, I've got some new ones for the new year.
Sure.
You already have them or like you're going to do it.
I mean, I feel like they'll come to me.
I'm really off the cuff.
You know, I'm good at improv.
You ready?
I'm Victoria.
Hey guys, I'm Carly.
And we are going to do our best and by we I mean Carly is going to do her best
to not saying the 12 days of Christmas every time we say the number 12.
Five.
No, it's five.
Golden.
You know, it's really funny.
Dean is really into that song right now.
So it's playing on repeat at my house.
Go out numbers.
Yeah.
And I don't know the song.
Yes, you do.
But like, I have to think really, really hard on what comes next.
How many birds?
It's all birds.
How many lords of leaping dancing couple lords thrown in there.
I'm into the 12 days.
We're not quite at the 12 day mark yet.
No, but we're getting there.
I do want to start off by saying this episode title is a little misleading.
The 12 hacks of fitness.
Because guess what?
I'm going to give you a little secret.
Here's a hack.
There is no hack.
It's hard.
It's hard work to keep yourself in check over the holidays with all the food and
the busyness and just everything.
Like it is very hard.
It takes work and there's really.
There is no secret sauce, if you will.
You got to think about it.
Is there a secret Santa?
Not today.
Well, he's the one with the secret sauce.
So if he doesn't exist, that's why.
Completely off topic, but on topic with Christmas.
I saw a video last night of how to hack.
This is why it came up for me.
Christmas wrapping presents that are oblong or not the perfect square shape to
be able to wrap and how to save your wrapping papers.
So you're not like wasting paper on these like weird shapes.
Oh, all I do is waste paper.
Oh my God.
I couldn't stop watching and I watched it like four times.
Was it also calming?
It's like they probably had nice music to it and they really know how to fold.
I watch everything on mute.
I watch everything on mute unless it absolutely like requires sound.
I acted shocked, but so do I.
Yeah.
And if it's not captions, I scroll.
I'm like, I'm not.
I don't even want to.
I know if there aren't any words like the lazy man scroll.
This was not calming because there was dueted with a guy that was reacting to it.
And he was in absolute shock as much as I was about how amazing these hacks were.
Wait, what were they wrapping like a candle?
Like it was a rectangle, but instead of trying to just fold it normally,
you put it on the angle so the corners come in and then all of a sudden you have
like the perfect shape and you're not wasting paper.
Yeah, no.
We're like how to make a bag out of the wrapping paper for like a weird object.
That's if you don't want to use like an actual Christmas bag.
Do you think you'll do it?
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
I listen, you're all getting the same wrapping paper from last year.
I did not buy any new wrapping paper, even though that's one of my weaknesses.
You do like a good wrapping paper, but like every year there's cute stuff.
Like there's a new pattern.
There's a new elf.
It's Will Ferrell's face everywhere.
One year it was tacos.
Yeah.
So it's a mess.
Tacos.
I'm not doing that this year, but I will get creative and try to do it with like
minimal tape and minimal wrapping paper.
I can't wait to see.
You're not getting any.
Yeah, I forgot.
I forgot we're not doing gifts.
But we are.
Okay.
So just to be a little bit more clear and specific, our 12 hacks are between fitness,
physical fitness, which pairs with mental fitness and food and lifestyle and getting
through the holidays and the craze and the busyness.
So the whole point of this, I think is for us to remind ourselves, yes, to slow down,
but also there are ways to keep yourself accountable.
Yes.
That's what I meant by in check, I think, accountable and not beating yourself up
throughout the holidays.
You're going to see in some of mine, it's not all like, don't eat this.
Eat that.
Don't eat that.
It's not restriction.
No.
So Carly's going to cover the lifestyle on food and I'm going to cover some fitness,
workout, exercise type things.
Yay, things on the first day of hacking.
My fitness said to me.
Yup.
Love it.
So my first tip is make the most of your time and that really just means if you don't have
an hour, two hours to work out, that's okay.
If you have 30 minutes and that's all you have, that's exactly what you need to do for
that day.
Put it in your schedule where it fits for that day.
If you have 45 minutes, if you have an hour, whatever it is, it's enough.
So you just have to make the most of your time.
It's a lot of schedules of meeting family members and maybe people are coming into town.
So if you know what your schedule is for the holiday season, especially as it gets a little
bit closer at Christmas, you have to just be smart with where you can fit your workout
and then get it done.
God, just be smart.
You is kind.
You is smart.
You is important.
Man, I wasn't that smart.
I couldn't remember.
You just kept saying you is.
I know.
You is what, Carly?
You is.
You is ready for your first food tip.
Here we go.
My first one's called pregame.
Ooh, pregame.
Now, unfortunately, it's not the kind of pregame you are all thinking.
My kind of food tip pregame is eat before you go to your event.
Yeah.
So what is so hard is that we tend to skip meals a lot during the holidays, which I know
we talked about over Thanksgiving.
Don't skip breakfast.
I had breakfast.
Oh, so did I.
And it was so good.
Well, so I almost skipped it.
I know, but Andrew was like, don't you listen to your podcast?
I'm making breakfast and you're going to eat it.
And I was like, oh, yeah, gotta do that.
She does actually listen to the podcast.
I do.
I listen to it every week.
And apparently so does Andrew.
I was unaware that he listened to it.
But that just means don't skip meals, especially on the days, you know, like Christmas Eve
and Christmas.
But anytime you have an event where you know there's going to be food and you have no control
over what kind of food that is, eat beforehand so that you're not going just like you wouldn't
go grocery shopping, starving, or you shouldn't anyway.
I do it way too often.
I know.
I do it all the time.
Don't go to an event starving.
So even if that's just like throwing some veggies in your mouth before you head out or,
you know, chugging some water or just eat or drink something before you go.
So you are not ravished when you get to a party.
Do you mean ravenous?
Yes.
I'm also I'm also picturing a chipmunk like shoving vegetables in his mouth where your
cheeks are like super big, but there's carrots and celery sticking out.
I didn't listen to a word you just said.
I'm ravished.
I don't even know what it ravished me.
I think ravished ravenous means hungry.
Oh, you look ravishing.
Oh, ravishing.
Yeah.
You can definitely look ravishing on your way to an event, but don't be ravenous with
carrots sticking out of your mouth.
Oh my gosh.
Moving on.
Okay.
On the third day of Hackmas, it's just going to involve the entire show.
Stay social.
How does that pertain to fitness?
I thought you were going to stay sober.
Stay sober, everybody.
No, that is not what we are preaching.
Stay social.
So how does that pertain to fitness?
The buddy system.
So in two different ways, the first one is the buddy system.
So if it is easier for you to keep yourself accountable because a friend or a family member
or your partner, whoever it is that is going to work out with you, do it.
It's so much easier in twos or pairs or packs, whatever makes it work.
And if it's not the buddy system, the second way is to do a group fitness class because
that there's just so much, excuse me, there's so many benefits to a group fitness class
that's not just sweating and burning calories and getting a good workout in.
The group community is what keeps you having fun, forgetting you're working out, especially
if you're at Seafit and you're elsewhere else.
We can't really say that that's true.
But the group atmosphere keeps you coming back, whether you're thinking about it or
not.
It's something subliminal in the back of your mind.
So grab a buddy or get to your favorite Seafit, favorite group fitness studio or class and
get it done that way because you will see that you'll actually get it done.
I agree.
So glad you don't object.
Thank you.
All right.
Number four.
Track the little things.
Now I am a huge, so many things could be said after that.
Dummy.
I am a huge, what do you mean to say when you do this?
Nobody knows what's in your head right now.
Okay.
In other words, no, I'm not an advocate for this.
But I do this all the time.
So I'm a huge doer of this.
If you talk to me in person, I'm much better and articulate.
Prove it.
Culprit.
Number four.
I'm a huge culprit.
Culprit.
I am a huge culprit of this.
God, you're so, you is smart.
You is here, Riley.
You is here.
I showed up.
Okay.
So just so you know, we are quoting the help of the movie.
Yes.
Oh my God, yes.
We're quoting the help.
This is not another personality trait.
Yeah.
But if it were, we would be getting rid of it in the new year.
Yeah.
Don't cancel us.
Number four.
Track the little things.
Okay.
They all count.
How are you a culprit of this?
I am a culprit because tracking the little things means do not just pick on little things
all day long.
So if you need to think about this in your mind, like you're going for a cheese and cracker,
you're going for a little bit of dip and cheese bread, you're going for a little bit of this,
but it's not a meal.
It's just grabbing and going and grazing.
If you think about it as anytime you take like a little bit of something, it's about
a hundred calories, right?
So say you do that.
I know.
Say you do that about 10 times right there, not at any meal.
It's like a thousand calories.
That doesn't include drinking, alcohol, a dessert or anything.
You're just literally picking nothing on nothing.
So just be a little bit more aware of what you're putting in your mouth when you're just
grabbing and going.
Nothing that fills up probably the fat cells the most.
Yeah.
Like you're picking on nothing, but it makes the biggest impact.
Exactly.
So just, I'm not saying don't go for the apps, don't go for the little notches, but just
and be aware of it in your mind.
Like, maybe I'll just like have one or two, then I'll wait for dinner instead of just
like grazing all day long, sit down and actually have the meal so that you won't grab and go.
I'm a dip person.
Like I love dips.
Are you?
Chips and dip.
Yeah.
Chips and salt I could eat until the day that I die, but like, I don't know.
I could Martin short it on only murders in the building.
He only eats dips.
Gosh.
That's just an extra hack.
If you want to laugh really hard and be in a great headspace, go watch only murders in
the building.
Yeah.
Go watch some murder.
It's really funny though.
It's a really good headspace, but he does.
He only eats dips and it's part of the character that I really like.
But yeah, don't do that.
Plan your workouts in advance, which kind of goes with the buddy system because you got
to plan that and it kind of goes with manage your time because you got to have to plan
that.
So it's just more of a hitchy upside of the head way to say, schedule it in.
If you know that you have a party on Friday and you have also a party on Saturday and
you have a brunch on Sunday because families in and friends are in town, that could be
your entire December and probably into your beginning of January.
Most likely.
So this isn't just about like the week of Christmas.
Write them down in your planner on your calendar on the computer, which I'm still haven't done.
I like haven't tuned into 2023.
I write things in an old fashioned planner and that is the only way you can get by in
life.
So if you write them down in whatever way you are putting ink down, you will be more inclined
to follow through because it's there.
It's part of like a list.
It's part of your set schedule.
It's as important as a meeting that you have on your calendar for work and as important
as that brunch that you have with the friends that you haven't seen in a really long time.
So if you get that workout in, then you don't have to think about it.
And you go to brunch and you go to the cocktail hour, you go to Santa's.
Santa's what?
Santa's sleigh.
Birthday bash buffet.
I don't know.
Santa's sleigh buffet.
Plan your goddamn workouts.
Just plan them, please.
Santa's birthday bash.
I couldn't think of another word for cocktail hour.
You're such a culprit of that.
I'm driving us right out.
On the sixth day of Christmas, my hacker gave to me a lot of anxiety.
I'm so tired.
Oh my God, how'd you know?
The next one kind of goes along with that.
It means it's called factor in some leeway.
So if you know you've got two parties on Friday and Saturday, it's okay.
You can eat at them.
You can drink at them.
But leading up to it, maybe try and stay on track.
We know there's events and you can't always eat healthy and sometimes you want to have
that extra seventh glass of wine.
And that's okay.
Wait, is the seventh extra?
That's where your extra is.
That's the line.
So a bottle and a half is your extra.
Got it.
Listen, nothing is going to ruin all of the progress if you made up into this point in
24 hours.
So enjoy it.
Yes.
However, leading up to it, try and, 80, 20, try and stay on track as much as you can
so that when you do indulge, it's not such a hit.
So factor it in.
You know what's going to happen.
Let it happen.
And to the degree of your mental space for that, because for me, if I don't factor it
in or be a little bit more strict before the event, I beat myself up at the event.
And that's all I'm thinking about.
Like, why did I have lunch?
I shouldn't have had lunch or I shouldn't have had what I had at lunch versus just enjoying
yourself at the gathering.
Right, exactly.
And you want to make sure you're mentally prepared so that you don't get upset about
it.
You want to enjoy it.
The point of life, the point of the holiday is to enjoy it.
And we want you to too.
We want you to do.
You do, do, do.
I do.
Do, do, do.
But we also want you to be happy with yourself and the decisions you're making so if you
can sort of balance that out, you got to make, you got to know what's going to happen, be
okay with it and move it along.
Yeah.
Exercise with variety.
And yes, to keep you interested.
And what that means, I guess, before I get into that is that change up your workouts.
If you are a seven day a week work out or a six day week or a five day week, change it
up.
Don't do the exact same thing every single day.
That could also mean change up the location of your workout.
So if you have a gym membership and a C-fit membership, just go to C-fit.
Flip, flip, flip between the two.
C-fit alone has a lot of variety.
Yes.
So if it is just C-fit and that's all that you do, go to all the different classes.
Just stick to the cardio dance that you like.
Go to the six, 10 weight class, go to the resistance band and ball class, go to the
cardio, go to the hip class, go to the pilates, yoga, all those are important.
So now that we've kind of said everything that we offer at C-fit, the reason that the
variety not only helps your mental space of being like, oh, I'm not doing the same thing
over and over again.
How boring.
I don't want to do this anymore.
I want to stop and just go to the Christmas parties.
It also keeps your metabolism working for you.
So when you switch up the workouts, not necessarily muscle confusion, just metabolism keeps working
because what it's doing is that you're doing a cardio class on Monday and then on Tuesday,
yes, there's cardio involved with weights because your heart rate gets up and you do
start to sweat and your muscles are working for you, but weight training is very different
than cardio.
And that keeps your metabolism at its peak of like, oh, cool, we got to do this now.
We're not going to get used to this because the next day you're going to do some resistance
band training and it's a little bit of Pilates and yoga.
And then you go back to cardio.
So that variety is yes for your mental space of wanting to continue it and then yes for
your metabolism to keep working for you so that you can go to those parties and not think
about it too hard.
Right.
I, I agree.
All right, it's called holiday spirits.
That means enjoy them, but try and pick the clearer the alcohol, the better for you.
Now yes, all alcohol is a poison.
We all know that.
Yeah.
It's not great for you, but we all, we all do it.
We all do it and it's okay.
But try and make the healthier, less calorie alcohol, which is actually champagne, clear
liquor.
Be careful.
I know the hangovers are horrible.
Be careful with champagne.
But the calories versus a glass of wine.
Yeah.
Champagne is about 84 depending on the type of wine.
It's like 130.
So are we talking about one glass or your seven?
Oh, oh, listen.
Once we get past the two, we stop counting calories.
Oh yeah.
And it's just a free for all.
I was going to say a free ball.
It's not, maybe it's a free ball after the seven, but free ball.
Oh God.
But just try and stick to the clearer alcohols, the vodka, you know, mixed with gin.
I know.
You love like gin.
Me.
I do.
I love gin.
But maybe try and stay away from, you know, anything with a juice in it, like a mimosa,
like the orange juice, plus the alcohol.
Sugar is always a bad mix.
Yeah.
So just keep it clear.
That means no Med-Alph for you.
Oh, you know what?
I'm growing up these days.
I don't need to buy my alcohol with how cute the label is.
Do you like that beer?
I know I do like that beer.
I'll probably have one.
You can have more than one, Carly.
It's called Balance.
I'm seven.
It is go big or go home.
Like there is that is our problem for most things.
Our M.O.
Yeah.
For absolutely most things.
Like the other day I threw one pair of pants on the floor because I didn't have time to
put them away.
You should see what my bedroom looks like now.
I can't find my carpet because I just was like, well, there's one on the floor.
I'm over it.
It's done.
Yeah.
Now you all know what I'm doing later.
That's us.
So this one, this one's more mental than physical fitness and it kind of goes with everything
that you're saying about food is that when you're going into the holiday season, which
yes, started at Thanksgiving, right?
But now that we're in December, don't think you're going to lose weight.
I was going to say this just as an extra tidbit, but yes, maintaining is where you should
keep your head space of how to get through the holidays.
Like you can't think you're going to go into January with keeping a good balance of having
fun and going to the gatherings and being a part of your social circle and truly being
present in those moments and indulging and then the 20% of being strict on your normal
days, your work days, whatever that may be and think that you're going to lose weight.
You know?
It's setting you up for failure.
It's setting you up for failure to think January, the skill is going to be 10 pounds lighter
after getting through December.
The only way that would be the case is if you do not have fun.
You know?
You don't enjoy.
You don't enjoy yourself.
You don't enjoy Christmas Day.
You don't enjoy Christmas Eve.
If Christmas is your holiday, Hanukkah, same thing.
There are eight days for you to eat those matzah balls.
Okay?
I don't know what they're made out of, but I don't think they're vegetables.
I would have to agree with you.
Whatever holiday you celebrate, you just have to keep the maintenance as the priority.
I went to the workout today.
I did a good job today.
I'm going to the Christmas work party tonight and I'm going to have a good time.
The next day is the same type of thing.
Maybe there's no work party, but you're going to go out or you're going to go to the gym
and then the next day is a different day and you just get through each day being proud
of whatever you did for yourself and also having a really good time enjoying your life.
Now, what that doesn't mean and how some people get into a slippery slope because I did a
real slippery slope for, I don't know, eight years is I'm going to work out really hard
in the morning and I'm going to eat whatever I want every single night at the event.
No, you can't do that.
That is because once, two, three, four times it happens.
That's when you begin to fall off the wagon a little bit and that's where it can get a
little harder to get back on.
Not because your workouts aren't going to start counting and the calories or the food
that you're eating are going to just become basically fat.
It's because the poor choices in food every single night, even though you're working out
really hard, start to weigh heavy on your mind.
The poisons from those food, I'm going to use the word poison just because that makes
a little bit more sense, starts to poison your mind to be like, I actually don't feel
good this morning.
I'm going to not go to my workout.
I'll do it later and then later comes in, you're not going to do your workout later
and then the party comes that night, but you're going to the party.
Then that is where the cycle really starts to begin.
It's not because your workouts not canceling your food or your food is too much like that.
Don't get into that.
Maintaining is the goal.
Maintaining your physical workout routine, maintaining the balance in your food and fun
party lifestyle through the holidays and maintaining your mental headspace to allow yourself to
indulge and have fun, but keep your health journey on track.
All right.
We've come to my favorite one.
It's called dessert me.
It means have dessert.
If you constantly push it away or say, I'm not having dessert tonight, chances are at
this event, set event or whatever, you're going to go overboard because when you restrict
yourself so much, you tend to go the opposite way when you get the chance.
So, yes, have dessert, portion it out, only have one or get a small plate, not the big
plate, get a small plate and have little bits of all the things you want to try.
And that is it.
I did that at Thanksgiving.
Did you?
We went together, so I don't know.
We went to a country club for Thanksgiving this year for those of you who were there
and decided to join us for Thanksgiving this year, the family members that wanted to be
here.
Oh my God.
Shut.
Yes, face.
And so obviously it was buffet.
So dinner was awesome.
And we were going back to Carly's house.
I wasn't there.
Sans Carly and Andrew and the kids to have dessert.
However, they did have a dessert table and it was your normal like pumpkin pie, apple
pie and then I think they're called like tarts.
Just like little.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They weren't like fruit.
So I'm not tart.
I don't mean tart in that way, I guess.
Fruit cakes.
Like little, they look like quiches.
Yeah, okay.
But it was a cherry pie.
Yeah.
And cheesecake and like there were little bites of that.
So I got a small dessert plate and I put the ones that looked enticing to me.
There weren't too many options, but there were at least five or six, which is a lot.
Yeah.
I think all of that together would be a very giant, giant piece of pie or cake.
And I took a bite and if I wasn't like, oh my God, I love this.
I didn't finish it.
Yeah.
But I felt really good about myself because I was like, I took advantage of what was offered
to me since we're paying for Thanksgiving like this, but I also didn't just eat it because
it was there.
Right.
Like I tried it.
I wasn't a big fan cheesecake.
I totally ate the entire cheesecake.
Was it good?
Yeah.
And it was the size of your thumb.
So like it wasn't horrible.
Now, portions.
I did go to your house and house a lot of things that were made that like, yes.
So only listen to the first half of what I just said.
But to piggyback off of what you said, that restriction, which is not because I restrict
myself with those bites, I felt very happy about that.
And if we had ended the night, I would not have even had another thing to eat.
Like I felt really good about what I did on Thanksgiving, especially with dessert because
that's my thing.
But because I restrict myself so much, what you end up doing if you're anything like me
is like you try to sneak things.
I know.
All of a sudden, the sneaking becomes like four or five pieces of things and you feel
horrible.
Yeah.
And you're only sneaking them from yourself.
Not exactly.
Like the only person that you're trying to hide the desserts from is yourself.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Which is like so mental and stupid.
Just tell everybody that you drink a bottle and a half of wine.
Tell everybody it's fine.
It's a different problem.
But I don't want to restrict myself.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm going to get some dangerous water and that's really not what we're talking about
here.
She knows that.
She's kidding.
Nobody call us or Texas and say that you're concerned about Carly.
It's really just me knowing that I shouldn't be doing something and I'm eating it because
it's there and just because I think I'm never going to get it again.
I know.
We're going to be here again.
We talk about this all the time.
All the time.
Because people think every meal is the last meal.
Yeah.
And it's totally BS because guess what?
Thanksgiving happened and that exact same dessert situation is going to happen a month
later.
A month later.
I love this one and it's something that I really need to remind myself at those only
major Christmas night.
Like gatherings on time.
But that's fine.
And the thing is you can have those desserts if you've been for the most part on your game
up until then.
You know what I mean?
Like yes.
Go ahead and have the desserts.
Enjoy it.
Love it.
You know have three.
You know.
But no.
Yeah.
I could put her love it.
Have three of them.
But just know that you got to get back up the next day and you got to keep it moving and
you got to get back on track and you can't keep going like Christmas or Thanksgiving every
single day.
That's when the problem starts.
So don't restrict yourself but portion make good decisions and eat the dessert basically.
Sometimes that's my gauge on a regular day.
What?
I could eat this right now.
I probably would enjoy eating this right now and I would be okay with it.
But I really don't want to feel horrible tomorrow morning.
So sometimes I don't do it most of the time I don't do it.
And the next morning I'm like so glad I didn't do that.
And I could have it tonight or I could have it another day.
Like these things are going to be there for you.
And the feeling of feeling good when you wake up is better than any wine honestly because
we've talked about this before like no one likes to wake up with a headache or feeling
bad or just being like, oh man I should have just had one glass of wine.
And I would have been fine you know.
So I think restrict to a point and then just be better at knowing what enough is enough.
I would like to put a little pause on today's activities to let the world know that Carly
is totally fine and she only really drinks at social events for holidays and our past
used to be go big or go home.
Like yeah didn't know how to stop ourselves.
We should do a whole episode on just that's actually a good idea.
We would have so much fun with it that our next day and the night of would be ruined
where our stomachs are genetics and alcohol do not mix at all.
So well when you don't drink ever and then you go big or go home because you're like,
oh it's my one night out for six months.
Yeah.
I mean it's the one night out for six months.
So Carly drank a Thanksgiving and she has not since.
I just everybody needs to know she's not drinking seven glasses of wine every night
and or to aid us her therapy.
Back to the program at hand.
But I will accept wine anytime you want to leave it on my car.
You just make things worse.
Oh, all right.
Why are people leaving wine at your car?
I don't know.
They left gummy worms on your car.
Wooder melons, candy.
You said on a podcast one time my favorite candy is wooder melon and the next day you
got wooder melon.
So I'm telling you my favorite wine is predator wine and I drive a black car.
A black Honda pilot.
That looks like it's been through the ringer.
Okay, so the car itself could use a bottle of wine.
Anyway, all right, last one of mine.
Keep it active with your seasonal social activities, not just in your gym or your C-Fit studio.
If you're going to gather and do events, do things where you have to walk a lot and of
course bundle and dress appropriately, but maybe go ice skating in Bryant Park in New
York City, become a Hallmark movie.
Do the things that keep you moving instead of just sitting down to have conversations.
Keep the conversations active if you have the types of group of people that can be active
with you.
So the one, it keeps you moving.
It keeps you from, if you're having the meal at the restaurant, then you walk around your
town or the city or whatever you're doing, that helps the process.
That makes you feel a little bit better and then you go to the bar, you know, whatever.
I'm giving you a whole list of things to do here.
This is great advice.
I won't be doing any of it.
I'll be sitting on my couch all night.
But if you gather with people, try to keep it a little bit active and what I mean by
active is you're not going to drop and do burpees on the street with your fur coat.
You're going to just walk around.
You're going to enjoy the Christmas lights or the holiday lights and you're going to
go ice skating and you're going to throw snowballs if it's snowing.
Like you just keep it moving.
Go bowling, go do anything like that.
That's seasonal.
I love Christmas bowling.
It's my favorite.
Christmas bowling?
Yeah.
Keep it seasonal.
But go bowling.
Are you done?
After your Christmas bowling, I want you, this is our last one, holiday proof your plan.
Pretty much everything we've said today, put it all together.
Don't skip meals.
Get active.
Plan it out.
Couldn't be more important for your holiday to keep to maintain.
And if you slip up, it's okay.
Get right back into it.
Get back on your game.
Even if you slip up for two days, just make sure you don't make it three.
You know, like really be aware of what's going on and don't let it snowball out of control.
Our snowballs what you're throwing for Christmas bowling.
But yeah, I mean just plan it out.
Make sure you are very aware of where you're going, what you're doing, how active you can
be when you can't be and control and portion.
It's such simple.
Simple.
It's all very simple.
Simple things that we all know individually and we know in the moment when we're like,
oh, I should have done this.
Like it's always don't let it be a shoulda.
Yeah.
I should have done.
Like do it now.
Set it.
Oh.
These are your 12 hacks, not that they're easy, but they are a surefire way for you to really,
truly be present during your Christmas holiday Hanukkah season and not get into the new year
2024 is approaching.
Stop it.
Okay.
But it'll help you not get into the new year feeling like you have to start at day one
all over again.
No.
And also, if you are, I've said this, I think on our Instagram, but I don't know if I've
said it here.
If you haven't started working out or you don't have a routine yet, you really want to do
not wait till January 1st.
Oh, God.
Honestly, it is so much better if you start it now, if you're talking about like fitness
and food nutrition, because you are at your busiest right now.
So if you can do it at your busiest and you can fit in that workout, that group class
or any workout.
Christmas Bowl.
If you can fit in your Christmas bowling now, think about how much easier it's going to
be in January when you should have or would have started.
Start it now.
There's no busier time than now.
So if you can do it now, you can do it at any time.
Make it the best Christmas present you give to yourself to ensure your 2024.
Stop saying that.
I honestly, it sounds like like some back to the future date that's never going to come,
but is coming.
If you cannot tell, we are drunk.
No, it's nine o'clock on a Saturday.
Oh, very good.
Regular crowds.
Trouble in.
Oh, Billy, I'm so sorry.
Billy Joel.
Yes, we, it is nine o'clock on a Tuesday.
We are drunk on caffeine and Christmas cheer.
Stop.
Are you going to say Christmas cheer?
I was going to say that.
Yeah.
Ew.
Caffeine and Christmas cheer.
That is us in a nutshell.
So your real tip is that we just gave you 12 tips.
All right.
That is real.
That is as real as it gets.
There are 12 tips for you to really take in and start to take action on.
All of them are just tips and hacks unless you start to take action, then it becomes
life and behavior.
So make sure you get active in all counts, get proactive, I guess I should say, for your
holiday season.
We hope that you, this resonated with you, that this kind of eased your mind in how you're
going to get even more forward into the holiday season because believe it or not, it's only
what, a week into December.
It's crazed already.
Yeah.
And also we want you to enjoy yourself and not be so stressed on the food and fitness
and just, you can do it all.
You absolutely can do it all.
Enjoy yourself and maintain and have a great holiday without stressing too much about it.
And with that said, we hope that you remember that you are always fit to be real and always
allowed to be a little extra.
For legal reasons, we have to tell you that this podcast is meant for entertainment and
educational purposes only.
We are not healthcare professionals.
For all of your health, wellness, fitness and self care needs, please refer to the medical
professional in your life, your primary care physician, your therapist, a certified coach,
whoever it may be.
And then let us know what they say because I guarantee we need to know it too.
Okay?
Okay, bye.