Tips to Stay on Your Fat Loss Plan While Staying Social

Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be an article on how you should “join a club” or “get active”. Let’s get real. We all want to go out and have a few drinks sometimes.

However, many of us ARE motivated and willing to put in the work and dedication to implement a fat loss program. Perhaps you have been at it for a while now! Eating egg whites in the morning is not that hard and after some practice, and getting a good workout in becomes a habit. The problem comes in when Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night comes! Sunday day time can become difficult in the summertime as well!

You’ve worked your ass off all week and you deserve to relax and spend time with your friends, hit the club, or go out to a nice dinner. So you go out Thursday night and have a couple of drinks.  No big deal, but the next day you’re too tired to work out. You take it easy on Friday. Saturday night it’s your best friend’s birthday, and you head out to the club. You have 5 drinks, get super-hungry, eat a huge burrito at 2am, and feel like shit in the morning. You wake up on Sunday and although you are hung over the sun is shining and you are ready for the BBQ. There will be no workout preceding the festivities. You go to the BBQ, have a 2 Coronas, a Margarita, and all the chips. Then, the BBQ is ready and you eat some of that too with macaroni salad. YUM. More Coronas and maybe a shot of tequila. By Monday morning you feel like all the work you put in the previous week is wasted and you are a fat lard.

Guess what? It’s time to change your lifestyle a bit. No one says you have to stop going out an being social. In fact, if you stop being social chances are much greater that you will give up your fitness routine altogether since you will be miserable. What you need to do is just slow it down a bit.

Here are some key things to remember and implement when the weekend comes:

1. Pick one night to drink. Limit your drinks to 2 or 3 at most. Notice I said pick one night to drink and not go out.
2. DO NOT drink on an empty stomach. Eat something before you go out.
3. When you go out to dinner, exercise the protein rules. It’s ok to go out to eat as long as you make good choices.
4. Wear something tight when you go out so you feel MORE like shit if you eat too much.
5. Try going out and not drinking a couple of times. Waking up and hitting the gym hard the morning after a night out is the BEST FEELING. You may get addicted.

Life is all about balance. People are creatures of habit and if you develop healthy habits for yourself and put them in practice, eventually you will get used to them. If you can figure out a way to preserve your actively social lifestyle and still stick to a healthy routine, you’re golden.