Holiday inspiration

With the holidays fast approaching some of you are scrambling around trying to figure out how and when you will get an extra workout in between work, kids, meetings, facials, waxing, tweezing (also known as "manskaping" for the mens) and all other forms of stress-making daily life demands. Some of you have already resigned yourselves to gluttony and the phrase "f**k it!" has already slipped past your lips more times than you have sipped coffee in the morning only this time it's accompanied by a sticky bun. Extremes are big in the business of fitness and health. Either you are off the wagon and slugging bourbon and munching bonbon's or you are in some state of restricting and have "gone" vegan or macrobiotic. Well people of the extremes I have one word for you, ready, here it comes: BALANCE. Ah my favorite word. Balance is the key to all things in life. OK. so an example really simple is this: if you are going to miss a workout just let it go and move on, however, if you know you're going to miss a workout try and reign it in on the food side a little bit and watch your portions, listen to your body and don't eat until you are ready to pop (always stop before that point). Try and look at the whole month rather than the day to day. At the end of the month count up your workouts and if your number is really low look at the month to come a find a way to increase those numbers and commit to it. Now for the tricky part, food. FOOD. I could seriously spend hours on this but I won't because quite frankly you would probably never read anything from me again. Short and sweet it all comes down to moderation. With a few exceptions you should eat everything, just keep your portions small and listen to your body (tricky I know) because it has an amazing ability to know when enough is enough before you have to undo the top button of your trousers. Specific foods have not made us fat - eating more than your body needs day in and day out is what will make you fat and keep you there until you start listening to your body again and eat accordingly. SO with that said, is pumpkin pie ok? YES! in the right amount. So gobble gobble my little Fit.Nuts and enjoy!!