Your Health Never Takes A Vacation

Ahh, summertime is here, and it is time for a vacation. Its time for you and your family, (or just you yourself), to get out there, explore someplace new, visit family and friends, or just go to the beach. So, of course, you pack your necessary clothes, toothbrush, comb, hair dryer, etc., you have everything, right?

How about your weight loss exercise program?

What about your local gym that you go to?

Or the fitness devices you have at home?

Can you use your vacation as a fitness vacation, also?

Did you pack your discipline, too? Because youll need it when you go to all of those restaurants youll be going to.

Well, if you forgot to pack those (which most people do when they go on vacation), dont worry, I am here to help you with all of those questions while you are on vacation.

While vacation is for having fun, you should NEVER lose sight of the big picture. And that is to lose weight, stay in shape, changing your lifestyle, etc.

I can hear the excuse train coming already

Its too hard to work out while Im on vacation.

How will I ever eat right when we go out to eat at restaurants the whole time?

Where will I work out at?

Etc. etc. etc.

Always an excuse, right?

First of all, yes, it will probably be more difficult to stay on your fitness regimen while you are on vacation.

Ill give you that.

But thats all I will give you.

You can and MUST get it donemany people do it, including myselfso, it can be done.

Inconvenient?maybe.
Impossible?Not even close.

There are people in this world who do the most amazing things to survive day in and day outso before you start complaining that thinking ahead and planning how you will stay fit on your vacation is sooooo hardjust realize that people are always doing bigger and better things.

Now that thats out of the waylets get into the how you will manage to stay fit on vacation.

Let me show you how, its really not that hard.

Ok, sample scenario

You and your family are driving to the beach, staying at a nearby hotel for a few days.

Sounds like a basic family vacation, right?

Lets see what you can do

1. Stop by a grocery store (there are some by the beach too, you know) and stock up on fruits, vegetables, other assorted healthy snacks (low-fat yogurt, granola, raisins, etc.) to keep in your hotel room as snacks.

2. Also, you can buy bottled water, healthy juices (NOT the ones loaded with added sugar), teas, etc.

3. Most hotels have a small refrigerator (orjust go to the local Walgreens and buy a styrofoam cooler to put all of your stuff in). You just have to get ice from your hotel (and change it every day or so).

4. When you do go to restaurants (and there are usually a TON of them wherever you go on vacation)pick a restaurant that offers a lot of lean meats, fruits, and vegetables.

5. If you need to, eat just enough to tide you over for when you get back to your hotel roomthen you can eat from your healthy snacks.

6. Share a healthy chicken, turkey, or fish dish with a member of your family.

7. Stay FAR AWAY from onion rings, french fries, mozzarella sticks, etc.

8. Most hotels have a gymuse it...they also have carpeted floorsuse them for doing pushups and other body-weight exercises (more to come on that in the future).

9. Take a brisk walk on the beach in the morning and nighttheres nothing much better than watching a sunrise and sunset while you are exercising.

10. Or, just do this little routinebrisk walk for 2 minutes, do 10 pushups, then 15 jumping jacks, then sprint for 15 seconds.rest for 2 minutes and repeat.

There you go.I just gave you 10 things you can do to stay fit while on vacationwhat other things can you do?

Nothing short of hundredsmaybe thousands.

But its about that time.

Let that marinate in your brain for a whilethen stop on over to http://www.fitnesswithchris.com for some of the best health and fitness tips you can possibly find. As you should know by now, Im always here to help you achieve your health and fitness goals. Dont be afraid to ask me for help, its time you turn yourself into the person youve always wanted to be.

Ill talk to you soon.

Chris C.

Chris Callegari, founder of http://www.fitnesswithchris.com is unleashing his real-world exercise, fitness, nutrition, and healthy eating tips to the world, to help support lifestyle changes for any and everyone.Hubert Blog34410
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