Festivals excite men of all ages, including kids, youngsters, middle-aged people, and old people. It is quite obvious, as festivals are times of fun, play, celebration, and feasting where everyone overindulges in a variety of mouth-watering delicacies and drinks. While festivals are all about pleasure and playfulness, they often disturb your fitness regime and make men gain a few pounds.
The sluggishness can spoil your next few days or even weeks following the festival season, hampering your work, meetings, decision-making power, and personal lives. Therefore, it is very important for men to get rid of festival fatigue with the right and healthy techniques without losing a lot of time and putting their work at stake.
Here are a few simple yet healthy techniques to combat festival fatigue:
Don’t miss a workout
At times, Post-festival fatigue can last up to a few weeks, and men don’t feel like going to the gym and skipping the workout routine. This primarily becomes the major reason behind the weight gain instead of some cheat meals. The trick to balancing out festival weight gain is to get back to the workout routine without a miss, which will then act on the excess food consumed by you and continue the weight loss journey. Whether you are into simple jogs, weight training, playing any sport, or yoga, it is important for you to make your fitness regime a part of your lifestyle so that nothing gets compromised in any situation.
Stay Hydrated
Water has medical qualities that help men in every situation, and it helps in this condition as it eradicates toxins from your body that have gone in the form of alcohol, fried junk food, and sweet dishes. Men can take liquids in different forms, such as simple water, lemon water, buttermilk, etc. However, men tend to depend heavily on caffeine, whether it is tea or coffee, in between their meetings and breaks, but it is not advised at all as caffeine can reverse your hydration process and dehydrate the body.
Don’t skip meals.
All health freaks are acquainted with the significance of metabolism and how vital it is to keep your metabolism working in order to lose weight. However, due to fear of weight gain or to balance out previous overindulgences, men tend to start starving, but it is not the right way. Starving will slow down your metabolism and its ability to burn calories. This will also lead to overconsumption of food whenever you take your meal. Thus, the right way to balance your weight is to eat simple, home-cooked, light meals that you eat on regular days without skipping because each meal is important to regulate your metabolism. Not to forget about breakfast, as it is the most essential meal of the day and helps you start your day right and follow the pattern throughout the day.
Eat high-protein food.
While you overlooked everything that you ate during a couple of days of the festival. It doesn’t mean you continue to do the same. You need to be considerate about every meal to ensure that you are eating balanced food and having protein in sufficient quantities. Protein is one such macronutrient that is essential to building muscle mass and losing weight. Therefore, you must include foods like legumes, dairy, oats, eggs, and other things that carry a higher percentage of protein. You can add one portion of protein-rich food to every meal to ensure that you are consuming enough protein with each meal.
Sleep Well
One of the major factors that determines the constant weight loss journey is sleep. Men, either working in the corporate world or running their own busy lives, often lose their sleep to manage the work left during the festival. This can be one big reason for the weight gain after the festival. A lack of sleep can increase appetite by modifying hormones, make you more likely to eat unhealthy foods, and influence how body fat is lost while counting calories. And when you sleep, your body works on recovering your damaged muscles to regain your strength again after a hectic schedule. Thus, men should ensure that they have a good, deep 7-8 hours of sleep before they hit the gym or go to the office.
Conclusion
It is not a crime to celebrate the festival to lose weight, but not getting back on track on time is certainly one. Hence, when you enjoy your festival to the fullest, also plan the right way to get back on your fitness journey in a proper way.